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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mike2633, post: 7516866, member: 117804&quot;]<b>TNT and the 1986 Wapping U.K. Dispute</b></p><p><img src="http://www.wapping-dispute.org.uk/sites/default/files/Slide010.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.wapping-dispute.org.uk/sites/default/files/1%2022.2.86%20marching%20to%20Wapping%201%28Andrew%20Wiard%20Report%29.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1986 News International owned by Rupert Murdoch opened a news paper plant in Wapping, in the U.K. It was a big plant to because it produced The Sun, News of The World, The Times and The Sunday Times.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well this plant was brand new and it was using computers for type setting instead of the lithograph.</p><p><br /></p><p>The news paper print workers union didn&#039;t care for the new computer system they wanted the old lithograph system more or less. The computers made it so editors and journalists could just upload there story and reports to the computer and it would fit with in the news papers format and go to print. The old days everything had to go through the lithograph which means the editors and whoever else had to go down to the actual printing plant run it through the printing workers. Well that all went away with the computer. So the print workers tried to stop the computer system and that didn&#039;t work. </p><p><br /></p><p>News International fired 6000 employees who worked at the Wapping Plant. </p><p><br /></p><p>TNT Newsfast had the distribution contract for the Wapping Plant in June of 1985 when News International signed the contract for TNT Newsfast to purchase vehicles for distribution for 7 million pounds. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, the union figured that even if &quot;scabs&quot; were going to be working in the news plant the papers couldn&#039;t be distributed because they figured the union workers at this company:</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/BR-logo.svg/283px-BR-logo.svg.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>would back them. Well News International didn&#039;t ship with British Rails they shipped with TNT and TNT for a year basically went in and out of the picket lines and in 1987 the news print workers union was starved out and collapsed and the strike at times was bloody and violent, but between the plant workers and TNT the print workers union failed in there strike and the news paper did not lose any production or distribution schedules.&nbsp; TNT was picketed and also subject to trouble during the times of the strike.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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