Dan Duncan, President of the Northern Virginia Labor Federation:

"Organizing is the key right now. We can't lay down and say it's all over.
There's enough fighting spirit in here. Yes, people are shocked and they've been shocked because of these results. But it's time to move on.
It's time to remember that there's still a fight, there's still a campaign, there's still workers who need help."

He says workers committed to fighting for a better future need to stay active and get as many other workers as possible to stay active to keep fighting for better working conditions, higher wages and the right to organize unions.

Duncan says while today's workforce is very different from the manufacturing based centers of union power in the 1950' and '60's, workers are still workers. The 21st century workforce still needs organized power to stop employer exploitation and they need to join the labor movement.

"Theres a new model of workers taking place in this country and they need protection just as much as the factory workers of the 1930.s, '40's and '50's did.
We've gotta look at the new workers' society, we've gotta look at how they're being exploited by people who are trying to use them to make money, just to chew them up and spit them out.
And we've gotta find ways for them to become part of the labor movement."