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

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