Thursday, November 20, 2008
More on the Subway story
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal paper ran an item on its site by Raymund Flandez:WSJ: Subway Franchisee Forced to Recall Prop. 8 Donation:
Subway got wind of the franchise agreement violation last Friday from a gay blogger, who found the contribution on a list of ‘Yes on 8’ contributors compiled by the Human Rights Campaign. Mike Rogers, 45, of Blogactive.com threatened to rally a major boycott of Subway sub-shops if his demands weren’t addressed: repudiating the gift, adding ‘sexual orientation and gender identity’ to the company’s nondiscrimination policy and giving an equal gift to the other side.At the end of each of his posts, Flandez asks his readers a question. Do you think it’s fair to organize a boycott of a company based on the gay-marriage issue? What can you do when your business gets blacklisted or boycotted? Is the question after the Subway posst. Here are the comments. I hope BlogActive readers will weigh in there, too.
The franchisee, Subway says, has asked for a refund of the $2,500 contribution. A person at the Subway shop in Merced Mall said the manager isn’t available today and will be back tomorrow. Subway has also updated its nondiscrimination policy to include the ‘sexual orientation and gender identity’ clause....
In a phone interview, he says he was quite surprised by Subway’s quick response. “I thought it was great. It was amazing.
An $8,200,000,000 (that's billion) worldwide company moved in 72 hours. Do you think this site is successful? I hope you'll help out...I still have not recovered the costs from the last case (that one contributed to the change of a Congressional seat from GOP to Democrat) and want to be able to continue to do this important work. Thanks!
By: Michael Rogers
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