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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWayfare Employees to Stage Walkout Over "Detention Center" Contract
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
The twitter account is here: https://twitter.com/wayfairwalkout
leftstreet
(36,112 posts)And it looks like they're about to get even more
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)Make no mistake about it. Follow the money. Money and cruelty...cruelty is also the point.
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)Lars39
(26,115 posts)uponit7771
(90,363 posts)Lars39
(26,115 posts)Vinca
(50,303 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)sheshe2
(83,885 posts)My guess would be the staff. Kids don't even get a toothbrush much less a clean diaper.
Croney
(4,670 posts)for grandkids and myself. I will watch to see how this plays out. There are other stores I can use.
Their beds are ok, not high quality but the price is low.
uponit7771
(90,363 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)we're watching you. Those employees are too good for you.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)The fact that Wayfare sold something that would make conditions better for the kids ought to be considered a good thing, but maybe push to have profits donated to a legal fund or something.
Or do the Wayfare employees think their products are inferior and harmful to those kids?
Maybe the workers could volunteer to deliver and install the beds to get them off the floors sooner?
Did their company conspire with the detention center contractors to defraud the government or advocate to have kids separated?
That the government is paying $750 per kid/day is not Wayfare's fault, but their business model might help the HHS contractors keep their costs low (money in the vultures pockets).
Ok, fire away, but selling a decent bed doesn't mean you're abusing kids unless those kids are the ones making them.
tishaLA
(14,176 posts)Is exactly what they're doing. It's even in the OP
stopdiggin
(11,358 posts)also in the post:
"signed a petition to ask that we cease all business with border camps; CEO said no >employees are walking out tmrw at 1:30pm."
stopdiggin
(11,358 posts)So if your company is selling bottled water (or office supplies) to the police department, you're morally obligated to quit your job? Not sure if I'm quite down with that. I'm a little more on board with a suggestion that some of the profits could be directed towards an offset. Would the employees be willing to split that offset (payroll deductions) with the company? That sounds fair.
(on reflection, and edit: don't get me wrong, there probably ARE situations where rendering services and/or materials crosses ethical lines. private sector psychologists providing expertise on "enhanced interrogation" technique springs to mind .. and there's probably a lot of others. selling beds, or soap and supplies to a prison or detention facility doesn't quite rise to the same level. IMO.)
sheshe2
(83,885 posts)By all accounts they are sleeping on the floor. They aren't even getting clean diapers or a tooth brush. If they don't have clean diapers then they are not even being bathed.
Cadfael
(1,299 posts)Link to tweet
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Beds/No beds, for kids improperly locked up, is a false dichotomy. We are not against beds, we are against profiting off the detention of children.
A PRISON WITH A BED IS STILL A PRISON