Hi, Mike.
I run into strange behavior, see example below. In short, ORM does not 
select column from nested union when a label is assigned to the column. 
This results in mixed up attributes of a mapped object.

from datetime import datetime

from sqlalchemy import Column, DateTime, Integer, create_engine, select, 
union
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker

Base = declarative_base()


class Article(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'article'
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    created_at = Column(DateTime)
    modified_at = Column(DateTime)


engine = create_engine('sqlite:///:memory:', echo=True)
Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
session = Session()

dt1, dt2 = datetime(2011, 1, 1), datetime(2012, 2, 2)
dt3, dt4 = datetime(2013, 3, 3), datetime(2014, 4, 4)

article1 = Article(created_at=dt1, modified_at=dt2)
article2 = Article(created_at=dt3, modified_at=dt4)
session.add_all((article1, article2))
session.commit()
session.expunge_all()

query = (
    session.query(Article)
    .select_entity_from(
        union(
            select((Article, Article.modified_at.label('order_by'))),
            select((Article, Article.created_at.label('order_by'))),
        )
    )
    .order_by(Article.id)
)

article1, article2 = query.all()

print('article1')
print('\tcreated_at', article1.created_at, '\t\texpected', dt1.isoformat())
print('\tmodified_at', article1.modified_at, '\texpected', dt2.isoformat())
print('article2')
print('\tcreated_at', article2.created_at, '\t\texpected', dt3.isoformat())
print('\tmodified_at', article2.modified_at, '\texpected', dt4.isoformat())

# article1
#         created_at 2011-01-01 00:00:00          expected 
2011-01-01T00:00:00
#         modified_at 2011-01-01 00:00:00         expected 
2012-02-02T00:00:00
# article2
#         created_at 2013-03-03 00:00:00          expected 
2013-03-03T00:00:00
#         modified_at 2013-03-03 00:00:00         expected 
2014-04-04T00:00:00

Rendered SQL query:

SELECT anon_1.id AS anon_1_id, anon_1.order_by AS anon_1_order_by, 
anon_1.modified_at 
AS anon_1_modified_at
FROM (SELECT article.id          AS id,
             article.created_at  AS created_at, -- this field is not 
selected by outer SELECT
             article.modified_at AS modified_at,
             article.created_at  AS order_by
      FROM article
      UNION
      SELECT article.id          AS id,
             article.created_at  AS created_at, -- this field is not 
selected by outer SELECT
             article.modified_at AS modified_at,
             article.modified_at AS order_by
      FROM article) AS anon_1
ORDER BY anon_1.id




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