AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY

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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Support The Florida Farm-workers SIGN & CIRCULATE!… Show your support for fasters calling on Wendy’s to join FFP by signing new petition!_Su

Coalition of Immokalee Workers

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SIGN & CIRCULATE!… Show your support for fasters calling on Wendy’s to join FFP by signing new petition!

Time’s Up Wendy’s: I support the Freedom Fast to end sexual violence in the fields!

Change.org, the online petition giant, has posted a new petition targeting Wendy’s ready for you to sign and share far and wide ahead of next month’s Freedom Fast in NYC. Farmworkers and consumers fasting outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chairman Nelson Peltz in midtown Manhattan, Trian Partners, plan to deliver the signatures to Mr. Peltz at the end of the five-day fast.

You can find the petition here, at change.org.

For now, here’s a short excerpt:

For generations, the women who harvest the fruits and vegetables that we put on our families’ tables have faced a daily barrage of sexual abuse in the fields: vulgar comments, groping, demands of sexual favors from supervisors, and, in the most extreme cases, rape. If a woman spoke up, she would be fired, while her abuser would be right back at work the next day.

Today, under the groundbreaking protections of the Fair Food Program, the story has changed, and that change is spreading. Farmworker women and men organizing as the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) launched the Fair Food Program in 2011. The program has radically transformed working conditions for tens of thousands of agricultural laborers, eliminating longstanding human rights abuses from sexual assault to forced labor. In the words of Alejandrina Carrera, a worker at Pacific Tomato Growers, under the Fair Food Program, “You’re not going to be harassed, you’re not going to be insulted, you’re not going to be forced to work. There’s more respect now.”

Another worker said simply, “Our dignity has been restored by this program.”

Today, the Presidential Medal-winning Fair Food Program extends beyond Florida tomatoes to seven states and three crops. All the major fast-food companies – McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, Taco Bell, KFC, and Chipotle – are fully on board, having signed binding Fair Food agreements.

All except Wendy’s… (read more)

Sign the Change.org petition TODAY and share it with your networks!

Coalition of Immokalee Workers

(239) 657 8311 | workers@ciw-online.org | www.ciw-online.org