Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Andrew Yang and Tom Steyer will be attending.
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The debate nearly didn't happen.
All seven candidates had sided with a labor union in the middle of a strike on the university campus and the candidates said they wouldn't cross the picket line.
Missing the debate would have cost them a lot of national exposure.
A tentative contract agreement was reached earlier this week, allowing the debate to proceed as planned.
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The chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Sen. Elizabeth Warren were involved in reaching the agreement.
The university was not involved in the negotiation, it was between a private contractor employing food-service workers and their union.
Thursday night's debate will be the sixth matchup and of the last for this year.