ABOUT MET COUNCIL NEGOTIATIONS
Official information about Metropolitan Council labor relations
This website is published and maintained by the Metropolitan Council. It provides official information from the Metropolitan Council about collective bargaining, labor agreements and related developments involving its represented employees.
Because this is a Metropolitan Council website, its explanations reflect the Council’s proposals, positions and understanding of the issues. The site is designed to make that perspective clear while giving visitors direct access to the documents, contract language and other source materials needed to review the information for themselves.
The purpose of this site
Labor negotiations can involve multiple proposals, detailed contract provisions and information that changes over time. The purpose of this website is to make that information easier to find, understand and verify.
Visitors can use the site to:
- Find the latest bargaining updates and negotiation status.
- Identify which bargaining unit, employee group or classification an update affects.
- Understand what the Metropolitan Council is proposing and why.
- Review what has changed, what has not changed and what remains unresolved.
- Compare current and proposed contract language.
- Locate complete proposals, agreements, and related documents.
- Confirm the date, version and status of a document.
- Review previous materials in the document archive.
Summaries and examples are provided to help explain complex information. They do not replace the complete proposal, collective bargaining agreement or other governing document. When an explanation involves assumptions or applies only to certain employees, those conditions should be identified.
Who the site is for
Council employees
The site is designed first for all Metropolitan Council employees.
Media members
Journalists and editors can use the site as an official source for the Metropolitan Council’s bargaining positions and published documents.
When reporting on the information, please distinguish between contract or proposal language, the Metropolitan Council’s explanation of that language and positions expressed by unions or other parties.
Members of the public
Members of the public may from time to time have an interest in how labor negotiations between the Council and unions will affect them.
Members of the public can use the site to learn about labor relations involving the Metropolitan Council and the employees who provide transit, wastewater treatment, planning, technical, administrative, maintenance and other regional services.
Our approach to accuracy and transparency
The Metropolitan Council’s goal is to publish information that is current, applicable, understandable, accessible and traceable to its source.
The site distinguishes summaries and Metropolitan Council explanations from direct proposal or contract language. It identifies document dates, versions and statuses, and retains previous materials when they are replaced. When the parties continue to disagree about an issue, the site should identify that disagreement rather than present the Metropolitan Council’s interpretation as undisputed.
Visitors may disagree with the Metropolitan Council’s position and still use this website to determine what the Council is proposing, which employees may be affected and where the relevant language appears.