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Wayfair Walkout Raises Questions About Employee Versus Corporate Conscience

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A man in Copley Square holds a sign in support of the Wayfair walkout. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
A man in Copley Square holds a sign in support of the Wayfair walkout. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Wayfair workers staged a walkout in front of the company's Boston headquarters Wednesday. They were protesting Wayfair executives' refusal to back out of a sale with a government contractor furnishing a federal detention center for migrants near the U.S.- Mexico border.

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Simón Ríos, WBUR reporter. He tweets @simonfrios.

Devra First, Boston Globe food writer and restaurant critic. She tweets .

Robert Forrant, professor of history at UMass Lowell

This segment aired on June 26, 2019.

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