the reality is in a global economy, unions are irrelevant and have declining effect on wages.  Those companies which remain unionized are clearly in decline and will disappear (eg Gm and Ford in decline while Toyota and Tesla are on the rise).  We all compete on the global market whether we like it or not.  Creating artificial centrally-planned mini-economies like the milk boards has generated a deep unfairness to consumers and inhibition of innovation in the industry.  It has created an elite minority of multi millionaire farmers at the cost of consumers and at the cost of our international trading reputation.  Wages are influenced mostly by the value of the work, how advanced the skills are - this is why Canadians and US have some of the highest wages in the world, and it is entirely despite of the few unions remaining.