The chances of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA aka “card check”) advancing in this session of Congress are virtually nonexistent. At least that’s what one of labor’s staunchest supporters in the U.S. Senate is telling the media:

“It’s not going to happen now,” [Democrat Sen. Sherrod] Brown said on WVIZ radio in Ohio.

The Hill reports that the Republican landslide last November swept away any hope “supporters of EFCA”  had for rewriting pro-labor union legislation that “might make it more palatable and allow it to be passed in a modified form.”