Ohio papers spotlight Fair Food
demands at Wendy’s shareholder meeting!
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:
“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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