Most businesses do not have unions to deal with Howard. 'Constructive dialogue with staff' - nothing wrong with that but it does not have to involve unions and mostly it does not, except in the public sector.
Unions are dead in most private concerns, thankfully and the staff benefit from that. Time for the public sector to catch up.
This chart here shows the density of Trade Union membership up to 2009.
As you can see TU membership in the private sector was steadily declining from 22% in 1995 to 13% in 2009. Even in the public sector it has declined, from 61% to 57% - still far too high a figure but following the same pattern.