Lina Jamoul, executive director of the Minnesota Professional Employees Association, said the agreement represented a cost-of-living bump for her union`s 15,000 members. The Minnesota Association of Professional Employees Agreement is expanding the absenteeism policy to allow the use of time for adult children, grandparents and grandchildren and other close relatives. Gov. Tim Walz`s government and the workers` unions, which represent more than 30,000 public service employees, have reached an interim labor agreement, with increases of 2.25 percent this year and 2.5 percent next year. The two-year agreements reached this summer received little public attention before the successful ratification votes of members of the two dominant workers` unions. They are awaiting the signature of the legislature, with a process expected to begin this fall. The Minnesota Professional Employees Association has released its preliminary contract online. MPR News received a 20-point summary of the AFSCME agreement from a rank and file member; the union has retained the contents of the contract behind a page that is only a member. The Minnesota Professional Employees Association (MAPE) ratified the interim agreement in August, spokeswoman Roberta Heine confirmed Wednesday.
The union represents approximately 15,000 workers, including jobs ranging from accountants to zoologists. Not a member? Join MAPE now! You must be a member to vote on the new agreement. Go here to register: mape.org/join-mape With a uniform division in committee this year, a blocked vote is possible. In this case, the agreements would enter into force pending a vote by the entire legislative branch in 2020. The MAPE 2019-2021 contract entered into provisional action on 25 October 2019, after the Legislative Subcommittee on Industrial Relations (SER) failed to meet within the 30-day legal deadline. Members` salaries on November 22 include a retroactive payment for July 1-Oct 29. Workers who retired after June 30 or have left the public service must notify their employer if they wish to receive the pay increase. The treaty must now be ratified by the entire legislature before they postpone the 2020 legislative session on 18 May. To see how we got here, go www.mape.org/past-2019-2021-contract-events. Our new language of agreement allows individual agencies to cooperate as they see fit with MAPE to repay student loans as well as incentives to hire and engage difficult-to-fill positions. It is up to all of us to encourage agencies to participate in these new projects.
If you would like to help with this effort, contact MAPE members in your agency`s meet and confer teams mape.org/committees/meet-and-confer-committees. Summary of salary and performance changes 2019-2021 General Professional Unit.