Grocery Store Workers Protest To Bring Back CEO

Workers at Massachusetts-based Market Basket – including managers, clerical employees, and warehouse employees – are protesting on behalf of ousted CEO Arthur T. Demoulas. The workers fear that losing Demoulas may also mean an end to a good living wage for staff and the benefits and profit-sharing he put in place. Thomas Kochan, co-director of MIT’s Institute for Work and Employment Research, told American Public Media’s Marketplace that the coordinated protest among a broad swath of the store’s employees is “unprecedented.” Market Basket’s new leadership has said the employees will be welcomed back, but warned that continued protests could cost some their jobs.