Day 135 - 15 Jun 95 - Page 06
1 Q. Did you listen to such complaints as you may have had from
2 your crew members when you were a Manager?
3 A. Yes.
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5 Q. Did you act on those complaints or grievances as you
6 thought appropriate?
7 A. As I thought appropriate, yes.
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9 Q. Do you know of any instance where any crew member in your
10 two restaurants, Romford and East Ham, was told or made to
11 understand that he or she might be sacked if he or she
12 joined a union?
13 A. No, never.
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15 Q. Did you ever receive any kind of instruction or implication
16 from higher management that McDonald's were antipathetic or
17 antagonistic towards unions?
18 A. No, never.
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20 Q. No?
21 A. No.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Did you say "no, never" or "not really"? I
24 did not quite catch that.
25 A. No, never.
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27 MR. RAMPTON: You worked as an Operations person for over 18
28 years in McDonald's initially part-time but then full-time?
29 A. Yes.
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31 Q. Was East Ham a happy place or not?
32 A. I felt it was, yes.
33
34 Q. Did you ever have any significant, what I call, labour
35 relations problems while you were in charge at East Ham?
36 A. Not that I recall, no.
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38 Q. All stores, as we have heard in this court, have to keep an
39 accident book, do they not?
40 A. That is right, yes.
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42 Q. By law they must keep it for three years?
43 A. That is correct.
44
45 Q. Again, encapsulating your experience of 18 years in
46 restaurants into a couple of sentences, if you will, what
47 was your impression of the type and frequency of accidents
48 and injuries in the store?
49 A. Mainly just minor cuts, bruises, burns but nothing more
50 serious than that.
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52 Q. So far as you are aware, during that time was there ever
53 what is called a RIDDOR or notifiable accident in either of
54 those stores?
55 A. Not in any restaurant I worked in.
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57 Q. Do you remember Mr. Peter Sutcliffe getting such a bad
58 injury that he was permanently scarred by it?
59 A. I do not recall.
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