Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Farmworker women launch their "Harvest Without Violence"
campaign to end sexual violence in Wendy’s fast food supply chain
featuring
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Now, amidst the stories that are surfacing about sexual harassment, sexual
assault and rape against woman, too often low-wage woman workers have
been subjected to sexual violence against their person in their work place,
but their voices have oftentimes been eclipsed. And, we barely think about
the workers who are responsible for the bounty of food on our tables. So,
Building Bridges is off to join the formidable farmworker women leaders of
the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (“CIW”) for a major "Harvest without
Violence" march. The CIW Women’s Group traveled to the Big Apple to
demand a meeting with Wendy's Board Chairman and major shareholder
Nelson Peltz to share their powerful stories and demand Wendy’s do its
part to end sexual violence in the fields. Join the farmworkers in their
Boycott Wendy’s march through Midtown Manhattan to Trian Partners,
the multi-billion dollar asset management firm founded by Nelson Peltz,
the chairman of The Wendy’s Company, based in New York. Declare
that farmworker women should not have to surrender their dignity
for the right to put food on their families’ tables!
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