Inc. All rights reserved. State of Minnesota employees go into negotiations for the 2001 contract in the eighth year of an unprecedented economic expansion in Minnesota.
State government is in the best financial situation in a generation.
The story was different in the early 1990s. Governor Carlson came into office in the midst of a recession. Negotiations in both 1991 and 1993 were difficult. In the 1991 contract, state employees took pay increases which trailed inflation. In the 1993 contract, state employee took a one year wage freeze because the state just did not have the money.