Day 155 - 14 Jul 95 - Page 45


     
     1   MR. MORRIS:  The Supervisor came to the store because you called
     2        him because of the union leaflets that you found?
     3        A.  That is not true.
     4
     5   Q.   Even though you claim it was an announced visit, you did
     6        not alert the staff to his coming down there?
     7        A.  I do not need to alert any staff at all if I am going
     8        to be in the restaurant.  If I am not in the restaurant,
     9        I will alert my Assistant Manager just out of common
    10        courtesy so that he is there.
    11
    12   Q.   You wanted to discuss with Peter Tassell what to do about
    13        this union drive that was going on in your store ---
    14        A.  No, I did not.
    15
    16   Q.   -- because the Company is paranoid from top to bottom about
    17        trade unions?
    18        A.  I am not aware of that.
    19
    20   Q.   Just to go back to the details of the incident, you said
    21        you did not read the leaflets in detail.  This is a direct
    22        quote:  "The leaflets had information inviting the staff to
    23        start a union at the Seven Sisters restaurant."   Then you
    24        later said that the leaflet or a copy of it was put up on
    25        the notice board.  You said it was tatty or something or
    26        other.  Did the leaflets look like they had been hand
    27        done?  Were they designed in a sort of -- can you remember
    28        what you saw?
    29        A.  No, I really cannot remember.
    30
    31   Q.   But they were related to, specifically angled to the staff
    32        at the Seven Sisters restaurant?
    33        A.  Again I am not aware of that; whether they were generic
    34        ones, I do not know.
    35
    36   Q.   That is what you said in your statement, "inviting staff to
    37        start a union at the Seven Sisters restaurant", but you
    38        cannot remember now?
    39        A.  I just assumed that because they were in Seven Sisters
    40        it was Seven Sisters.  It did not actually specify that it
    41        was Seven Sisters alone.
    42
    43   Q.   The locker incident as outlined by our witness -----
    44
    45   MR. RAMPTON:  I think you must say the "alleged locker
    46        incident".
    47
    48   MR. MORRIS:  No, I said "the incident as outlined by our
    49        witness" which is or will be evidence in the case.
    50        (To the witness):  May it refresh your memory, or trigger 
    51        your memory, if we separated that from the one that you do 
    52        remember about the leaflets which you say you found chucked 
    53        away, was there any other time, maybe not the same day, in
    54        which somebody, in this case Dave Magee but you do not
    55        remember him specifically, complained about their locker
    56        being broken in to?
    57        A.  There have been incidents when crew members have told
    58        me that they have had money stolen out of their locker or
    59        whatever, OK, and in a scenario like that, the only thing
    60        that you could possibly do is maybe ask three, four, five

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