EQT Employees in Kentucky Vote to Unionize

A group of 116 EQT production employees who live and work in Kentucky have voted to form a union to protect their jobs and benefits. It is unusual--frankly unheard of--for unions to make inroads with an exploration and production company (E&P) like EQT. Why this group and why now? The fire was lit when EQT announced it is selling its Huron Shale assets to Diversified Gas & Oil (see Diversified Gas & Oil Adds to Conventional Assets in KY, VA, WV). Those assets include transferring 250 workers (including the 116 working in Kentucky) to Diversified. The workers are afraid of what typically happens when such deals occur--"efficiencies" are sought, which usually translates into layoffs and whacking benefits. To get out ahead of that, the group voted to unionize. Here's the story of a small group unionizing, and the prospects of unionization happening elsewhere in the Marcellus/Utica...

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