Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.1141
Object Name
Keyring
Title
SOGAT Wapping Dispute 1986
Place
Wapping, London
People
Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT)
Events
Wapping dispute
Date
1986
Description
Leather keyring with a white backing, "SOGAT [Society of Graphical and Allied Trades] Wapping Dispute 1986" in red. Above the text is a red heart with an open book on.
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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