Elections have consequences, and Scott Fitzgerald, the Republican leader of Wisconsin’s state Senate, wants one of those consequences to be a state right-to-work law.

Wisconsin is one of three states without such a law where Republicans have effective control over the legislative process for at least the next two years. (The others are Ohio, which Republicans control, and Missouri, where they hold veto-proof majorities in both the state House and Senate.) Right-to-work, which lets workers choose whether to pay for union representation without risking their jobs, is a good idea in Wisconsin, and a good idea everywhere else it can be tried.