Society of Graphical and Allied Trades
Sogat

The NGA merged with the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades in 1990.

"The police viciously attacked our people for no reason at all," said Ms. Dean, leader of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades.

Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT)

The Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT) was a British trade union in the printing industry.

He worked as a printer and was a member of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT).

He then worked as a researcher for the Financial Times and was a print union activist, becoming father of the chapel for his branch of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades.

Following mergers with several small unions, in 1966 it joined with the National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants to form the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades.

In 1975, SOGAT officially became the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades 1975 (SOGAT '75) after amalgamation with the Scottish Graphical Association.

In 1982, SOGAT '75 and NATSOPA finally amalgamated to become the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades 1982 (SOGAT '82).

"You walk into a building to negotiate with Maxwell and you never know when you'll get out," said Brenda Dean, general secretary of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades, which represents 180,000 printers and paper workers in Britain.

His disagreements with the British Road to Socialism led to him leaving the CPGB again in 1964, while he moved to work for the Press Association and became an activist in the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades.

The National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers became the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades Division A and NATSOPA became the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades Division 1.

A spokeswoman for the print union, Sogat, said such practices were on the way out.

Brenda Dean was general secretary of SOGAT '82 from 1985 to 1992.

The print union, SOGAT, targeted for £150,000, invested only £10,000.

This led to a confrontation with the printing unions NGA and SOGAT.

Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT)

The move was resisted strongly by the printing trade union SOGAT 82, and strike action at Wapping in 1986 led to violent skirmishes.

The Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT) was a British trade union in the printing industry.

He worked as a printer and was a member of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT).

In 1986 Sogat 82 was fined and had its entire assets sequestrated because of its illegal disruption of the distribution of Rupert Murdoch's News International newspapers.

The heavy fines imposed on Sogat 82 in its 1986 dispute with News International showed that the unions' inability to carry out secondary or solidarity 'blacking' weakened their bargaining power.

She began her career as a trade unionist as a teenager, becoming President of the print union SOGAT in 1983, and was its General Secretary between 1985 and 1991.

In the wake of Fortress Wapping out went the closed shop, restrictive practices, collective bargaining, hot-metal technology and Sogat, NGA and NUJ power.

In 1972, it merged with the Sign and Display Trade Union, and in 1982 it again merged with SOGAT, on this occasion the merger proving successful.

These gentlemen remind me of the grey men of ASLEF, NUM, SOGAT etc, dinosaurs even in their own time.

Mike Hicks (born 1937) is a British former communist, former executive member of printers' union SOGAT, and former general secretary of the Communist Party of Britain.

Her autobiography, Hot Mettle, deals largely with her period as SOGAT General Secretary at the time of Rupert Murdoch's battles with her own and other trades unions.

Thornton had also earned the respect of SOGAT, the print union, and Manchester City Council for his previous efforts to re-employ the redundant workers at the Daily Mirror plant in the city.

His father is Bob Gillespie, a former SOGAT union official and Labour Party candidate in the 1988 Govan by-election, who lost the election to the Scottish National Party's Jim Sillars.

SOGAT was formed in 1966 by the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers and the National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants (NATSOPA).

Ms Brenda Dean, general secretary of Sogat (Society of Graphical and Alled Trades) said: 'The decision will give the green light to a small minority of cynical police officers, encouraging them to build in unnecessary delays when they are investigating their own.'

The GMPU was formed from the merger of SOGAT and the National Graphical Association and claimed to be the world's largest media union, having over 200,000 members working in the print, publishing, paper, IT and media industries.

In 1975, SOGAT officially became the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades 1975 (SOGAT '75) after amalgamation with the Scottish Graphical Association.

In 1992, SOGAT '82 merged with the National Graphical Association to form the Graphical, Paper and Media Union, which subsequently merged with Amicus to become that union's Graphical, Paper and Media industrial sector.

It was put together at the Camden New Technology Centre, which was loaned by the council, and administered from News on Sunday 's recently occupied headquarters in Caxton House near Waterloo station, the London offices of the print union, SOGAT.

Born in Salford, Sutcliffe was educated in Bradford at Cardinal Hinsley Grammar School, but left aged sixteen, and then worked as a salesman and for a printers company, becoming a deputy branch secretary of the print workers trade union SOGAT.