Day 185 - 07 Nov 95 - Page 43
1 A. Sorry?
2
3 Q. Were you grateful that somebody was informing you about the
4 existence of unions and how they related to workers, and
5 things like that?
6 A. I would not say I was grateful. I was just interested
7 in learning about them, to see what there is to know about
8 unions.
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10 Q. Nobody had ever told you anything about unions before?
11 A. No.
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13 Q. None of your teachers?
14 A. Not really, no, not that I can remember.
15
16 Q. Sarah was the first person?
17 A. As far as I remember, yes.
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19 Q. The first person to offer you a choice of being in a union?
20 A. It was the first job I ever had; this is the one job
21 I had ever had in my life. I never had any other
22 opportunity to be in a union.
23
24 Q. Between November 1988 and sort of, whenever it was,
25 August 1993 or September 1993, for five years, no one had
26 ever offered you the ---
27 A. There were no union attempts -----
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29 Q. -- opportunity of joining a union?
30 A. There were no union attempts between that time. There
31 were no -- they did not want to get into a union.
32
33 Q. Now, in your paragraph 5, you mention Rui Amorim. He was a
34 union organiser; yes?
35 A. Yes.
36
37 Q. They came round to your house. That was by prior
38 appointment, was it?
39 A. They called that morning and asked if they could come
40 out and speak to me.
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42 Q. So you said "OK"?
43 A. At the time I had time, so I said, "OK, that is no
44 problem."
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Have you met Rui before?
47 A. No.
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49 Q. He is not a local -- what sort of age is he?
50 A. I put him as in his thirties. So I -----
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52 Q. Do you know whether he was a local man, an Orangeville man?
53 A. I do not know. His office was -- I am not sure where
54 his office was, but it was long distance to call him, so he
55 was not from Orangeville.
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57 MR. MORRIS: You said that you were impressed with the idea of
58 enhanced benefits when that was mentioned to you by the
59 union; is that correct? You have said that you were
60 impressed with the idea of enhanced benefits; yes?
