Bloomberg Law
June 26, 2019, 6:48 PM

Wayfair Employees Leave Work in Protest Over Border Camp Sales

Sammy Criscitello
Sammy Criscitello
Bloomberg News
Jordyn Holman
Jordyn Holman
Bloomberg News
Janet Wu
Janet Wu
Bloomberg News

Scores of employees at Wayfair Inc. walked off the job June 26 in protest of the online retailer’s sale of beds to contractors furnishing border camps for asylum seekers.

Workers left the company’s Boston headquarters around 1:30 p.m. and walked to nearby Copley Square, where the event drew at least hundreds of supporters. Groups of protesters led chants and played music before company employees and other speakers took to a portable microphone and individual interviews to make their cases.

“We sent out a petition to Wayfair leadership,” a protester who identified himself as Wayfair engineer Tom Brown told Bloomberg News, ...