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“Vote No” Shareholder Campaign Continues to Light Up Top Financial Press; Major Shareholder Vote This Week!

Posted on May 16, 2022May 16, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[embed]https://youtu.be/esKkGjPZXgs[/embed] Shareholder-led campaign to "VOTE NO ON PELTZ" touches down in major financial outlets Bloomberg, Financial Times ahead of Wednesday’s big shareholder vote As we head into the homestretch ahead of the major Wendy’s shareholder vote this week, the story of Wendy’s failure to listen to its shareholders about farmworkers' human rights is becoming the talk of the >> Read More

BIG DEVELOPMENT! New York City Retirement Systems cast vote AGAINST Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz; PLUS, rally and street theater today in NYC!

Posted on May 12, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

BIG DEVELOPMENT! New York City Retirement Systems cast vote AGAINST Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz; Leading proxy voting advisory service Glass Lewis recommends all Wendy’s shareholders do the same TODAY farmworkers will be joined by NYC elected officials and shareholder advocates at a rally to hold Wendy’s board accountable for its failure to join the award-winning Fair Food Program and >> Read More

VICTORY! After years-long student campaign, Wendy’s will no longer have a home at Florida Atlantic University…

Posted on May 3, 2022May 3, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

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 >> Read More

The Guardian: “Why Wendy’s is the source of unrest among US farm workers”…

Posted on April 29, 2022April 29, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

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 >> Read More

The fight for boardroom accountability at Wendy’s hits the financial press…

Posted on April 27, 2022April 27, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_35438" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Over 800 people gathered in Palm Beach on April 2, 2022 to call on Wendy's to join the Fair Food Program and on major shareholders Wells Fargo and JP Morgan to hold Wendy's Board accountable for failing to listen to shareholders' human rights concerns in the company's supply chain.[/caption] Majority Action, Investor Advocates for Social Justice >> Read More

When leaders stop listening to those who elected them, it’s time to change leaders…

Posted on April 21, 2022April 22, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_35384" align="aligncenter" width="900"] In the lead up to the huge March to End Modern-Day Slavery in Palm Beach earlier this month, farmworkers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers staged a short theater dramatizing Wendy's failure to join the Fair Food Program and meet the gold standard for social responsibility in the food industry today. In the photo above, an >> Read More

SAVE THE DATE: Rally & Street Theater in NYC, May 12!

Posted on April 18, 2022April 18, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

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 >> Read More

Media-round up #2! March to End Modern Slavery makes headlines across the country…

Posted on April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

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 >> Read More

VIDEO AND PHOTO REPORT: March to End Slavery in the Fields!

Posted on April 6, 2022April 6, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_35295" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Marchers carry one of countless colorful banners through the streets of Palm Beach on Saturday, taking their urgent call for long-overdue justice for farmworkers on non-Fair Food Program farms directly to the residents of one of the country's wealthiest communities, and the hometown of Wendy's Board Chair Nelson Peltz.[/caption] Tomas Terraza, farmworker, Homestead (Palm Beach Post): "It's >> Read More

800+ marchers take to the streets of Palm Beach calling on Wendy’s to join the Fair Food Program!

Posted on April 3, 2022April 3, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

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 >> Read More