Letter to Scab drivers during Market Basket strike re: missing trailers

WE would like help from the public!
During our 6 week fight we may have lost some trailer. There's a chance that some of our trailers were dumped off anywhere by the scab drivers. Please keep you eyes open for ANY Market Basket trailers NOT at stores or the MB construction sites. If you see any trailers that may be lost, call (978) 640-8165. If you safely can, get the trailer number (on front & rear) and/or the license plate. Thank you

Scab Drivers play Hide and Seek – we will win!

August 31, 2014123 Main Street
All Market Basket Towns
New England Region, USA

To the Replacement Drivers:

We understand that you took a call and answered it. The call was for drivers capable of driving large trucks and delivering product to stores. You received that call from the interim Market Basket management, who made the call in an attempt to keep the business of Market Basket going during the protest of Market Basket employees. We understand that you felt it was a way to make some money. We get it.

You are not all inherently bad people. You dealt with the booing, the catcalls, and probably more than one hand salute during your short tenure with Market Basket. True, you were derided for taking the job in the first place. Derided for not being able to do the job like a Market Basket driver. You were called names like ‘scab’, and your every move was documented, publicized, dissected and derided.

It is in times like these that the true character of a person comes to the forefront. In one regrettable incident, a replacement driver lost his cool and made a threatening gesture. He then later claimed it was the protestor’s fault. We would like that driver to know that he is the only one in control of his actions. He chose to leave that truck cab with a hammer hidden from plain sight, and approach the protestors. Would he have used that hammer on the protestors? We can only assume so. Thankfully, some alert police officers were on hand to prevent what would certainly have become a tragedy.

Now, it has become apparent that the character of other drivers is in question. A request has been made to the public by Market Basket to locate and report missing Market Basket trailers. Trailers that you, the replacement drivers, had responsibility for. While we are sure that it is not the case that ALL the replacement drivers acted in this manner, the few that hid those trailers in out of the way places or at construction sites instead of returning the trailers to the warehouse should be ashamed of themselves.

You had a professional responsibility to your employers, no matter how short-lived that employment. Your responsibility was to drive those trailers with product in them to the correct stores, deliver that product safely, and return the trailer to the warehouse for another load. Instead you decided to play ‘hide and seek’ with the trailers and leave them in places of your choosing.

Need we remind you that a little over a year ago, there was another situation that can be described as ‘hide and seek’? That time, it was two men who acted in a heinous manner and disrupted a peaceful gathering of people. The police, FBI, and other local law enforcement engaged in a well-publicized grown-up version of hide and seek and found those two men. They learned their hide and seek skills here, in New England. We will find those trailers. You can be sure of that.

In the meantime, we hope you think about how you handled yourselves during the Summer of Market Basket, and think twice before acting in this manner again.
The Customers of Market Basket.