Day 185 - 07 Nov 95 - Page 21
1 the window shift and stuff like that and grill shifts, but,
2 I mean, usually she works just maintenance.
3
4 Q. Does she get paid more for that?
5 A. I do not know. I do not know what she gets paid.
6
7 Q. OK. She is regarded as someone with a responsible position
8 though?
9 A. Not really. She is not higher up than anybody else and
10 there are other maintenance people in our store.
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12 Q. I think it was said that she was not told about the union,
13 she was not asked to join the union?
14 A. Well, when I asked her if she had heard anything about
15 the unionisation attempt, and I asked her if she had signed
16 a card, if she wanted to sign a petition, if she felt she
17 was, you know, misinformed, she said: "What", you know,
18 basically "what unionisation attempt?"
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20 Q. But as soon as she heard about it, she got very active in
21 this and helped you organise a petition and came with you
22 to the NLRB?
23 A. She did come with me to the, well, Ontario Labour
24 Board, but as for organising the petitions she did not do a
25 lot for that. She only came with me to the Board. After
26 that she kind of, she just basically stayed out of the
27 picture. She just kept an eye on what was going on.
28
29 Q. I think she was the contact person for all the
30 people -----
31 A. Yes, because she was over 18 we decided to use her as
32 the contact person, so that if, you know, they want to send
33 us anything or whatnot, they could send it to her, but they
34 never sent anything to her, as far as I know. I do not
35 know.
36
37 Q. So you asked her if she would do that rather than she
38 volunteered for it?
39 A. I am not sure. Chris Broom was the one who talked to
40 her.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can you spell her name, tell me her name
43 again?
44 A. Bonnie, B-O-N-N-I-E, and I believe it is McLellan, so
45 it is M-C-L-E-L-L-E-N, I believe. I could be wrong, it
46 might be O-N. She wrote a letter just to say that she
47 never did sign a card, but she just wanted to say what she
48 thought of it. I am not sure where that is, but you might
49 find the spelling in there somewhere; it is -----
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51 MS. STEEL: I think she said -----
52 A. It is A-N, sorry.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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56 MS. STEEL: She said: "I feel that the age of many of the card
57 holders is too young to be deciding such a big issue of
58 their lives". So, really, it was her and Chris Broom that
59 sorted things out between them?
60 A. Well, they talked to each other and she wanted to know
