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   What was the Wapping dispute?

   • 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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   What happened at Wapping?

   • In January 1986, a year-long industrial dispute began at Wapping, when Rupert Murdoch, owner of four of Britain’s national newspapers The Sun, News of the World, The Times and The Sunday Times, moved production from Fleet Street to a secretly equipped and heavily guarded plant at Wapping, in east London.

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   Why did Murdoch start the Wapping dispute?

   • Murdoch had led the print unions to think that the Wapping plant was to be used for a new evening newspaper, the London Post. This began what became known as the Wapping dispute.

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   Will learning from the Wapping dispute help prevent similar events?

   • This will neither remove from history nor downgrade the suffering and hardship that the Wapping dispute engendered amongst those print workers who went through it. Learning the lessons from Wapping, however, might help avoid similar events in the future. James Moher and Alastair Reid

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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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   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...

4. news.bbc.co.uk › onthisday › hiBBC ON THIS DAY | 15 | 1986: Printers and police clash in Wapping

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   Feb 5, 2010 · In Context. 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....

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   Oct 2, 2016 · In January 1986, a year-long industrial dispute began at Wapping, when Rupert Murdoch, owner of four of Britain’s national newspapers The Sun, News of the World, The Times and The Sunday Times,...

7. www.historyandpolicy.org › trade-union-forumGoing to the Press: Wapping 1986 | History and Policy

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   Jun 11, 2011 · 11 June 2011. Tweet. This meeting set out to examine the events leading up to the Wapping dispute between print workers and News International; the course of the dispute; and its aftermath. Tony Burke (Assistant General Secretary, UNITE) made some introductory remarks.

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   Mar 17, 2011 · 17 March 2011. 3 minutes. 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...

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   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.