NURSING
Although much attention focuses on filling physician spots, many hospitals increasingly are facing more vacancies in nurse positions. Nursing represented the biggest increase (40 percent) in job openings from Q1 to Q2, according to a brief issued today from recruiting firm HEALTHeCAREERS Network. Most nursing openings (90 percent) were looking for experienced nurses rather than entry-level nurses.
LABOR
Former U.S. Treasury insider Neil Barofsky tells all in a new book: “Washington abandoned Main Street while rescuing Wall Street. The suspicions that the system is rigged in favor of the largest banks and their elites, so they play by their own set of rules to the disfavor of the taxpayers who funded their bailout, are true. It really happened. These suspicions are valid.”
AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka will be in St. Paul on Wednesday with members of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco, & Grain Millers Union, (BCTGM) who have been locked out of their jobs at American Crystal Sugar for several months. Trumka is expected to make “a major announcement” regarding the lockout on behalf of the 12 million member labor federation. Since August 1, 1300 workers in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Iowa have been locked out of their jobs at American Crystal Sugar Company. Trumka will speak at 4:30 pm at the AFL-CIO headquarters in St. Paul.
HEALTH CARE
Minnesota has slipped three rungs in a high-profile ranking of child-friendly states, largely because of its growing number of uninsured children.