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In reply to the discussion: Market Basket's letter to it's customers concerning the strike [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)12. That is not "MARKET BASKET's" letter--that is the letter of the STRIKERS, and I support them!!!!!
MARKET BASKET has been taken over by a bunch of assholes--I am boycotting them until they rehire Arthur and the fired workers.
I don't have any friends or relatives who work there, I just like the place, I like the people who work there, I like their prices and customer service--and I am supporting this labor action wholeheartedly, to the point where I will go buy shit at the (hated) Stop and Shop (where I saw a shitload of MB shoppers yesterday, FWIW).
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Kick and rec this thread--this is a BIG DEAL FOR LABOR IN MA.
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The workers who haven't gone out--who are still working in the stores--are putting up signs
MADem
Jul 2014
#29
The CEO who was good to the workers and sensitive to customers was fired. The workers are bullshit
MADem
Jul 2014
#13
Well, this thread is now in "MILESTONES" territory--it deserves some love from those of us
MADem
Jul 2014
#25
The dumb pluckers need to understand that for every worker they fire, they are "firing" thousands of
MADem
Jul 2014
#16
That is not "MARKET BASKET's" letter--that is the letter of the STRIKERS, and I support them!!!!!
MADem
Jul 2014
#12
We stand with the MB employees. Until there is a resolution, it's Stop-n-Shop in town
Blaukraut
Jul 2014
#26