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Media round-up! News of Wendy’s Founder’s Week of Action from across the nation…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="MEDIA ROUND UP! @Wendys #FoundersWeekofAction generates press across nation..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=17359"] It’s that time again!  For the past few weeks, articles have been piling up about the Wendy's campaign, but -- amidst all the beautiful photos and reports pouring in from across the country -- we haven't had a chance to share them.  And that can only mean one thing...  It's >> Read More

Let the Wendy’s Founder’s Week of Action begin!

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Let the @Wendys #FoundersWeekOfAction begin!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=17173"] [caption id="attachment_17174" align="aligncenter" width="523"] Fair Food activists from Denver Colorado marched this week from Regis University to a nearby Wendy's restaurant in a raucous start to the Wendy's Founder's Week of Action.[/caption] The early returns are in, and it's looking like the forces of Fair Food are headed toward a landslide victory in >> Read More

Wendy’s Week of Action Sweeps through Midwest on Way to East Coast!

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[caption id="attachment_15749" align="aligncenter" width="523"] Members of Chicago Fair Food gather outside of a Wendy's in the heart of the Windy City during the Wendy's Week of Action.[/caption] From Chicago, IL, to Providence, RI, the late summer front of protests takes Wendy's by storm! Wendy's long, hot summer raged on this past week, and based on the colorful protests that sprang >> Read More
“On Human Rights, Wendy’s Isn’t Old Fashioned — Just Outdated”

“On Human Rights, Wendy’s Isn’t Old Fashioned — Just Outdated”

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Protest outside Philadelphia Wendy's, Huffington Post piece keep pressure building on final fast-food holdout... From the Philadelphia City Paper ("A battle for Florida workers rights plays out at Wendy's in Center City," 6/4/13): "Wendy’s is the last major fast-food chain that isn’t participating in a Fair Food agreement to protect the rights of Florida tomato farm workers — and, yesterday, Philly >> Read More
With the Wendy’s shareholders’ meeting in NYC just around the corner, the pressure is rising on the final fast-food holdout…

With the Wendy’s shareholders’ meeting in NYC just around the corner, the pressure is rising on the final fast-food holdout…

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Head of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), farmworker mothers, pen letters to Wendy's calling on the hamburger giant to do the right thing ahead of next week's national actions Before joining Wendy's in September of 2011 as President and CEO, Emil Brolick served for several years as CEO of Taco Bell. It was during his tenure with Taco Bell, in 2005, that >> Read More
City of Brotherly Love shows much love…

City of Brotherly Love shows much love…

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... for the Tour crew and the Campaign for Fair Food! The Trader Joe's Northeast Tour continued its swing through the great cities of the Northeast, stopping in Philadelphia on Thursday for a daily double of Fair Food action -- a protest at a local Giant supermarket (above, northeast-based chains Giant and Stop & Shop are owned by Dutch supermarket >> Read More

“Northeast Tour for Fair Food”

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December 2 - 10, 2008 Day 9 - New York City [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="288"] On their last full day in NYC, the Tour crew visited some long-time allies -- the kids at St. Lukes school in the West Village, a school that, among other things, endeavors to help its students "become active, responsible, and contributing members of the school >> Read More