Day 192 - 27 Nov 95 - Page 44


     
     1        anti-union meeting, you said?
     2        A.  Yes.
     3
     4   Q.   Then, after the meeting, you have said that you stood
     5        outside to invite people to a union meeting?
     6        A.  Yes.
     7
     8   Q.   Can you explain what you were trying to invite people to?
     9        A.  After this anti-union meeting, the union was just
    10        holding like a drop-in -- "if you have any queries or
    11        questions, just drop in and we will answer them for you" --
    12        and I came out of there and I tried to invite people to
    13        this thing, you know, "If you have any problems or whatever
    14        you want answered, come to this"; and nobody would look at
    15        me; they were like coming at me like this, and they would
    16        not even look at me.  It was like I did not exist, I was a
    17        ghost.  I turned to look behind me, and Cam Ballantyne was
    18        standing right behind me.
    19
    20   Q.   You did not know that?
    21        A.  No, I did not.  I had no idea.  So I left from there.
    22        I went -- I think I went downstairs or something anyway, so
    23        I went to a different location, and I started talking to
    24        people, and people would now respond to me, because Cam was
    25        not sitting two steps behind me; and then they would say,
    26        "Yes, I am going to come", or, "No, I am sorry, I cannot
    27        make it."  You know, I was not invisible; and Cam was not
    28        beside me, right.
    29
    30   Q.   After the vote, did you have any kind of -- what was the
    31        atmosphere, for you, after the vote?
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can we try and get back to a question you
    34        asked earlier on -- because, apparently, Mr. Morris
    35        received your statement by fax in April, and the vote was
    36        in February, towards the end of February.  How much longer
    37        did you work at -----
    38        A.  I worked until June of that year.
    39
    40   Q.   Sorry?
    41        A.  June of that year; so about two months since I wrote my
    42        statement.
    43
    44   Q.   You have said that before.  Can you remember how long it
    45        was after the vote you wrote your statement?  The vote was
    46        24th February.
    47        A.  It was less than two months.
    48
    49   MR. MORRIS:  It says 1993 in the third last paragraph.  It
    50        should be 1994. 
    51 
    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  I had understood that.  I have 
    53        corrected that.
    54
    55   MR. MORRIS:  What was the atmosphere to you after the vote?
    56        What happened to you?
    57        A.  I mean, it was upsetting.  You put all this effort into
    58        something that did not work out.
    59
    60   Q.   How you were treated by management, for example?

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