Day 192 - 27 Nov 95 - Page 48
1 you said: "How can you leave me to hang and dry?"
2 A. No, because she never asked me for her card back.
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4 Q. You never had that conversation?
5 A. No.
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7 Q. She said in her statement -- this is paragraph 40 -- "In my
8 experience, the managers have never forced staff to go home
9 early to or to work extra shifts against their will. If
10 the store is slack and the person does not want to go home,
11 then they will be given cleaning or other such jobs."
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13 Did you ever see staff forced to go home early, or did you
14 ever have to go home?
15 A. I was forced to go home early many times, because if
16 you did not go home you would be given a disgusting job to
17 do.
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You would be given what?
20 A. A disgusting job, like -- I cannot give you an example.
21 I usually went home.
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23 MR. MORRIS: What did they say to go, then, the management?
24 A. They would ask if there was anyone who wanted to go
25 home? Like, there was usually a specific person that they
26 wanted to go home, because of the way they had the shifts
27 set up, or something; and if -- I guess if it was in a slow
28 time where productivity was down, because there were not as
29 many customers, they had meet some hourly rate or
30 something, of profit; they did like hourly things, like how
31 much money they made, how much staff they have, how much
32 food they have sold, how much food they have wasted.
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34 Q. What would happen if they were not reaching that rate, or
35 whatever?
36 A. Then they would send people home.
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38 Q. You would come in to do a shift, and then -----
39 A. If they did not need you, they would tell you to go
40 home.
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42 Q. That happened to you, did it?
43 A. Yes.
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45 Q. There was one other thing in her statement earlier on where
46 she says that at the October 5th crew meeting Cam
47 Ballantyne said, "It was up to us to decide whether we
48 wanted a union; he did not tell us we should not join a
49 union, nor did he say anything which made us think we would
50 be victimised if we did." Did he say anything, in your
51 opinion, which made you think you would be victimised if
52 you joined a union?
53 A. I do not know if they were actual words or just, like,
54 an atmosphere of hostility if you were pro-union, like,
55 because it would have been illegal for him to say, "If you
56 join a union you will get fired", right, and then there
57 would have been a union automatically but -- so he would
58 not have said that. But he said -- I think he said he did
59 say yes, it was up to us whether we wanted to decide to
60 join a union or not, but then at the Labour Board he had
