What I'm about to say may SOUND like a contradiction...but it certainly is not if you examine it with experience and insight.
I'm a big supporter or labor union and the right to organize.
I'm also a big supporter or private businesses and profiteering.
In a Capitalistic society such as this, labor wages and working conditions in general rise when GOVERNMENT offers a viable alternative as competition.
This is what Franklin D. Roosevelt did back in the 30s and 40s with his various worker programs.
The wages offered were so high that if the private sector wanted to have a work-force, they HAD to raise their wages in order to lure people back to their jobs.
Infact, we saw a recent example of this on a more minor scale with the Pandemic relief a couple years ago.
With the government helping people to pay rent and giving them such large unemployment checks, companies HAD to offer higher wages, sign-on bonuses, and other deal sweeteners just to get people off the dole and back to work....lol.
So yes, you can allow people the freedom to work for any wage they AGREE to work for.
Infact, they SHOULD have the freedom to do this because you never know who all may be in a pinch and need to take anything they can get.
But if the government does IT'S job by offering alternatives, then the wages will still increase.
Also the government can help by suppressing INFLATION so that your dollar will stretch further, then there would be no need for constant wage increases.