CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Experts have called it a labor reckoning as more and more people are quitting their jobs and not since the 1940s have workers demanded more from their employers.
More people are stepping away from the workforce than ever. In Illinois, people are quitting their jobs in record numbers. Bob Bruno with the University of Illinois School of Labor and Employment Relations called it the "great refusal."
"Workers have come to realize they have legitimate interest in a better quality of work. These are individual decisions being made by millions of workers who are coming to the same conclusion that they really should be treated better on the job," Bruno told WBBM Newsradio.
Bruno said this means more employers are being forced to offer a better living wage, better health care benefits and even consider employee health and safety.
More than 200,000 Illinoisans left their jobs in August alone, a new state record.
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