News that workers from California to New York are demanding higher wages and better working conditions comes amid a new Gallup poll that found half of workers are stressed, and one in five battles anger or sadness during the day.
"We've been to hell and back," said Brianna Hnath, a nurse at North Memorial Health Hospital in Minnesota."We will not stop fighting until we are given a good and fair contract." Dissatisfied and disengaged workers cost the global economy $7.8 trillion in lost productivity, according to the Gallup state of the global workplace report. This summer, there were 415,000 fewer workers in the U.S. workforce then last summer, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Sara Fry, a mom of two in Minnesota, is getting called back to her AT&T office in September after working remotely during the pandemic. With nearly two job openings for each unemployed person, workers are in the driver's seat. If employees don't get what they want, they may consider a job switch and look elsewhere.
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