Day 159 - 20 Jul 95 - Page 29
1 A. No, nobody.
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3 Q. You have no recollection?
4 A. No, not at all.
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6 Q. Do you remember seeing any leaflets inviting crew members
7 to join a union?
8 A. No.
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10 Q. Has the question whether crew members should join a union
11 ever come to your notice in your 20 years at Seven Sisters?
12 A. No.
13
14 Q. Who ------
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16 MS. STEEL: Sorry, can you hold on, please?
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18 MR. RAMPTON: Were you trained before you started your career as
19 a crew person in McDonald's?
20 A. Not before. We was trained on a day.
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22 Q. Sorry, I mean you.
23 A. We had a meeting. When I first started, the store was
24 not quite open, it was not quite ready, so Paul -----
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26 Q. It was, I think, the second store in the whole country, was
27 it not?
28 A. That is correct.
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30 Q. After Woolwich?
31 A. Yes, that is it. What happened, we had a meeting -- on
32 the Thursday, I started on the Thursday. The store opened
33 on the Monday, following Monday. On the Thursday and
34 Friday we had done the cleaning, you know, the Ajax-ing of
35 the stainless steel to get it all clean for Monday. Then
36 on the Sunday we had a crew meeting, what we called a crew
37 meeting, wore our uniforms and to be told what would
38 happen.
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40 MS. STEEL: Sorry, can you pause because I missed quite a lot of
41 that.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: All you need to ask is when, if ever, there
44 was a training day. That is the only important matter
45 amongst all that detail. (To the witness): Can you
46 remember when, if at all, there was a training day?
47 A. Oh, yes, there used to be training hours. There was
48 not a whole day.
49
50 Q. But when did you first receive training?
51 A. Well, on the first day I went there, when I first
52 started at 2 o'clock, I was trained by Paul Preston.
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54 MS. STEEL: In actual fact, I cannot actually understand what
55 it says on the CaseView. It says: "We had a meeting on
56 Thursday, I started on Thursday" -----
57 A. No, I started on the Thursday.
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You know, that really is detail which -----
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