The following is an excerpt from the MTSO resolution, which was written and presented by Yvonne Zimmerman, Associate Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Christian Ethics:
The purpose of the Wendy’s Boycott that CIW is asking MTSO to endorse is to pressure Wendy’s to protect the human rights of farmworkers by joining the Fair Food Program… What endorsing the boycott does do is formally express that MTSO recognizes the moral claim that the farm workers who make Wendy’s corporate profits possible have on the corporation regarding its responsibility to ensure fair wages and safe working conditions.
Why should MTSO endorse the Wendy’s boycott?
Endorsing the boycott fits squarely with the commitments named in our institutional mission to justice, sustainability, and generativity. The value of sustainable justice that we proudly and prominently espouse is an intersectional conception of justice that includes within its purview immigrants, farm workers, and people who are vulnerable to sexual violence. Sustainable justice cannot be a value we claim only for ourselves and the school’s property; rather, it is one that we must put in service to the common good, starting with the most vulnerable and exploitable. Supporting the basic rights and dignity of migrant farm workers is absolutely consistent with our institutional mission...
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