At 12pm on Sunday 15th July, SolFed members dragged
themselves out of bed to join forces with local AFed and IWW activists to
extend the anti-workfare campaign to the Costa coffee chain. A cup of coffee
from the independent coffee shop next door helped us get ready for the picket.
We managed to hand out around 150 leaflets, and, as before, we felt that people
were generally very sympathetic to our action (apart perhaps a traditional
Catholic, (French) National Front voter).
After about one hour we swiftly moved to our next target: John Lewis.
SF members attended the rally on Oxford Street in London yesterday in support of the store’s cleaners striking
to secure the London Living Wage.
Responding to the IWW call, we organised a picket at our local store in solidarity with their strike.
John Lewis workers were leafleted for a good 20 minutes inside whilst outside people were made aware
of the strike for 45 minutes. Again, lots of sympathy for the strike and 200 leaflets handed out, especially due to the impressive work done by our young activist!
After about one hour we swiftly moved to our next target: John Lewis.
SF members attended the rally on Oxford Street in London yesterday in support of the store’s cleaners striking
to secure the London Living Wage. Responding to the IWW call, we organised a picket at our local store in solidarity with their strike.
John Lewis workers were leafleted for a good 20 minutes inside whilst outside people were made aware
of the strike for 45 minutes. Again, lots of sympathy for the strike and 200 leaflets handed out, especially due to the impressive work done by our young activist!
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