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 this way to us in a candid background conversation with C&E: Union printers get all the yard sign contracts on the left. Pretty soon, it should be the same for firms pitching business to non-profits, progressive campaigns or the campaign committees.