Not unexpectedly, other MPS members found this prospect unappealing. At the same meeting, other members sought to clarify to what extent they would allow unions to be involved in the conduct of the enterprise. For example, Karl Paul Hensel, another ordoliberal, proposed to codify the rights and duties of unions and employers in a sort of "industrial labor constitution." At that time as assistant to Walter Eucken, one of the founding fathers of ordoliberalism, Hensel was very anxious to regulate the conflict between labor and capital at the point where it originated, that is, inside the enterprise, and therefore to improve the legal position of the trade unions, which he described as being as weak as possible in the German context.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 960