In an editorial about the complaint of a mayoral candidate that a labor organization in the city is bending campaign rules regarding how it gets out the vote for candidates it supports, the newspaper cites a 2004 study of the South Bay Labor Council "published by labor scholars at Wayne State University in Detroit." A sentence in the report deals with how the council mobilizes precinct walkers who solicit votes door-to-door. The candidate who complained claims that using paid union staff who are assigned to the council for several weeks to work on campaigns is an unfair practice, and the editorial agrees that the issue does raise questions.