This morning the Senate failed to invoke cloture on H.R. 800 – the union card-check legislation. For now the so-called Employee Free Choice Act is dead. It required 60 votes to move the bill to the Senate floor and the vote was 51-48 in favor of cloture – 9 votes short. There is still a Senate version of the same bill that is alive. Similar provisions could also be offered as riders to other legislation. Stay tuned.
