Day 193 - 28 Nov 95 - Page 23
1 Q. To try and make sure that the union would get a foothold in
2 McDonald's?
3 A. Number 1, I did not use the media; the media came to
4 me. Number 2, it was about our case and what I believed.
5 Yes, surely that I wanted to organise, but I also wanted
6 other young people to know that, yes, it is their right to
7 organise, and if they are being treated poorly they do have
8 the right to organise and they can do something about it.
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10 Q. Can we look at not the next paragraph, but the one after
11 that in your statement?
12 A. I am sorry?
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14 Q. Sorry. The statement where you refer to the "Just Say No"
15 buttons, have you got that?
16 A. Which paragraph is that, sorry?
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The last page.
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20 MR. RAMPTON: Last but one, just before the drawings.
21 A. OK.
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23 Q. Last two sentences: "People told me that they felt they had
24 to wear them or their life would be a living hell." Are
25 those your words or the words of ------
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am sorry, Mr. Rampton, I may have misled
28 the witness. I thought you were -----
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30 MR. RAMPTON: The buttons, not the drawings yet, my Lord.
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Are you in the snow or at the slide show?
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34 MR. RAMPTON: I am on the third page, my Lord.
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It was my mistake, because I referred the
37 witness to the last page.
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39 MR. RAMPTON: I am on the third page, Miss Inglis, the paragraph
40 starting "So we agreed and drew up a vote contract"; yes?
41 A. Mmm.
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43 Q. The last two sentences read: "People told me that they felt
44 that they had to wear them or their life would be a living
45 hell. Some staff at McDonald's were intimidated into
46 wearing those buttons."
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48 First of all, the words "a living hell", are those your
49 words or the words of the people that you spoke to?
50 A. Those are my words.
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52 Q. "Some staff at McDonald's were intimidated into wearing
53 those buttons." Did you see the intimidation; did you hear
54 it?
55 A. But they were not intimidated, because these people
56 wore the buttons. These people told me that if they did
57 not wear the buttons, they felt as though management at
58 McDonald's would harass them and that they would be
59 obviously look at as pro-union, and they felt as though
60 their jobs would be in jeopardy.
