On Thursday, May 12, just ahead of Wendy's annual shareholder meeting, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers will be bringing its urgent call for long-overdue human rights for farmworkers to the midtown Manhattan offices of Trian Partners, Wendy's largest institutional shareholder. We’ll demand Wendy’s join the farmworker-designed Fair Food Program that is supported by 14 companies (like McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, Chipotle, Taco Bell) and protecting tens of thousands of farmworkers from exploitation. Grab a sign and bring a friend to this multi-generational rally with theatre, music, and powerful speeches.
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Shareholders will demand Board accountability and 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 have officially rolled out the “Vote NO” campaign: calling for the removal of four long-serving members of Wendy’s Board of Directors, in an effort to hold the Board accountable for Wendy’s failure to listen to its shareholders and adequately address its “longstanding troubling record on oversight of risks related to human rights and worker protections in its food supply chain”.
Over a decade ago, farmworkers with the CIW created the award-winning Fair Food Program, a uniquely successful program of worker-led monitoring and enforcement that has virtually eradicated long-standing human rights abuses, from sexual assault to modern-day slavery, for tens of thousands of farmworkers under its groundbreaking protections.
With modern-day slavery prosecutions on the rise in fields beyond the Fair Food Program and Covid laying bare the vulnerability and presumed expendability of farmworkers outside the Fair Food Program, it is urgent to get Wendy’s on-board. The Workers Circle has joined tens of thousands of people across the country in the farmworker-led boycott of Wendy’s. Now we need to hit the streets!
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