Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.874
Object Name
Badge
Title
FINANCIAL TIMES NGA STRIKE. MAY 31ST-AUGUST5TH 1983 NO NGA -NO FT
Place
Wapping, London
People
Financial Times, National Graphical Association (NGA)
Events
Wapping dispute
Description
Round enamel pin with a black border and green centre, featuring a simple illustration of an open newspaper with the front and back headlines "NO NGA - NO FT". In the black border, gold text reads "Financial Times nga Strike - May 31st - Aug 5th 1983".
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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