Day 173 - 16 Oct 95 - Page 33
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2 Q. So, just by pure coincidence, they all seem to get their
3 90 day -- well, the ones that get rises all seem to have it
4 roughly about the same time, the end of February/beginning
5 of March?
6 A. The 90 days probationary period would be a reflection
7 of the date they started.
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: There is only -----
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11 MS. STEEL: Mr. Mosret started on the last day of
12 December 1978.
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: There is only Heeley who started three months
15 before, and he did not have an increase. Maybe he got one
16 a little later.
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18 MR. RAMPTON: Mr. Heeley is a she, in fact; it is Gloria.
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I just said Heeley. Did I say "he"?
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22 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, you did.
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I did. Right. Thank you very much.
25 Ms. Heeley.
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27 MS. STEEL: (To the witness) You were trying to buy the
28 strikers off, were you not, or buy the discontent off?
29 A. No. As I indicated earlier on, we do not have a policy
30 of not reviewing rates at any particular time of the year;
31 and, depending on the economic conditions and so on, we
32 have on occasions raised rates twice in one year.
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34 Q. Even for people who have not finished their probationary
35 period?
36 A. Yes.
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38 Q. So you are saying that it is pure coincidence that it
39 happened at this time?
40 A. Well, some of these increases would be based on the
41 90 days probationary period. What the other ones are, I am
42 not sure.
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44 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Four of the ones who were working at Grafton
45 Street got increases which had the date next to them of the
46 14th -- one of them 14th February, three the 25th February,
47 and two at O'Connell Street have increases, the dates
48 against which are 11th March and 25th March.
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50 MR. MORRIS: Cecily Brennan also got an increase in March.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: She is 25th March. There is one at the top.
53 Two on 11th March and one 25th March.
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55 MS. STEEL: The average rates of pickets that are on this fact
56 sheet are all the higher rates, are they not, the rates
57 after the rises; for those who have had a rise, it is all
58 the rates after the rise?
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is higher still, is it not? That was my
