Day 155 - 14 Jul 95 - Page 33
1 promotional purposes." Do you think that you were
2 conscious of those provisions at the time of finding these
3 leaflets in the crew room?
4 A. I am not even conscious of it now.
5
6 Q. Not what?
7 A. I am not even conscious of them now.
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9 Q. There is another provision, my Lord, this is on page 32
10 under "Discipline", it is J at the top of the page under
11 the sub-heading "Examples of misconduct which may lead to
12 disciplinary action being taken", "posting, defacing or
13 removing notices on bulletin boards without
14 authorisation." Were you conscious of that provision at
15 the time?
16 A. That more so.
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18 Q. Was the notice board an important feature in your time as
19 Manager?
20 A. Yes, one of the things I did was basically to get a few
21 builders in. They did some bits and pieces for me round the
22 restaurant and tidied it up a bit. To ensure that all the
23 legal notices were displayed, I put a brand new board up
24 and put half of the board with a perspex covering over it
25 and the other half was basically for notices from myself or
26 copies of schedules etc. etc.
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28 Q. Did there come a time when you went into the crew room and
29 saw a copy of this leaflet, a blown up copy, stuck on the
30 notice board?
31 A. Yes, I did.
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33 Q. What did you do then?
34 A. Ripped it off and put it in the bin.
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36 Q. Was there any aftermath or sequel to what you did?
37 A. None whatsoever.
38
39 Q. Did you anybody speak to you about it?
40 A. No one.
41
42 Q. Mr. Magee, and I am summarising, suggests that he was
43 running an active union recruitment campaign in your
44 restaurant, and that he had found that 30 to 40 people had
45 shown an interest in being represented or joining a union.
46 Do you remember his saying that?
47 A. Yes, I do.
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49 Q. If that were the truth, do you think that you would have
50 known about it?
51 A. Yes.
52
53 Q. Did you know about it?
54 A. No.
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56 Q. Why do you think that you would have known about it?
57 A. Well, because the restaurant at that time, taking staff
58 out and having regular meetings and getting to know the
59 staff one on one and speaking to them one on one, I think
60 I would have got a little bit of something somewhere.
