On 8th August, members of the Bristol Central Socialist Party fanned out, visiting picket lines in Fishponds, Bristol Central, Kingswood and Yate to show solidarity to striking CWU workers at those depots. The response of the workers was open and friendly, with strikers taking solidarity leaflets.

The numbers taking part in picketing at Fishponds and Yate far exceeded the legal limits of six. At the Fishponds depot, pickets had a large dragon’s head and outfit, apparently designed to suprise managers as they drove delivery vans!

Striking workers in Yate got around directives from management saying that anyone blowing whistles at scabs would be disciplined, by installing a remote control fart machine by the gates.

Many of the workers were looking forward to a national strike in September.

Martyn Ahmet, Bristol Socialist Party