However, doing away with antitrust regulation is not enough. Government must cease supporting combinations in restraint of trade. This means the NLRA must be repealed and replaced with voluntary unionism. Some may dismiss this proposal as politically impossible. But nothing of value will ever be accomplished if innovators only propose what seems to be politically possible.
History is replete with stories of the politically impossible becoming the status quo.
In the 1950s the abolition of Jim Crow laws in the United States seemed politically impossible. Until the early 1990s the abolition of apartheid in South Africa seemed politically impossible. In comparison, the abolition of compulsory unionism seems not much at all. In 1991, the New Zealand Parliament enacted the Employment Contracts Act, which eliminated most forms of compulsory unionism. Today, individual workers are free to decide whether to represent themselves or to authorize an agent to represent them in bargaining for wages, salaries, and other terms and conditions of employment.