Market Basket halts pay to senior employees

[LiberalElite]

Source: Boston Globe

Market Basket executives ratcheted up the pressure on its protesting workforce Friday by withholding paychecks of a group of middle managers to ensure they report to work on Monday, the deadline the company has set for employees to return to their job.

Several managers said they received a letter by certified mail Friday from chief executives James Gooch and Felicia Thornton notifying them they are not being paid because of their “ongoing failure to report to work,” but would receive their checks if they reported to work Monday, August 4.

Read more: http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/08/01/eight-fired-market-basket-supervisors-plan-sue-company-for-wrongful-dismissal/HWGNBrU31RtYfL4T3c4q2J/story.html?rss_id=Top-GNP&google_editors_picks=true

[MADem]

1. Looks like it's ON. I guess I'll have to go tape my Stop and Shop Receipts to the MB door! nt

[LiberalElite]

3. "Libtard"?? nt

[LiberalElite]

5. Oh. The only times I've seen "Libtard" before this

is in right wing posts knocking Liberals.

[PeoViejo]

6. Use their own words against them

like they mistakenly used teabagger, not knowing it had another meaning.

[PeoViejo]

7. Or using the handle: Jim Rob

which became Rim Job

..or the Big Frothy Santorum,oops, meant Sanscrotum.

[LiberalElite]

17. It's tricky business to do that here -

I almost alerted on your post.

[PeoViejo]

18. A number of Years ago, I registered over at FR

I made one post and was promptly banned.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

31. It took me three posts to be banned at the Freep.

They are as fierce about maintaining the party line as any Stalinist.

[Ash_F]

9. Many DUer's have family members with mental disabilities

I am with you on opposing the CEO's, but you could have used different wording.

[Sienna86]

16. I have a nephew who has mental retardation.

I am offended.

[LovingA2andMI]

24. Enjoy your stay at DU....

Not sure how long it will be.

Meanwhile using that disgusting word while claiming to have an autistic family member, speaks volumes.

Also, don't believe the hype of our low posts as we read more often than we write, and have served on too many DU Juries to count --- and PROUD of it.

[demigoddess]

29. what wording should he have used??

I am the mother of a 40something severely retarded daughter. What word should he have used? cretin?? that is the word that we fought to be replaced by something more appropriate, like retarded. Now retarded has become a word not to be spoken while many of these other words are allowed! I have also as a mother been told I cannot use the word normal, as no one is normal. We cannot use the word gifted to describe our children who are high IQ. Where does it stop, people?????? Let me know! Please since some of you half my age and experience seem to know it all. Feel free to PM me and chew me out. But I am the one who has changed diapers, listened to doctors' insults, been accosted on the street by total strangers who believe that the only way you get a handicapped/retarded/ birth defects child is that you tried to abort said child. Please people. Stop with the PC **** when it comes to this word!!!!

[candelista]

36. There comes a point where one can only emit an inarticulate sound.

But even that can be taken to be politically "incorrect."

[Ash_F]

38. How about 'jerk'?

Jerk: a contemptibly obnoxious person.

I'm not sure what triggered that lengthy response from you, but the poster was misusing the word retarded as a slur.

[demigoddess]

43. I was trying to say that if you really want to be a friend to retarded

people, pouncing on that word is not the way to go about it. While it is so PC to do so, it does not solve the problem, and it puts more pressure on people like me, who get lectured for using that word or another word. Has not 40 some years of changing diapers, caregiving 24/7 earned me the right to have an opinion on what words should come out of my mouth?? Shouldn't all the mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters who love and care for these children get the right to make these decisions, not some johnny come lately?? Ps. I have seen my daughter do things that most mothers of normal children would be proud to see in their children. You do not diminish my daughter, or people like her by saying the word retarded. But you do disrespect me and other parents by calling that word a slur.

[Ash_F]

44. OK but the poster, who was later hidden, did use the word pejoratively

I never said the word was a slur. The person I responded to was using it as a slur, misusing the word.

And I don't feel like I was pouncing. I told them that I understood their feelings towards the CEOs.

[Psephos]

40. well said

And white light to you for a lifelong and humbling demonstration of what motherhood truly means.

[PatrynXX]

27. think while I'm kinda mostly left wing, some right wing

this clown is trying to become one of the few to be banned off both sites.

