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Grangemouth's smokestacks hulked over a silent sprawl of machinery tonight as refinery owner Ineos's "sign or be sacked" ultimatum loomed.
The fates of hundreds of workers' jobs hang in the balance as the Morning Star went to press, just minutes before the company's deadline demanding their workforce agree to drastic cuts to pay and pensions.
The company told the refinery's 1,350 workers they had until tonight to consider new terms - including axing their final-salary pension, frozen wages until 2017, and cuts to shift allowances, overtime pay, holidays and redundancy terms.
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JOHN LANG recalls how Murdoch used scabbing electricians and even devised a fake newspaper to force a confrontation with printers – then sacked them all
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
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