Saturday, June 07, 2014

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Ohio papers spotlight Fair Food demands at Wendy’s shareholder meeting!
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They say the best things come in threes, and so to round out our coverage of Wendy’s 2014 shareholder meeting — following last week’s exciting first-hand report from inside the meeting, and this week’s open letters to Wendy’s leadership from some of the country’s most important religious leaders – we bring you act three of this Fair Food drama: the media round-up.
Never one to miss out on the action, the Examiner’s pre-meeting article, “Farmworkers, consumers to demonstrate outside Wendy’s annual shareholder meeting” (May 27), covered the bubbling anticipation in Dublin before the arrival of the shareholders on May 28.  It also gave a pretty thorough summary of the Wendy’s campaign in Ohio to date, and so we include it here in full:
05ae9b6a0be695cb285fff3626cc264b“We are fighting to improve the wages and working conditions for farm workers,” said Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) organizer Gerardo Reyes after a screening of the film Harvest of Empire at Studio 35 on Saturday. “If the market is creating poverty in communities like ours, the market has a responsibility to work with us to fix it.”
On Wednesday, May 28 at 9 a.m., clergy, students, and residents of Columbus and Dublin will join the CIW for a demonstration outside the 2014 Wendy’s annual shareholder meeting at the company’s corporate headquarters, 1 Dave Thomas Blvd in Dublin. Together, they will call on the Dublin-based burger giant to join its fast food competitors in supporting the Fair Food Program, a groundbreaking collaboration that has won praise from the White House to the United Nations for its unique success in addressing decades-old farm labor abuses at the heart of the nation’s trillion-dollar food industry...

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