Wayfair Employees Leave Work in Protest Over Border Camp Sales

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, ...