Note by John Zube, 5.1.2000, to the introductory remark in FAME'S Links:
Union functionaries have a vested interest in seeming to be necessary for wage negotiations. Inflations make frequent wage adjustments necessary and thus seem to justify union interventions.
Under the stable currencies of monetary freedom and the competitively supplied exchange media and clearing facilities of that condition, and the credit availability under stable currencies and full financial freedom, the demand for labour would be so great that labour unions would be more and more seen as superfluous. Add to this wide-spread self-management, partnership and productive cooperative firms and unions will, at last, almost disappear, or be reduced so insignificant ideological sectarian groups. - J.Z.