Chaison, Gary N.

In the summer of 2014, the international news media focused on a workers dispute at Market Basket, a New England grocery chain. For two months, twenty-five thousand workers at the company s seventy-one stores and three warehouses had walked off their jobs, and customers helped them with a store-wide boycott. What captured international attention more than anything else was that this was the oddest strike ever (if it was even a strike at all); the workers, who were non-union, had left their jobs with only a single non-negotiable demand in mind to have their boss, Arthur T. Demoulas, reinstated