Day 182 - 02 Nov 95 - Page 60
1 down. (Pause) It relates to Portage, Indiana.
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3 MR. MORRIS: Statement of David A. Dudley-Boyden of 1225 West
4 Greenleaf Avenue, Apartment 306, Chicago, Illinois,
5 headed: "Anti-union sentiments observed at McDonald's".
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7 "I was employed by McDonald's in Portage Indiana, USA, from
8 September of 1984 through July of 1989. During this time
9 I spoke with fellow employees (in a jocose manner, although
10 in my own mind I actually took the matter quite seriously)
11 about organizing ourselves and forming a union at
12 McDonald's. I was overheard by a manager and warned very
13 sternly, in no uncertain terms, that such talk (even if
14 conducted in a tongue-in-cheek fashion) would lead to the
15 termination of my employment. In fact, the manager made it
16 clear that a person had been fired in the past for
17 enunciating union sympathies." That is dated
18 April 15th, 1995.
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Then the next one I have is
21 Mr. Anthony Brian. Do you want to read Mr. Brian now, or
22 do you want to read him when you come back to your Irish
23 witnesses?
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25 MR. MORRIS: We might as well read it now, yes. There is no way
26 we are going to call him, because in fact we cannot even
27 trace him.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He is number 17 in what is now pale blue
30 volume III. It reads now: 14 Mr. Duncan, 15
31 Mr. Jenssen -- I have not bothered to move him across,
32 because I remember that he was called --
33 16 Mr. Dudley-Boyden, and then 17 Anthony Brian.
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35 MR. RAMPTON: I am afraid I did not anticipate this, and I am
36 afraid I do not have him here. The reason it matters is
37 that I notice one or two of the others I have made markings
38 that there are passages I object to. It is not even -----
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If I can remind you, Mr. Anthony Brian's
41 statement takes the form of -- is on what I take to be an
42 Irish standard unfair dismissals claim form, like that.
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44 MR. RAMPTON: I do not know -----
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46 MR. MORRIS: It is in a tab that is headed "dismissal papers of
47 Anthony Brian" in one of the bundles.
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49 MS. STEEL: I think it is volume 3E.
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51 MR. MORRIS: Volume 13B, pink, we think.
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53 MS. STEEL: I think it is page 61.
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not think there is anything which is
56 obviously hearsay, but there may be some doubt about the
57 source. Do you want to borrow mine, Mr. Rampton?
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59 MR. RAMPTON: I have now find it, my Lord, thank you very much.
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