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Wayfair workers to walk off job to protest furniture sales to migrant detention centers
weresist.org ^ | 6/25/2019 | unknown

Posted on 06/25/2019 2:30:04 PM PDT by rktman

Employees of the Boston-based online furniture company Wayfair are set to walk out Wednesday in protest of the company’s decision to continue supplying furniture to migrant detention centers.

Organizing under the newly formed group, Wayfair Walkout, workers are demanding the e-commerce furniture giant cease all current and future business with contractors operating detention centers and establish an ethics code that “empowers employees to act in accordance with Wayfair’s core values.”

The group sent a letter to the company’s leadership last week, signed by 547 employees, calling for the end of operations that furnish detention centers.

“We believe that the current actions of the United States and their contractors at the Southern border do not represent an ethical business partnership Wayfair should choose to be a part of,” the letter said. In the message, employees said the company recently fulfilled an order of bedroom furniture worth $200,000 to be sent to a facility in Texas housing migrant children and operated by BCFS, a non-profit government contractor that manages detention camps.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: dumbassery; fidiots; wayfair
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To: rktman

Fire anyone who walks out. Losing this contract would severely harm the company and these fools would cut their own throats.


21 posted on 06/25/2019 2:49:34 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: rktman

Only one solution, then. Shut down all camps and immediately ship to Mexico.


22 posted on 06/25/2019 2:49:45 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: rktman

This is example #123,987,234 of the fact that the United States of America is teeming with people who do not identify as American, have no loyalty to the USA, nor to its culture, nor to its people, and will consequently bleed it dry and not shed a tear when it has died.

All superpowers/empires/powerful nations die from within, not from without.


23 posted on 06/25/2019 2:49:56 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: rktman

That’s fine. No more detention centers. Keep them in Mexico and Canada.


24 posted on 06/25/2019 2:50:27 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: RetiredTexasVet

[If they really believe in what they wrote they will not only walk off the job but resign their positions and engage in self flagellation for several weeks to atone for their past work at the company.]

Heh - this


25 posted on 06/25/2019 2:51:33 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: fr_freak

[This is example #123,987,234 of the fact that the United States of America is teeming with people who do not identify as American, have no loyalty to the USA, nor to its culture, nor to its people, and will consequently bleed it dry and not shed a tear when it has died.]

You can find this group at Yahoo, every day of the week. Here’s a shock - they support only Democrats.


26 posted on 06/25/2019 2:52:46 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Red Badger

Yep. Good way to downsize easily. I’ll bet most of the 547 are near Boston hq. I saw that they have a large sized warehouse in Lehi, Utah when I drove down I-15 in March. I’ll bet a lot of those jobs could be moved easily.


27 posted on 06/25/2019 2:53:53 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: fr_freak

I’m keeping a copy of that first paragraph to repost often - I hope you beat me to it on multiple threads - good work


28 posted on 06/25/2019 2:53:54 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: rktman

Doesn’t Wayfair sell mostly furniture made in China?


29 posted on 06/25/2019 3:16:50 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: Responsibility2nd

I care, I’ll load a bunch of them up in my truck and drive their illegal @55es back over the border.


30 posted on 06/25/2019 3:19:33 PM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: rktman

Clearly, these are racist people who hate that their company is providing beds to hispanics.


31 posted on 06/25/2019 3:23:24 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Check this out from saltyliberal facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/1627569770857070/photos/pb.1627569770857070.-2207520000.1561501717./2399442740336432/?type=3&theater

Sounds like the prof is a self loather.


32 posted on 06/25/2019 3:34:54 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Because what “good human being” would want to provide and sell to a concentration camp?

This is the game that AOC and her compatriots are playing. By branding them as concentration camps, you also make it so people won’t want to sell or provide to the concentration camps. Making the situation even worse.

The end goal is to make open borders the only option. Period.


33 posted on 06/25/2019 3:41:01 PM PDT by goodjobtwo
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To: rktman

“Wayfair has over 12 million square feet of warehouse space in Europe and North America with a dozen fulfillment centers. As of 2019, the company offers 14 million products from 11,000 global suppliers. Wayfair employs over 2,300 engineers and data scientists and 3,000 customer service representatives in Boston; Berlin; Ireland; and other cities in the United States. The company expects to spend more than $1 billion in marketing and advertising in 2019.”

Looks like at a minimum they have nearly 6,000 employees, so the 547 will be downdown at the state unemployment office in Boston soon, because I am betting they are all from that $hit hole city.


34 posted on 06/25/2019 3:48:13 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: rktman

The Government should be buying these from UNICOR (Prison Industries), not from Wayfair or through their operating contractor.


35 posted on 06/25/2019 3:48:48 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: rktman

so let the detention centers for illegals be unfurnished


36 posted on 06/25/2019 3:49:58 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity

What, you don’t want to pay for someone else’s bedding either? :-)


37 posted on 06/25/2019 3:51:46 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Send the detention residents to these employees’ houses where they’ll be more comfortable.


38 posted on 06/25/2019 3:51:52 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worry ends where faith begins.)
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To: rktman
Apparently the Wayfair workers are backwardly stupid.
39 posted on 06/25/2019 3:51:53 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: rktman
I'll be checking the local news to see what,if any,coverage this gets.
40 posted on 06/25/2019 3:58:00 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Comey,Brennan and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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