Day 184 - 06 Nov 95 - Page 65


     
     1        everybody chipped in some money for pizzas, but it was not
     2        a party and it was not ------
     3
     4   Q.   Was an anti-union video shown which had been made up with
     5        somebody with a paper bag over their head with "union"
     6        written on it, and he got kind of pushed around by other
     7        people -- the person with this paper bag over their head
     8        got pushed round?
     9        A.  Not that I remember.
    10
    11   Q.   Does that ring any bells with you, that video?
    12        A.  No.
    13
    14   Q.   If you go down to your paragraph 54:  "'Just say no'
    15        buttons were available for anybody who wanted them.  In
    16        fact, this was Chris Broom's idea.  Chris had the idea that
    17        if he got some of them they could be used as part of our
    18        campaign against unionisation".  Can you think of any other
    19        example where staff were wearing buttons or pins --
    20        whatever we call them "badges" --, at that store, large
    21        number of staff were wearing other badges that were not
    22        connected to any other McDonald's promotion at the time?
    23        A.  I am sorry, can you just say that again?
    24
    25   Q.   Sorry.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can you remember any other occasion when  ---
    28        A.  We were wearing pins to promote things?
    29
    30   Q.   -- crew in the store wore buttons proclaiming that they
    31        were for or against something or other?
    32        A.  Well, that did not have to do with McDonald's or did?
    33
    34   MR. MORRIS:  Whether it did or it did not.
    35
    36   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We had better have one or the other.
    37
    38   THE WITNESS:  We have right now we are promoting
    39        (indecipherable) mania.
    40
    41   Q.   Apart from promotions, if you wear a button as part of a
    42        promotion it might be said that is part of your job, but
    43        buttons which were not part of your job?
    44        A.  Some people wear like, well, one girl, Angela Hemming,
    45        wears a Greenpeace button, but not all the time, just once
    46        in a blue moon; so, not usually.
    47
    48   MR. MORRIS:  Do you remember Stan Stein, Senior Vice President
    49        of McDonald's in America, McDonald's Corporation, attending
    50        the Labour Board hearing or attending the store  ----- 
    51 
    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you remember an American, first of all, 
    53        attending the store during -----
    54        A.  I cannot remember.  There was eight people there and
    55        I did not know them all by their names, or even maybe there
    56        were 10 people there, and I did not know them by their
    57        names.
    58
    59   Q.   Where?
    60        A.  At the Labour Board hearings.

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