Day 192 - 27 Nov 95 - Page 55
1 McDonald's and it contains something which is against their
2 interest, you can invite me to treat that as an admission
3 of some kind, subject to any argument which Mr. Rampton may
4 have along the lines of what he was saying the other day.
5 Otherwise, it is not evidence of the truth of what was
6 said, again subject to anything Mr. Rampton wants to say
7 unless it is the subject of a Civil Evidence Act notice.
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9 MR. MORRIS: Right. I am not sure if I asked this question
10 then, Miss Inglis; do you know roughly what percentage of
11 people at the store would be under 18 around the time of
12 the union drive?
13 A. More than half.
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15 Q. More than half.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Were all those people at the high school or
18 had some of them left school?
19 A. Some of them had left school and some of them went to
20 Shelborne High School and Caledon(?) High School.
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22 Q. Other high schools?
23 A. Yes.
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25 Q. What, in other nearby towns?
26 A. Yes, but the majority of the workers were from
27 Orangeville High School.
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29 Q. The majority of them were from Orangeville High School?
30 A. Yes.
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32 MR. MORRIS: The -----
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment. Can you remember about
35 how many people that were in a year of a particular grade
36 at Orangeville High School around the ages of 15, 16 and
37 17?
38 A. No, I do not really know. I think that, like, that was
39 the main group of people who, like, of the students that
40 worked there. Those were the main ages where they were
41 from, say, 15 to 17 years old.
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43 MR. MORRIS: A couple of questions. Going back to the shifts
44 being cut down to three and a half hours, you said there
45 would be no need for a break because it was less than four
46 hours?
47 A. I am sorry, there was?
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49 Q. When the management cut the shifts down to three and a half
50 hours?
51 A. Yes.
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53 Q. The average shift, although you said the closes tended to
54 be four and a half hours but the other shifts, did the
55 management give any reason for this?
56 A. Cam told us, I believe it was when he first took over
57 the store in one of his, like, he held a couple of meetings
58 of "Get to know Cam" because he was a new owner and nobody
59 really knew him, that people were more productive in a span
60 of three and a half hours than in a span of eight hours,
