Day 145 - 29 Jun 95 - Page 08

     
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     2   MR. MORRIS (To the witness): Have you reduced the recommended
     3        temperature for your coffee following a recent controversy
     4        about it?
     5        A.  I do not know.  I am not an Operations guy.  I do not
     6        know.
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     8   Q.   Just to finish off one thing we discussed at some length
     9        yesterday about France; you said that you were aware of
    10        some dispute in Lyons involving investigation of managers
    11        and union -----
    12        A.  No, no, that is not what I said.
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    14   Q.   What did you say, sorry?
    15        A.  What I said was that I was aware that there were some
    16        objections to some election -- I should not say "some"
    17        elections -- to an election or two.  I do not recall the
    18        specific number in Lyons, but I am almost positive because
    19        of my knowledge.  I do not have any more detail than that.
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         I just know there is an issue, but I think I also told you
    22        that in France there is a collective agreement covering --
    23        my belief is there is a collective agreement covering the
    24        entire country, that these are elections in stores that
    25        occur every year and have occurred for eons -- eons, as far
    26        as back as I can recall, every year they have been
    27        conducted.  So, it is -- you are taking something that is
    28        an isolated thing from my knowledge and asking me about;
    29        I have some general knowledge, as I have articulated.
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    31   Q.   Do you know of any strike by 67 McDonald's workers in
    32        Massey, a suburb north of Paris, on July 9th 1994?
    33        A.  No, I do not.
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    35   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I do not know that that is pleaded.
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    37   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Mr. Stein has said he does not know anyway,
    38        Mr. Rampton.
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    40   MR. RAMPTON:  I know.  My Lord it keeps happening; it happened
         all yesterday.
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    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Are you taking this from one of your
    44        statements?
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    46   MR. MORRIS:  No, but it is background to disputes generally in
    47        France which we have pleaded; it is part of a pattern.
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    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What is pleaded is actually in your defence
    50        in the further and better particulars of it.  What is 
    51        deemed to be pleaded is in your witness statements.  Yes, 
    52        Mr. Morris? 
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    54   MR. MORRIS (To the witness):  Are you aware of disputes in other
    55        cities as well around that time in France?
    56        A.  No, I am not.
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    58   MS. STEEL:   Mr. Stein, could you get pink volume XIV -- is the
    59        Handbook pink XI -- pink XI.
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