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Wayfair Employees Protest Sale Of Furniture To Migrant Detention Center

Participants of the Wayfair walkout gathered in Copley Square in Boston on Wednesday.

Wayfair employees walked out of the Boston-based furniture company's Copley Square headquarters Wednesday over executives' refusal to back out of a sale to a government contractor furnishing a federal detention center for migrants near the U.S.-Mexico border.

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