Wapping – 25th anniversary exhibition – returns to London
29 September 2011
The Wapping 25th anniversary exhibition - given extra impetus by
this summer’s phone hacking scandal that engulfed the Murdoch media
empire - returns to London this weekend.
The exhibition, highlighting the 13-month struggle that the
employees staged in 1986 to save their jobs and protect trade union
rights, will be on show at the New Academic Building, Goldsmiths,
University of London, Lewisham Way, London SE14 from 1 October
until 14 October.
The Goldsmiths exhibition is open between 9am -9pm,
Monday/Friday, and 10am - 5pm Saturday/Sunday.
Wapping - one of the key industrial disputes of the Thatcher era
- erupted when 5,550 production and clerical workers were sacked by
Rupert Murdoch overnight.
It was in January 1986 that News International – owners of The
Times, Sunday Times, The Sun and the now defunct News of the World
– sacked thousands of its staff when it moved its operations to
Wapping in East London.
Dramatic images, photographs and accounts of the dispute - when
Rupert Murdoch used his vast wealth, aided by the Conservatives’
anti-union legislation to facilitate the dash to Wapping - will be
on display.
The multi-media exhibition has been organised by Unite, the
National Union of Journalists, Campaign for Press and Broadcasting
Freedom and the Marx Memorial Library. The display is on a
nationwide tour continuing into the New Year.
ENDS
Notes to news editors:
Nearest stations – New Cross/New Cross Gate
For further information, please contact Ann Field on 07831
676587, Tim Gopsill on 020 7274 9007 or Barry White on 07774
607419.
Unite communications officer Shaun Noble on 07768 693940
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