Day 185 - 07 Nov 95 - Page 66
1 A. He might have found out from somewhere else, I do not
2 know. We did not say anything to him until that night.
3
4 Q. It may have well have been him that told you?
5 A. That night.
6
7 Q. Right. Was the position perhaps this, that you and Sabina
8 were talking about having joined the union, Chris overheard
9 you, came up and said that he was aware that a lot of crew
10 members had joined a union?
11 A. No.
12
13 Q. He told you about what his dad had told him about unions
14 and you then sat about discussing how you would take action
15 against that?
16 A. Sabina and I were sitting there for about half an hour
17 before Chris even came in. We started talking about our
18 day at work, school, whatever. The union thing came up.
19 We dropped it. We started talking about normal stuff
20 again. Chris came in. We talked about just normal stuff
21 with Chris for a while and then we be both looked at each
22 other and said it to Chris, what had happened to us.
23
24 Q. You agree with what Sabina said about Chris Broom's role in
25 the petition and the letters and -----
26 A. You mean him giving us the idea to do it?
27
28 Q. Yes.
29 A. Yes. We asked him what we could do and that is what he
30 told us.
31
32 Q. What were you saying to people when you phoned them up to
33 ask them about signing the petition? Did you say to
34 people, to other crew members, that it would be a good idea
35 if they backed Cam and showed their support for the store
36 management?
37 A. No.
38
39 Q. When you say: "Sabina is also right that many people
40 approached us voluntarily", that was after the phone calls
41 had been made, was it not?
42 A. What do you mean "approached us voluntarily"?
43
44 Q. That is what you said in the statement.
45 A. Well, they were in the room, the crew room, doing
46 this. I mean, if we were talking to one person, they would
47 come up to us and ask us what we were doing.
48
49 Q. Is that all three of you in the crew room?
50 A. No, it was me at one point.
51
52 Q. But all three of you at other points?
53 A. Not all at once, no.
54
55 Q. OK. You said: "I was working on a shift", this is on
56 Monday 4th October after the petition had been presented,
57 "that day and after Sabina and Bonnie had returned to the
58 office and had spoken to Cam, I spoke to Cam about the
59 attempt at unionisation. I thought he should know what was
60 going on in his store". You were aware that Sabina that
