Minnesota State Employee Union Opens Investigation Into Recently Departed President

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(Minnesota Reformer) – Minnesota’s largest union of state workers is investigating alleged financial improprieties by its former president Megan Dayton, who abruptly resigned her union position and left her job with the state last month.

The union launched the investigation after several union members raised concerns at a Jan. 16 board meeting about Dayton’s expenditures and how much she claimed to be working for both the union and the state.

Public financial records from the state and union show Dayton claimed to be working more than half-time in her regular job as a senior demographer in the Department of Administration while also working full-time for the union, earning upwards of $185,000.

MAPE, which represents some 18,000 state employees, pays its elected leaders for the time they miss from their regular jobs to work on union duties.