Day 192 - 27 Nov 95 - Page 11


     
     1        why, but he liked me.  But when I noticed what he was doing
     2        to the other employees, I was thinking, well, why the hell
     3        not me?
     4
     5        "He fired a woman because she called a manager a bitch.
     6        She didn't call her a bitch, actually, I mean, she was
     7        friends with the manager and she said: 'Tone it down people
     8        are kind of thinking that you're getting a little bit
     9        bitchy.  I'd watch your ass around here.'  The manager put
    10        on Niagara Falls - I mean, she started crying - went and
    11        told Cam, and this employee was fired in the next three or
    12        four days - an employee that had been there for six years.
    13        I mean, that's not a just cause.
    14
    15        "When Cam came in, the day staff were getting
    16        six-and-a-half to eight-hour days, five days a week.  And
    17        he came in and slashed them down to about four-and-a-half.
    18        You still get a break for that.  And then he slashed them
    19        down to three-and-a-half, which you don't get a break for.
    20        That's disgusting.  I mean, they need that money.  Pay
    21        rates are anything from minimum wage to, I guess, up to 12
    22        bucks for a handful of people who've been there since the
    23        restaurant opened.
    24
    25        "There were a lot of people talking about problems at
    26        work.  Even this one girl" -----
    27
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  (To the witness): You have the article in
    29        front of you there, have you?
    30
    31   MR. MORRIS:  We are on page 20.
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It should be immediately after the statement
    34        which Mr. Morris has just read.
    35        A.  It was not, actually; there was a bunch of papers
    36        between it.  But I have found it now.
    37
    38   MR. MORRIS:  Have you got page 20?
    39        A.  Yes, but there are pages between my statement and my
    40        article I did not know about.
    41
    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Perhaps someone had better check that when we
    43        have a five-minute break.  Bottom right of page 20.  Yes.
    44
    45   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, the last paragraph on page 20.  I will start
    46        that paragraph again:
    47
    48        "There were a lot of people talking about problems at
    49        work.  Even this one girl - who is a major anti-union
    50        supporter now - was a total union supporter in the 
    51        beginning." 
    52 
    53        Do you know who you are referring to there?
    54        A.  Sabina Iurilla.
    55
    56   Q.  "I remember her telling me that she had two jobs because Cam
    57        wouldn't give her enough hours.  So she had to take another
    58        job at Northern Reflections at the mall.  And when Cam
    59        found out, he threatened her.  She told me he said, 'I want
    60        to either see your resignation to Northern Reflections or

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