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[Eric Calhoun]

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Letter to the Editor
Date: 
Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:41:33 -0500



Steve and Shannon Cook
Today I married my best friend.  
The one that I laugh with, live for, love.
October 11, 2003 

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Subject: [Chapter-presidents] Letter to the Editor

All:

 

The following is a copy of a letter to the editor submitted by one of our
members in response to a Goodwill article.  As you can tell by the tone of
the letter, Goodwill continues to try to understate or dismiss the use of
the Special Wage Certificates they use to pay their workers with
disabilities subminimum wages.  Feel free to use the language in this
response to draft comments to your local papers.

 

July 12, 2012

 

Dear Editor:

 

                Your article "Goodwill Good for Economy" failed to
mention
that the Rappahannock Goodwill Industries and other Goodwill affiliates
in
the United States are allowed to pay their workers with disabilities less
than the federal minimum wage.  This practice is legal because these
nonprofits receive special wage certificates from the U.S. Department of
Labor under an obscure, seventy-five-year-old provision of the Fair Labor
Standards Act.  But the fact that something is legal doesn't make it
right,
and the practice of paying less than minimum wage to workers just because
they have a disability is unfair, discriminatory, and immoral.  I would
urge
readers to find a more worthy recipient of their donations than Goodwill
until all of its affiliates stop this practice, and to call their
congressional representatives and ask them to support the Fair Wages for
Workers with Disabilities Act (H.R. 3086).  That's certainly what I plan
to
do.

 

Sincerely,

 

Michael Kasey

 

 

 

 

 

 


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