Day 189 - 20 Nov 95 - Page 14

     
     1        people who worked on what they called the front of the
     2        house -- and this is the restaurant and the till area that
     3        actually served the customers -- that the people who take
     4        in the most money in their till get a bonus at the end of
     5        the week.  I know, actually, one case where one of the
     6        workers refused it on the basis that this was a dreadful
     7        way to try and divide and motivate the workers.
     8
     9   Q.   She refused to accept the bonus?
    10        A.  Yes.
    11
    12   MR. MORRIS:  I will just see if there is anything further.  I do
    13        not think there is.  No further questions from us.  Thank
    14        you.
    15
    16
    17                    Cross-examined by MR. RAMPTON Q.C.
    18
    19   MR. RAMPTON:  A couple of questions.  Do you have a copy of your
    20        written statement -- I do not mean the handwritten one,
         which I have not seen -- the typewritten one which you made
    22        on 20th July?
    23        A.  On 20th July -- yes, I do.
    24
    25   Q.   It would be easier for both of us if you put it in front,
    26        so that you can see it.  Do you see the bottom of the page
    27        where you say in the last paragraph:  "When the strike was
    28        finally over, September 1979, with the employees who joined
    29        the union succeeding in having the right to have the ITGWU
    30        act on their behalf, management refused to give me my job
    31        back.  The reason they offered was that the position
    32        I worked in no longer existed."
    33
    34        Have you got that?
    35        A.  Yes.
    36
    37   Q.   Are you intending to suggest there that the reason they
    38        gave was a false reason?
    39        A.  Subsequent occurrences in the store would suggest that
    40        there was an ulterior motive for the reason.  They now
         employ lobby hostesses.
    42
    43   Q.   Yes, but that was not until about two years later, was it,
    44        that they re-employed -----
    45        A.  I have no idea when they started.
    46
    47   Q.   Do you remember a lady called Fiona Ni Chleiregh, who was
    48        the lobby hostess at O'Connell Street?
    49        A.  No, I do not.
    50 
    51   Q.   You do not remember? 
    52        A.  No.  But I do know that, in terms of my work that was 
    53        carried out there, that it was an extremely busy area.
    54        McDonald's handled a large amount of birthday parties, and
    55        I was also in charge of complete personal relations with
    56        the customers.  What I am trying to get at is, it was a
    57        busy position; so, in terms of them doing away with it, it
    58        does not seem justified, from my point of view.
    59
    60   Q.   When the strike was over, you were offered a job at