Wolff: Workers are waking up

Continuing the last post, Wolff discusses how the pandemic has forced workers to reconsider their employment situation. They can see that employers want to return to the way things were, the same low wages with little or no benefits or public safety measures. In addition, they can see that employers are offering even less in terms of hiring back fewer employees thereby putting an increase productivity load on the others. And workers are demanding more than before because they see that employers are desperate to hire again. This is reflected in an all-time high job quit rate, which adds even more worker leverage.