Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.881
Object Name
Badge
Title
FLYING PICKETS. ANYTIME ANYWHERE. WAPPING 1986
Place
Wapping, London
Events
Wapping dispute
Description
Round red and blue enamel pin badge. In gold on the red outer border is "FLYING PICKETS - WAPPING 1986". Inside is a central blue circle with a gold silhouette of a bird of prey and "ANYTIME ANYWHERE" at the bottom.
The badge was produced in support of printworkers, who had gone on strike in response to the management of Rupert Murdoch's News International refusing to negotiate terms for the movement of the printworks of the newspapers to a new factory in Wapping with worse terms of employment, in 1986. Following the declaration of the strike, known as the Wapping dispute, striking members of staff were fired. Mass pickets and a boycott movement soon followed, but the 54-week strike was ultimately unsuccessful.
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