The article notes that a greater percentage of national income is going to workers now, which may very well be true according to how the accounting is done. However, how much of that is because many large corporations are booking a great deal of their profits outside of the US, reducing the denominator in kind of an artificial way? I didn't see anything in the article that mentioned the potential effects of corporations booking profits to overseas cost centers.
The chart the NYT shows depicts worker compensation percentage of national income. I'd be interested to see what overall worker compensation and overall corporate profits look like in inflation-adjusted terms, separately.