Electing Barack Obama president wasn't the end of labor's fight; it was only the beginning. The battle continues for America's middle class this November when we go to the polls and choose the candidates who are either for or against the labor movement.

It's that simple. Big business is spending big money to put its agenda forward. But we can win, if we continue to put strong pro-union candidates into office.

The ripple-down effects of our actions are critical, as we see in this one example. For years, the airline and rail industries operated under a system where union elections were strongly biased against the labor movement because each non-vote was counted as a vote against representation. After Obama gave the National Mediation Board a 2-1 Democratic majority, union officials requested a change in policy and the procedure was changed so that only those votes cast will be counted, a move that eliminates major obstacles to union elections in two important industries.