Deregulation will not solve the UK's problem of low productivity, Mr Monks said.
"Deregulation is not a panacea, which through some mysterious process, delivers improved business performance," he said.
Highly-regulated countries such as France, Italy and Germany all have higher productivity than the UK.
"Although their unemployment is higher than the UK's today, overall their performance in terms of productivity, growth, training, investment and balance of payments has been better than ours," he said.
"It would be disastrous for the UK to follow the same path as the US - with declining real wages for the majority," he said.
Union merger
Mr Monks is to speak at a conference organised by the Amalagamated Engineering & Electrical Union (AEEU) and the Manufacturing, Science and Finance ( MSF) union.
These two unions, two of the UK's biggest, plan to merge to form the country's largest union.
"One giant union in manufacturing would give British industry one clear employee voice to promote and defend it," Roger Lyons, general secretary of the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union, said.
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