Finally!
"the financial pressures are creating divisions among the once unified workforce"
Related: Making the Most of Market Basket Protests
They did; they broke the union.
"Out of work, Market Basket part-timers divided; Workers bearing brunt of economic fallout from the Market Basket walkout" by Katie Johnston | Globe Staff August 18, 2014
The part-time workers are a diverse lot: retirees, teachers in need of summer income, college students trying to earn extra money, mothers who work only when their kids are in school. They generally make between $8 and $10 per hour, with no benefits, managers said, but they get bonuses and 25-cent raises twice a year, as well as profit sharing.
I thought MB paid better than that.
The public has rallied behind the workers, refusing to shop at the stores and donating money to help those who have lost hours and income.
An appeal on the online fund-raising site GoFundMe has brought in more than $8,600 in donations for a 94-year-old out-of-work bagger in Stratham, N.H. Meanwhile, more than $100,000 has been raised for the truck drivers and warehouse workers who walked off the job, crippling the company’s ability to stock its shelves and bring in customers — and pay part-time workers.
In Astrid Ponce’s family, 10 people lost their incomes when Market Basket cut their hours. “We’re all unemployed now,” said Ponce, 21, a 30-hour-a-week cashier who works at the Chelsea store along with her mother, brother, uncles, aunts, and cousins. The Chelsea store, which normally employs 1,100 workers, is operating with just 100 this week.
Ponce was saving to study business administration at Bunker Hill Community College but now isn’t sure she’ll be able to attend. She lives at home, and her parents rely on the $450 a month she contributes toward rent and groceries. Her father, a warehouse worker at Logan Airport, and her brother, who has just landed a minimum-wage job at the airport, are now the only breadwinners for the family of seven.
“I don’t think leaving 25,000 employees without a job is worth it,” said Ponce, who has stopped picketing to look for work. “They need to come to an agreement. They need to leave the greed behind.”
That's the foundation of our $y$tem, and you don't f*** with it!!
Some employees are as concerned for their customers as for themselves. Catherine Makosiej, a 28-year-old cashier in Manchester, N.H., said her store serves many low-income families who depend on Market Basket’s low prices to stretch food stamps and other subsidies, such as the nutrition program for women and children, known as WIC.
Goddamn frikkin' greedy workers don't care about women and children!!!!!!!
“It hurts to have these customers coming through my line as a cashier and not having the product they need to complete their state WIC vouchers to assist in feeding their children and other family members,” said Makosiej, who, like most other part-time workers, had her hours eliminated. “I wish the Demoulas cousins could see what is really happening.”
Makosiej, who has taken on shifts at a pizza place and a potato chip vendor to make ends meet, said she is too scared to protest at Market Basket stores for fear of losing her job.
Good. Protests destroy AmeriKa, as we see in other places!
But, she said, she supports “Artie T. . . . with every piece of me that I still have left.”
“I have no hours, but if this is what it takes to get him back — he’s our leader,” she said. “If he’s out, I’m out.”
Bye.
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Time to check out:
"Market Basket leaders make effort for deal this week; No firings or closings while talks continue; a bidder weighs top role for ousted Demoulas" by Casey Ross | Globe Staff August 18, 2014
With Market Basket’s finances growing increasingly dire, family members fighting over the grocery chain have promised to make an all-out effort to reach a deal to rescue the company by the end of the week, according to people briefed on the discussions.
It's already to late; the brand has been damaged.
Warring factions of the Demoulas family made that commitment following several hours of negotiations late Sunday, brokered by Governor Deval Patrick and Governor Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire.
The war paper reporters have self-internalized their ma$ter's values.
Executives of the company have agreed to hold off on firing employees or closing stores to allow some time for the discussions to play out, according to the people who were briefed. The sides are negotiating a sale of Market Basket, as well as efforts to stabilize the embattled company’s operations and finances.
Oh, man, wait 'til those start coming down. This ain't over by a long shot.
