Join DC fair food and thousands of farm workers, students, people of faith and consumers of conscience in refusing to patronize Wendy’s until the world’s third largest hamburger chain joins Fair Food Program.

Why Wendy’s? 
For over three years, farm workers and consumers have been demanding that Wendy’s join its major competitors – the rest of the big fast food chains- in participating in the fair food program. Yet, Wendy’s has instead consciously and shamefully opted to profit from farmworker poverty and abuse, continuing to cling to the low-bar standard of the past when presented with and acclaim and proven alternative.

Rather than participate in what was called “the best work-place monitoring program” in the US by New York Times, Wendy’s ran from the responsibility and abandoned the Florida tomato industry altogether.

In Response to increase pressure from consumers to join the Fair Food Program, Wendy’s released a new code of conduct for its suppliers, a perfect example of the failed, widely discredited approach to corporate social responsibility that is completely void of effective enforcement mechanisms to protect farmworkers’ human rights.

How To Take Action

1- Avoid eating Wendy’s and talk to other people why you are choosing to do so.

2- Come to the local action on 5/14 at the Wendy’s in Petworth from 12-2pm.

3- Get active on social media! Tag your tweets and post with these hashtags and handles
#boycottwendys #fairfoodnation
@wendys, @ciw, @fairfoodprogram

Sample Tweets:
I pledge to boycott @wendys until the final fast food holdout joins @fairfoodprogram ! #boycottwendys
@wendys , your empty standars don’t measure up to @fairfood program ! I won’t buy until you sign #boycottwendys

More information:
ciw-online.org/workersvoice/boycott-wendys

ON MARCH 6TH, farmworkers and thousands of consumer allies will be mobilizing in Columbus, Ohio to demand real, Worker-driven Social Responsibility from Wendy’s — the lone holdout among the big five fast-food companies of Yum Brands, McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, and Wendy’s who has yet to join the award-winning Fair Food Program! 

DC Fair Food will be organizing a caravan to attend this historic action – hop on the Philly/DC Caravan today to join us! REGISTER FOR THE CARAVAN TODAY!

Want to learn more about DC Fair Food, the CIW or the Workers’ Voice Tour? Join us at our Haydee’s Fundraiser on Feb 18th! It’ll be a night of fun with raffles, live music, dancing and karaoke all in the name of raising awareness for the CIW.

Can’t attend the action or fundraiser but still want to support? Consider making a direct donation to help us make it all happen!

Despite the growing and undeniable success of the Fair Food Program, Wendy’s has, time and time again, turned its back on workers and consumers calling for the fast-food giant to join the FFP, ignoring their letters, phone calls and protests.  Likewise, Wendy’s has turned its back on the Florida tomato industry itself.  Inexplicably, just as the industry was being called “the best working environment in American agriculture” on the front page of the New York Times for its commitment to the human rights standards of the Fair Food Program, Wendy’s moved its substantial purchases of fresh tomatoes away from Florida in early 2015.  That’s right, they affirmatively decided to buy their tomatoes from farms offering workers fewer protections.

Drawing on the long history of CIW Truth Tours that paved the way for the award-winning Fair Food Program, the Workers’ Voice Tour will build on the three-year-old Wendy’s campaign, partnering with students and consumers across the country to amplify the call for farm labor justice.  

#FairFoodNation #WorkersVoiceTour