Day 193 - 28 Nov 95 - Page 10
1 I did.
2
3 Q. Was that after you had pestered her continually from the
4 end of August until about the second week of September?
5 A. No.
6
7 Q. Did you tell her that she could have her card back on
8 demand?
9 A. No.
10
11 Q. Did you recruit a girl called Brandy Wright?
12 A. Yes, I did.
13
14 Q. With Christa Rogers and Shawn Darby?
15 A. Yes.
16
17 Q. Was that in the parking lot outside the store at about two
18 in the morning?
19 A. Yes. The store had just closed. She had just got off
20 work; and I believe earlier that evening we had made plans
21 with her to meet after work, to talk about something that
22 I had to talk about to her, which was the union, because
23 I was not seeing her.
24
25 Q. Do you, therefore, dispute that she was tired and that you
26 pushed her into signing, the three of you?
27 A. I did not push her into signing. She may have been
28 tired, but she signed right away.
29
30 Q. When did you first recruit Nicole Owen into your committee?
31 A. I believe that was -- she attended both meetings,
32 I believe, the first one on August 19th and then the second
33 one on August 25th, when we got the cards, the union cards,
34 from the Director of Organising; and I believe she signed
35 that day, because she had said that she wanted to be on the
36 committee, that she would help us recruit people, so we
37 gave, you know -- like, to split up the crew, so that each
38 person could get a couple of signatures.
39
40 Q. Did you give her 10 cards and suggest that she try to sign
41 up at least six people?
42 A. I may have.
43
44 Q. She -----
45 A. But we conformed (sic) a list -- I mean, like, I do not
46 have the list any more -- of who was responsible for
47 talking to who.
48
49 Q. You gave her a list of names, did you?
50 A. Well, we each -- sitting at my kitchen table, we went
51 through the names of the employees, like, "Well, I know
52 this person, so I will talk to them." She may have said,
53 "Well, I know this person, so I will talk to them."
54
55 Q. And she did not do it, did she?
56 A. I am not sure whether she signed up one or none.
57 I know that she did not get very far, and she told me that
58 she was going through a lot with her family that summer.
59
60 Q. As a result of that, did you ring her up all the time,
