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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Minnesota companies facing labor shortage

Minnesota companies facing labor shortage
In StarTribune.com Business
Eden Prairie's Micro Dynamics Corp. has been growing swiftly, but it's chronically hampered by one thing it can't do without: trained workers. "If we could get our hands on 10 folks, we'd gobble them up," said Win Wood, vice president of strategic programs for the company. It needs engineers, assemblers and trained electronic technicians -- and the dilemma is now common. Despite a recent spate of high-profile layoffs, some Minnesota industries are running into worrisome worker shortages as the state economy hums along with an unemployment rate below 4 percent.

 



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