Day 185 - 07 Nov 95 - Page 46
1 anything she wants.
2
3 Q. Then Chris Broom, you and Sabina had a meeting in the lobby
4 of the restaurant of McDonald's, yes?
5 A. Yes, we did.
6
7 Q. On the 1st October, so you say?
8 A. Yes.
9
10 Q. You said: "Now I realised that Sarah's statement about the
11 supposed benefits of union membership were not true. Now
12 I realise that, I could see no point in the restaurant
13 becoming unionised". What was not true? Who told you that
14 they were not true, sorry, who told you that enhanced
15 benefits were not true?
16 A. Not that enhanced benefits were not true; it is just
17 that she could not promise us anything and she said that we
18 would definitely get this.
19
20 Q. So it would all have been fine as long as they were things
21 which the union was wanting and were trying to get?
22 A. Sorry?
23
24 Q. It would all have been fine, would it, if your perception
25 would have been that these were things that the union was
26 trying to get for all the staff?
27 A. Not necessarily fine because I still did not know all
28 the information I wanted to know about the union.
29
30 Q. Yes, but the problem is, what you are saying is, you were
31 impressed by the idea of enhanced benefits, and then you
32 realised that Sarah's statements about the supposed
33 benefits of union membership were not true and, therefore,
34 there was no point in the restaurant becoming unionised?
35 A. Because she promised us -----
36
37 Q. But there would have been a point, would there not, of the
38 restaurant becoming unionised in order to campaign for
39 those enhanced benefits?
40 A. No, I still did not want the union in the McDonald's.
41
42 Q. You did not?
43 A. No, I did not.
44
45 Q. So what did Chris Broom say to you to make you not want a
46 union at McDonald's, despite being impressed by the
47 enhanced benefits that they were talking about?
48 A. Sabina, Chris and I were sitting down. First, it was
49 Sabina and I and we told each other our stories. Chris
50 came in and we told him what she had told us, in that she
51 had promised us these things, we would definitely get
52 them. He said: "There is no way they can promise you
53 anything. They cannot promise you. Everything is
54 negotiated. They cannot promise you you will definitely
55 get it".
56
57 Q. What does he know about it?
58 A. Pardon me?
59
60 Q. What does he know about it?
