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Wendy's left Florida Atlantic University a month after students and farmworkers marched through the Town of Palm Beach to urge Wendy's chairman to end 'modern-day slavery' on farms.
At the rally, the workers described the injustices they continued to fight against, like wage theft, physical assault, sexual abuse, and hazardous working conditions, through... #labor #newyorkcity
Fast food chain under pressure to join the Fair Food Program as several cases of what has been called modern day slavery on farms show the need for corporations to end these abuses
The farmworker penny-protest against Wendy's in Palm Beach played out a week before Wendy's chairman hosted a lavish wedding at his Palm Beach estate.
Artists, faith communities and farmworkers with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers marched in Palm Beach to urge Nelson Peltz, board chairman of Wendy's, to join the Fair Food Program. Peltz owns the hedge fund Trian Partners and has a home in the Town of Palm Beach. His hedge fund is the company’s largest shareholder.