Wayfair employees are protesting the company's apparent sale of $200,000 in mattresses to a detention camp for migrant children in Texas.
Wayfair employees are trying to rally support for a walkout at the company's Boston headquarters Wednesday.The stock is down more than 5% Tuesday.
The company sold the mattresses on June 13 to a charity group that works as a federal contractor managing some of the camps along the Southern border, according to a copy of the sales receipt obtained by CNBC and verified by an employee. The roughly 1,600 mattresses and 100 bunk beds are scheduled to arrive in Carizzo Springs, Texas on Wednesday and Thursday, according to the receipt.
"We believe that the current actions of the United States and their contractors at the Southern border do not represent an ethical business partnership Wayfair should be a part of," the employees wrote in an undated letter organizers said was signed by 547 employees.The group asked Wayfair to stop selling to the Baptist Children's Family Services, the nonprofit that placed the order and is helping to furnish the detention center in Carizzo Springs.
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