Day 193 - 28 Nov 95 - Page 19
1 What I am asking you is this: where are the shifts that
2 were cut by management?
3 A. I cannot tell you, because I do not understand this
4 document.
5
6 Q. The fact is that -----
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment, because it is fairly
9 obvious, is it not, that the weeks are first week, second
10 week, third week and fourth week in the month?
11 A. OK.
12
13 Q. It is fairly obvious -- whether 1 is the Saturday, Sunday
14 or Monday, or whatever -- that the days are the days of the
15 week, by number? Is that not obvious to you? So, for
16 instance, you worked day 1 in week 1; in week 2 you worked
17 day 6 and day 7; and in October you worked day 2 in week 1,
18 and day 7 in week 1, but only day 7 in weeks 2 and 3? Is
19 that not what it means to you?
20 A. Yes.
21
22 Q. I mean, this is only speculation on my part; but is that
23 not what you get from it?
24 A. Sure.
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26 MR. RAMPTON: The fact is, Miss Inglis, that you reduced your
27 own shifts at the beginning of September; it was at your
28 own request, was it not?
29 A. Yes, it was. But in October I believe I missed a
30 Saturday somewhere.
31
32 Q. I would like to know what your basis is for saying that
33 your shifts were reduced by management -- in other words,
34 without your consent -- because you were pro-union?
35 A. Because when you apply for application, certification
36 -- what is it -- application for certification of a union,
37 the workplace, as I understand it, goes into a sort of
38 statutory freeze where management cannot change the hours
39 that you have worked. That is what I had been told by the
40 union.
41
42 Q. Which were the weeks, then -- please tell us -- when
43 management cut one of your shifts, you say, for a few
44 weeks, because you were pro-union?
45 A. If you look at the second week of September, I have a
46 6 there; second week of September, I have a 7; and then the
47 third week of September there is a 7 there. Then, if you
48 look down to October and you see the first, second and
49 third week of October, I did not get a Saturday shift.
50
51 Q. But you got one on day 2 (whichever day of week that is) in
52 the first week, did you not?
53 A. Yes. But I do not know what day that is. It could
54 have been Thanksgiving, or something like that.
55
56 Q. Can you please tell us which were the shifts for those few
57 weeks -- and I do not know how many weeks you mean -- which
58 were the shifts that management cut because you were
59 pro-union?
60 A. They cut a shift during October -- I imagine it would
