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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: Trump Girl Kit Cat

As earlier, sounds like a no notice quit for walking off the job. The boss should make that clear and we’ll see just how dedicated the crew really is.


61 posted on 06/25/2019 5:17:35 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

Wayfare The furniture for snowflakes...


62 posted on 06/25/2019 5:20:10 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (WFLA's Jack Harris: Brooklyn is missing their village idiot. Right you are, Jack.)
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To: rktman

Ok, so they have 547 Brand New Job Openings


63 posted on 06/25/2019 5:53:29 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: SaveFerris
I’m keeping a copy of that first paragraph to repost often

Make sure you update the counter, heh.
64 posted on 06/25/2019 5:53:33 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: rktman

Yet if they were providing a needed commodity for the Obama administration’s policies, I guess they’d be having a parade.


65 posted on 06/25/2019 7:03:16 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: rktman

Yes, had put it with a footnote.


66 posted on 06/25/2019 7:26:43 PM PDT by bgill
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To: rktman

Wayfair should fire them tonight...


67 posted on 06/25/2019 7:38:35 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: vette6387

Wayfair approached me about a job. If you look around the Indeed forums, you’re likely to find Boston HQ is a revolving door of 20-something dum-dums.


68 posted on 06/25/2019 9:41:10 PM PDT by bobcat62
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To: Dilbert San Diego

50,000,000 babies have been executed by “doctors” since 1973 and the Left compares Republicans to “NAZIs”.

F-Communists.


69 posted on 06/25/2019 10:29:58 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: faithhopecharity

Just another “paid” Demorat tactic as I see it. These activist boogers infiltrate everywhere they can and do...and they’re going to be very active with election ahead....and they’re all in that insane resist mode.


70 posted on 06/25/2019 10:38:41 PM PDT by caww
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To: fr_freak

lol

If I wear it out, we can rebuild it!


71 posted on 06/25/2019 11:22:26 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: SaveFerris

Fox busines is reporting that workers are now walking out. No information on what Wayfair management is doing in response. Hopefully, more details will be reported.


72 posted on 06/26/2019 10:45:08 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: rktman

the fewer beds the better, the fewer detention facilities the better, the fewer benefits the better,. Stop them from coming in till the wall is built, by using the military and less than lethal force. this program of letting them in, distributing them and scheduling a hearing years from now is bogus.


73 posted on 06/26/2019 10:48:45 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Truth29

Sounds like “Day without a Mexican”.

Might turn into “Former Wayfair employee without a job”.


74 posted on 06/26/2019 12:17:11 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

The other day leftists were complaining that children were on blankets over concrete floors. Now some of them don’t want their company to sell furnishings to make the kids more comfortable. How stupid can they get?


75 posted on 06/26/2019 12:43:22 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed

Purdee stoopid.


76 posted on 06/26/2019 1:44:40 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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