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The Market Basket Case

Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 2014, Market Basket employees, joined by their customers, protested against the firing of their beloved CEO. They risked their jobs, their livelihoods, and they brought the business to a halt. At a time when we see so much division between the CEOs who represent the top 1% and the workers, who represent by the bottom 99%, this level of support for a CEO got the attention of the entire country. Arthur Demoulas, he stands for valuing people. He always says we are in the people business first, grocery business second. And when the ownership changed, you started asking the questions, what's going to happen with our benefits? What's going to happen with our pay? And when you start taking away that factor of focusing on people, the entire business model starts to fall apart. The workers were fighting for a business model that works for everyone-- for them, for their customers, and for their shareholders. We saw a number of c...

Lec 2 MIT 6.912 Introduction to Copyright Law

okay so this is six nine twelve the nine means it's experimental I wanted to finish some stuff that we were doing at the end of last week that we were kind of hurried about and then let's talk about the cases that we read for homework and then we can talk about copyright okay so what were we talking about at the end of last week yeah the nature of property that was so yeah that was more of last week than I had planned but I like that discussion but no at the end of last week we were talking about the structure of the federal government and we said that the federal government is divided into what three branches and what are the branches what's the most important one in the Constitution what's the first one yeah yeah I think you're right okay we'll edit this out on the video it's not true so the legislative branch and who's in that Congress and who's in that okay and the Senate why do they call it Congress I think it's the Senate in t...