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Wayfair employees on Friday sent a letter to company executives asking that they cease all business with contractors that operate detention camps for immigrants. Nearly 550 Wayfair employees signed the letter. Wayfair management needs to send out 550 pink slips ASAP. Wayfair employees plan walk-out after retailer supplies beds to Texas detention centers for migrant children By The Washington Post
Employees at online furniture giant Wayfair are organizing a walk-out to protest the retailer’s sale of $200,000 worth of beds and other furniture to a Texas detention center for migrant children.
The walk-out, planned for Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. near the company's Boston headquarters, comes after Wayfair executives said they would fulfill an order for beds and other items for a detention center in Carrizo Springs, Texas, according to two Wayfair employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The order was placed by BCFS, a government contractor that manages the facility.
In September, Wayfair sold furniture to another BCFS facility in Tornillo, Texas, that held more than 2,500 teenagers, according to employees. That camp was closed in January over "serious safety and health" concerns.
"We're walking out in protest of our leadership's decision to sell to reprehensible concentration camps," an employee said. "We had hoped that raising awareness would be enough for them to do the right thing, but it wasn't. We want to make it clear that this is not a political issue - it's a humanitarian issue, and we will not back down."
The protest comes days after lawyers and doctors reported that children were being denied basic items, including toothpaste and soap, at a detention center in Clint, Texas.
Wayfair employees on Friday sent a letter to company executives asking that they cease all business with contractors that operate detention camps for immigrants. Nearly 550 Wayfair employees signed the letter.
The company's leadership team responded on Monday, saying they would move forward with the order. Representatives for Wayfair did not respond to calls and emails seeking comment.
"As a retailer, it is standard practice to fulfill orders for all customers and we believe it is our business to sell to any customer who is acting within the laws of the countries in which we operate," they wrote, according to a copy of the letter obtained by The Washington Post. "Your fellow employees hold a wide range of opinions and perspectives and Wayfair, as a mass-market brand, is oriented to serve a broad and diverse customer base."
Employees are now calling on Wayfair to donate profits from the sale - estimated to be about $86,000 - to Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), a Texas-based nonprofit that provides legal services to immigrants.
"At the very least, we do not want to profit off these sales," the employee said. "Additionally, we want to make sure that we have a system in place to prevent anything like this happening again."
Although the order placed last week by BCFS might help provide beds to children who might otherwise be sleeping on the floor, Wayfair employees said they felt strongly that the company should not support the government's efforts to detain migrants seeking asylum.
"Supporting racist policy for the right reasons still means you're supporting racist policy," the employee said. "Our attention and energy should be devoted to shutting camps down, not towards making them better."
Wayfair, founded by Niraj Shah and Steven Conine in 2002, has become an online powerhouse with nearly $7 billion in annual sales. The company also owns furniture and home goods sites Joss & Main, AllModern, Birch Lane and Perigold.
"We want to work for a company we're proud of," said one employee. "We cannot sit silently as these atrocities continue at the border."
The walkout is the latest in a series of worker protests at major companies. Google employees last year walked out twice — the first time to protest sexual misconduct at the firm, and the second in response to its plans to create a censored search engine in China.
The Wayfair movement gained traction on Twitter, where dozens of Wayfair shoppers said they would stop buying from the company. A Twitter account, @Wayfairwalkout, created Tuesday morning, had more than 7,000 followers by 4 p.m.
(c) 2019, The Washington Post · Story written by Abha Bhattarai Via al.com
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A Boston, Massachusetts company. Figures there or Komifornia.
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The lies and false flags happening now should be ringing everyone's alarm bell pretty damned hard.
Get ready.
It's comin'.
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Hard to say if this is actually being driven by the company's actual employees or not.... this could all be orchestrated by a separate political group of just two or three people...
Either way... Wednesday at 1:30 it can all be sorted out and over with... no problem...
At 1:35, lock the doors and tell every one left in the building to get back to work...
Game over.
Well... we have come to the point.... where... the parasites are killing the host. It's only a matter of time now.
They only win.... when they cheat.
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Hard to say if this is actually being driven by the company's actual employees or not.... this could all be orchestrated by a separate political group of just two or three people...
Either way... Wednesday at 1:30 it can all be sorted out and over with... no problem...
At 1:35, lock the doors and tell every one left in the building to get back to work...
Game over. THAT!!!
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Hard to say if this is actually being driven by the company's actual employees or not.... this could all be orchestrated by a separate political group of just two or three people...
Either way... Wednesday at 1:30 it can all be sorted out and over with... no problem...
At 1:35, lock the doors and tell every one left in the building to get back to work...
Game over. THAT!!! Agreed!
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So, they don't think the poor undocumented immigrant children should get to sleep in beds?
Having them sleep on the floor is okay with me.
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Pollyanna veiw of the world......
Fire em and hire 151 card types....
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So, make the kids sleep on the floor?
Well, we don't rent pigs, and it's better to say it right up front because a man who does like to rent pigs is — well, he's hard to stop.
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Send them all out of the country. Not enough room. Bye, bye.
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Garnish the wages of the signers so they do not profit from the sale. Then fire their dumb Asses and replace with other s. Everybody happy. Ed k
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Maybe Wayfair employees could send their paychecks to get all the illegals housing/food/clothing et.al. instead of walking out .
Walking out is a trick used by the younger generation around here - it's happened a few times that I know of - probably a lot more - I don't keep up with local happenings . They demand X amount of money per hour - when they don't get what they want they walk out leaving the business run down and empty . They want to work at Dunkin Donuts and make $40K per year plus benefits .
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Good! Don't Fill the contract. Send the little schitts back where they came from. Start the bus!
The lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part!
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I'd fire every single one of them, then they can go to the border and protest all they want.
That's ok, I'll ass shoot a dink.
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Typical lefties. They deny bedding and supplies, then bitch about the inhumane conditions.
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Hard to say if this is actually being driven by the company's actual employees or not.... this could all be orchestrated by a separate political group of just two or three people...
Either way... Wednesday at 1:30 it can all be sorted out and over with... no problem...
At 1:35, lock the doors and tell every one left in the building to get back to work...
Game over. THAT!!! Agreed! Fire everyone that walked out.
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We need to reopen the insane asylums. The democrat party will lose a lot of voters but the country will be a better place to live in.
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Fire ‘em all and replace them with illegals that didn’t have a bed to sleep on 😡
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they don't want them to have beds? stupid idea, but as someone pointed out, it could be the work of a handful of agitators. there is a lot of difference between 'asking' your employer to do something vs. walking out on them. JMO
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