The Market Basket in Somerville, MA where I live is doing hardly any business at all. The reason? Most of the workers—and many customers—are outside. As Bloomberg reports:
Thousands of the supermarket chain’s employees have organized rallies at their local stores and at the company’s headquarters during the last week. Were these employees rallying for higher wages, better benefits, and predictable schedules — the needs so many retail employees face? No, they were demonstrating to help their ousted CEO, Arthur T. Demoulas, get his job back (he was fired in June after [a] coup led by his cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas).
Why do workers at Market Basket care so much about who runs the company? They see the issue as what kind of company they work for.
– See my guest post at http://www.trippbraden.com/2014/07/31/care-for-your-company/#sthash.rTgAjqdl.dpuf for what you can learn from the Market Basket story!
Wow their actions really speak to their respect for Arthur T. Demoulas and taken at face value I would think the ousted CEO is a man of integrity.
Diana