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Submitted by mcody on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 11:22am
Medicare-eligible MAPE members and their families can enroll in the new MAPE Medicare Retiree Plan beginning June 1. Offered through Medica, a Minnetonka-based health care provider, Medicare-eligible MAPE members, their parents, their spouses and their spouses’ parents can enroll in the new MAPE Medicare Retiree Plan.
Why are we doing this? MAPE had the opportunity to design Medicare...
Submitted by mcody on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 8:57am
MAPE breaks ground with new
Diabetes Medication Therapy Management program
For the past seven years, MAPE Executive Director Jim Monroe has been chasing a dream – a dream that consisted of offering a quality diabetes management program to state workers as part of their health care coverage. But now, that dream is becoming reality as MAPE, SEGIP and AFSCME work together to launch the...
Submitted by mcody on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 7:46am
The following is a 30-day posting notice to the Board of Directors to change the MAPE Bylaws:
Judicial Procedures (PDF)
Submitted by mcody on Monday, May 20, 2013 - 12:20pm
Longtime MAPE member and activist Glenn Donnay was honored Friday, May 17, by the MAPE Board of directors for his nearly four decades of service to the MAPE membership. Donnay will be retiring soon.
Pictured on the left in the photo on the right, Donnay received a plaque from MAPE Statewide President Chet Jorgenson. The plaque reads, "In recognition of your...
Submitted by mcody on Monday, May 20, 2013 - 8:13am
Minnesota Legislature passes tax bill that balances deficit, funds historic investments in education, property tax relief & job creation
Minnesota House of Representatives passed a tax bill that will provide for a structurally balanced budget, and ask the wealthiest Minnesotans to pay a sliver more in order to pay for overdue investments in education, property tax relief and job...
Submitted by mcody on Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 10:36pm
Immediate legislative updates from the Capitol
As the session heads into its final days, we will keep you updated here in this blog on the progress of legislation impacting MAPE members at the Capitol. Check back often!
Monday, May 20
The House passed a tax bill that will provide for a structurally balanced budget, and ask the...
Submitted by mcody on Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 12:36pm
Shortly after noon, the House of Representatives accepted the message from the Senate to approve the whistleblower bill. The final House vote was 76-56.
A big thanks to the two chief authors of the bill, Sen. Goodwin and Rep. Loeffler. The bill language can be viewed below:
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF0443&session=ls88&version=latest&session_number=0&...
Submitted by mcody on Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 11:45am
Minnesota’s job market posted its second straight negative month, shedding 11,400 jobs in April, the state said Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Minnesota unemployment rate fell to a seasonally adjusted 5.3 percent in April, its lowest point since May 2008 and well below the U.S. rate of 7.5 percent in April. The March figures were revised upward from 5,200 jobs lost to 3,300 jobs lost.
The biggest...
Submitted by kkillian on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 9:55am
Minnesota Senate voted Monday to expand marriage to same sex couples on a bipartisan vote of 37-30. The Minnesota House passed the bill last week.
Gov. Mark Dayton signed into law Tuesday afternoon, May 14, on the steps of the state Capitol House File 1054/Senate File 925, granting all Minnesotans the freedom to marry.
MAPE supports marriage equality as a way to achieve benefit...
Submitted by kkillian on Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 4:00pm
Today, the Minnesota House voted to expand marriage to same sex couples. On a bipartisan vote of 75-59, the bill passed and will now be voted on in the Senate on Monday, where it will very likely pass. Governor Mark Dayton has pledged to sign the bill once it passes both chambers.
MAPE supports marriage equality as a way to achieve benefit fairness for all our members and their families. The...
