Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.890
Object Name
Badge
Title
PLEASE DON'T BUY THE SUN. TELL SID!
Place
Wapping, London
People
The Sun
Events
Wapping dispute
Description
Round white badge with black text around the edge, "PLEASE DON'T BUY THE SUN!" and "TELL SID!" in the middle in red.
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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