Day 193 - 28 Nov 95 - Page 20
1 be between the first and third week; and after the union
2 campaign, they cut a shift, but I do not have the stats for
3 that.
4
5 Q. Still on this page of your statement, Miss Inglis, what you
6 have listed here, I take it -- and you will correct me if
7 I am wrong -- are what you would say were unfair ploys by
8 Cam to, as it were, manipulate the workforce in his favour?
9 A. Sorry, whereabouts are we on this?
10
11 Q. I am looking at the third page of your statement in
12 general, first of all. I am going to look at it in detail
13 in a moment. More free food, Christmas party, "Just Say
14 No" buttons, Candid Cam drawings, "No in the snow", and so
15 on and so forth. The allegation which you are making,
16 broadly speaking, is that Cam adopted devices and ploys so
17 as to twist the workforce in his favour; that is what you
18 are saying, is it not?
19 A. Yes.
20
21 Q. Does it occur to you that 39 of the people who had already
22 signed up were already in Cam's camp? Have you thought
23 about that?
24 A. I am sorry?
25
26 Q. 39 of the people who had originally signed up had already
27 changed sides by this time, had they not?
28 A. By which time are you talking about?
29
30 Q. By 11th October at the latest?
31 A. I cannot tell you when I was aware of the petition, no.
32
33 Q. Without those 39 people, you had absolutely no hope of
34 winning an election, did you?
35 A. That is true; but if those 39 people changed their
36 minds because of what Cam was doing, then we would have a
37 chance of unionisation.
38
39 Q. Let us look at that, shall we? The chronology is
40 important. The last of the letters went in on
41 11th October. The Board hearing did not begin until
42 1st November. You start this part of your statement with
43 the words "while the hearings were taking place at the
44 Labour Board". So everything that you are alleging here is
45 supposed to have happened after the hearings had started
46 and, therefore, after the letters had gone in; that is
47 right, is it not?
48 A. I do not know if it started then or if it, you know, if
49 -- I do not think that is what it meant, that it just
50 started as of November 1st, as soon as the employees were
51 at the Labour Board, no.
52
53 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment. You have already said
54 that you think people signed the petition because they were
55 intimidated?
56 A. Yes.
57
58 Q. It looks as if they signed the petition on
59 2nd or 3rd October, and the people who wrote letters used
60 at the Labour Board -- two of the 21 I cannot find a date
