Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.894.1
Object Name
Badge
Title
WAPPING PICKET. NO 5999 NAME JO JOBLESS... ... ...
Place
Wapping, London
Events
Wapping dispute
Description
Mock identity card pin badge, with a cartoon illustration of a man and woman in the area where a photograph would be on a real ID card. Above is "Wapping Picket" and to the right "No.5999 / Name - Jo Jobless / Date - 1986 / Description - Trade union supporter / Union - ALL UNIONS / Signature".
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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