On this day, 24 January 1986, print workers at Rupert Murdoch’s News International went on strike against the company who had opened a new, open shop, no-strike plant at Wapping in London.
The strikers were all quickly sacked and replaced by scabs provided by the EETPU union. Despite holding out for over a year, the workers lost, and the dispute marked the effective death of the previously powerful organised print workers in the UK.
This is a short history of the dispute: https://libcom.org/history/1986-1987-wapping-printers-strike https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1332928560225624/?type=3
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