A blow to teachers and all educators... where's their union?

I'm sure you all know about the thousands of teachers and other school personnel who will lose their jobs this coming school year...because deranged budget cutters; school boards, Sacramento politicians and the public at large are out to break the union. To them, teachers are just numbers to cut. To those who work in the schools, we know who they are: their names, faces, families. Overall, teachers are hard workers, caring human beings whose interest is to improve the education of their students and through them improve the American  educational system.
We are well aware that education is an investment. It is the business we are in and we are willing to work hard at it. Unfortunately, we are swimming against the current, in a sea full of sharks. Newspapers, TV, talk radio and others blame teachers for poor schools, neighborhood strife, social ills, students heath, psychological problems and poverty, to name a few.
It has always been fashionable to solve the problems of education by cutting teachers, increasing class size, cutting the arts and music, and after school programs and activities. Now they are going after what teachers have earned through many years of hard work and preparation; their job, retirement plan, heath insurance and their very existence.
And what is your union doing about it? Nothing! 
For many years, I battled union representatives on dim-witted issues such as classrooms observations, appropriate dress, being on time, parking lot, bell ringing a minute early and so on. At every turn the union was quick to defend the "poor teachers". But now when you are facing the most serious problems in your lifetime; loss of your job and families welfare, I ask you, "What is your union doing?"  I see no rallies, no call to action. All they do is support weak candidates for the Board of Education.
Politicians in Sacramento are scheming to break up the union; you are in danger of losing your job, pension and heath care. Again I ask, "Where is your union?"