Ohio State, UNC – Chapel Hill, University of Michigan, University of Florida students fight to remove Wendy’s from their campuses until the company respects farmworkers’ rights;
Students to UNC Chancellor Carol Folt: “The bottom line is that doing business with Wendy’s — and promoting its brand on campus — associates UNC with a company that has chosen to turn its back on the world’s leading program to end human rights abuses in agriculture.”
Last week, we shared the first roundup of creative actions that took place in over a dozen cities as part of the Student/Farmworker Alliance’s “Pulling Back the Curtain on Wendy’s” National Week of Action – including at
Boot the Braids campus, University of Florida – capturing the SFA network’s call for transparency and verifiable protections for farmworkers in the company’s supply chain. In this second installment, we’re highlighting the creative and determined efforts of SFA leaders at the Ohio State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Michigan organizing to break their school’s resistance to cut ties with Wendy’s.
At each campus, the students’ rallying cry rang loud and clear: We’re fed up with university leaders sidestepping our concerns over Wendy’s egregious human rights record while cozying up with the fast-food chain behind closed doors!
Here are the first-hand reports from the front lines of the swiftly growing national “Boot the Braids” campaign, straight from the Student/Farmworker Alliance:
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