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graywarrior

(59,440 posts) Sun Dec 21, 2014, 08:16 PM Dec 2014

For those following the Market Basket strike last summer: The Employees won Bostonians of the Year

http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2014/12/21/why-market-basket-employees-are-our-bostonians-year/o3P4vXbnDO70tjVpfzoEBI/story.html

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For those following the Market Basket strike last summer: The Employees won Bostonians of the Year (Original Post) graywarrior Dec 2014 OP

BRAVO to them all. sheshe2 Dec 2014 #1

Woo Hoo! I was one of the MB boycotters and didn't return until Artie T. did. valerief Dec 2014 #2

Good news! chervilant Dec 2014 #3

A fitting tribute, indeeed! TheCowsCameHome Dec 2014 #4

sheshe2

(83,786 posts)

1. BRAVO to them all.

Reply to graywarrior (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 08:52 PM

Dec 2014

Outstanding. Thanks gray.

valerief

(53,235 posts)

2. Woo Hoo! I was one of the MB boycotters and didn't return until Artie T. did.

Reply to graywarrior (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 08:52 PM

Dec 2014

But this ONLY worked because the employees were treated fairly by Artie T. to begin with. Employees who don't have that need a union instead. Artie T.'s are few and far between, especially in America.