A sad day for Labor and the Democratic Party

What does it say about the decline of organized labor in America when the Democratic Party seems to not even bat an eyelash about crossing picket-lines at its convention (even if they are police picket lines)? Commentators have almost universally focused on the dirsuptions to security that a police picket would cause at the convention. Lest anyone think that the anti-labor DLC and new Democrats haven't won out, think of what the reaction would be of party leaders from FDR to the mid-1980s of even the possibility of forcing delegates to cross picket lines. One can imagine heads rolling, a mayor being threatened with Party excommunication, and an alternative convention in a place like Detroit being set up immediately if no resolution comes. Nothing like this has happend and Walter Reuther is rolling over in his grave