[TeamPooka]

12. Using that word will only get you two places here: Ignored or banned. Or both.

And you're defending using it too.
Go ahead and defend away because I won't hear any of it.
#fullignore

[LiberalElite]

14. Indeed - I almost alerted on it nt

[alp227]

21. I did, and it got a unanimous hide. nt

[LiberalElite]

22. So I'm not the only one who

didn't know about this alternate use of "Libtard."

[LovingA2andMI]

25. There's not an "alternative" use for that word....

Period. It's offensive and IMHO breaks the policies of DU, along with any claimed justification of using such a word.

[JHB]

33. That's because the alternative meaning only exists in his head

If this person is sincere, then they haven't thought this through.

The teabagger example was a bit of serendipity because the alternative meaning already existed and could be redirected to mock them.

For the santorum example, there was no other usage aside from proper names, so there were no conflicts with pre-existing terms. This analogy would apply if he was using the word "libtard" as a name for, say, a particular style of decorative wood carving, but not for anything related to politics.

"Libtard" is a word that was has no meaning other than to disparage liberals. Trying to give it an alternative meaning within the same discussions only confuses things and sends messages that you probably don't intend to send.

Or the whole "throw their words back at them" thing was a sham and it's just trolling. Either way, it has all the value of santorum. The substance, that is.

[LiberalElite]

34. Yes - now I feel

stupid for giving him the benefit of the doubt.

[PeoViejo]

15. Oh, well

I hardly knew ye.

[Ineeda]

8. I wonder if

that wording, "...would receive their checks if they reported to work on Monday" could be upheld in court if they showed up, collected their checks, and just left again. Boy, I'd love to see that. "Thank you for my paycheck, I'm sharing it with my co-workers. Now fuck you, I'm back to the boycott."

[eggplant]

10. +1

That would be pretty cool.

[Sienna86]

13. So who is shopping there anymore?

You'd have to be oblivious to the news.

[Blue_Adept]

37. Almost nobody

I drive by a couple of times since I have other stores nearby I visit for things. And the parking lot is empty. People that are there protesting park off elsewhere so as to not give the illusion of customers or workers inside.

It's deathly quiet. And frustrating, cause they have some stuff I want, but I refuse to cross a line.

[Demeter]

19. I've got to think they are violating Federal Law by refusing to pay wages earned

so perhaps they will all go off to Club Fed and the erstwhile boss can try to fix up the company, again.

[LovingA2andMI]

26. Good point!

It is illegal under Federal Wage Law to NOT pay an employee any wages they've earned. Market Basket's Human Resource Department (all of them) must be on vacation. Or the memo writers are clueless. Not sure which one is which.....

[safeinOhio]

20. Those chief executives stand to lose

Much more than those managers.

[ET Awful]

23. In Massachusetts, non-payment of wages or salary carries huge fines and potential criminal liability

They might want to reconsider.

[DRoseDARs]

28. Law wonks: Isn't that illegal under the Fair Labor Standards Act? nt

[madokie]

30. The don't get it do they

the letter writers that is

[dembotoz]

35. watching from a far but it seem as though management has a death wish

[valerief]

39. The MB parking lot in my area is still nearly empty (except for the protesters)

and the nearby Hannaford's is trying its damnedest to keep up with all the new customers. It was a madhouse there today. Of course, every register was open and had a line. But the employees were working hard and the shelves were stocked.

If the Arthur S. faction (the pile on debt, overtax and underpay employees crowd) wins, I wonder how many shoppers will return to them. I won't. I usually shop half the time at Hannaford's and half at MB. It's no skin off my back to continue shopping 100% at Hannaford's.

on edit:
Today, I discovered Cowboy Caviar at Hannaford's. It's a tangy bean salad. Yum.

[Aristus]

41. Does anyone know if there is going to be a 'Stand With Wisconsin'-style

pizza donation drive to feed the protestors?

I'd start one, but I don't live in Massachusetts. If someone can find a locally-owned, progressive, small pizzeria in Massachusetts who will do a drive, I'll call and donate.

[Lithos]

42. They are withholding paychecks for previous work?

Is there anything like a mechanics lien? That is theft of services and what I would (IAL) believe is a crime.

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