Day 187 - 13 Nov 95 - Page 32


     
     1        staff on a daily basis.  Overnight, I became an outcast, no
     2        longer a part of the management team as before, and yet not
     3        part of the staff team (crew).
     4
     5        "I have also suffered as I have been unable to express
     6        myself as a trade unionist - for example, neither
     7        Hassen Lamti nor myself have been able to express ourselves
     8        regarding working conditions at swing managers meetings
     9        from which we have been excluded.
    10
    11        "M. Lamti and I have be unable to participate in team
    12        social events as we had to work on those days.  In Lyon the
    13        procedure for such meetings is as follows:  whenever one
    14        McDonald's branch organises a staff social evening, the
    15        staff timetabled to work on that evening are replaced from
    16        another branch.  At the first such evening the Manager
    17        Mr. Parassin told me he had been unable to find me a
    18        replacement.  The same thing happened on the next
    19        occasion.
    20
    21        "M. Lamti also found his previously agreed timetable
    22        modified that particular day and that he had been assigned
    23        to the later shift, finishing at 2.30 a.m. and therefore
    24        was unable to attend the staff party.
    25
    26        "On the morning of 29th January 1994 the CFDT organised a
    27        distribution of leaflets, and posters had been put up at
    28        the entrance of the underground station facing the
    29        restaurant where I work.  I arrived at work at 2 p.m. and
    30        was told by the shift manager to go quickly to the kitchen
    31        as there was only one crew member on duty and the
    32        restaurant was busy.  Around 2.30 p.m. the manager came to
    33        me with a "special mission".  He took me outside and said
    34        I had to take down the CFDT posters.
    35
    36        "At round 3 p.m. another manager who had taken over the
    37        shift came to get me to work in the kitchen where there was
    38        no longer a member of staff.  I advised him that he would
    39        need to check with Mr. Parassin, the branch manager, before
    40        changing me to that post.  Having spoken with Mr. Parassin,
    41        the shift manager came to tell me that he was very sorry
    42        but I would have to remain taking down the posters of 'my
    43        little friends'.  I remained outside in McDonald's uniform
    44        (skirt and short sleeved blouse) until 6.30 p.m. in
    45        mid-winter.
    46
    47        "Confronted by this obvious evidence of discrimination
    48        against union activities and as all my verbal requests
    49        remained unanswered, whatever the motivations, my relations
    50        with the management were only by way of registered mail. 
    51        The election of the works council of the Economic and 
    52        Social Unit of McDonald's..." 
    53
    54        Can I just explain that?  That is the 12 stores in the Lyon
    55        area.
    56
    57   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    58
    59   MR. MORRIS:  The Economic and Social Unit.
    60

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