ALSO: Check out the full update from last week's big action outside Trian Partners headquarters in midtown Manhattan!
From Manhattan's streets to the pages of the Financial Times — and pretty much everywhere in between — Wendy's and Nelson Peltz have been hearing from farmworker leaders and their consumer allies, major investors and Wendy's own shareholders about the urgent need for real human rights protections in the hamburger giant's produce supply chain – and nowhere was that message louder, or clearer, this past week than on Park Avenue last Thursday.
After two years of a pandemic-induced absence from the streets of the Big Apple, farmworkers from Immokalee descended on the city once again, with theater props, artwork, and allies in tow. In true CIW fashion, the day's agenda was filled to the brim: Not one but two rounds of street theater; major delegations to key Wendy's investors BlackRock and JP Morgan — the third and sixth largest Wendy's shareholders, respectively — demanding that they use their millions of shares to vote Nelson Peltz off the Wendy's Board; and, of course, a rousing rally with over 100 supporters, a mariachi band, and a line-up of NYC heavy hitters.
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