The New York Times, June 26, 2019: As Wayfair workers protest migrant detention, the specter of a consumer boycott rises
Frustrated Americans, spurred on by social media campaigns, have been quick to cut off their spending on big brands as a form of political protest in the Trump era.
That makes an employee walkout at the online home furnishing company Wayfair particularly precarious, as some of the company’s staff loudly objected to its involvement with the detention of migrant children near the United States’ southwestern border.
Employees at the company’s Boston headquarters left their offices Wednesday afternoon to protest Wayfair’s sale of more than $200,000 of bedroom furniture to a government contractor that operates a network of the centers. The walkout followed reports of facilities that were overcrowded and filthy, where children and teenagers were lacking clean clothing and sufficient food.
