WSWS Exposes Democratic Party's Attempt to Pay Lip Service To Unions

 From their story about the poorly attending rally:

The rallies were very poorly attended, with no more than a couple dozen in many cities. At the main D.C. rally outside the Capitol building, an area which regularly hosts protests in the tens and hundreds of thousands, a little more than 100 people turned out, consisting mostly of press, Democratic Party staffers and union officials, with perhaps a dozen actual railroaders. The low turnout is an expression of the deep hatred and distrust which workers regard the union bureaucracy.

A high turnout, however, was no doubt deliberately discouraged. A too-high ratio of rank-and-file workers to bureaucrats would have proven impossible to control. Hardly any of the speakers who appeared at the D.C. rally would have been able to speak before getting shouted down.

The rallies were held during the middle of the week in areas far removed from major railyards. There were no rallies held in the major centers of the rail industry, including Kansas City; Lincoln, Nebraska or even Chicago.

The rally in the metro Detroit area, for example, was held in a trendy middle class shopping area in Royal Oak, on the opposite side of the city from the large railyards in southwest Detroit. Workers were instructed not to speak with the press.

Can't even bother to hold a rally in a state/town where railroad workers live. Shameful.