Alyssa Milano is calling out Wendy’s in the wake of controversy facing the fast Food giant.
On March 15, female farmworkers and supporters took over the streets of New York City, and according to the Huffington Post, fasted for five days outside the offices of Wendy’s board chairman and hedge fund investor Nelson Peltz to demand the restaurant chain join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers‘ Fair Food Program. The march was also an effort to shine a light on the Women who are in need of support during the current Me Too movement taking place across several different industries.
Milano, 45, posted a statement to her Facebook page on Wednesday, defending farmworker women who have claimed they were “forced to work without pay, trapped for months at a time in scorpion-infested camps, often without beds, fed on scraps, and beaten when they tried to quit,” according to Harper’s Magazine.
“These incredible women, who come from one of the harshest working environments in the U.S. and who put food on our tables, are a shining example in the fight to protect the dignity and safety of all women,” Milano says. “They have not only shone a light on the routine abuse that farmworker women face, but they have built a proven solution to bring that abuse to an end, and have become an example to millions of women across industry lines.”
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