Day 193 - 28 Nov 95 - Page 28
1 did not hear, I think.
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. I understand what the witness is
4 saying.
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6 MR. RAMPTON: That is not right, is it, Miss Inglis? The fact
7 is that if the Labour Board had been satisfied that Cam had
8 been guilty of election malpractices, two things could have
9 happened: either it could have ordered another election to
10 be held, or else it could have awarded the union automatic
11 certification there and then, could it not?
12 A. It could have. But I, like, I was not in the caboose
13 to see what was going on. From my understanding, the
14 union, from what the union had told me, that the union had
15 to bring these up at the Labour Board. I do not know
16 everything about labour law.
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18 Q. The union is not short of resources, is it? It is an
19 enormous union; it has millions of members in Canada and
20 the United States?
21 A. I do not know its membership. The last I saw, it was
22 -- I just read it -- 1989, I think they had 75,000, and
23 then the union was saying during my organising campaign
24 that they were one million strong, so -----
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26 Q. The fact is that the union realised that it had been
27 defeated fair and square and that the workers in
28 Cam Ballantyne's restaurant did not want to be part of a
29 union; that is the fact, is it not?
30 A. No.
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32 Q. They recognised -----
33 A. The union recognised that McDonald's is an absolutely
34 huge corporation, and it, you know, may take a couple of
35 times to get a union in a McDonald's.
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37 Q. Were you, apart from this shift which you say was taken
38 away -----
39 A. I did not hear that, sorry.
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41 Q. After the election, apart from the shift which you say was
42 taken away, were you victimised in any other way?
43 A. I was not, no.
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45 Q. You were not?
46 A. I was ignored. Like, I mean, management was not here
47 there to management (sic). But management -- I mean, they
48 were kind of put in that position, because had they fired
49 me or whatever, it would have been brought up at the Labour
50 Board and it would have been obvious that I was fired for
51 union activity.
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53 Q. One point I have forgotten: in the lead up to the
54 election, did you and your union people hold meetings at
55 McDonald's?
56 A. There was one meeting that was held in the caboose, but
57 that was negotiated in the vote between the parties at the
58 Labour Board, that the union was to hold, I believe it was,
59 three paid meetings by McDonald's with the Labour Board
60 official there; and it was held in the caboose, which is
