Day 209 - 25 Jan 96 - Page 72
1 upon the clock cards. The document was headed:
2 "Mistreated by schedule" and I served it this morning.
3 I do not know if you have a copy of it there?
4 A. I gave you my only -- the thing I wrote out last night.
5
6 Q. Here is your original. Without going to all the clock
7 cards, if you can just explain what you are trying to say
8 there and how you chose John Gore or whatever?
9 A. Right. Well, I read in the statements that, you know,
10 people -- it was very difficult to prove whether people
11 were getting unsocial shifts, et cetera, and I just took
12 John Gore's name and checked him out because he was the top
13 one on what I had said. He is the one I knew most that
14 used to complain about it.
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16 Q. You said he had been mistreated by schedule?
17 A. Yes. We only had these five weeks and I just put it --
18 all his actual schedules down, not the clock card reports,
19 but the schedules down, for each day, and did a break down
20 of them and ----
21
22 Q. Based on those page numbers on the left in the second
23 volume, yes?
24 A. Yes.
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26 Q. Yes.
27 A. And I just found a few. I was not -- I did not really
28 know what I was looking for.
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30 Q. What are the ones that say "my schedules"?
31 A. They were the -- the time you picked to look at a time,
32 a section in time in McDonald's in Bath, at that time,
33 I happened to be doing some of the schedules. I think
34 there were four of them, but I am unsure, because I do not
35 remember the dates, but they look like my handwriting; two
36 or three of them definitely are. Anyway, what I found was
37 that in that whole time he had not a single whole weekend
38 off, you know, in all those periods we checked, which was a
39 common problem with people like John Gore, the fully flexed
40 full-timers who, you know, always seemed to end up working
41 Saturdays and stuff. So that he did not have a single
42 weekend off out of the ones we checked. Out of 10
43 Saturdays, he did eight night shifts, one day shift and one
44 requested day off. I think it was already agreed that
45 Saturday nights are very unsocial shifts. It is the
46 busiest shift of the week; it is the shift that nobody
47 wants to do, because you are having to clean up from the
48 busiest day shift of the week. So you have not only got
49 extra business; you have also got extra dirt from the day
50 shift. So people just do not like to do it.
51
52 Then I just checked out the total of his shifts. I just
53 wanted to see how many of them -----
54
55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment.
56 A. Sorry, yes. Out of all the shifts -----
57
58 Q. Just pause.
59 A. Sorry.
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