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Wayfair’s Boston HQ employees walk out after it sells US$200,000 in furniture to camp for migrant children

The furniture is for a planned Carrizo Springs, Texas-based camp run by government contractor BCFS that will reportedly hold 1,600 migrant children. On Monday, Wayfair said it will not agree to the demands of a petition signed Friday by 547 employees, which called for it to stop doing business with migrant camps. Employees now want the firm to donate all profits from the transaction to legal-aid non-profit RAICES, and to create a code of ethics for business-to-business sales. Wayfair announced it will be donating US$100,000 to American Red Cross to provide basic necessities for people at the border “in dire need.” (Boston Globe, Washington Post)

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Wayfair’s Boston HQ employees walk out after it sells US$200,000 in furniture to camp for migrant children

By Hanna Lee
Jun 26, 2019
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The furniture is for a planned Carrizo Springs, Texas-based camp run by government contractor BCFS that will reportedly hold 1,600 migrant children. On Monday, Wayfair said it will not agree to the demands of a petition signed Friday by 547 employees, which called for it to stop doing business with migrant camps. Employees now want the firm to donate all profits from the transaction to legal-aid non-profit RAICES, and to create a code of ethics for business-to-business sales. Wayfair announced it will be donating US$100,000 to American Red Cross to provide basic necessities for people at the border “in dire need.” (Boston Globe, Washington Post)

Talking point: Wayfair said it doesn’t want to take political sides in these situations, an argument disputed by employees, who say it’s a humanitarian issue, and that they don’t want to be involved in “aid to juvenile incarceration.” The leadership of several other Big Tech firms have taken similar positions in the face of employee protests. Salesforce and Amazon workers have called for their respective employers to stop doing business with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement—which deports and detains migrants—or companies that support it. But, like Wayfair, neither firm has agreed to cut ties with the agency.

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