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BULLYING Argos bosses have botched the long-awaited launch of their latest catalogue by forcing warehouse workers into a walkout today against “sign or be sacked” contracts.
Managers bulldozed through new contracts for distribution staff that include draconian new conditions by showing dissenters the door.
But more than 1,000 determined Unite members began a strike this morning in a bid to get bosses around the table.
JOHN LANG recalls how Murdoch used scabbing electricians and even devised a fake newspaper to force a confrontation with printers – then sacked them all
On the 40th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, this Morning Star special supplement traces the long-planned conspiracy that led to the mass sackings of printworkers in 1986 – a struggle whose unresolved injustices still demand redress today, writes ANN FIELD
