How Yard Signs May Point the Way to Continued Unionization of Democratic Firms
One practitioner predicts unionized work forces will soon be a must for Democratic consulting firms that want to land business with top campaigns.

A big question about the unionization trend on Democratic campaigns and at firms, committees and state parties is simply whether it will last. After all, the number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions last year in the United State was down 2.2 percent from 2019, and political work's compatibility with collective bargaining rights hasn't really been fully tested yet.
But a top Democratic practitioner put it t...
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