{"id":107556,"date":"2023-01-30T20:21:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T20:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=107556"},"modified":"2023-01-30T20:21:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T20:21:57","slug":"kentucky-union-rate-ticks-up-bucking-national-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=107556","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Kentucky union rate ticks up, bucking national trend&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wdrb.com\/in-depth\/kentucky-union-rate-ticks-up-bucking-national-trend\/article_d77e8b8c-9dc3-11ed-b1d2-dbb7c322c8a6.html\" target=\"_blank\">WDRB<\/a>: &#8220;The share of unionized workers in Kentucky ticked up in 2022, bucking the national trend, according to federal data released this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It marks the first increase in the state\u2019s share of union workers in six years, though the rate is still well below the level of unionization in Kentucky prior to 2017\u2019s right-to-work law, which prohibits mandatory union contributions in workplaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, 7.9% of Kentucky workers belonged to a union, up from 7.2% in 2021, according to the U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s annual survey.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WDRB: &#8220;The share of unionized workers in Kentucky ticked up in 2022, bucking the national trend, according to federal data released this month. It marks the first increase in the state\u2019s share of union workers in six years, though the rate is still well below the level of unionization in Kentucky prior to 2017\u2019s right-to-work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107557,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107556\/revisions\/107557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}