After the company announced it would continue supplying furniture to detention centers despite internal protests, workers walked off the job Wednesday.
and from many Wayfair customers, who took to social media to swear off shopping at the furniture giant until the company rectified what they see as aiding a grave injustice.
Locals unaffiliated with Wayfair also joined the walkout to show their support for the protesting employees.An organizer with Boston’s Sunrise Movement chapter, a national organizing group that works to stop climate change, Faynshteyn told NBC News he joined the protest because he sees climate justice as an issue bound up with immigrant justice.
“We have people coming to our country fleeing the effects of violence and fleeing the effects of climate change” he said, adding that as a Jew and a first-generation immigrant from Ukraine, he sees the crisis on the southern border as “connected to the collective history” of his own people. DoneGood, an e-commerce shopping platform that only sources sustainable brands that empower workers, said it would donate all its profits Wednesday to RAICES.
“We agree with Wayfair workers that it's wrong for companies to seek to profit from a system that is taking children from families and keeping them in inhumane conditions,” the company’s founder, Cullen Schwarz, told NBC News., workers at Wayfair’s Brunswick, Maine, offices are also gathering to protest the company’s decision to furnish detention centers.
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