Possibly 2 issues with your query. Try something like this
...
WHERE ...
AND w.varchar_1 COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS IN
...
You may need to add that same syntax to your openquery command. This is where I'm not sure if it will work as you may need to use the linkedserver.database.schema.table syntax -- just need to test it. But something like this:
from openquery(QICRE_F1, 'select bat_name COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS
from dbo.IO_GLF_BAT_CTL_VW
where bat_stat = ''S'' ') f1
Good luck.