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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 08:00 AM Aug 2014

Market Basket driver arrested after threatening strikers

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2014/0816/Market-Basket-driver-arrested-after-threatening-strikers



Market Basket workers were picketing supermarket chain for firing CEO known for putting workers first. Temporary Market Basket driver waved his hammer at picketers, but no one was injured.

Market Basket driver arrested after threatening strikers
By Associated Press August 16, 2014

TEWKSBURY, Mass. — Police have arrested a temporary Market Basket driver who allegedly jumped from his tractor-trailer and waved a hammer at workers picketing the supermarket chain's warehouse.

No one was injured in the Friday afternoon incident.

A Market Basket spokesman said the company "condemns the driver's actions" and said the driver and his company have been fired.

Workers loyal to fired Market Basket CEO continue picketing at the embattled supermarket chain's headquarters despite a notice this week from management that headquarters and warehouse workers will be fired if they stay off their jobs.
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Market Basket driver arrested after threatening strikers (Original Post) unhappycamper Aug 2014 OP
How is this guy a Market Basket driver again? merrily Aug 2014 #1

merrily

(45,251 posts)
1. How is this guy a Market Basket driver again?
Fri Aug 22, 2014, 01:14 PM
Aug 2014

Quote from the OP


A Market Basket spokesman said the company "condemns the driver's actions" and said the driver and his company have been fired.



Either Market Basket fired itself or this guy is not an employee of Market Basket but of another company entirely. If Market Basket is not his employer, he is not a "Market Basket driver" as the headline describes him.

Is this just sloppy journalism or a deliberate attempt to smear Market Basket employees as violent and menacing?


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