Day 193 - 28 Nov 95 - Page 19


     
     1        What I am asking you is this:  where are the shifts that
     2        were cut by management?
     3        A.  I cannot tell you, because I do not understand this
     4        document.
     5
     6   Q.   The fact is that -----
     7
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just pause a moment, because it is fairly
     9        obvious, is it not, that the weeks are first week, second
    10        week, third week and fourth week in the month?
    11        A.  OK.
    12
    13   Q.   It is fairly obvious -- whether 1 is the Saturday, Sunday
    14        or Monday, or whatever -- that the days are the days of the
    15        week, by number?  Is that not obvious to you?  So, for
    16        instance, you worked day 1 in week 1; in week 2 you worked
    17        day 6 and day 7; and in October you worked day 2 in week 1,
    18        and day 7 in week 1, but only day 7 in weeks 2 and 3?  Is
    19        that not what it means to you?
    20        A.  Yes.
    21
    22   Q.   I mean, this is only speculation on my part; but is that
    23        not what you get from it?
    24        A.  Sure.
    25
    26   MR. RAMPTON:  The fact is, Miss Inglis, that you reduced your
    27        own shifts at the beginning of September; it was at your
    28        own request, was it not?
    29        A.  Yes, it was.  But in October I believe I missed a
    30        Saturday somewhere.
    31
    32   Q.   I would like to know what your basis is for saying that
    33        your shifts were reduced by management -- in other words,
    34        without your consent -- because you were pro-union?
    35        A.  Because when you apply for application, certification
    36        -- what is it -- application for certification of a union,
    37        the workplace, as I understand it, goes into a sort of
    38        statutory freeze where management cannot change the hours
    39        that you have worked.  That is what I had been told by the
    40        union.
    41
    42   Q.   Which were the weeks, then -- please tell us -- when
    43        management cut one of your shifts, you say, for a few
    44        weeks, because you were pro-union?
    45        A.  If you look at the second week of September, I have a
    46        6 there; second week of September, I have a 7; and then the
    47        third week of September there is a 7 there.  Then, if you
    48        look down to October and you see the first, second and
    49        third week of October, I did not get a Saturday shift.
    50 
    51   Q.   But you got one on day 2 (whichever day of week that is) in 
    52        the first week, did you not? 
    53        A.  Yes.  But I do not know what day that is.  It could
    54        have been Thanksgiving, or something like that.
    55
    56   Q.   Can you please tell us which were the shifts for those few
    57        weeks -- and I do not know how many weeks you mean -- which
    58        were the shifts that management cut because you were
    59        pro-union?
    60        A.  They cut a shift during October -- I imagine it would

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