Day 184 - 06 Nov 95 - Page 50


     
     1        even write down, you know, my address or my, like, the date
     2        I was doing it ---
     3
     4   Q.   No, I understand that.
     5        A.  -- and I just wrote this, I put "I" and then I said
     6        "your name" and I wrote the first two, well, three
     7        sentences, and then -----
     8
     9   Q.   What were the first three sentences?
    10        A.  I said:  "Your name" and "am employed under a
    11        McDonald's Restaurant of Canada Limited and Ballantyne
    12        foods Limited wish to revoke my application card from the
    13        Service Employees International Union, Local", and all
    14        that, "because" and then I put "dot, dot, dot" and left it
    15        all, you know, left it like blank.  I only left a little
    16        space and I said:  "Put your reasons why here", and then
    17        I said -- and then under that I put:  "Make sure that you
    18        put contact person at the very end of your letter", and
    19        I put down the contact person's name and address, just in
    20        case they did not know her address.
    21
    22   MR. MORRIS:  These reasons which people went and wrote off, did
    23        they all write it off with somebody sitting with them in
    24        the room?
    25        A.  No, they would -- I gave them -- they asked for, like,
    26        some people who did not understand how to do it because
    27        there were green sheets up in the crew room and they said
    28        to write it this way.  If they did not understand that, I
    29        said:  "Just come over to my house" and I will give them a
    30        John Doe letter, and take it home and then whenever they
    31        have done the letter, make sure they put it in a sealed
    32        envelope and then just drop it off at my house or
    33        Michelle's or Chris Broom's.
    34
    35   Q.   So they came over to your house, many of them, to write the
    36        letter?
    37        A.  No, not to begin with -- once it was sealed.
    38
    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am sorry.  It is not being pernickety to
    40        pick you up about "so" because she gave an answer and you
    41        said "so" and said something which was completely different
    42        to what she had just said.
    43
    44   MR. MORRIS:  I am sorry.  They came over to your house to pick
    45        up -----
    46        A.  To pick up the John Doe form.
    47
    48   Q.   The John Doe standard letter thing?
    49        A.  If they did not understand how to do it from the sheets
    50        that were in the crew room. 
    51 
    52   Q.   Did you sit down with any of them?  Did they talk about it 
    53        with you, what they should write down?
    54        A.  They just said:  "Well, what kind of information shall
    55        I put down?" and I said:  "Anything that you feel, you
    56        know, is necessary.  If you feel that you are misinformed,
    57        then write it down.  "But", I said, "it is totally up to
    58        you what you write down and if there is anything you feel2.
    59
    60   Q.   If you feel misled, misinformed, harassed, things like

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