Catholic colleges join nationwide hunger strike protests against Wendy's
Shireen Korkzan | Apr. 26, 2017 NCR Today
Three Catholic colleges have joined a rolling series of nationwide protests against fast-food chain Wendy’s.
Dozens of students and alumni from John Carroll University, Georgetown University and University of Notre Dame have collaborated to participate in three sequential 48-hour fasts this week. Since March, students from colleges across the country have been participating in hunger strikes to protest Wendy’s in solidarity with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a cohort of farmworkers in Florida that has been lobbying to improve farmworkers’ rights since 1993. Participating colleges in the solidarity fasts include the Ohio State University, University of Michigan, New College of Florida, University of South Florida, University of Tampa, Eckerd College and Vanderbilt University.
In 2011, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers launched the worker-driven Fair Food Program, a partnership among farmers, farmworkers and food companies that ensures livable wages and humane conditions for produce pickers. The program was designed and implemented by workers, and now protects thousands of farmworkers. Fourteen major food retailers currently participate in the program, including Taco Bell, McDonald's, Burger King, Chipotle, Walmart and Whole Foods Market.
Wendy's, however, has yet to join the Fair Food Program. In addition, the Dublin, Ohio-based chain imports its tomatoes from Mexico, which the coalition claims is unethical, citing Richard Marosi's four-part series of articles on the slavery conditions Mexican farmworkers face that appeared in The Los Angeles Times in 2014.
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