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The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

Company fires 2,700 workers while they were sleeping days before Thanksgiving

United Furniture Industry employees were given no explanation for why they were terminated so abruptly.
United Furniture Industry employees were given no explanation for why they were terminated so abruptly. Photograph: United Furniture Industries

A Mississippi-based furniture company abruptly fired nearly 2,700 workers in the US just days before Thanksgiving, according to multiple reports.

Right before midnight on 21 November, thousands of workers – many of whom were asleep – received a text message from United Furniture Industries (UFI) saying that they were terminated effective immediately and were no longer allowed to return to work.

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