Day 115 - 06 Apr 95 - Page 43
1 was lucky, you got the job. You was told a time to start
2 and you would meet a team which you went to the factory you
3 met. You went out and you might say to the foreman:
4 "Well, how would you catch these chickens?" He might just
5 say: "Well, this is the way I catch it, but everyone has
6 their own different ways and ideas of catching chickens".
7 There was no specific way shown by Sun Valley how to catch
8 chickens; everyone had their own way of catching.
9
10 Q. When you were catching chickens, was there any difference
11 between how you caught them when you were on your own and
12 when a supervisor came around or an official came round?
13 A. Yes, because when a supervisor came everybody caught
14 them reasonably in the proper way, if you would say. When
15 there was no-one around, everybody caught them their own
16 way. But even when the supervisor was there, if things had
17 got behind time, he would be looking at you and say: "Well,
18 can you pull your finger out because this is creating a
19 problem for everyone", because if one team was late it
20 would go down the line of events; if you was late, the next
21 one would be late, the next one would be late and, at the
22 end of the day, if you are going to the factory they would
23 be late. So, it creates a problem with time and cost, if
24 you like. They would say: "Well, get on, do the job", you
25 know, get it from you, get it finished and pull yourself
26 together, you know.
27
28 Q. When they asked you to hurry up, did they ask you to be
29 very careful?
30 A. There was no mention of carefulness -- just get on and
31 do the job as if it was nobody here.
32
33 Q. Do you think you had enough time to consider the welfare of
34 the birds?
35 A. No.
36
37 Q. You have mentioned complaining to Mr. Stiles, I think,
38 about the heads getting trapped. Did you ever complain
39 about generally not having enough time to take care of the
40 welfare of the birds?
41 A. On a number of occasions we complained about time,
42 especially when they said: "Well, you have got heads out
43 of these drawers again", it is this team that done it, not
44 blaming each individual. He said: "Well, the problem
45 stems from time. If you could give more time to load and
46 consider the welfare of animals, even the welfare of your
47 workers, if you like, as well, and take your time and do
48 things, you could have the job done whiter than white", but
49 it was all down to time-consuming. You most have X amount
50 of birds there and how they got there, they were not
51 worried.
52
53 Q. What happens if the birds did not get out of the way of the
54 forklift bringing in or taking out ---
55 A. If nobody -----
56
57 Q. -- the modules?
58 A. If nobody has seen the bird in time and kicked it out
59 of the way or tried to grab it, it would get run over and
60 more often -----
