TEWKSBURY, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com) -- The fight is far from over for Market Basket workers. The store shelves are still empty and the protests continue.
Things could be shaken up Thursday as the two new co-CEOs are outsourcing delivery drivers to get goods to stores. They're hiring JB Hunt Trucking and Phillips and Associates Security Company to assist drivers.
Employees are not backing down, they have blocked loading docks and managers say some deliveries are getting tossed due to improper handling. Several store shelves inside the Reading store are empty. No produce, one milk carton and boycott signs are everywhere with pamphlets hanging in the aisles. At the seafood counter, all you can find are goldfish crackers. The loading dock out back is blocked by trailers full of products that are going bad.
"Unfortunately our back room's full, trucks are full with these guys on strike right now there's nothing you can do at the moment," Andrew Tomasini, assistant manager, said.
With no one to move product and customers boycotting, Tomasini says the Reading store can only last days and he says they are loosing "hundreds of thousands of dollars" with each day that passes.
Workers continue to picket outside and are encouraging the customers to boycott the store and sign petitions. One customer said she is going to Stop and Shop now for her groceries.
Another rally is scheduled for Friday and all employees, from 49-year-veterans to new hires, say they are fighting for Arthur T. Demoulas and that it's all worth it.
Even Andrew who turned down college to be a manager and he's a single dad.
"Yeah, I can't afford to lose this job. But for everything they've done for me here, I'm willing to. I'll do whatever they need me to do," he said.
The company's board of directors plan to meet Friday.
FOX 25 reached out to the two new co-CEOs as well as Demoulas, but they all declined the interview request.
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