This is the second part of a two-part diary that is partially inspired by ColdFusion04's excellent diary and Armando's front page posts here and here. I say "partially inspired" because it is also inspired by two months of post-election discussions here at dKos and among my friends, family and co-workers.
Two months have now passed since The Most Important Election Of My Lifetime. I have spent these two months, like many of us here at dKos, catching up on two years of lost sleep and wondering what comes next. More importantly, as a Union member and advocate for workers rights, my question is -- Where does Labor go from here? It is my belief that in the next four years we will be witness to either the death of the "labor movement" (and, therefore, the middle class in America) or a meteoric and spectacular rebirth as described in Dan Clawson's book "The Next Upsurge."
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