{"id":32909,"date":"2018-03-18T14:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T13:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/18\/lady-dean-of-thornton-le-fylde-obituary\/"},"modified":"2018-03-18T14:02:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T13:02:27","slug":"lady-dean-of-thornton-le-fylde-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=32909","title":{"rendered":"Lady Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Print union leader who played a key role in the 1986 Wapping disputeBrenda Dean, Lady Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, who has died aged 74, became one of the best-known trade union leaders in Britain as a result of her leadership of Sogat during the Wapping dispute in 1986-87, a brutal confrontation with Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News International that would prove a watershed for the future of the print industry. She was a forward-looking pragmatist whose attempts to resolve the strike enhanced her status within the wider trade union movement but undoubtedly at the eventual cost of her own long-term career within it.She was bitterly denounced by some people in the militant Fleet Street chapels (union branches) as a \u201cJudas\u201d, she was derided as \u201ca film star\u201d because of her blond good looks and her leadership was decried when she put the survival of the union, with 90% of its members in the provinces, ahead of what was essentially a London dispute. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/18\/lady-dean-of-thornton-le-fylde-obituary\" target=\"_blank\">Lady Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde obituary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Print union leader who played a key role in the 1986 Wapping disputeBrenda Dean, Lady Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, who has died aged 74, became one of the best-known trade union leaders in Britain as a result of her leadership of Sogat during the Wapping dispute in 1986-87, a brutal confrontation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}