Posted on 07/09/2009 11:17:52 AM PDT by ThE_RiPpEr.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state bill up for a hearing today would require Wisconsin public schools to teach the history of organized labor and the collective bargaining process in the U.S.
Labor unions support the requirement. But groups representing school boards and administrators have registered against it saying they don't want the curriculum micromanaged. The bill has been around for years. It passed the Senate in 1997 and 2001 but never the full Legislature.
The Assembly in April passed a bill that would only require the history of organized labor and collective bargaining be included in the state's academic standards. .
What chapter is it when we get to intimidation, beatings, and fire bombings to protect duh union?
Exactly, who will teach these classes, Union Thugs, or the Union Presidents who are seeing their $$ drifting away, from fewer memeber ships..
Extra-credit awarded for joining union workers on strike!
Will both sides be presented? Will they delve into the corruption and slimy underbelly of unions? Will they get into the mob connections? How about union strongarming tactics? How about the politcal funding schemes where unions give millions to the candidates they want in exchange for favorable votes on the things unions want passed? Quid pro quo? How about highlighting the NEA president’s comments about how “when kids start paying union dues, then the union will be concerned with kids’ issues”? That will be a whopper of a class!
The people on madison.com pu-pu the statement “As Madison goes,so goes the state”. Now this. The Iron Range unions in the 20’s under hall where communist’s.
Fits right in with the old surgeon generals sex-ed at kindergarten
I have several stories about the unions, but one in particular... I was leaving work one day, during a lead up to a vote, and in the parking lot outside were several “representatives” handing out fliers as you left the lot.
They were blocking cars, physically, and talking to each one as we left the lot.
As I got up there, a big guy gets in front of my car (like he did all the preceding cars) and another fellow comes to my window and says “Tim, we need your vote on this. Your children and your wife (he names their names) are depending on you. Your not going to let them down are you? Their future is at stake. Do whats best for them.”
I swear, if I was a bigger man, I would have broke his neck on the spot. It was downright intimidation, they went through the trouble to find out my wifes’ and kids names, and implied without a doubt what they intended.
And now union votes are no longer anonymous? Thanks Obama!
A state bill up for a hearing today would require Wisconsin public schools to teach the history of organized labor and the collective bargaining process in the U.S.
So why doesn't Wisconsin already teach this???
I learned about the labor movement in my HS US History class 40 years ago.
Of course, if they're talking about a class that focuses solely on the labor movement and nothing else, then I'd be totally against that type of indoctrination. That would be more appropriate for a college History major to take a course that goes into greater detail.
But the labor movement is a part of US History, and public HS students should be given an objective perspective of the basics in their US History curriculum.
I think I would have accidentally mistaken the gas pedal for the brake.
How can one teach “American History from 1866 to Present” without mentioning labor unions? Like it or not, it’s a major factor in the economic history of the past 150 years.
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