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The Wapping dispute was a lengthy failed strike by print workers in London in 1986. Print unions tried to block distribution of The Sunday Times , along with other newspapers in Rupert Murdoch 's News International group, after production was shifted to a new plant in Wapping in January 1986.
Jan 21, 2016 · Wapping dispute 30 years on: How Rupert Murdoch changed labour relations - and newspapers - forever. Thirty years ago this weekend, Rupert Murdoch moved his papers to Wapping, firing anyone...
by Ann Field. THIRTY years after the traumatic year-long dispute at Wapping, which cost 5,500 jobs, Murdoch’s News Corp still sits on top of the pile of media conglomerates. The phone-hacking and bribery scandals rocked the political Establishment but have left Murdoch virtually untouched. His relationship with the Tory government seems as ...
Feb 5, 2010 · The Wapping dispute was one of the most protracted and bitter in Britain's industrial history. The picketing was exceptionally violent, with 1,262 arrests and 410 police injuries....
Jun 11, 2011 · Tony Burke (who had been President of the local NGA branch during the preceding dispute with Eddy Shah at the Stockport Messenger), began by refuting two of the most widely circulated myths about the Wapping dispute. First he argued that the print unions were not resistant to the introduction of new technology into Fleet Street.
The Wapping dispute of 1986-87 was a fight to save jobs. Before the dispute, Fleet Street newspapers were typeset with hot metal and the print unions were powerful. Rupert Murdoch secretly built a system to print and distribute all of his newspapers from a new high-tech plant at Wapping.
Mar 17, 2011 · In part three of the British at Work, Kirsty Young hears how the Wapping Dispute of 1986, between the print workers' union and the owners of News International, along with the Miners' Strike of...
