Murdoch Facing Walkout at the Sun
Newspaper owner Rupert Murdoch met with union officials Tuesday in a bid to head off a possible strike by journalists at the Sun, a popular British paper that is already being picketed by dismissed printing workers.
The National Union of Journalists branch at the Sun voted 94 to 80 Monday night to stop working at a new, computerized printing plant in the east London district of Wapping.
The fortress-like Wapping plant has been the scene of picketing for the 19 weeks since Murdoch fired 5,500 striking print workers and moved the operations of the Sun, the Times of London, the Sunday Times and the News of the World there in a dispute over modernization.
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