Printworkers

I didn't feel much affinity with the Labour party struggling with the Militant tendency, and the Tory boys were pretty disgusting, trying to recreate Brideshead Revisited while television screens were full of pictures of miners and printworkers being brutally crushed by the police and the state. ❋ Unknown (2011)

She supported Wapping printworkers and striking miners in their campaigns (and was once thrown out of the Ritz hotel in London after entering with a "Coal Not Dole" placard), and it was a source of great pride to her that in 1987 she was sacked by Cap'n Bob for her unionactivities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For several years she worked at Mirror Group newspapers, at the time owned by Robert Maxwell, where she was mother of chapel of the printworkers 'union Sogat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This prompted a year-long strike by printworkers, accompanied by picket-line violence, but production of the newspaper was never completely interrupted. ❋ RichardKerry (2010)

He threw himself into political activity after the war and was one of the Communist leaders of a major printworkers 'strike in 1959 and the fight for a 40 hour week. ❋ Unknown (2009)