Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Student/Farmworker Alliance: “About a week after the action in Palm Beach, a few SFA members at FAU confirmed with a Chartwells representative, our food service provider, that Wendy’s will not return to the Boca Raton campus. The news caused major excitement, especially because generations of students have organized to make this a reality.” We’ve had quite the run of exciting campaign updates in the last few weeks here on the Wendy’s Boycott front, from last month’s unforgettable March to End Modern Slavery in the Fields to the new shareholder-led “Vote No” initiative making waves in the […]

Excellent new article in The Guardian highlights Wendy’s abject failure to commit to the Fair Food Program even “as several cases of what has been called modern day slavery on farms show the need for corporations to end these abuses”…  Cruz Salucio, CIW: “Farmworkers across the country and outside of the Fair Food Program continue to be vulnerable to many abuses including heat stress, physical violence and health and safety risks. Without enforcement and monitoring, these abuses will continue to flourish.” Eli Kasargod-Staub, Majority Action: “Wendy’s is very much an outlier among its peers in terms of how they engage […]

Majority Action, Investor Advocates for Social Justice issue press release announcing new initiative to urge Wendy’s shareholders to vote against Board Chair Nelson Peltz and three other Directors: “Shareholder advocates are alarmed by the lack of independent oversight on Wendy’s board of directors given the overwhelming influence of Nelson Peltz’s Trian Partners…” Eli Kasargod-Staub, Majority Action: “Long-term investors expect boards to respond comprehensively to shareholder proposals receiving majority votes. We urge shareholders to hold Wendy’s board leadership accountable for these lapses in responsible governance.” Gina Falada, IASJ: “The Board is putting the Company, its investors, and farmworkers at risk by relying […]

Shareholders demand Board accountability, mobilize to vote NO on retaining four top Wendy’s Board members — Nelson Peltz, Peter May, Matthew Peltz, and Peter Rothschild — at Wendy’s annual meeting next month! Corporate accountability pioneer Majority Action, together with faith-based shareholder leader Investor Advocates for Social Justice, officially roll out “Vote NO” campaign: “Wendy’s failed to adequately respond to a majority vote shareholder resolution on the protection of workers in its food supply chain” “Directors with current and former links to Trian dominate board membership, limiting independent board oversight.” “Additional independent oversight and board refreshment is required to address governance concerns and […]

It’s only been two short weeks since over 800 farmworkers and consumers took to the streets of Palm Beach to demand Wendy’s join the Fair Food Program, and the Fair Food Nation is already back in action, mobilizing allies in the New York City area to turn up the heat on the hamburger giant!!  On May 12, just ahead of Wendy’s annual shareholder meeting, the CIW will be bringing its urgent call for long-overdue human rights for farmworkers to Midtown Manhattan, staging a lively rally and street theater performance outside the headquarter offices of Trian Partners, Wendy’s largest institutional shareholder. Make your […]

Rev. Sekinah Hamlin, UCC: “We also know that before U.S. Customs and Border Protection put a hold on tomatoes from some Mexican farms, Mastronardi, a supplier for Wendy’s, purchased and imported some of the ill-gotten tomatoes. Yet, Wendy’s will not give any definitive statement that these tomatoes did not make it to their stores. The Fair Food Program would put a stop to such secrecy. We will not stop until Peltz and Wendy’s do the moral thing and join like the other major fast-food chains…” WLRN, South Florida’s NPR station: “Wendy’s could bring their food operations into the Fair Food […]

Tomas Terraza, farmworker, Homestead (Palm Beach Post): “It’s about justice. We’re fighting for our basic rights in the fields, in construction, in roofing, in many different jobs”… Rev. Kim Robles, Miami Shores Presbyterian Church (Palm Beach Post): “We’re coming because we believe that Jesus was one that always stood with the oppressed and marginalized and it’s our call to do the same,” she said. “I would like to see the entire industry change so we don’t have any more abuses in the fields.” Archbishop Thomas Wenski (NBC-5): “Of course, farmworkers are essential workers…  They give an honest day’s work, they want […]

Fast Company:  “If you get a burger from McDonald’s, a sandwich from Subway, or a taco from Taco Bell, you can be assured that the tomatoes on top were picked without forced labor or human rights violations; all have partnered with the Fair Food Program. But one notable fast-food chain has not: Wendy’s…” Like a levee finally giving way to surging flood waters too long denied their path, the COVID-19 pandemic finally, after two, long years, gave way yesterday to hundreds of farmworkers from Immokalee and their Fair Food allies calling on Wendy’s to join the Fair Food Program. For […]

Bishop Kenneth Carter of the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church to Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz: “I have listened to and seen first-hand the work of CIW… I will be praying for you and the corporate leaders of Wendy’s, as you consider an action that would be greatly beneficial to those who do essential labor in our society…”  Meanwhile, farmworkers in Immokalee spend the week mass producing banners, flags and theater props for hundreds of participants set to join this Saturday’s March to End Modern Slavery in the Fields…  Have you registered yet? With just two days left until farmworkers […]

Register here to join leaders from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL), Venceremos, and Migrant Justice for an exciting discussion on the many frontiers of the Worker-driven Social Responsibility movement! Seven years ago, dairy workers from Vermont – inspired by the unprecedented success of the innovative, worker-led human rights model launched in 2011 on dozens of Fair Food Program farms – traveled  from the snowy northeast to join the CIW in the lead up to the 2015 Concert for Fair Food, shadowing their CIW colleagues as they organized in Immokalee and across the country.  […]