Day 138 - 20 Jun 95 - Page 43


     
     1        A.  Totally, yes.
     2
     3   Q.   Who took the film?
     4        A.  It was a professional photographer who was using a
     5        video-tape camera.
     6
     7   Q.   Is that the one you mentioned earlier?
     8        A.  Yes.
     9
    10   Q.   How was the siege lifted if I may put it like that?
    11        A.  I am not quite sure what you are asking.  That evening
    12        how was it lifted or?
    13
    14   Q.   Yes.  You said the malitia were called when the police did
    15        not come?
    16        A.  Yes.
    17
    18   Q.   Did they manage to make a passage so that people could get
    19        out?
    20        A.  Yes, they came with a large contingent and they too
    21        circled the restaurant.  What they did was they brought in
    22        what I would call an amoured vehicle, frankly.
    23
    24   Q.   Did they carry guns?
    25        A.  Yes.  They brought vehicles in the rear and they would
    26        load up our employees, our managers, and whatever customers
    27        were there, and drive them through the pickets and that is
    28        how everyone got out.
    29
    30   Q.   Now, was that the end of it?
    31        A.  No.  They took over the entire premises.
    32
    33   Q.   Who did?
    34        A.  The union.  They set up tents in the driveway, the
    35        parking lot.  They put banners across the entrances and
    36        they defaced the property as well.
    37
    38   Q.   When you say the union, we are still talking about Croc,
    39        are we?
    40        A.  That is correct.
    41
    42   Q.   How long did that go on for?
    43        A.  That lasted totally about three weeks.
    44
    45   Q.   How was that resolved in the end?
    46        A.  What happened was that evening, after we finally were
    47        able to extricate ourselves, we set up a meeting, we were
    48        able to set up a meeting with the Under Secretary of Labour
    49        from Mexico.  I am just trying to recall his name and it
    50        will come to me. 
    51 
    52   Q.   It does not matter. 
    53        A.  We told him what had happened.  He advised us that we
    54        needed to pursue an election within the Mexican labour
    55        court system, and that that was the way to resolve this
    56        thing, so we immediately began pursuing the election
    57        procedure.  The union, we tried to get it accelerated.  It
    58        happened quickly.  There is that provision in their law.
    59        The union, frankly, did everything they could to delay the
    60        election.

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