Dave Chapple

Dave Chapple, speaker at the IBMT's AGM in Weston-super-mare.

Dave Chapple is a lifelong Somerset trade unionist: a school cleaner and NUPE Shop steward for ten years, then a postman, in Clevedon and Bridgwater, for 38 years. With Dave as the CWU Rep, Bridgwater Royal Mail Delivery Office, between 1996 and 2016, was one of the UK's most militant workplaces, with at least a dozen local official or (mostly) wildcat strikes, most of which were successful. 

Dave has been a local trades union council activist since 1977: he is the secretary of both Bridgwater and Mendip TUCs, and the South West TUC's Trades Councils' Rep.

Dave is also, in retirement, the Secretary of the Somerset & North Devon Unite Community Branch.

Dave has been writing and publishing working-class biography and autobiography for the last 20 years, including, of course, 'Soldier Saving Lives', his tribute to Howard Andrews, copies of which will be available at the AGM. He is a member of the TUC-affiliated Writers' Guild.

Chapple's tribute to Brigader Howard Andrews, 'Soldier Saving Lives'.