MGEC Members Approve the Tentative Agreement
25 March 2020
Members voted to approve the tentative agreement for a new contract for 2019-2021. At the time of the vote, 995 MGEC members were eligible to vote. Of the 725 members who voted, 88.5% (642) voted to approve the contract.
Next steps: MMB will submit …
MGEC Board Recommends Tentative Agreement
30 January 2020
On Monday, January 27, 2020, the MGEC Board discussed the tentative agreement at great length. The majority of the board voted to send the contract language to the membership with a recommendation to accept the contract. The board determined that additional …
MGEC and the State have reached a Tentative Agreement
24 January 2020
On January 22, 2020, after the second day of mediation the MGEC Contract Negotiations Team entered into a tentative agreement for the 2019-2021 MGEC contract. This was the ninth total day of negotiations. Shortly after 6PM, and after significant …
2019-2021 Contract Negotiation Update
23 December 2019
Thursday, December 19th, marked the 8th time MGEC met with representatives from the State’s bargaining team in 2019, and the first day of mediation. There is some small progress to report. The MGEC negotiation team and the State signed a Memorandum of …
MGEC Negotiation Update
7 October 2019
Five days of negotiations were originally scheduled between the MGEC team and the State team at the MnDOT Training Center in Shoreview, MN. We met on each of those days and have now scheduled two additional days for meetings on October 31 and November 1.
The negotiation …
Contract Negotiation Update
11 September 2019
Your MGEC negotiating team began negotiations with the State one week ago on Tuesday, September 3, 2019. It seems fitting that negotiations began the day after Labor Day, a U.S. Federal Holiday since 1894 which honors the American labor movement and the …
2019 Member Survey Is Here!
30 July 2019
It’s time for our 2019 member survey, so we know your priorities prior to beginning bargaining with MMB in September. This year the survey is being conducted in Constant Contact, which is the new platform we are using to send out our mass emails. We are aware that many …
Where is MGEC on negotiating?
3 July 2019
MGEC elected to start our negotiations later than usual in 2019; we will first be meeting with State negotiators in September. Your MGEC insurance team has been actively participating in the early insurance bargaining. This gives your MGEC negotiating team more time to …
You may have already heard about the State meeting with other unions. This year, MGEC is having later meetings than usual with the State in an effort to reduce the time and effort spent on our own contract negotiation- making our MGEC …