Less than one week before the election, Democrats are receiving terrible daily news. Twenty-ten Biden House districts are presently contested. White suburban women have moved away from the Democrats by 26 percentage points. In November, 21% of African-American voters wanted to back the Republican Party. The crimson wave has developed into a tsunami. The massive labor dispute in North Carolina was probably overlooked due to the persistently high inflation and economic downturn.
The North Carolina Democratic Party’s unionized field employees may go on strike if their new contract does not meet their wage, health care, and workplace safety concerns. Since Friday, the difference between the two groups has only widened. To be honest, the Senate race in North Carolina has not received nearly as much attention as those in Arizona, Georgia, or Pennsylvania.
Ted Budd is running for the Senate to fill the retiring Republican Senator Richard Burr’s seat. Cheri Beasley, the former chief justice of the state supreme court and his Democratic opponent, is an acceptable candidate. But it’s unlikely that the Democrats will gain this seat, so there hasn’t been much coverage. It is a devastating setback to the liberals who profited from North Carolina’s status as a swing state. Democrats have allowed this state to slip away, even though it should be considered pure swing territory due to the almost equal split between Democratic and Republican voter registrations and the locations of the two parties’ voter strongholds. This occurred under Obama. Ohio and Iowa are comparable in this regard.
Field workers are at the vanguard of voter mobilization operations, which remain vital even as Democratic chances dwindle. It would be devastating for the Democratic Party of North Carolina if this staff went on strike. Then, they may be good soldiers and complete the task until Election Day, when they can debate the contract dispute again. Even if this does not occur, Democrats have other labor problems to worry about: train workers have vowed not to strike until after the election so as not to humiliate Joe Biden.
The membership of the two largest rail unions rejected a new agreement between the train companies and the unions representing the majority of railroad workers, which might severely affect the economy. Possible outcomes include the cessation of all modes of commuting-related transportation and the idling of 30 percent of the nation’s freight at a daily cost of $2 billion.
The Democrats, the party of labor unions, are mistreating their national and state-level employees but not their field staffers.