Day 154 - 13 Jul 95 - Page 14

     
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     2   Q.   If people have a disagreement about what they are being
     3        told to do, would you encourage them to not do it, walk off
     4        their shift, or say: "I am not doing it", go on strike?
     5        A.  Would I encourage my crew to go on strike?  I do not
     6        think I would, no.
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     8   Q.   If they felt aggrieved by something?
     9        A.  That is a very hypothetical question, but I cannot
    10        imagine the circumstances where I would encourage the staff
    11        to go on strike, no.
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    13   Q.   Why is that?
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    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.  I am sorry.  You have gone far enough on
    16        this.  In relation to Colchester, whatever may be said of
    17        certain other compartments of the case, you have an
    18        abundance of evidence which you are going to call.  The
    19        weight to be attached to it I will have to assess when
    20        I have heard all the witnesses.  We do not have to go off
         at a tangent like this.
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    23   MR. MORRIS:  The situation is, is it not, Mr. Davis, that you
    24        did not want anything like McDonald's Freedom Fighters or
    25        people getting together and walking off shifts after a
    26        disagreement with managers, because you do not want the
    27        workers in your control, under your control, to have any
    28        kind of collective organisation to stand up for themselves,
    29        do you?
    30        A.  I would not want workers to be walking out of a shift
    31        on a regular basis.
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    33   Q.   You do not want workers under your control to have any kind
    34        of independent collective organisation to stand up for
    35        themselves, do you?
    36        A.  There are plenty of methods by which they can voice any
    37        grievances within a restaurant.
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    39   Q.   They can come to you?
    40        A.  They can come to me.  They can follow the grievance
         procedure.  There are plenty of outlets for them if they
    42        have a problem within a restaurant.
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    44   Q.   Go to a crew meeting?
    45        A.  They can do that in ones, twos, threes, fours -- in any
    46        number, as far as I am concerned.
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    48   Q.   None of those involve collective organisation of the staff,
    49        do they?
    50        A.  If they want to come in in groups of more than one or 
    51        two, I do not see a problem. 
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    53   Q.   To come and see you?
    54        A.  Certainly, yes.
    55
    56   Q.   But crew meetings always have management present, do they
    57        not, and so do rap sessions?
    58        A.  Well, the rap sessions would have somebody who was not
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