Day 139 - 21 Jun 95 - Page 24

     
     1        and could not be done.  The NLRB said: "The best way of
     2        resolving this thing, Mr. Kelly, would be to post an
     3        official notice that clearly sets forth for employees what
     4        the rules of conduct are, so that everybody would know
     5        exactly what the rules of conduct are."
     6
     7   MR. MORRIS:  At what stage was that done?  How many days before
     8        the election was that done, that notice put up?
     9        A.  It would be 10 days -- somewhere between seven and 10
    10        days before the election.  I believe it was 10 at that
    11        time.
    12
    13   Q.   I want to move on now to the Tyson's dispute.  Would you go
    14        to pink volume XIV, please?
    15        A.  I have it.
    16
    17   Q.   It is XIV, and it is tab 72.
    18        A.  Yes, I have it.
    19
    20   Q.   You said you investigated the situation?
         A.  That is correct.
    22
    23   Q.   You checked, you said, whether the leaflets that were being
    24        issued were true or not?
    25        A.  That is correct.
    26
    27   Q.   If you go to page 1394, this was one of the leaflets; yes?
    28        A.  Yes, I am here.
    29
    30   Q.   This was one of the leaflets, was it, that you checked
    31        out?
    32        A.  Now you are getting into leaflets that I checked out,
    33        or did I check out the sanitary conditions?
    34
    35   Q.   No.  I am asking you did you check that what the union was
    36        saying, whether it was correct or not?
    37        A.  Yes.
    38
    39   Q.   You did.  In this leaflet, for example, was there anything
    40        that led you to feel that these quotes from USDA inspection
         reports were made up, or anything like that?
    42        A.  Yes.  These were not USDA inspection reports.  These
    43        were pre-inspection reports, sir.
    44
    45   Q.   So the -----
    46        A.  A big difference.
    47
    48   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You had better explain what a pre-inspection
    49        report is.
    50        A.  Yes, my Lord.  This plant has a dozen United States 
    51        Department of Agriculture Inspectors who live in the 
    52        community and work there full-time, inspecting that plant 
    53        literally 24 hours a day.  The process, my Lord, is that
    54        processing generally ends each day around 3.00 or 4.00 p.m.
    55        in the afternoon.  At that time, large cleaning crews come
    56        in to scrub the place down, if you will, from top to
    57        bottom.  They then let it sit overnight; and, first thing
    58        in the morning, before any operations can begin, before you
    59        bring chickens in and begin the processing thing,
    60        everything is shut down; there is nothing there; everything