Qwest Communications, which is providing telecom services to both the DNC and GOP conventions, is in negotiations with its union over a contract that expires on August 16, about a week before the Dem convention in Denver.

Qwest has contingency plans in place to provides services if there is a strike, but do the Democrats? Denver already is a non-union town as it relates to the hotels and the Pepsi Center, which has caused some problems with organized labor, but what happens if Qwest goes on strike? Will Barack Obama cross the picket line into the arena? Will any Democrat?