Day 185 - 07 Nov 95 - Page 60
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2 Q. If you just read your paragraph 21. (Pause) Both Cam and
3 Marianne Drummond, at those situations, they invited all
4 the crew members one by one to speak to them, did they?
5 A. Marianne Drummond was there during the day. She left
6 in the early afternoon. So she spoke to the day staff
7 people, that I know.
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9 Q. One by one?
10 A. She sat in the crew room, and there were three or four
11 of us in there, and just talked to us openly, like in a
12 conversation. That is when I was in there talking; there
13 were three or four of us in the crew room.
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15 Q. Was this on 30th September 1993?
16 A. I do not know what the date was. I do not remember
17 when it was.
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19 Q. It was the Friday before the Saturday of the petition -- is
20 that correct -- of the application?
21 A. I do not know when exactly it was. I do not remember
22 when exactly it was. I know it was around the union time,
23 but I do not know when exactly.
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25 Q. Right. But was it after some staff had expressed
26 reservations about signing the union cards?
27 A. I do not believe so. I do not -- nobody said anything
28 to me about signing cards till the Friday night. So, if it
29 was that Friday, I did not know anything about it when
30 I spoke to her.
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32 Q. So is this one of those staggering coincidences again, that
33 she just happened to be coming down right at the most
34 crucial time of the dispute over the union?
35 A. It is a coincidence, because I do not believe Cam ever
36 knew anything about it; I do not believe it was them who
37 brought her down. I do not know exactly, but I think it is
38 just a coincidence.
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can you help at all as to when it was that
41 she came? I was just looking up -- McDonald's Restaurants
42 Canada Limited has its offices in Toronto?
43 A. Right. I do not -----
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45 Q. So it would not be very far in time?
46 A. It is about an hour's drive.
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48 Q. Yes. But can you remember when it was in relation to the
49 weekend when the unionisation matter blew up, as it were?
50 A. I think it was before, but I am not positive.
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52 MR. MORRIS: Was it the same day that Cam invited people in one
53 by one to speak?
54 A. No. It was a couple of weeks before that, just at the
55 beginning of school; like, the first week after school
56 starts, he invites all the day staff that I know of into
57 his office to make sure they are happy with their schedule;
58 and that is basically all he talks about, because they try
59 and fit everybody into the schedule they want and, if they
60 cannot, then they work it out to a compromise.
