The New York Times’ Steve Labaton had an interesting article recently on the neutrality issue, which included this line:

“… there remains considerable Democratic opposition [to neutrality regulation]. Last June, a vote on an amendment by Mr. Markey similar to what he plans to introduce failed by 269 to 152, with 58 Democrats voting against the measure. Many of those Democrats have been allied with unions, which have sided with the phone companies because they believe that the lack of restrictions will encourage the companies to invest and expand their networks.”

True enough. And for a completely unvarnished sense of how seriously the unions object to neutrality regulation, check out this from the 700,000-member Communications Workers of America.