The Wapping Dispute

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In January 1986 newspaper owner Rupert Murdoch took on the print workers' unions in a bitter industrial dispute which would revolutionise the British press. Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde was head of print workers union SOGAT 82 at the time. Picture: Rupert Murdoch holds copies of his Sun and Times papers at his print works in Wapping, East London. Press Association 26/01/1986