Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.1161
Object Name
Badge
Title
Eastenders Say We're Not Sun Lovers
Place
Wapping, London
People
Rupert Murdoch; Adolf Hitler
Events
Wapping dispute
Description
Round white badge, "Eastenders Say We're Not Sun Lovers" in black around the badge with "Sun" on a red rectangular background, mimicking the logo of The Sun newspaper. In the centre is a cartoon illustration of a pigeon wearing a checkered scarf and a black hat.
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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