ABSTRACT
On Thursday 5 February 1987 ‘the longest, most serious and most bitter dispute SOGAT has ever faced’1 came to an end. For more than a year, 4,745 SOGAT members sacked by Rupert Murdoch’s News International had fought for ‘jobs, recognition and trade union rights’2. The 1980s anti-union legislation was employed against them and their union together with some of the strongest police actions against strikers witnessed in Britain. Furthermore, another union, the EETPU actively connived with News International to supply an alternative work-force to undertake jobs traditionally undertaken by SOGAT members.
