Wayfair walkout: Employees protest sales of furniture to migrant detention camp
The walkout is scheduled for 1:30 E.T. tomorrow Employees of Wayfair, the online home furnishing store, have plans to stage a walkout tomorrow, June 26, to protest the company?s recent sales of furniture to a company involved in the government?s detention of migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border.
According to an open letter posted to the Wayfair Walkout twitter account, employees learned last Wednesday that the company sold more than $200,000 worth of bedroom furniture to BCFS, a nonprofit government contractor that is housing migrant children at its facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, which is outfitted to hold up to 3,000 children.
A global health and human services company and government contractor based in San Antonio, BCFS was the contractor involved in an incident at the Port Isobel Detention Center in Texas in 2018, when children were forced to spend two nights?39 hours total?in vans waiting to be reunited with their parents. In response to the sale, 547 Wayfair employees signed a letter asking the company to cease all current and future business with BCFS and any other contractors participating in the migrant detention operation on the Southern border, in addition to establishing a code of ethics for business-to-business sales to empower employees to ?act in accordance with our core values.?
The letter states that the signatories ?believe that by selling these (or any) products to BCFS or similar contractors we are enabling this violation and are compli...
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