[Cccnfbw] Fwd: [nfbwatlk] FW: Grassroots Call to Action on the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Reauthorization

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> From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
> To: nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nfbwatlk] FW: Grassroots Call to Action on the Workforce	Investment Act (WIA) Reauthorization
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lewis, Anil [mailto:ALewis at nfb.org] 
> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 2:23 PM
> Subject: Grassroots Call to Action on the Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
> Reauthorization
> 
> Federation:
> 
> This is a call to action for you to make phone calls, send e-mails, and post
> to social media to save rehabilitation services for people with disabilities
> on Monday, July 29 and Tuesday, July 30.  Senate Bill S. 1356 has been
> introduced to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act (WIA).  This bill
> includes two major policy changes in the language of the Rehabilitation Act
> that threaten to send us backwards in our struggle to acquire the proper
> education, training, and opportunity to obtain competitive, integrated
> employment.
> 
> (1) The bill has proposed language in Section 511 of the Rehabilitation Act
> that requires vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies to include training
> and employment at wages below the federal minimum wage as a VR service.
> 
> (2) The bill proposes to transfer the Rehabilitation Services Administration
> (RSA) from the Department of Education to the Department of Labor, severing
> the essential link between the provision of quality education and
> rehabilitation services for people with disabilities.
> 
> The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee is
> scheduled to discuss and vote on this bill on Wednesday, July 31, and we
> need to act to ensure that these two tremendously flawed proposals are
> removed.  Our initial action is simple, but it will require all of us to
> take action.  We need all of our members, family members, friends,
> colleagues, and acquaintances that reside in states where their Senator
> serves on the HELP committee to make calls, send e-mails, post tweets, and
> Facebook messages to communicate the following two straightforward requests
> to their Senator:
> 
> I am a voting constituent in the state and I am respectfully requesting that
> the WIA reauthorization be amended to:
> 
> (1) Remove Section 511 of the Rehabilitation Act.
> (2) Remove the language transferring RSA to the Department of Labor.
> 
> We are encouraging that only the actual residents make these requests of
> their respective Senators.  Start recruiting as many individuals as possible
> now to begin this action on Monday, July 29 and continue it through Tuesday,
> July 30.  Use the information below to make calls to your particular
> Senator's office and send e-mails to each of the e-mail addresses listed for
> your Senator.
> 
> Remember, once you have made your calls, sent your e-mails, posted your
> tweets and Facebook messages, get others to do the same.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Mr. Anil Lewis, M.P.A.
> Director of Advocacy and Policy
> 
> "Eliminating Subminimum Wages For People With Disabilities"
> 
> NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
> 200 East Wells Street at Jernigan Place
> Baltimore, Maryland   21230
> 
> (410) 659-9314 ext. 2374 (Voice)
> (410) 685-5653 (FAX)
> Email: alewis at nfb.org<mailto:alewis at nfb.org>
> Web: www.nfb.org<http://www.nfb.org>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)
> (202) 224-2621
> Chief of Staff: Mike Spahn michael_spahn at murray.senate.gov HELP Contact:
> Megan Foster  megan_foster at murray.senate.gov Additional Contact: Ariel
> Eevans ariel_evans at murray.senate.gov
> 
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