Day 138 - 20 Jun 95 - Page 36


     
     1        A.  In San Juan.
     2
     3   Q.   Who ran or runs the stores there?
     4        A.  They are all franchises by local citizens.
     5
     6   Q.   Are they organised, unionised?
     7        A.  They are not.  They are non-union.
     8
     9   Q.   Right.  Now we go from Puerto Rico to Mexico City,
    10        Mr. Stein, in 1985?
    11        A.  Yes, sir.
    12
    13   Q.   My Lord, this is number (v), allegations 46 and 109.
    14        I read these to you, Mr. Stein, because they are quite
    15        short.  Page 19 first, my Lord, at the bottom of the page:
    16        "In the United States in or around 1978/9 the Plaintiff",
    17        that must be the First Plaintiff, McDonald's Corporation,
    18        "was hostile to a union recruitment drive" -- I have read
    19        the wrong one.
    20
    21   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  46 you were going to start with.
    22
    23   MR. RAMPTON:  I was going to read 46.   I am sorry, my Lord.
    24        Sorry about this.  46, Mr. Stein:  "In Mexico City during
    25        December 1985, McDonald's were hostile to a union
    26        recognition campaign."   Do not say anything at the
    27        moment.  9 is on page 38.  This read as follows, Mr. Stein:
    28          "In December 1985, five weeks after the first McDonald's
    29        store in Mexico City opened, the National Union of
    30        Restaurant, Hotel, Canteens, ... (reading to the words)...
    31        Tourism and Allied and Related Workers sought union
    32        recognition.  McDonald's were hostile to this.  Between 3rd
    33        and 20th December, there were around the clock pickets at
    34        the store by the union closing the store.  The Labour
    35        Arbitration Board persuaded McDonald's to recognise a union
    36        and following this 210 employees became union members".
    37        Mr. Stein, did you have involvement with this affair in
    38        Mexico City?
    39        A.  Yes, we did.
    40
    41   Q.   Does that account which I have just read out to you accord
    42        with your own knowledge of the matter?
    43        A.  No.  I think that factually there is a lot more that
    44        needs to be said about it.
    45
    46   Q.   Yes, I think there probably is.  Was there a restaurant in
    47        Mexico City in 1985?
    48        A.  Yes, there were two actually.
    49
    50   Q.   In Mexico City? 
    51        A.  No, one in Mexico City.  I thought you said Mexico, I 
    52        am sorry. 
    53
    54   Q.   No, sorry.  One in Mexico City?
    55        A.  Yes, and the other one was in Monteray.
    56
    57   Q.   But again nothing to do with this?
    58        A.  Nothing to do with this.
    59
    60   Q.   Once again I ask you, who owned and ran that restaurant in

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