Arthur T. Demoulas is trying to buy the 50.5 percent of the chain owned by his cousin and longtime foe, Arthur S. Demoulas, and other relatives.
Meanwhile, another potential suitor, the parent of Hannaford Bros. Co., has spoken to Arthur T. about managing the company if it is successful in buying Arthur S.’s shares, according to a person who was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
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Market Basket is losing millions of dollars a day because of customer boycotts and an employee walkout over Arthur T.’s dismissal.
F***ing bastards, both of 'em!
The walkout has prevented fresh food from reaching stores. Industry analysts said the 71-store chain cannot continue to operate much longer under the current conditions.
“The company’s cash position is lousy,” said Kevin Griffin, publisher of the Griffin Report on Food Marketing. “It’s in a really tough spot right now.”
“I just can’t understand why you would want to kill the golden goose,” Griffin said. “This is a business these two inherited. They were born into the lucky club, and you wonder why they can’t wise up and get their act together.”
That's why. Privilege has its disadvantages.
More evidence of the financial troubles came in a letter posted Monday on a Facebook page critical of the company’s current management, in which the chief executive of a major seafood supplier announced that his firm was cutting its ties with Market Basket.
Boston Sword & Tuna’s chief executive, Tim Malley, said in an interview that his company normally sells $10 million worth of seafood to Market Basket annually. But in recent weeks, he said, payments did not arrive on time. He said one check had to be returned because Market Basket overpaid him by $415,000.
Why didn't you just cash it?
Malley said he decided to disclose the problems to show the economic damage being inflicted on the businesses that rely on Market Basket. “We thought about the other vendors like us that were losing thousands of dollars,” he said.
This economy is roaring ahead.
A spokesman for Market Basket said the company had worked with Boston Sword & Tuna to try to find a solution. He said in a statement that the problems with vendors were inevitable, given the decision by company employees who have refused to work, in solidarity with Arthur T.
You.... you.... you.... workers!!!!
“The longtime employees that ran Market Basket’s buying and distribution system walked out on their jobs, their customers, and their vendors on July 18,” the statement said.
Damn right!
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After brokering negotiations Sunday night, Patrick and Hassan issued statements saying that Demoulas family members were making progress in resolving their dispute. But no deal appeared imminent Monday, and Patrick declined to discuss the matter.
Other than the vow to work toward an agreement by Friday, there were no details on Monday about when or where the two sides would meet again....
It is unclear when or if the governors will convene another meeting to try to reach a deal. Their involvement signaled a final push to end the extraordinary showdown....
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Speaking of showdowns:
"Replacement Market Basket driver arraigned in hammer incident" by Trisha Thadani | Globe Correspondent August 18, 2014
The replacement Market Basket truck driver who was arrested last week after he allegedly confronted protesters with a hammer was arraigned this morning, officials said.
Ira Forbes, a 27-year-old man from Brooklyn, N.Y., was arrested Friday for allegedly exiting his truck and approaching protesters with a hammer outside the company’s Tewksbury warehouse, said David Wallace, spokesman for Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan.
Forbes was arraigned in Lowell District Court Monday morning on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct, Wallace said. Forbes was released on personal recognizance and is due back in court for a pretrial hearing Oct. 16.
Jon Dixon, a Market Basket employee who witnessed the incident at the protest, told the Globe Friday that the driver belligerently exited his truck’s cab after protesters heckled him and other replacement drivers on their way out of the warehouse.
Yeah, see?!
“He was very, very aggressive,” Dixon said. “He was hanging out of the window of his cab.”
His cab had skulls and stuff on it, but he was being heckled!
What would $cum politicians or authority do if, for instance, the crowd started chanting asshole, asshole, asshole, asshole, in unending unison?
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NEXT DAY UPDATES:
Solution still eludes Market Basket board
No progress evident in Market Basket standoff
Who gives a $hit now? The brand has been destroyed and Market Basket is no more.
