Day 174 - 17 Oct 95 - Page 28


     
     1        not be lobby hostess any more?
     2        A.  We had done away with the position.
     3
     4   Q.   You had done away with the position?
     5        A.  Yes.
     6
     7   Q.   That was at the end of the strike, was it, that you decided
     8        to do away with that position?
     9        A.  I cannot remember the date we did away with it, but we
    10        certainly did away with the position.
    11
    12   Q.   Some time towards the end of the strike?
    13        A.  I cannot recall the date.
    14
    15   Q.   Do you have lobby hostesses now?
    16        A.  Yes.
    17
    18   Q.   Do you know of any other McDonald's store anywhere in the
    19        world that does not have the lobby hostess position?
    20        A.  I do not, but then I do not know the conditions of
    21        every other McDonald's throughout the world.
    22
    23   Q.   You have visited a fair few hundred, I should think?
    24        A.  I visited, probably in the UK, quite a few.
    25
    26   Q.   The ones in Canada that you worked in, they had lobby
    27        hostesses?
    28        A.  Yes, they had, just prior to our leaving.  It was not
    29        something that was always there.
    30
    31   Q.   She took you to the Rights Commissioner to claim unfair
    32        dismissal because of her union activity, and they ruled in
    33        her favour; and you had to pay her some money, yes; is that
    34        correct?
    35        A.  Yes, I remember that, yes.  She did go to the Rights
    36        Commissioner and she was paid money, yes.
    37
    38   Q.   Do you remember how much it was?
    39        A.  No, I do not, I am sorry.
    40
    41   Q.   If it is of any help, I spoke to her on the phone, and she
    42        could not remember whether it was 400 or 500, something
    43        around that region.  Does that refresh your memory?
    44        A.  No, it does not.
    45
    46   Q.   Sean Mrozek, do you recall him from the strike?
    47        A.  Yes, I do.
    48
    49   Q.   He wrote an affidavit, if we notice, in one of those
    50        picketing hearings.  So he was one of the main organisers 
    51        from O'Connell Street; is that correct? 
    52        A.  Well, he was picketing consistently, yes. 
    53
    54   Q.   From day one?
    55        A.  Yes.
    56
    57   Q.   He had also spoken up at the previous meetings in the store
    58        -- do you remember you referred to him -- before the
    59        strike.  He also went to a Rights Commissioner, did not he?
    60        A.  I have no recollection of that.

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