We strongly encourage you to post our Lobby Day 2015 flyer at your worksite and to share the information with your Union co-workers. Lobby Day is very important this year because it is a budget year for state agencies and institutions that Teamsters rely on for their wages and benefits. Biennial budgets for Higher Education, […]
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities 2014 Legislative Session Summary Session Overview In November 2013, Minnesota Management and Budget was projecting a balance for the current 2014-2015 biennium of $1.086 billion. Current law requires any forecast balance to be used to repay the K-12 shift, so the first $246 million of the balance was used to complete […]
Brothers and sisters, Please thank House and Senate conferees for making the commitment to fund your settlements in contract negotiations. Because of the conferees and the partnership our Union had with the MnSCU administration we were able to protect the economic pattern with your colleagues at AFSCME and MAPE. Also, congratulate yourselves as it was […]
If you have not contacted members of the Conference Committee please do so today. This is extremely important! TODAY the Finance Conference Committee comprised of House and Senate Legislators will meet and COULD decide the fate of the MnSCU supplemental budget. Currently, the House version has the FY 2016-17 funding provided, which is needed for […]
For those of you interested in MnSCU’s chartering the future document you can read the Star Tribune’s editorial here using the link below. An ocean liner would be easier to turn than the behemoth higher-education system MnSCU (pronounced “minn-skew”), short for Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. At least a big boat has a single rudder. MnSCU boasts […]