This bargaining unit includes employees who perform various specialized, professional services from accounting to zoology.

In 1972 with the passage of the Public Employee Labor Relations Act (PELRA), state workers were given the right to join a union.

As time passed, state professionals discovered that the workplace issues they faced differed from many of the workers in AFSCME.

To support a variety of worksites and employees located all over Minnesota, MAPE has broken the state down into 21 separate regions.

In order to make sure that the central organization is meeting the needs of all members in all regions, MAPE convenes a Delegate Assembly every Fall, typically in the first week or two of September.

The Minnesota Association of Professional Employees announced that 84.2 percent of its members who voted rejected the state's final contract offer and authorized a strike, and earlier that day, leaders of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 6 filed an official notice with the Bureau of Mediation Services and the state's Department of Employee Relations that more than 13,000, or 90 percent, of its voting members had approved a strike.

Over the past five years, MAPE has expanded to include some school district, county and municipal government professional employees with separate bargaining agreements.

MAPE is committed to lobbying its members to have all the resources they need to provide quality public services to the state’s citizens.