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National AFL-CIO and Democratic Party leaders in Washington, D.C seeking a resolution to a dispute that could derail Denver?s bid for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. The disagreement stems from the Democratic National Committee?s requirement that only union workers staff the convention proposed for the Pepsi Center. Stagehands and other union leaders consider the privately owned Pepsi Center to be "anti-union" and want to use the convention and deep bonds with the pro-labor Democratic Party as leverage to unionize the arena beyond the August 2008 convention.