Day 137 - 19 Jun 95 - Page 29
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2 Q. I should ask this: Have you ever read the leaflet which is
3 the subject of this libel action?
4 A. Yes, I have.
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6 Q. What the Defendants are pleased to call the London
7 Greenpeace Fact Sheet -- you have read it?
8 A. Yes, I have.
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10 Q. How recently have you looked at the section on employment?
11 A. About two days ago.
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13 Q. Right. Do you remember that it says that the chances of
14 promotion in McDonald's are minimal. Do you remember it
15 saying that?
16 A. Yes, I do.
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18 Q. Would you like to comment on that?
19 A. It is totally untrue.
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21 Q. By comparison with other people in the same sort of field
22 of activity, human activity, as McDonald's, is it untrue?
23 A. I am not sure I follow that question.
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25 Q. Are you better or worse at promoting your hourly paid
26 people than, for example, Burger King or Kentucky Fried
27 Chicken?
28 A. There is no question, from everything that I have
29 experienced and observed, that we do a far better job at
30 that.
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32 Q. In this country we learn that something over 50 per cent of
33 salaried people have come from crew, does that figure
34 surprise you?
35 A. No, I would anticipate that kind of a figure.
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37 Q. Mr. Stein, rates of pay?
38 A. Yes.
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40 Q. You will have noticed that the leaflet says that rates of
41 pay at McDonald's are low?
42 A. Yes.
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44 Q. I am not asking for a comment about that. The first
45 question I have is this: Is there a legal minimum wage in
46 the United States?
47 A. Yes, there is.
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49 Q. Is that imposed by State Governments or by the Federal
50 Government or by both?
51 A. Minimum wages are both. There is a Federal minimum
52 wage and then the states have a right to set minimum wages
53 above the Federal minimum as well. I think a small number
54 of states have done that.
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56 Q. Mr. Stein, in that volume yellow X you have there, there is
57 a statement?
58 A. I have white X -- sorry, it is yellow at the top.
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60 Q. These wondrous lights distort the colour of everything.
