{"id":66883,"date":"2018-12-02T01:11:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T06:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=66883"},"modified":"2018-12-04T01:36:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T06:36:48","slug":"toys-r-us-workers-are-taking-on-the-hedge-funds-they-say-cost-them-their-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2018\/toys-r-us-workers-are-taking-on-the-hedge-funds-they-say-cost-them-their-jobs.html","title":{"rendered":"Toys \u2018R\u2019 Us Workers Are Taking on the Hedge Funds They Say Cost Them Their Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Barron&#8217;s) The decision to liquidate Toys \u201cR\u201d Us came as a surprise to Sarah Woodhams. She was pregnant and trying to buy a new house, and thought her job at the ailing toy retailer was secure enough. The company had filed for bankruptcy in September 2017, 12 years after KKR , Bain Capital, and Vornado Realty Trust bought it for $7.5 billion\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/toys-r-us-workers-take-on-hedge-funds-1543523382\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Barron&#8217;s) The decision to liquidate Toys \u201cR\u201d Us came as a surprise to Sarah Woodhams. She was pregnant and trying to buy a new house, and thought her job at the ailing toy retailer was secure enough. The company had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66884,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66883\/revisions\/66884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}