He just signed the order even if it is against the law:
Patrick urges Market Basket workers to return to work
They did not:
"Market Basket customers hold rally at Tewksbury store; Show their support for workers, ousted Arthur T. Demoulas" by Jack Newsham | Globe Correspondent August 16, 2014
The rebellion of Market Basket employees received a boost Saturday evening from hundreds of the company’s customers, who rallied outside a store in Tewksbury to declare their support for ousted company president Arthur T. Demoulas.
The Globe does not approve of this protest.
The rally, which convened in a parking lot at twilight, featured speeches in English and Spanish from several customers who had organized the event on Facebook earlier in the week.
Time to shut that f***ing spy platform and data collection device down.
Customers and their families were joined by some employees, who said they were also customers.
Jeffrey Betterini of Epping, N.H., was one participant at the rally. He said he has visited every Market Basket store in recent weeks, meeting people and boosting morale by filing regular video dispatches to Facebook groups used by protesters.
“I’ve been shopping with these people since 1988,” he said. “Every time I’ve needed anything, they’ve provided it.”
After Arthur T. Demoulas was fired in June by a board controlled by his cousin Arthur S. Demoulas, employees launched a protest that has kept customers away and left store shelves largely empty.
The chain’s ownership is said to be negotiating a sale that could resolve the impasse.
Some people said they were angry at being depicted as “hostages” by the company’s management and by some journalists.
I really can't imagine what corporate flag$hip written for the elite of New England he could mean.
“We’re not mindless people following Arthur T. Demoulas for no reason at all,” said Danielle Androy of Merrimack, N.H.
That's why the war-promoting, agenda-pu$hing propaganda pre$$ doesn't like you.
While the crowd was in the hundreds, customers said they represented more than a million others who were boycotting the store.
Paula Sargent of Merrimac, Mass., said that some customers who could not make the rally held a “rolling rally” in which they gathered at several stores over the course of the day, even grilling food.
“It needs to stop,” she said of the family dispute that has brought the company to a standstill. “Enough is enough.”
Four rallies have been held at the same site, but the previous ones drew mostly employees because they were held during the work day, said Noel Gordon, who organized Saturday’s protest.
Gordon, whose husband is fired Market Basket employee Tom Gordon, said the rally was meant to show that thousands of customers are boycotting the store out of support for protesting employees, not because the shelves of its stores are running bare.
The rally was scheduled to start at 6 p.m. at the Market Basket store at 10 Main St.
A page for the rally on Facebook had fewer than 200 people list themselves as “going,” although Gordon said she had received messages and calls from hundreds more who expected to attend.
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Governor Patrick said get back to work, slobs!
Related: Market Basket managers ordered to take down protest signs
That's odd. My printed headline to that article was the employee support fund surpassed $100,000.
"Market Basket workers stay off the job" by Jack Newsham | Globe Correspondent August 15, 2014
The deadline for hundreds of protesting Market Basket employees to return to work or be fired passed mostly without incident Friday, with an arrest marring an otherwise uneventful protest outside the grocery chain’s Tewksbury headquarters.
Although around 200 Market Basket employees who walked off the job in July were warned on Monday that they would be fired for job abandonment if they did not return to their posts by Friday, workers who defied the letter said they received no communication from the company regarding their employment status.
To your posts!
Another 200 workers were sent letters the next day and told to return to work by Monday.
Protesters outside the Market Basket headquarters said few if any employees ordered to report to work had given up their protests. A source at the Market Basket warehouse in Andover said none of the employees at that warehouse who were sent warning letters came to work Friday.
Spokesmen for Market Basket did not respond to questions about the employment status or workplace presence of the employees who received warning letters Monday.
Outside of Market Basket’s Tewksbury headquarters, home to its main office and a grocery warehouse, workers demanding the reinstatement of company president Arthur T. Demoulas and sympathetic customers continued to picket. They held signs, encouraged cars to honk, and marched in circles in the headquarters’ driveways, heckling delivery drivers and personnel who passed in and out.
A-ha!
“Everyone is just holding firm here,” said Tom Trainor, one of eight senior Market Basket employees fired in late July who has led protests. “We still believe we’re gonna win this thing.”
You've already lost, at least in my corporate paper.
The relative calm of the protest was interrupted around 3 p.m., however, when a replacement truck driver working for Market Basket was arrested after brandishing a hammer at protesters picketing in one of the warehouse’s driveways.
I will bet my bottom Market Basket dollar that he was provoked by protesters!
Jon Dixon, a Market Basket employee who was at the protest and witnessed the incident, said the driver was subdued by police after exiting his truck and approaching picketing protesters with a hammer.
Dixon described the driver as belligerent before he was arrested, shouting at protesters from his truck on his way into the parking lot and stopping his truck only a few feet away from protesters on his way out before exiting his cab and approaching them with a hammer.
What is he supposed to do? He has a job to do, same as the Israeli bulldozer driver that flattened Rachel Corrie.
“He was very, very aggressive,” said Dixon, who noted that protesters had heckled the driver just like they did other replacement drivers on their way in and out of the warehouse. “He was hanging out of the window of his cab.”
Goddamn bastards!!
In a statement, a Market Basket spokesman condemned the driver and said he and the trucking company that hired him had been fired by Market Basket.
Photos and videos posted to Twitter and Facebook showed the driver’s truck to be painted entirely black, with spiked accents and no visible registration information on the cab. Dixon, the witness, said small pictures of skulls were on the cab.
Some sort of scary Nazi-type?
Tewksbury police said that one man was in custody in relation to the incident, but said they would not provide further comment until Saturday.
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Also see: Shaw’s, Star Market customers could be affected by data breach
Know who I suspect? Who benefits?
"Market Basket board meetings the stage for family strife; Transcripts of Market Basket board meetings reveal ill will, wide divisions over authority, employee compensation, and where profits should go" by Casey Ross | Globe Staff August 15, 2014
The setting was a November 2009 Market Basket board meeting at which Arthur T.’s proposal to give employees up to $40 million in bonuses was being picked apart by Arthur S. Demoulas and his ally on the board.
Arthur S. wanted to know the amount and timing of the payment, and when it would be submitted for approval to him and other directors of the supermarket chain. “It’s extraordinary. It’s an extra $20 million to $40 million,” he said.
Not one to pass up a challenge from his longtime foe, Arthur T. fired back at his cousin.
“I want to tell you, Arthur, you hired me to run the company,” he said, according to a transcript of the meeting obtained by the Globe. “And my management style is not to come back to this board to request and ask for permission. I’m going to do it.”
The transcripts, spanning more than a decade, lay bare the enduring ill will among Demoulas family members and others vying for control of Market Basket.
Since Arthur T. was fired as president of Demoulas Super Markets Inc. in June, the feud between the two men has become a rallying cry for many people, who view it as a struggle to put people over profits; rallies on Arthur T.’s behalf have drawn thousands of employees who say they will work only for
That is where the turn in was, and that was the day I no longer read anything. Sorry, but there really is no longer any need. I have allowed the Globe to manipulate and play me long enough.
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Related: Demoulas fray needs a breath of impartiality
See jwho she is calling for?
This thing a little too petty for that big gun.
Related: Murder at Market Basket
He might get involved then.
