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My name is Jeff Goldhaber. I’m a 21-year, full-time employee of the Stop & Shop supermarket chain. I’m also a proud union member and shop steward with the Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), along with my 45,000 Stop & Shop brothers and sisters.

I have my own perspective about the boycott (not strike) that the Market Basket workers have been embroiled in.

For the last week or so, I’ve been speaking with workers from Market Basket stores. What I heard from these hourly workers was very different than what you hear in the press from striking managers.

These workers are very dedicated to their customers and their jobs. However, they are also outright scared about what the future holds for them, their families, and the company they all seem to like working for.
 

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