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REPORT: Faith leaders’ rolling Florida fast hits halfway mark, Interfaith Worker Justice takes Wendy’s Boycott to the streets in Chicago!

Posted on July 18, 2017October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_26500" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Last week, in solidarity with Florida fast participants, 80+ IWJ members, including IWJ Executive Director Laura Barrett and IWJ Board President Rev. Doug Mork, hand-delivered a copy of their letter to a local Wendy’s manager in Chicago suburb Des Plaines.[/caption]30 Faith leaders for 30 days: Rolling fast to demand farm labor justice from Wendy's!Interfaith Worker Justice to >> Read More

A chilling reminder of farm labor conditions in Mexico: 80 farmworkers go missing after reporting labor abuses in the state of Chihuahua…

Posted on June 22, 2017October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_20791" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Farmworkers are transported to the fields crowded into the back of a truck in Mexico's tomato fields in a photo from the Los Angeles Times' devastating 2014 exposé on labor conditions in the Mexican produce industry.[/caption]Meanwhile, at last month's annual meeting, Wendy's execs tell shareholders concerned about labor rights abuses that the company is "perfectly happy with >> Read More

Shareholder lawsuit against Wendy’s heating up!…

Posted on June 15, 2017October 16, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_26298" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Fair Food activists walk out of last month's Wendy's shareholder meeting in Dublin, OH.[/caption]Attorney for shareholder: "This is so irrational, so extreme. They should not be allowed to profit from slavery."In a potentially significant new development, a lawsuit filed by a Wendy's shareholder in October had a hearing in federal court late last month on Wendy's >> Read More

Wendy’s Board Chairman and billionaire investor Nelson Peltz to rabbis: “I have plenty of rabbis in my life…”

Posted on June 9, 2017October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_26304" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A delegation of rabbis from T'ruah: A Rabbinic Call for Human Rights in the main lobby of the offices of Wendy's Board Chairman, Nelson Peltz, in Manhattan this past Monday[/caption]Rabbis to Peltz: "Mr. Peltz had better prepare himself to have more and more rabbis in his life."T'ruah: "Each day that you continue to turn your back >> Read More

CNN on FFP, Part II: “Have you ever wondered how your tomatoes get to the grocery store?”

Posted on June 6, 2017October 16, 2020 by CIW

CIW's Lupe Gonzalo on Wendy's Boycott: "Sooner or later, Wendy's will come to the table and sign a Fair Food agreement, and then we will be on the same side, all fighting for justice together."Today we bring you the second installment in CNN's remarkable three-part video report on the Fair Food Program. Click on the video above to watch Part >> Read More

CNN on Fair Food Program: “How America’s ‘ground-zero’ for modern slavery was cleaned up by workers’ group…”

Posted on June 2, 2017August 7, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Alejandrina Carrera, worker on FFP farm: “You’re not going to be harassed, you’re not going to be insulted, you’re not going to be forced to work. There’s more respect now.” In an exceptional video series, CNN Freedom Project lifts up FFP as "most comprehensive social responsibility program in U.S. agriculture"... This week, the award-winning team at the CNN Freedom Project -- a new series designed to >> Read More

A Profile in Cowardice…

Posted on May 30, 2017October 16, 2020 by CIW

President Drake, OSU Administration take a stand against students, faculty, faith leaders, international labor rights experts and farmworkers to renew Wendy's contract for three more years; Administration waits until school year over, students safely at home, to announce decision; Students call for Fair Food Nation to join national call-in action to President Drake's office today! Last Thursday, Amanda Ferguson, an OSU >> Read More

Part One: The Fair Food Nation makes the case for real human rights at Wendy’s annual shareholder meeting!

Posted on May 25, 2017October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_26222" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Twenty-seven farmworkers and Fair Food allies — totaling a majority of the shareholder attendees at the Wendy’s annual shareholder meeting — march out of the meeting room and out of Wendy’s headquarters on Tuesday in Dublin, Ohio. After eleven members of the Fair Food delegation managed to speak in support of real human rights protections for farmworkers in >> Read More

ACTION ALERT! The Wendy’s shareholder meeting is just days away and the Fair Food Nation needs your help!…

Posted on May 12, 2017October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_24245" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The Fair Food Nation picketing outside of Wendy's shareholder meeting in 2016[/caption]Call-ins, postcards, protests... We need YOU to join farmworkers and fellow allies in mobilizing for the Wendy's Shareholder meeting on May 23rd!In just a few weeks, Wendy's will hold its annual shareholder meeting at the company's headquarters in Columbus, Ohio on May 23rd. And for the fourth year running, >> Read More

“Voluntary codes like the one promulgated by Wendy’s are too often little more than a sham…”

Posted on May 1, 2017October 16, 2020 by CIW

International labor rights expert James Brudney pens powerful op/ed for OSU campus newspaper comparing Fair Food Program and Wendy's corporate code of conduct; On the FFP: "Twenty-five years ago, few observers in this country would have thought that what CIW and FFP have accomplished was conceivable... The FFP and CIW have secured basic labor standards protections for tens of thousands of tomato >> Read More