Word: wappinger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Negotiations resumed in late 1985, but little progress was made between Murdoch and Brenda Dean, the head of the largest print union. In mid-January Murdoch inaugurated the Wapping plant by producing a special Sunday Times section (it hailed itself as "a landmark in British newspaper publishing"). Furious at this...
They failed. Murdoch promptly fired the 6,000 strikers and within 24 hours moved his papers to Wapping. He persuaded virtually all of his 700 journalists to join him by offering them free private medical insurance and raises of $2,800 a year. He hired a trucking firm to deliver...
It is estimated that Murdoch will save $84 million a year by printing his papers at Wapping. News International officials are willing to discuss severance benefits with the strikers, but they insist that the printers' unions will never represent employees at Wapping. At the moment, the fired workers are in...
The implications stretch beyond Wapping. As Murdoch proved by hiring electricians to replace the printers, the historic solidarity of the British union movement is cracking. Following Fleet Street's example, other recalcitrant unions, notably those representing teachers and autoworkers, may be forced to modify their demands. Some government officials even...
For the moment, however, it is Murdoch's journalists who are the most impressed by Wapping. Crouched over typewriters just a month ago, they now sit in front of glowing screens, moving paragraphs around electronically, deleting clumsy sentences, calling up notes. The exclamations of wonderment among American journalists when computer...