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UNIONS have hatched a controversial plan to turn around dwindling membership - by targeting children as young as 14 in their classrooms.

The state's peak union body Unions NSW has hired two young activists to go into public schools and lecture students on "industrial relations" as part of its UnionStart program.

The Daily Telegraph reports the lectures on workers' rights and the role of unions will be built into the curriculum in subjects such as business studies, careers education, vocational work placements and the School to Work program.

Teens are also being lured to join UnionStart for a $10-a-month fee with incentives including discounted tickets to sports events and the prospect of better-paid jobs.

To me this is truly terrifying, to build union dogma into the cirriculum of 14 year olds smacks of the modern day brainwashing in North Korea or the excesses of the Soviet era.

Is the NSW government now so corrupt that it will allow its masters in the unions the power to indoctrinate and recruit impressionable youngsters in its supposedly apolitical education system?

Or is the issue of union power in NSW now apolitical along with that of global warming, multiculturalism and black armband history?