bring the strike to an end. The strike finally came to an end of February 6, 1987. At the beginning of 1987 he took over as Managing Director of News International, responsible for The Times, the Sunday Times, The Sun, the News of the World and later, the Today newspaper. He was appointed to the News Corporation Board of Directors that year and served until 1990. He transferred management of News International to Gus Fischer and returned to the United States at the beginning of 1990 to lead News Corporation's global human resources program. On 25 November 1990, O'Neill arrived in Geneva, Switzerland to represent the United States as the employer delegate at a tripartite meeting of the International Labour Organization. He had been nominated to attend by the American Newspaper Publishers Association. The week-long meeting was convened to discuss the international working conditions of journalists. Little was achieved and this led The Guild Reporter, voice of The Newspaper Guild to write in its issue of December 14, 1990, "the cause was the U.S. labor-management issues that simmered constantly beneath the surface." O'Neill testified before a U.S. Congressional Committee in 1991 as an expert witness on the Striker Replacement Bill. In 1993, he led the management team negotiating with the unions<ref>"Murdoch tells of $350,000 weekly deficits at the Post", New York Times', 3 April 1993.</ref> that led to News Corporation reacquiring the New York Post. That year, he became a United States citizen. In 1995, he was back at Wapping, this time as CEO, while a management reshuffle was effected. At year's end he handed over control of News International to incoming chairman, Les Hinton. Until his retirement in 2002, he continued in his role as News Corporation's Executive Vice President of Human Resources. He left the company exactly 50 years from the day he started on the Sydney Daily Mirror as a 15-year-old apprentice. Following his retirement O'Neill compiled a memoir that dealt with his involvement in the acquisition of Times Newspapers, the Wapping Strike and the reacquisition of the New York Post. Since 2009 the memoir, titled "Copy Out!" has been available from the University of Warwick. In July 2011, at the height of the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World,'' he was contacted by the BBC's Business Daily Program and interviewed on his years with News Corporation and his impression of Rupert Murdoch's contribution