We do have some good news today as one of the most insidious anti-freedom measures in recent history, “The Employee Free Choice Act” which would have ended open and free unionization elections failed its cloture vote. The secret ballot is safe for now but make no mistakes that the union heads realize this is their only way to reclaim their old power. This isn’t about protecting the worker this is about forcing workers to do something they don’t want to do in order to gain more power, money, and prestige for the union heads.

This is a big victory but we will have to fight this proposal again in the next session.

Update, this was a remarkable party line vote, the only person crossing the aisle was Sen. Specter.
Republicans voting FOR cloture:
Specter (PA)

Democrats voting AGAINST cloture:
NONE

So the next time someone tells you there are a lot of moderate Democrats, you can just use this vote to show that no there really are not.  If there’s any doubt how much the unions control the Democratic party well…