Jim Monroe

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  Published on: 10/10/2009    Last Visited: 10/20/2009  

  MAPE executive director Jim Monroe (left) and AFSCME Council 5 president Mike Buesing greet each other Friday.
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  MAPE executive director Jim Monroe (left) and AFSCME Council 5 president Mike Buesing greet each other Friday.
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  Council 5 delegates gave an enthusiastic reception Friday to Chet Jorgensen, president of the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, and Jim Monroe, MAPE's executive director.
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  "We have the same objectives, we have the same end game," Monroe said.

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  Published on: 9/11/2009    Last Visited: 9/23/2009  

  MAPE Executive Director Jim Monroe delivered MAPE's money-saving budget ideas to the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce's Issue Conference Friday at the Crowne Plaza in St. Paul.
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  Monroe informed Chamber members that the state budget deficit could be lowered by $357 million if the governor would implement MAPE's money-saving budget suggestions today.

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  Published on: 7/20/2007    Last Visited: 6/4/2008  

  Jim Monroe, MAPE's executive director says, "For the governor to hire a vendor that lays off veteran cafeteria workers and takes their benefits away is simply wrong."

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  Last Visited: 6/29/2009  

  Monroe, MI-The Monroe/Lenawee County AFL-CIO Council became the 60th Central Labor Council to endorse HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI).
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  "Affordable health care should be made available to all residents of this country," said MAPE Executive Director Jim Monroe. "Single-payer health care is an economical way to address the health-care crisis in this country. Monroe added, if Americans do get ill, they "should be able to concentrate on getting well instead of worrying about how they will pay for the urgent care that they need."

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  Published on: 6/4/2009    Last Visited: 6/4/2009  

  Jim Monroe, Executive Director Fax: 651-227-5612 E-mail: jmonroe@mape.org

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  Published on: 6/16/2009    Last Visited: 9/23/2009  

  Press release: Statement of Jim Monroe, Executive Director, Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, on Governor Pawlenty’s unallotment announcement MAPE
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  Statement of Jim Monroe, Executive Director, Minnesota Association of Professional Employees,

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  Published on: 5/15/2009    Last Visited: 6/4/2009  

  By Jim Monroe
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  MAPE Statewide President Chet Jorgenson and MAPE Executive Director Jim Monroe walked the media through how the governor could save money now.
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  Additionally, Monroe appeared on Don Shelby's afternoon WCCO-Radio show and KSTP AM 1500 radio.
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  MAPE Statewide President Chet Jorgenson and Executive Director Jim Monroe informed membership of the status of contract negotiations.

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  Published on: 6/30/2007    Last Visited: 7/1/2007  

  Those would be the largest wage increases for state employees in at least eight years, MAPE Executive Director Jim Monroe said Saturday.
  
  "On overall compensation and benefits, (the agreement) is comparable to the very best contracts that are coming out," Monroe said.
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  But Monroe said the agreement prevents additional health cost shifts to employees in the second year of the contract.
  
  "While we did pick up some costs, it isn't anywhere near as bad as what (the administration) had on the table," he said.
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  Monroe expects to count those ballots Aug. 6.
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  "I want to commend Eliot and AFSCME," Monroe said.

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  Published on: 7/28/2009    Last Visited: 7/28/2009  

  "We hand-delivered it and called for a meeting," MAPE Executive Director Jim Monroe said last week. "We're still waiting for that meeting - I'm threatening to follow him around the country."
  
  Monroe said state workers took up the challenge after hearing Republican Pawlenty in April on one of his weekly radio shows. The governor said that "the public employee unions, and the spenders and the DFL should quit coming up with the tax increase of the week or the day idea and focus on how we can reduce our spending."
  
  "We took him at his word," Monroe said last week in an interview, as MAPE officials are now traversing the state to meet with local union members and the media.
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  Saving $356 million won't alone save the state's budget, Monroe admits, but it will help take away less in Local Government Aid to cities, or would prevent most of the General Assistance Medical Care program for the state's poorest adults from being unallotted and eliminated.
  
  "This does not lessen services," he said.
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  "We absolutely don't build roads," Monroe said of the need for outside contractors, but there are a lot of jobs that can be done cheaper by state employees.
  
  MAPE also wants state lawmakers and the governor to look at other areas where trims could be made, such as looking at the $13 million spent for out-of-state travel by state workers.
  
  "All the governor has to do is tell the agencies we aren't saying no unnecessary travel, just make it transparent so that people have to justify it," Monroe said.
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  The key to a new two-year salary pact is no change in insurance benefits, Monroe said, while there will be performance-based pay increases.
  
  And while 22 states have furloughs, Minnesota unions fought it off and it is part of the union contract not to furlough.
  
  When state workers are furloughed, the state could lose about $4.3 million from forced reimbursement the state would have to pay the federal government as 60 percent of MAPE jobs are federally funded.
  
  "The public needs to hold the governor accountable when he makes a statement everybody has to sit around the table and tighten their belt to figure out what bills to pay," Monroe said. "Governor, we've shown you how to take $350 million right out of the bill and puts some on the income side and put it right on the bottom line."
  
  People want the services, he said.
  
  "Government in Minnesota is not bloated," Monroe said.
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  "Unfortunately, Minnesota is going to become the Louisiana or Mississippi of the north if we keep going the way we are," Monroe said.

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  Published on: 6/30/2007    Last Visited: 7/1/2007  

  Jim Monroe, executive director of MAPE, called the tentative agreement "an excellent compensation package."Union leaders had been locked in bargaining talks over wages and health benefits with the administration of Gov.

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