Day 193 - 28 Nov 95 - Page 23


     
     1   Q.   To try and make sure that the union would get a foothold in
     2        McDonald's?
     3        A.  Number 1, I did not use the media; the media came to
     4        me.  Number 2, it was about our case and what I believed.
     5        Yes, surely that I wanted to organise, but I also wanted
     6        other young people to know that, yes, it is their right to
     7        organise, and if they are being treated poorly they do have
     8        the right to organise and they can do something about it.
     9
    10   Q.   Can we look at not the next paragraph, but the one after
    11        that in your statement?
    12        A.  I am sorry?
    13
    14   Q.   Sorry.  The statement where you refer to the "Just Say No"
    15        buttons, have you got that?
    16        A.  Which paragraph is that, sorry?
    17
    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The last page.
    19
    20   MR. RAMPTON:  Last but one, just before the drawings.
    21        A.  OK.
    22
    23   Q.   Last two sentences: "People told me that they felt they had
    24        to wear them or their life would be a living hell."  Are
    25        those your words or the words of ------
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am sorry, Mr. Rampton, I may have misled
    28        the witness.  I thought you were -----
    29
    30   MR. RAMPTON:  The buttons, not the drawings yet, my Lord.
    31
    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Are you in the snow or at the slide show?
    33
    34   MR. RAMPTON:  I am on the third page, my Lord.
    35
    36   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It was my mistake, because I referred the
    37        witness to the last page.
    38
    39   MR. RAMPTON:  I am on the third page, Miss Inglis, the paragraph
    40        starting "So we agreed and drew up a vote contract"; yes?
    41        A. Mmm.
    42
    43   Q.   The last two sentences read: "People told me that they felt
    44        that they had to wear them or their life would be a living
    45        hell.  Some staff at McDonald's were intimidated into
    46        wearing those buttons."
    47
    48        First of all, the words "a living hell", are those your
    49        words or the words of the people that you spoke to?
    50        A.  Those are my words. 
    51 
    52   Q.   "Some staff at McDonald's were intimidated into wearing 
    53        those buttons."  Did you see the intimidation; did you hear
    54        it?
    55        A.  But they were not intimidated, because these people
    56        wore the buttons.  These people told me that if they did
    57        not wear the buttons, they felt as though management at
    58        McDonald's would harass them and that they would be
    59        obviously look at as pro-union, and they felt as though
    60        their jobs would be in jeopardy.

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