Indeed we do ... naughty me. I hereby suspend myself from the forum for 10 minutes
Re your dad ... I don't doubt it - but then 'smash the unions' is equally a somewhat hysterical and sweeping generalisation, wouldn't you agree?
If I smash a glass or a plate, generally it ceases to exist and I have to throw the broken bits in the bin.
The trades unions still exist, however the worst excesses of the abuse of power that gave industrial relations such a bad name in the 1970s are, thankfully, curbed.