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Wapping dispute
The Wapping dispute started on 24 January 1986 when some 6,000 newspaper workers went on strike after months of protracted negotiation with their employers, News International (parent of Times Newspapers and News Group Newspapers, chaired by Rupert Murdoch). News International had built and equipped a new printing plant for all its titles at Wapping in secret and when the print unions announced a strike it activated this new plant with the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union (EETPU) union workers.
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