Jim Morgan, Vice-President of Business Development & Workforce Strategies explains, “now it’s a little bit more complicated. The Quad Cities Chamber explained that since the pandemic, employees are looking for more than just a good wage, they want a good work-life balance as well. We need new and original recruitment strategies.” Beth Townsend, Director for Iowa Workforce Development “This is not your Father’s workforce or even last year’s workforce- two years ago workforce. In Iowa, there are 61,600 unemployed people as of November 2021 but there are 83,331 job openings according to Beth Townsend, the director for Iowa Workforce Development Throughout Illinois and Iowa, we’re seeing more job openings than there are unemployed people. Whether out of self-interest, moral outrage, or both, it is in no one’s interest for this slide to continue.QUAD CITIES (KWQC) - The Quad Cities Chamber hosted a business forum on Thursday, going over the workforce shortage and what they believe the future holds for the economy. This economic system, neither sustainable nor fair, creates instability and threatens democracy. The middle class is hollowed out and harder than ever to break into. Income inequality remains at an all-time high. For decades, our economy has undermined working people. These positive developments are not sufficient to right our economic ship. And the devastating pandemic taught America that without nurses, first responders, teachers, grocery clerks, truck drivers, postal workers and essential heroes, we’d be utterly nowhere. The latest Gallup poll found that 68% of Americans - and 77% of people 18-34 - have a positive opinion of unions. Millions of new jobs for working people, mostly unionized, will result from the $3.5 trillion budget blueprint moving through Congress. As a result, wages are rising, schedules are more human and benefits are increasing. Working people are re-evaluating pre-COVID employment and refusing to accept a substandard job. Most passengers were anxious to deplane, ready to head to baggage claim, not giving a second thought to the work happening all around them to make their journey happen. Flying into Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport recently, I spotted the ramp workers on the tarmac, busily unloading bags and doing safety checks on the plane in 115 degree heat.
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