[caption id="attachment_35491" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Farmworkers from Immokalee and New York-based allies gather outside investment giant BlackRock's midtown Manhattan headquarters during last week's rally to hold Wendy's Board Chair Nelson Peltz and three other Wendy's Directors accountable for ignoring shareholders' concerns on human rights.[/caption] ... But shareholders and corporate accountability advocates quickly fire back in new SEC filing! VOTE NO leaders >> Read More

  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

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

[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

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