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COMING SOON: Seven major actions across the U.S. during Southeast, Midwest ‘Behind the Braids’ Tours!

Posted on September 30, 2016October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Details come into focus for seven major actions during first Wendy's Boycott tours of the fall season...Building on last week's first-ever Wendy's Boycott Summit in the heart of the Fair Food Nation, both farmworkers in Immokalee and their consumers allies are fanning back out across the country -- animated by a full weekend of skill-building, action planning, and, of course, protesting -- >> Read More

“We aren’t asking you to create the solution. The solution already exists…”

Posted on June 29, 2016October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Kroger executives, shareholders faced with massive labor violations in supply chain...As Kroger shareholders poured into their annual meeting in Cincinnati last Thursday, they were greeted by some rather disturbing news from the company's supply chain: A Kroger tomato supplier in Florida by the name of Tomato Thyme -- operating, in theory, under the ever-watchful eye of Kroger's internal supply chain monitoring process -- >> Read More

National boycott takes center stage at Wendy’s annual shareholder meeting!

Posted on May 31, 2016October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Consumers to Wendy's leadership, shareholders: "It is time for Wendy’s to commit to justice and human rights — to choose meaningful and verifiable rights protections for the workers who pick your tomatoes, rather than continue to uphold a meaningless code of conduct that allows slavery to flourish..."Last Thursday, the Fair Food Nation descended on Dublin, Ohio, the small midwestern town >> Read More

Final media round-up from Workers’ Voice Tour! News of Wendy’s boycott spreads far and wide…

Posted on March 26, 2016October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_23746" align="aligncenter" width="600"] 500+ marchers wind through Palm Beach's exclusive Worth Avenue shopping district on Saturday the 12th of March.[/caption]From New York to Florida, media coverage of Workers' Voice Tour builds pressure on Wendy's, billionaire chairman Nelson Peltz, to join Fair Food Program...Even as the chants for farmworker justice echoed off the bougainvillea-covered walls of Worth Ave in Palm Beach a few short >> Read More

“Tear down the wall!”…

Posted on July 23, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso title="Tear down the wall! @DisciplesGA leaders march on @Wendy's in Columbus, OH!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/07/tear-down-the-wall/"]Over 100 Disciples of Christ (Christian Church) leaders march on Wendy's in Columbus, Ohio, call on Wendy's to tear down the wall keeping the fast-food leader from joining the top human rights program in the US food industry today!As announced last week, when leaders of the Disciples of Christ >> Read More

Press Release: “Farmworkers, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Leaders to Hold Vigil at Wendy’s to Urge Fast Food Giant to Join” Fair Food Program!

Posted on July 16, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso title="Farmworkers, Disciples of Christ to hold vigil for farmworker justice, call on @Wendy's to join the @FairFoodProgram" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/07/disciples-of-christ-vigil/"][caption id="attachment_22072" align="aligncenter" width="600"] CIW members and allies gather earlier this summer outside Wendy's shareholder meeting in Dublin, Ohio.[/caption]"Wendy's stands alone as the only major fast food chain refusing to join a program described on the front page of the New York >> Read More

Kroger executives reject Fair Food Program (again), offer yet more empty answers at annual shareholder meeting…

Posted on June 29, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso title=".@Kroger executives reject @FairFoodProgram (again) at Annual Shareholder Meeting" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/06/kroger-shareholder/"]Kroger CEO: “We expect all our suppliers... to follow our strict code of conduct...”Farmworkers and their consumer allies have attended countless shareholder meetings over the years, from the very first shareholder actions back in the Taco Bell Boycott days, to the Wendy's annual meeting earlier this month in Dublin, Ohio. But no >> Read More

“Is Wendy’s ready to continue alienating young people and consumers rather than join a proven solution to farmworker poverty and abuse?” Ohio Fair Food takes its message straight to Wendy’s shareholders at annual meeting!

Posted on June 3, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso title=".@OhioFairFood takes its message straight to @Wendys shareholders at annual meeting!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/06/wendys-shareholder/"] "We want to know that the food we consume does not come at the cost of another person’s dignity..." After weeks of preparation and building excitement, scores of allies from the Ohio Fair Food organizing network made good on their promise to stand alongside Florida's farmworkers this past Monday >> Read More

Ohio Fair Food to protest at Wendy’s Annual Shareholder Meeting!

Posted on May 29, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso title=".@OhioFairFood to protest at @Wendys Annual Shareholder Meeting!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/05/wendys-shareholder-1/"] [caption id="attachment_22035" align="aligncenter" width="530"] 300-person march ahead of Wendy's shareholder meeting in 2013[/caption] Building on years of powerful actions, Fair Food allies gear up for fast food giant's annual meeting in Ohio... This week, Wendy's executives are busily preparing for their June 1st annual shareholder meeting, ready to welcome shareholders from across the country to >> Read More

Ohio Freedom School scholars take up the Fair Food banner!

Posted on August 21, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="#Ohio Freedom School scholars take up #FairFood banner!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/08/ohio-freedom-scholars"] 40+ youth march through streets of Columbus to local Wendy's, are barred from entering store... From the Tour de Fair Food in Denver earlier this month to July's convergence of young food justice leaders in Albuquerque, young consumers across the country have taken to the streets this summer to send a message to Wendy's: We care about poverty and exploitation behind the >> Read More