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The Wapping dispute was, along with the miners' strike of 1984-5, a significant turning point in the history of the trade union movement and UK industrial relations. It started on 24 January 1986 when some 6,000 newspaper workers went on strike after months of protracted negotiation with their employers, News International (parent of Times Newspapers and News Group Newspapers, chaired by Rupert Murdoch). News International had built and equipped a new printing plant for all its titles at Wapping in secret and when the print unions announced a strike it activated this new plant with the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union (EETPU) union workers.
to the Wapping dispute, English newspapers were victims of extraordinary corruption. Phantom... News International's London operation from Fleet Street to Wapping resulted in nightly battles and...