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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.
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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.
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...
Jan 21, 2016 · Thirty years ago this weekend, Rupert Murdoch moved his papers to Wapping, firing anyone who refused to work with his new technology and fomenting ugly battles at the gates of his new plant.
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.
Oct 2, 2016 · This was the Wapping dispute, a seminal moment in the history of Britain’s industrial history, when Margaret Thatcher and media magnate Rupert Murdoch made a devil’s pact to crush the unions.
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...
