Union workers comprised 8.9 percent of Indiana's workforce in 2017, down from 10.4 percent in 2016.

Organizers face numerous obstacles, including a distracting presidential campaign.

Until now, Commercial Trade Source policy forbade workers from discussing wages or unionization on the job -- whether through conversation, flyers or union-branded clothing.

It's hard to find issues at the Statehouse that both the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and the unions agree on, but instituting a work share program is one. In spite of this, work share legislation was shut down Tuesday without even a committee vote.