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	1983-2007
	Series
	76 items
	This dispute between SOGAT '82, the National Graphical Association, the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers and News International arose in 1985 as a result of plans to move production of the company's newspapers from Fleet Street to Wapping in east London with a consequent change in employees' terms and conditions. The unions voted in favour of strike action in January 1986 which prompted News International to give notice to all those involved and to employ labour recruited by the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union. The dispute was characterised by the use of union legislation by News International to break the strike and by violent clashes at the Wapping plant. The dispute ended in February 1987 when the threat of more legal action by News International placed the very existence of the unions in jeopardy.
	The arrangement of these records is largely determined by the numbering of the original box files in which most of them were deposited.
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Records concerning legal proceedings Records concerning legal proceedings Records concerning legal proceedings Records concerning legal proceedings Records concerning legal proceedings Records concerning legal proceedings. Completed questionnaires from branches on the local conduct and effect of the dispute. Correspondence mainly with London Central branch. Correspondence on general fund donations and ballot for a levy on members. Correspondence on the entitlement of members of 'Dad's Army' (older casual workers) to redundancy compensation payments from News International following the settlement of the dispute. Michael Hicks, SOGAT '82 national executive council member imprisoned for assaulting a police officer. London District Council and all branches involved in the dispute: correspondence and circulars. Correspondence with London Machine Branch and Printing Machine Branch. Correspondence with London Branch of Revisers, Ink and Roller Makers and Auxiliaries (RIRMA). Correspondence with London Branch of Clerical, Administrative and Executive Personnel Documents presented to the national executive council. National executive council correspondence. Circulars to branches and press releases Circulars to branches. Distribution of News International titles and circulation figures for these and other newspapers. Families central welfare fund. Families central welfare fund. Sequestration of SOGAT '82 assets. Sequestration of SOGAT '82 assets. Possible purging of SOGAT '82's contempt of court in order to end the sequestration of its assets. Policing of the dispute. Stocking of News International titles in local authority libraries and placing of advertisements in them by local authorities and other organisations 'Material out of file used in BD memoirs': correspondence and circulars 'Material used in B Dean's memoir - thus out of appropriate box file' 'Material used in B Dean's memoir - thus out of appropriate box file' General correspondence and papers General correspondence and papers General correspondence and papers General correspondence and papers Ballot on News International's settlement offer, London Machine Branch's legal challenge to it and emergency rule change Ballot on offer from News International; negotiations involving the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS); legal action arising from picketing. General correspondence and papers General correspondence and papers Correspondence with Labour members of the UK and European parliaments, with extracts from 'Hansard' Non-official campaign publications. Appeals against expulsion from SOGAT '82 for accepting compensation payments from News International Distribution of newspapers by TNT Roadfreight (UK) Limited, including legal action by them against SOGAT '82. Letters from individual SOGAT '82 members, with replies. Letters of support, with replies. Letters of support, with replies. Letters of support, with replies. Letters of opposition, including 'nasties' General correspondence and papers General correspondence and papers General correspondence and papers General correspondence and papers Circulars to members dismissed by News International. Complaint by Dean about articles on the dispute in the 'UK Press Gazette'. Correspondence with trade unions in other countries Letter from London Machine Branch on dealing with members who crossed official picket lines. Administration of members' unfair dismisal claims. Press articles. Press articles. Press articles and other papers, some apparently used in Dean's memoirs and relating to other aspects of her life 'Miscellaneous (ex LCB [London Central Branch] control)' Notes of meetings Charges against the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union (EETPU) by the general council of the Trades Union Congress Trades Union Congress proceedings and other matters Campaign leaflets, posters and newsletters . Meetings with News International representatives. Meetings with News International representatives and others. Trades Union Congress proceedings. Threatened renewal of sequestration of SOGAT 82's assets and consequent end of dispute. Campaign material, 1986; press cuttings about Rupert Murdoch's influence on televised sport, 1995 'Wapping lies! 10 min video on the dispute' (2 copies) Video recording of rally in support of the print unions Video recording of 'Reporting London' on ITV Video recording of 'London Plus' on BBC 1 Video recording of 'The Walden Interview' with Robert Maxwell on ITV Video recording of 'Question time' with "all the original Wapping cast - Miles, Parish, Matthews etc" Sound recording of 'Flashback' on BBC Radio 5