AFSCME, MAPE and a number of smaller unions representing state employees have engaged in coalition bargaining on health insurance, but conduct individual negotiations on other contract issues. Here is a status report on those unions, whose contracts expired July 1:
Inter Faculty Organization, which represents 3,000 instructors at seven state university campuses, expected to receive its first economic proposal from Minnesota State Colleges and Universities during negotiations Aug. 6-7. Faculty union president Jim Pehler said it was typical for negotiations with MnSCU to lag behind those of other state employees.
Inter Faculty Organization represents faculty at Bemidji State University; Metropolitan State University, St. Paul; Minnesota State University-Mankato; Minnesota State University-Moorhead; St. Cloud State University; Southwest State University, Marshall; and Winona State University; as well as the MnSCU campus in Akita, Japan.
Minnesota State College Faculty, which represents about 4,000 instructors at Minnesota's technical and community colleges, hasn't even begun discussing economics, said co-president Larry Oveson. These are the first negotiations of the new group, formed earlier this year by the merger of United Technical College Educators and Minnesota Community College Faculty Association.
"We're trying to bring together two contracts," Oveson said, "so things will be more complicated this time." MnSCU and union working groups expected to begin meeting in early August to work on specific issues, he said.
Middle Management Association, which represents 2,800 supervisors in government agencies statewide, doesn't expect to resume negotiations until October. "We're simply holding until we get a better idea of what AFSCME does," said executive director Gary Denault.
State Residential Schools Education Association expects to begin negotiations Aug. 14. The group represents 160 educators who teach in such locations as adult and juvenile correctional facilities, regional treatment centers, and academies for deaf and blind residents
This article was written for the Aug. 8, 2001, issue of The Union Advocate newspaper. Used by permission.
The Union Advocate is the official publication of the St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly. E-mail The Advocate at: advocate@mtn.org
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AFSCME, MAPE and a number of smaller unions representing state employees have engaged in coalition bargaining on health insurance, but conduct individual negotiations on other contract issues. Here is a status report on those unions, whose contracts expired July 1:
Inter Faculty Organization, which represents 3,000 instructors at seven state university campuses, expected to receive its first economic proposal from Minnesota State Colleges and Universities during negotiations Aug. 6-7. Faculty union president Jim Pehler said it was typical for negotiations with MnSCU to lag behind those of other state employees.
Inter Faculty Organization represents faculty at Bemidji State University; Metropolitan State University, St. Paul; Minnesota State University-Mankato; Minnesota State University-Moorhead; St. Cloud State University; Southwest State University, Marshall; and Winona State University; as well as the MnSCU campus in Akita, Japan.
Minnesota State College Faculty, which represents about 4,000 instructors at Minnesota’s technical and community colleges, hasn’t even begun discussing economics, said co-president Larry Oveson. These are the first negotiations of the new group, formed earlier this year by the merger of United Technical College Educators and Minnesota Community College Faculty Association.
“We’re trying to bring together two contracts,” Oveson said, “so things will be more complicated this time.” MnSCU and union working groups expected to begin meeting in early August to work on specific issues, he said.
Middle Management Association, which represents 2,800 supervisors in government agencies statewide, doesn’t expect to resume negotiations until October. “We’re simply holding until we get a better idea of what AFSCME does,” said executive director Gary Denault.
State Residential Schools Education Association expects to begin negotiations Aug. 14. The group represents 160 educators who teach in such locations as adult and juvenile correctional facilities, regional treatment centers, and academies for deaf and blind residents
This article was written for the Aug. 8, 2001, issue of The Union Advocate newspaper. Used by permission.
The Union Advocate is the official publication of the St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly. E-mail The Advocate at: advocate@mtn.org