GSS staff found a rise in people saying their
workplace has grown more demanding.
Around one in three workers said they now
face too much work to do everything well.
About one in five said they held a job other
than their main one. About three-quarters said
they had to work extra hours beyond their
usual schedule at least one day a month. All
those numbers are up from 2006.
Half of working Americans in 2018 said they
believe workers need strong unions, up from
40% in 2006. Among workers under 35, 60%
favor strong unions at a time when union
participation has been steadily dwindling.
Many measures of inequality still have not
returned to where they were before the
recession: The wealthiest Americans now
hold a greater share of the nation’s wealth.
Middle-income households have less home
equity. Median household income, adjusted for
inflation, has barely budged in two decades.
And an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of
St. Louis found that corporate profits have far
outpaced employee compensation since the
early 2000s.
Paul Nota of Needham Heights, Massachusetts,
has worked at CVS since 2002, when he was in
high school. Having graduated from college in
2008 with a degree in special education in the
depths of the Great Recession, he couldn’t find a
job in his field.
He stuck with the pharmacy chain, working in
several roles — technician, supervisor, assistant
manager. He likes the company. But he says it’s
changed, and not for the better.
In the past, Nota said, it seemed to him that
CVS “thought of the employee first before
anything else.” It bestowed bonuses on work
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