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Sunday, May 06, 2018
Look us in the eye, Wendy’s! Farmworker women and men to confront Wendy’s Board at shareholder meeting…
Look us in the eye, Wendy’s! Farmworker women and men to confront Wendy’s Board at shareholder meeting…
Dozens of farmworkers and allies emerge from last year’s 2017 Wendy’s Annual Shareholder Meeting after calling on the executive board to take responsibility for the human rights abuses in the company’s supply chain.
We are one month away from Wendy’s annual shareholder meeting, in which the company’s Board of Directors — including Board Chair Nelson Peltz — and executive leaders will gather with shareholders to share updates, graphs, and rosy indicators from the fast food giant’s past year of accomplishments and milestones. But rest assured, shareholders will get an earful about much more than the company’s annual earnings.
Thousands of marchers arrive in front of the offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz during the March 2018 Time’s Up Wendy’s March.
Because, since the last annual shareholder meeting, the national Wendy’s Boycott has not stopped growing… on the contrary, it is stronger than ever. Just two months ago, two thousand supporters joined the Time’s Up Wendy’s March, taking to the streets of New York City alongside nearly one hundred workers and consumers who fasted for five days outside the offices of Nelson Peltz. Across the U.S., over a hundred thousand consumers have committed to boycott Wendy’s until the fast-food giant joins the Fair Food Program. Meanwhile, Wendy’s has been slammed on social media and in the press, with news of the boycott reaching tens of millions more consumers as Hollywood stars like Alyssa Milano and Amy Schumer defended CIW following the fast food chain’s offensive comments about farmworker women “exploiting” the #MeToo movement.
Thousands of marchers arrive in front of the offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz during the March 2018 Time’s Up Wendy’s March.
And, in the last year, Wendy’s has doubled down on its dubious and expensive public relations strategy of disparaging the Fair Food Program and farmworkers themselves, and at the same time, the fast food chain has attempted to pull the wool over the eyes of consumers (and its own shareholders) with a sham supplier Code of Conduct — which, executives would have you believe, is strong enough to combat the widely-documented gross human rights abuses in their supplier of choice, the Mexican produce industry. On June 5th, farmworkers and their supporters will confront the company’s series of unscrupulous actions — from declaring that farmworker women are “exploiting” the #MeToo movement to refusing to support a program that PBS Frontline called “unique in the country” in its ability to fight sexual harassment — and will not leave without an answer: Why will Wendy’s not join its competitors on the right side of history, and sign a Fair Food Agreement?
And for executives like Nelson Peltz, there will be no more glass walls behind which to hide.
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