[Colorado-talk] FW: [birthdaypenpalcircle] FW: [nfbsc] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Letter to the Editor

[Lee Baze]

nothing new in this e-mail.......................... why was it sent? My comments already went out to everybody.................
 
 


> From: garyvdrn at msn.com
> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:01:56 -0600
> To: colorado-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Colorado-talk] FW: [birthdaypenpalcircle] FW: [nfbsc] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Letter to the Editor
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> On Jul 18, 2012, at 9:33, Lee Baze <drleebert at msn.com> wrote:
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> > Good Morning. Somebody should have cleaned up this message before posting. the original message never mad it to co talk. this was a mess trying to read with all the forwards.
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> > From: eric at pmpmail.com
> > To: colorado-talk at nfbnet.org
> > Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 06:39:35 -0500
> > Subject: [Colorado-talk] FW: [birthdaypenpalcircle] FW: [nfbsc] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Letter to the Editor
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> > Original Message: 
> > From: "Eric Calhoun" <eric at pmpmail.com>
> > To: myfriendlyfamily at yahoogroups.com, circkleofriends at yahoogroups.com,
> > friendshipcenter at yahoogroups.com, birthdaypenpalcircle at yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [birthdaypenpalcircle] FW: [nfbsc] FW: [Chapter-presidents]
> > Letter to the Editor
> > Date: 
> > Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:41:33 -0500
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> > 
> > Steve and Shannon Cook
> > Today I married my best friend. 
> > The one that I laugh with, live for, love.
> > October 11, 2003 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: chapter-presidents-bounces at nfbnet.org
> > [mailto:chapter-presidents-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lewis, Anil
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 3:14 PM
> > To: Affiliate Presidents (nfbaffiliatepresidents at nfbnet.org); NFB Chapter
> > Presidents discussion list (chapter-presidents at nfbnet.org); NABS List
> > (nabs-l at nfbnet.org)
> > Subject: [Chapter-presidents] Letter to the Editor
> > 
> > All:
> > 
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> > 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.
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> > July 12, 2012
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> > Dear Editor:
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> > 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.
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> > 
> > Sincerely,
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> > 
> > 
> > Michael Kasey
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