Indeed

(Neoliberalism as such) maintains that employment protections and wage rigidities are not needed. Given this trend, teachers' unions are in a double bind in this neoliberal climate. They are fighting for fair contracts with livable wages and working conditions in the face of budget cuts to the public sphere as well as trying to remain integral in a climate of increasingly privatized approaches to education reform.

- from Noel Anderson, Hostile Takeover: Antiunionism and the Neoliberal Politics of Urban School Reform in New York in Working USA, June 2006: 225-243

How are you supposed to be a social movement and a bargaining unit at the same time? Especially when there are all these Democrats to canvass for?