Day 184 - 06 Nov 95 - Page 47
1 Q. If you look at the bottom of page 9 of your statement:
2 "One crew member asked whether we would lose our
3 McDonald's gold cards if we joined a union. Cam replied:
4 'If you have a union, all benefits are subject to
5 negotiation'." Did you understand him really there to be
6 saying much the same as Chris Broom had said to you?
7 A. I understood it more clearly when Chris Broom told me.
8
9 Q. When Chris Broom told you?
10 A. Right.
11
12 Q. But did it amount to the same thing in your mind or can you
13 not remember now?
14 A. I really cannot remember but, I mean, basically what
15 was in my mind was that we would lose everything we have
16 now and have to start all over again, and we might not be
17 as happy as we are now. Like, that is just the way I was
18 feeling.
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20 MR. MORRIS: I want to go to the pink file XIV -- I hope it is
21 here -- it is on page 1701, it is the statement of --
22 I cannot quite read the name -- Kyle Peterson, or something
23 like that?
24 A. Kyle Peterson.
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26 Q. Kyle?
27 A. Kyle Peterson.
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29 Q. Is that someone who worked at the store?
30 A. Yes, he did.
31
32 Q. This is one of the statements you put forward to the Labour
33 Board, is it?
34 A. Everybody just wrote their letters and then put the
35 letters in a sealed envelope and I just delivered the
36 letters.
37
38 Q. You delivered them?
39 A. So, actually, I did not even deliver them. I put them
40 all in a big manila envelope and I gave them to Chris Broom
41 and he said he was going to mail them down.
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43 Q. On the second page of that statement -- the Plaintiffs
44 might, it does not matter -- there are various claims made
45 by that person, and then point 3: "I was told by Sarah
46 Inglis that if the union came in all employees would
47 receive a five per cent raise automatically. The following
48 vital information was withheld".
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Are we sure it is five per cent?
51
52 MR. MORRIS: I presume it was five per cent, but I cannot
53 imagine ------
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: All I can see is five per cent, but it just
56 occurs to me the five is a long way from the percentage
57 mark, but maybe that is right.
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59 MR. MORRIS: Yes. Point 4: "I was not told what Cam Ballantyne
60 systems (sic) were, i.e. closing", sorry -----
