Day 138 - 20 Jun 95 - Page 62
1 would certainly suffer the loss of these sort of special
2 benefits if they voted for the union". I am not going to
3 ask anything about that, you have dealt with it.
4
5 "Most prominent in my memory was Mac Happy Day which
6 occurred just a few days before the election at which time
7 the very famous professional football star named Earle
8 Campbell was brought in by management to give a pep talk
9 about why it was unnecessary to have a union. Campbell's
10 own union, the National Football Players' Association
11 lambasted him publicly for doing so". You told us that
12 Earle Campbell was the celebrity on Mac Happy Day?
13 A. Yes. He was not only one.
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15 Q. Did he give them a lecture about why they did not need a
16 union?
17 A. He did not say anything about unions one way or the
18 other.
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20 Q. Were you there yourself?
21 A. Yes.
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23 Q. Do you remember his getting a rucking from his own
24 association for attending this event?
25 A. Yes, I do. Yes, he did. In the newspaper in Detroit
26 there is a write up that Mr. Campbell should not have, in
27 the opinion of his Players' Association, been in an
28 environment where there was a pending election, not because
29 he had said anything or done anything, but his presence
30 there. What was interesting for us was there were
31 literally a score of other NFL players in and around other
32 stores, frankly, more local heroes than the guy who was
33 from out of town and they did not lambast the other folks
34 for being in that environment.
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36 Q. "Campbell's visit astonished many workers but none no more
37 so than the disco sponsored by the Company one or perhaps
38 two nights before election. All of the workers eligible to
39 vote, approximately 150, were bussed at the disco and I am
40 pretty sure, though not absolutely, that those initiatives
41 because of their attendance at the disco were paid as if
42 they had worked". I think you said there was a disco?
43 A. Yes, there was a crew meeting and at the end of the
44 crew meeting there was dancing, yes.
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46 Q. You mean one of the ordinary regular run of the mill crew
47 meetings?
48 A. We do crew meetings all the time, yes, and this was a
49 crew meeting.
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51 Q. Do you know whether the election was discussed at the crew
52 meeting?
53 A. Yes, it was.
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55 Q. Is that a permitted event or practice?
56 A. Yes, it is. We also go through instructions of the
57 fact that the NLRB will be coming up, how the secret ballot
58 election process works and what they can anticipate on
59 election day.
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