My Mape
Team Mape
MAPE
Proposed 'right to work' constitutional amendment is ‘wrong’ for Minnesota, a right to 'freeload'
States with 'right to work' laws should repeal them: university economist
Legislative update week 2: Legislature takes aim at your rights
Legislative majority wants to mandate high insurance premiums hikes
MAPE's statement on 'right to work': amendment will lower quality of life, harm middle class
Senator Thompson carrying water for corporate special interests with 'right to work' bill
Corporate attack on Minnesota unions coming in 2012
Constitutional amendments promoting right to work and restricting revenue
Team MAPE supports MAPE friendly candidates and legislation. Our issue priorities include: achieving fair compensation for state employees, fixing our broken health care system, preventing outsourcing and privatization of state services and protecting our pension and retirement benefits.
divider

Team MAPE

News Features

MAPE Executive Director Jim Monroe's Statement on Governor Dayton’s State of the State Address
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 8:56pm

For Immediate Release                              Contact: Leslie Sandberg (651) 746-9767

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

 

MAPE’s Executive Director Jim Monroe's Statement on Governor Dayton’s State of the State Address

“Governor Dayton’s State of the State Address reminds all of us what Minnesotans really want – good paying jobs, an excellent education system, and a government that efficiently provides important state services to its citizens. 

Read More
Legislative update: Legislature takes aim at your rights, wants to mandate insurance premium hikes
Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 2:21pm

Legislative update week 2:

Legislature takes aim at your rights, wants to mandate high insurance premiums hikes

The 2012 Minnesota Legislature has picked up where it left off last year, producing multiple attacks on organized labor through anti-labor legislation. While bills that were introduced in 2011 remain alive and could still be passed through committee and their respective legislative bodies, the 2012 Legislature has spent the last week introducing a new flurry of bills that infringe on your rights to collectively bargain, eliminate state jobs and repeal current statutes preventing outsourcing of state employees’ work. 

Here are just a few of their recent bill introductions:

Read More
Redistricting maps released
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 5:50pm

The highly anticipated redistricting maps were released Tuesday afternoon. 

In the Minnesota Senate there are now eight open seats. There are two Senate districts where DFL incumbents are paired with each other and four districts where incumbent senators are paired up. There are two districts where a Democrat and a Republican incumbent senator have been matched up.

In the Minnesota House there are 16open seats with no incumbent representative. In six districts DFL candidates have been put in the same district and in six districts GOP Representatives have been put in the same district. In three House districts GOP and DFL incumbent Representatives have been paired together.

Read More

More MAPE news

Capitol News

New studies tell a familiar story: Racial disparities in assets
Oct 19, 2011
Two new reports from a national think tank look at financial security and opportunity in Minnesota, and find that Minnesota as a whole does better than the national averages, but worse than national averages when it comes to communities of color....
Keep Reading
State revenue and cash flow steady, but economic worries remain
Oct 12, 2011
First the good news. The State of Minnesota started out the first quarter of the FY 2012-13 biennium with higher-than-expected revenue. From July through September, the state collected $59 million above estimates, up about two percent from earlier...
Keep Reading
Going full circle on the cycle of advocacy – tell your story
Oct 6, 2011
As the leaves fall, many of us are bracing for the next legislative session and continuing our advocacy for critical state services.  But we also know that the cycle of advocacy is a complete circle—including raising awareness of the consequences of...
Keep Reading
More Capitol News