ABSTRACT
A plant government that rests on management's good intentions alone will be unable to oppose management. The only alternative to union participation in the plant government is union hostility and opposition. The union alone can bridge the gap between industry and the family. Community self-government threatens to deprive the union of its "anti" function and therewith of its very reason for existence. For a European union this will be most difficult; but it would also be a bitter pill for most American unions to swallow. Only a union that has this assurance that its right to existence and its right to represent the workers cannot be undermined by management, can be expected to be willing and able to participate in the community government. Even fullest union participation in the self-governing plant community will not solve two problems vital to society: that of a rational wage policy, and that of the strike.
