Day 303 - 19 Nov 96 - Page 22


     
     1        something, we are talking about something like 85,000 staff
     2        of which maybe 800 were ex crew.  So that is 1 per cent.
     3
     4        Sorry, I got my 3 per cent and 1 and a half per cent
     5        wrong.  I must have calculated on the turnover.  So
     6        basically it comes down to only 1 per cent of crew would
     7        have the possibility of being promoted to a salaried
     8        position, which basically means that 99 per cent have
     9        not got the possibility and therefore it is not a
    10        realistic ----
    11
    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  There is a question there, whether the real
    13        point of these figures, whether or not they are strictly
    14        accurate, whether the real point is that it demonstrates
    15        how few people go to McDonald's as a career move, as it
    16        were, rather than what the opportunities are if you do go
    17        there wanting to stay.  I see the word used in the leaflet.
    18
    19   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    20
    21   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you want to break off there now?
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    23   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  We will be definitely be finished by four,
    24        that is for certain, because that is all the preparation
    25        I have managed to do.  So everyone can relax anyway, so far
    26        as that is concerned.
    27
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, very well.  Two o'clock.
    29
    30                      (Luncheon Adjournment)
    31
    32   MR. MORRIS:  Just a brief run through of some of the things that
    33        on the testimony -- not testimony, but some of the things
    34        that came up.
    35
    36        Mr. Stein had worked for McDonald's since 1974 and he
    37        joined as a labour attorney and a substantial amount of the
    38        disputes which we had heard about, which no doubt there are
    39        more which we have not heard about, but anyway, he seemed
    40        to have been involved in one way or another in most of
    41        them.  Mexico 1985, when McDonald's were clearly, under the
    42        evidence, not wanting to negotiate with or have a deal with
    43        the union, and by the end of the dispute in which an union
    44        seized control of the premises which had opened with
    45        non-union labour, McDonald's agreed to recognise a
    46        different union and, apparently, according to the evidence,
    47        all McDonald's stores in Mexico are unionised.
    48
    49        Puerto Rico in 1975, up to 1974 McDonald's employees have
    50        been unionised.  The company was sold to a new franchisee,
    51        a dispute followed, closing all the stores, and McDonald's
    52        pulled out of Puerto Rico lock, stock and barrel and
    53        re-opened in 1980 with non-union labour.  I am doing this
    54        from old notes.  I seem to remember Mr. Stein had been
    55        there as well, been in Mexico inside the store at the
    56        height of the conflict in Mexico, and Puerto Rico he was
    57        involved with that as well, and I think that was one where
    58        there were people that were involved who had run stores in
    59        the States and transferred to Puerto Rico.
    60

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