Day 182 - 02 Nov 95 - Page 20
1 not object to that, although it is -----
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am going to have to allow some in and ---
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5 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, I agree, but what we -----
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- sift some out at the end of the day, if,
8 as I keep saying, the detail of things like this is going
9 to make one jot of difference.
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11 MR. RAMPTON: I agree but I know what is coming. Mr. Morris is
12 now going to ask Mr. Jenssen on the basis of that piece of
13 hearsay evidence to speculate why it is he did not know
14 before.
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16 MR. MORRIS: Can you give a reason why you yourself did not tell
17 McDonald's or other workers at the store that you were a
18 union member?
19 A. That was at a time I believed that it was a sackable
20 offence or that McDonald's would take action against me if
21 they knew I was a union member.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Pause there. Yes?
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25 MR. MORRIS: We have heard that there are certain provisions in
26 the UK and US Crew Handbook. Do you have a Crew Handbook
27 in Norway?
28 A. Yes.
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30 Q. We have heard there are certain provisions in the Crew
31 Handbook in the UK against holding any unauthorised
32 meetings with crew members or putting up posters or
33 distributing any literature in store or collecting
34 subscriptions. Are any of those points familiar to you as
35 regards Norway?
36 A. Yes, well, the Crew Handbook states that you should not
37 use the working area for your own interests, something like
38 that.
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40 Q. There is no specific thing -----
41 A. There is no specific thing about unions or about
42 meetings. It does say McDonald's does not disagree with
43 crew members meeting on the outside, a social meeting on
44 the outside of the restaurant after work, but they -- but
45 while at work you should have a professional attitude.
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47 Q. OK. What happened then? You contacted the union; what
48 happened following that? How did the agreements come
49 about? You have already said something in your statement,
50 but have you anything further to add from what you have
51 already said in your statement? There was a strike threat,
52 you said, yes?
53 A. Yes. Well, there is negotiations between -- if
54 McDonald's would not agree to a collective agreement right
55 away, there has to be mediation by an official mediator and
56 the HRAF and McDonald's were in that process at this time,
57 were quite -- they have come quite far in that process, and
58 I believe this was two weeks or so before the agreement was
59 actually reached and -----
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