Day 193 - 28 Nov 95 - Page 22


     
     1        to make people feel that everything is happy at work.  You
     2        know, this occurred several times, whether it be field
     3        consultants coming down, and everything would be OK for two
     4        weeks and then it would drop off -- whether it be a video,
     5        whether they hand you a free Big Mac and say, "Have a good
     6        day."
     7
     8   Q.   Are you really suggesting that a 17-year-old of average
     9        intelligence would be brainwashed by seeing a video of
    10        people having fun at a Christmas party?
    11        A.  You do not seem to understand how McDonald's tries to
    12        make their employees feel through these tactics.  They try
    13        to make them feel that everything is OK, that you should
    14        not have a problem, that McDonald's is big, happy family --
    15        which they are not.
    16
    17   Q.   But, I am sorry, I am not following you.  If the place was
    18        as miserable -- I use your word, miserable -- as you have
    19        tried to make out, a jolly video of some young people
    20        "goofing off" is not going to make the miserable young
    21        people change their minds about their workplace, now, is
    22        it?
    23        A.  For a short time I think it will, because I believe
    24        people think that, after they see these types of videos, or
    25        whether field consultants come down, they think: "Maybe it
    26        is getting better this time", you know, "Maybe I can just
    27        hold in."
    28
    29        Even the night before the vote, when Rob and Cam were
    30        promising that things would not go back to the way it used
    31        to be, people believed them; and then, a few months after,
    32        it slipped again, and anti-union people came to me and
    33        asked me to organise it again.  They came to the committee
    34        and asked them to organise it again.
    35
    36   Q.   When was that?
    37        A.  When was which, when people came back to me?
    38
    39   Q.   Yes.
    40        A.  To the committee?
    41
    42   Q.   Yes.
    43        A.  Probably some time in April, I would imagine.
    44
    45   Q.   I see.  And nothing happened?
    46        A.  No.  There is a law in Ontario that you have to wait a
    47        certain amount of time before you can organise a place
    48        again.
    49
    50   Q.   So far as you know, nothing has happened since?  We are now 
    51        in November, nearly December 1995. 
    52        A.  Not at that particular workplace. 
    53
    54   Q.   You have tried quite hard, have you not, in the public
    55        arena, to make sure that something did happen -- you,
    56        personally; you have been in newspapers, you have been on
    57        television, you have been on local radio, quite
    58        consistently, have you not?
    59        A.  To make sure what happened? No, I do not understand.
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