The two court officers' unions strongly favor the sequestering of juries in criminal trials, which means overtime pay for the court officers who must guard the jurors overnight.

The report also dropped recommendations the union had favored, like a requirement that companies make public disclosures about the concessions they gave.

Perhaps inevitably, some unions favor lump-sum payments, which come in many forms, among them profit sharing, productivity rewards and payments for signing a contract.

A spokesman for the A.F.L.-C.I.O. said the federation was also opposed to repeal, although some individual unions favor it.

Because unions generally favor Democrats, this observation is supposed to lend a gloss of bipartisanship to the Court's reworking of a century of laws.

That message could backfire if voters decide that unions and trial lawyers favor the status quo because it favors them.

Many unions favor the Wicks Law because they think general contractors try to drive down wages more than smaller contractors.

Some preferred union with Mexico, others autonomy; a third group favored annexation by the United States.

In Brooklyn," he said, "the unions did not favor prefabricated construction.

It is disingenuous, however, to say unions and Democrats favor federalizing security to increase membership.