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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.
It is 30 years ago that 5,500 newspaper workers went on strike after failing to agree terms and conditions with Rupert Murdoch’s News International over a move to a new and high-tech printing plant at Wapping in the London Docklands.
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 who...
Sep 24, 2024 · What occurred during the bloody and fraught feud, in what has become known as the “Wapping dispute,” irrevocably changed British industrial relations and its newspaper sector.
Jun 11, 2011 · The consequences of the defeat suffered by the unions at Wapping remain profound - not simply in the way that union power was diminished, but in the way it enabled Murdoch to pull News International out of threatening financial circumstances.
An opposing view asserts that the ‘Wapping revolution’ has in fact done nothing to address the long-standing problems of the British press, particularly those of concentration of ownership, right-wing political bias and deteriorating editorial standards.
Revelations of industrial-scale phone hacking at the News of the World and corruption of the police and national politics have exposed the malign influence and power of a global media empire. The decades-long accumulation of power came dramatically to a head with the year-long dispute.
