Protesting Market Basket employees flouted a "final" directive to return to their jobs today at the grocery chain's Tewksbury headquarters or be terminated, according to a fired employee who helped spearhead the job walk-offs.
"A whole picket line is going — not one person crossed the line and went in to work," said Tom Trainor, one of eight former Market Basket senior employees fired last month for helping organize the employee protests and bring to a halt most work at the company's corporate offices and warehouses. "People aren't changing anything. They're sticking by it."
A spokesman for the company's new co-CEOs could not be immediately reached for verification or comment.
The workers' month-long job action — intended to pressure Market Basket's board to reinstate former CEO Arthur T. Demoulas — has almost paralyzed the company's distribution system and 71 stores in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The employees have said they won't resume work unless it's with the return of Demoulas, who was fired last month by a board controlled by his rival cousin and since has offered to buy the 50.5 percent of the company that he doesn't already own.
Main office staff including about 200 administrative assistants, clerks, supervisors and managers got letters this week from new CEOs Felicia Thornton and James Gooch, inviting them for a "final" time to return to work without penalty.
"Should you choose to ignore either of these directives, the company will consider you to have abandoned your job, thereby ending your employment with the company," the letter said.
Market Basket didn't appear to have extra security this morning besides the normal police detail and private security workers hired by the company after the standoff started, according to Trainor, who said he has been stationed at the site since 5:30 a.m.
The risk of mass firings doesn't appear to have dampened the protestors' spirits, Trainor said. Workers were cooking a whole lamb on a spit at the site.
"The people here either don't believe (the new CEOs) or don't care," he said. "I don't think people want to work for those two."
Market Basket's warehouse workers and drivers have a Monday deadline to return to work.
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