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Market Basket Strike Looks Like a Strike Should
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August 22, 2014 / Peter Olney
What’s been big regional news for four weeks is breaking into the national consciousness with extensive coverage in the New York Times, NPR, and the Today Show.
It’s the story of the fight for Market Basket supermarkets in Maine, New Hampshire, and eastern Massachusetts. The employees are on strike and are waging a colorful and creative, community-based struggle to keep their CEO, Arthur T. Demoulas.
Arthur T. was thrown out by the Market Basket Board of Directors in June. The coup against him was led by his cousin Arthur S. Demoulas. The forced exit of Arthur T. is the culmination of a long family struggle for control of the family business, founded by Grandfather Demoulas in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Truck drivers, warehouse workers, deli counter attendants, top level managers, and checkers are all on strike, and have been for four weeks. The 71 stores are empty of all but dry goods, and even though the stores are open they are empty of customers, many of whom are loyal to the grocer because of the low prices and good customer service.
My mother is one of those customers who are not shopping there in solidarity with the strike. Customers are taping their receipts of money spent at other markets on the windows of the empty stores.
Captivating Struggle
FULL story at link.
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