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PROTESTS took place outside the offices of the New York Times on Saturday as the newspaper’s bosses were accused of union-busting tactics to divide workers.
Anger erupted after management announced that it would honour three public holidays – Juneteenth, Veterans Day and Indigenous People’s Day – for non-union employees only.
Meanwhile, the New York Times Tech Guild is balloting 650 members for union recognition after bosses refused to grant it voluntarily.
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
Forty years on, TONY DUBBINS revisits the Wapping dispute to argue that Murdoch’s real aim was union-busting – enabled by Thatcherite laws, police violence, compliant unions and a complicit media
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LAURA DAVISON traces how Murdoch’s mass sackings, political deals and legal loopholes shattered collective bargaining 40 years ago – and how persistent NUJ organising, landmark court victories and new employment rights legislation are finally challenging that legacy
A chance find when clearing out our old office led us to renew a friendship across 5,000 miles and almost nine decades of history, explains ROGER McKENZIE