Day 185 - 07 Nov 95 - Page 13
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2 Q. Right. But it was at the point when you were told that
3 certification had been applied for that you started
4 worrying about the consequences of your having signed the
5 union card; you started worrying that the store might be
6 closed or that you might lose your job?
7 A. I was worried, period, that I had signed a card, but
8 I was not worried about, you know, what McDonald's might
9 do. I did not -- I was not worried they might close the
10 store down. I was not even sure -- I am still not sure if
11 they can do that or not. I was worried the whole time, but
12 now that I had asked for my card back and she had said
13 "no", it just made it worse, because I did not know what
14 I had signed or what would be happening.
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16 Q. Your intervention letter, if you could just look at that
17 for a moment, the second paragraph, the second sentence or
18 third sentence, I think it is -- it starts right in the
19 middle with a word deleted.
20 A. Which one? "I went there", or -----
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22 Q. The sentence after that, ".....did not inform us".
23 A. OK.
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25 Q. That is Sarah?
26 A. I am not sure. It could be either Sarah or Louie.
27 I am pretty sure I put Sarah
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29 Q. "... did not inform us that we could lose the benefits we
30 have and what would happen if a union did come in"?
31 A. Right.
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33 Q. What were you referring to there?
34 A. She did not inform us that we would have to negotiate
35 for the benefits we have already, so we could lose the
36 benefits because we had to negotiate for them.
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38 Q. That was what would happen, not what could happen, that you
39 would lose the benefits?
40 A. No, no. They did not inform us that we would lose the
41 benefits; that we could lose the benefits we had and what
42 would happen if the union did come in, What would happen if
43 a union came in. We did not know that, you know, there
44 would have to be a contract made. But from when I left
45 Sarah's house, what I understood is, a union came in and
46 you automatically got everything that they said; not that
47 you would have to start negotiating, not that there was a
48 contract that had to be made, nothing like that. I do not
49 remember a contract even being mentioned in that
50 conversation.
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52 Q. So when did you become aware of a contract?
53 A. Not until the very, very end. Like, I knew about the
54 negotiations, but I do not remember when I learned about
55 the contract. But it was, I would say, just before the
56 vote, like the beginning of February, or maybe. I do not
57 know, I cannot remember. I knew about the negotiations
58 before I knew about the contract, though.
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60 Q. This is 8th October, before the beginning of February?
