Day 182 - 02 Nov 95 - Page 56
1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I suggest you do is, you wait until you
2 have made a final decision on Connor McCann. The next one
3 who you were definitely not going to call was Mr. Davidson,
4 who is -----
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6 MR. MORRIS: Yes. In fact, also, Dan Gallin. We decided this
7 morning, before coming here, that we are not going to call
8 him.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Would you like to read Mr. Gallin?
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12 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Mr. Gallin, for the record (as you would say)
15 is in pale blue volume III at number 9. His statement is
16 actually signed both by Paul Garver and Dan Gallin, and
17 dated 26th July 1993.
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19 MR. MORRIS: There was another one on 11th November 1993,
20 signed by him alone.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Do you want to read out the first one?
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24 MR. MORRIS: Yes, OK. This is a statement by Dan Gallin, the
25 General Secretary of the International Union of Food
26 Workers based in Geneva.
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28 "Statement regarding McDonald's v. Steel and Morris,
29 Royal Courts of Justice.
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31 "I, Dan Gallin, am the General Secretary of the
32 International Union of Food Agricultural Hotel Restaurant
33 Catering Tobacco and Allied Workers Associations (IUF).
34 Paul Garver is a coordinator of our department of
35 transnational corporations. The IUF is a worldwide
36 federation founded in 1920 of trade unions in 90 countries
37 representing workers employed in the manufacture,
38 preparation and serving of food in hotels and in tobacco.
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40 "The IUF secretariat is based in Geneva Switzerland. The
41 affiliated unions determine all IUF policy and elect office
42 holders. One function of the IUF is the coordination and
43 representation of our national affiliated unions when
44 engaged in disputes with transnational corporations. Hence
45 the IUF can be seen as a 'union of unions'.
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47 "The IUF statutes include the convening of specific
48 international trade groups and conferences, as well as an
49 official as an official secretariat news letter (the IUF
50 news bulletin). The statutes also provide for other
51 periodical publications that are approved by the executive
52 committee which have included the HRC bulletin and the IUF
53 directory of transnationals (profiles of individual
54 companies available only to affiliated unions).
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56 "A number of our member unions were involved in the 1980s
57 in disputes with the McDonald's Corporation or its
58 subsidiaries. As a result of this, in November 1984 the
59 IUF Hotel Restaurant and Catering Trade Group convened an
60 international McDonald's trade union working group of
