Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.883
Object Name
Badge
Title
MINERS AND PRINTWORKER. ORGREAVE. 1984 1986 WAPPING. UNITED IN SOLIDARITY
Place
Wapping, London, Orgreave, Yorkshire
Events
Wapping dispute; Miners Strike 1984/5
Description
Round enamel pin badge with a red border, with gold text "MINERS AND PRINTWORKER. ORGREAVE. 1984 1986 WAPPING. UNITED IN SOLIDARITY."In the centre is a miner's lamp and a newspaper. To the left is a silhouette in profile of a miner, with a miner's headlamp and hard hat. To the right is a silhouette in profile of a a person wearing a hat, likely representing a journalist or printer.
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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