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NPR - ​​​​​​As wildfires burn in Canada and Mexico, U.S. fire officials are concerned about the upcoming wildfire season. Upwards of a quarter of the government's wildland firefighting jobs are vacant. Pay is low — especially for rookies — and the risks are high. Forests are overgrown, and rising heat and drought add to the dangers. Many who take the firefighting jobs can't afford to live in the places they're working. The labor shortage isn't new, especially since the pandemic, NPR's Kirk Siegler says. The federal government will likely continue using private contractors or borrowing crews from Mexico and Canada — strategies Siegler says are "not ideal."

Med Page Today  - More than 400 physicians from Delaware's Christiana Hospital, Wilmington Hospital, and Middletown Free-standing Emergency Department -- all part of the ChristianaCare health system -- filed to unionize with Doctors Council SEIU Local 10MD. "If successful, this will be the first physician union in Delaware and the first union of any kind at ChristianaCare," Doctors Council SEIU said in an announcement of the filing, which pointed to the ongoing corporatization of medicine as driving the physicians' efforts.