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1 catering industry where my responsibilities included:
2 negotiating pay and conditions among hotel and restaurant
3 companies in London and at national level; providing advice
4 and assistance to individual catering workers on specific
5 employment rights issues; organising and supporting union
6 recruitment drives either in response to specific requests
7 or as part of planned campaigns; representing workers at
8 industrial and social security appeal tribunals;
9 representing the Transport and General Workers Union as a
10 member of the Licensed Residential Establishments and
11 Licensed Restaurant Wages Council; the Unlicensed Place of
12 Refreshment Wages Council; and the advisory body attached
13 to the Denmark Street Hotel and Catering Job Centre;
14 servicing, as secretary, the union's Hotel and Catering
15 Advisory Committee; organising and conducting as tutor,
16 TGWU training courses at regional and national level on
17 health and safety at work; rights at work; and support
18 courses for shop stewards in the hotel and catering
19 sector.
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21 "3. My responsibilities included the restaurant and
22 fast-food sector. I had contact with staff in a number of
23 McDonald's outlets, including those referred to in my
24 earlier statement of 30th September 1988, concerning
25 initiatives at the Mare Street (Hackney), Warren Street
26 (Camden), and Seven Sisters (Holloway) and other branches."
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28 That is the statement that you quoted in your first
29 statement for this case?
30 A. Absolutely. Thank you.
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32 Q. "4. I have read the individual employee statements forming
33 part of the defence submission, relevant transcripts of
34 proceedings in so far as employment and health and safety
35 at work issues are concerned, and supporting documents and
36 statements."
37
38 "Site visits:
39 5. My site visits were of limited value, due to the
40 constraints imposed by McDonald's."
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42 This was site visits for the purpose of the case?
43 A. It was.
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45 Q. "I attended off-peak site visits at the Hackney Mare Street
46 branch on Wednesday, 22nd June 1995 at 9.45 a.m., and the
47 Seven Sisters unit on Friday, 4th June 1995, at 9.45 a.m.,
48 accompanied by a solicitor on behalf of the Plaintiffs and
49 an Area Supervisor."
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51 So, those dates, are they 1994? Can you remember?
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53 MS. STEEL: This statement was written on 1st March, 1995.
54 I think there must be -----
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What day should they be?
57 A. 1994 -- I do beg your pardon.
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do not worry -- as long as we get it right.
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