Just in time for the Holiday Season, a charming piece of legislation from the great state of Wisconsin:

Wisconsin schools will be required to teach the history of organized labor under a bill signed by Gov. Jim Doyle.

The bill Doyle signed Thursday also requires Wisconsin schools to teach the history or collective bargaining.

The proposal has been around for years but never passed.

This year it cleared the Democratic controlled Legislature despite opposition from school boards and administrators who said they didn’t want the curriculum micromanaged.

Labor unions supported the bill.

No one objects to schools teaching history (which includes the rise of Big Labor in the 20th century), but it’s disturbing to have union-boss allies in the state legislature micromanaging curricula for political reasons and ordering schools to cram union propaganda down impressionable students’ throats. 

For a more balanced view about the impact of union monopoly bargaining, we recommend you check out our page on the history of the Right to Work movement.