Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.1156
Object Name
Badge
Title
Keep Up Your Standards Picket Wapping badge
Place
Wapping, London
People
Rupert Murdoch; Adolf Hitler
Events
Wapping dispute
Description
Round white and red badge, "Keep Up Your Standards" in black on vertical red and white chevrons. Underneath is "Picket Wapping" in red on white. 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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