Wayfair Employees Protest in Boston Over Border Camp Sales
- Crowds of at least several hundred gather over contractor deal
- Expert: companies need to pick their `battles very carefully'
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Scores of employees at Wayfair Inc. walked off the job on Wednesday to protest 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.