On June 18th the MNCORA Executive Board met.  First of all we were very appreciative of the waves of support from our MNCORA CO's statewide. The petitions and card mailing campaigns were a success. Sadly we know we must remain vigilant for the next session. Some lessons we learned were how many of the Unions purporting to represent CO's actually work against their pension benefits. We heard from many of our LELS members that they were never informed that LELS was supporting adding dispatchers to the correctional plan. Never once did LELS come out and support CO's on this. LELS Executive Director Jim Mortenson even wrote a letter telling MNCORA to " stop contacting our bargaining units  " and " If you want advocate for your current members feel free to do so, but please do not advocate for LELS dispatch and corrections members, that is our job!" We responded to Jim that MNCORA is not a Union, " We represent only Vested, Retirees and beneficiaries in ...

 I attended the PERA meeting remotely via phone today. The PERA Correctional Plan is doing quite well. I'll share a few documents from today's PERA Agenda .