[Ct-nfb] RESOLUTION 2011-17 Regarding the Workforce Investment Act Reauthorization

Monica Webster monicawebster at me.com
Tue Jul 12 10:46:23 UTC 2011


What is richard blumenthals number? Anyone have it, that makes life even easier if so

Monica Webster
Coldwell Banker Previews Int'l


On Jul 12, 2011, at 6:43 AM, Richard McGaffin <rmcgaffin at snet.net> wrote:

> Hey Justin:
>  
> You may have finished selling your M&Ms before me, but with my wife's help we ended up selling  another 24 bags so I won in the end (just messing with you) great seeing you at the convention and I have to admit I almost forgot to call, but thankfully Joyce Kane reminded me of it.
>  
> have a good one
>  
> Rich
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 7/11/11, Salisbury, Justin Mark <SALISBURYJ08 at students.ecu.edu> wrote:
> 
> From: Salisbury, Justin Mark <SALISBURYJ08 at students.ecu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Ct-nfb] RESOLUTION 2011-17 Regarding the Workforce Investment Act Reauthorization
> To: "NFB of Connecticut Mailing List" <ct-nfb at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Monday, July 11, 2011, 2:55 PM
> 
> We need everyone to call about this!  That means you!  
> 
> It takes literally less than five minutes.  I doubt I could have made that assistant to Senator Blumenthal stay on the phone for five whole minutes even if I had tried.  I promise that you all do have the time.
> 
> Justin
> 
> Justin M. Salisbury
> Undergraduate Student
> The University Honors Program
> East Carolina University
> salisburyj08 at students.ecu.edu
> 
> “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”    —MARGARET MEAD
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org [ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of llee at nfbct.org [llee at nfbct.org]
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 2:31 PM
> To: NFB of CT list serve
> Subject: [Ct-nfb] RESOLUTION 2011-17 Regarding the Workforce Investment Act     Reauthorization
> 
> Here is a resolution that was passed at the NFB National Convention last week.
> 
> 
> RESOLUTION 2011-17
> Regarding the Workforce Investment Act Reauthorization
> Proponent:
> 
> WHEREAS, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and
> Pensions has distributed language for the reauthorization of the
> Workforce Investment Act including a proposed Section 511 of Title V
> (the Rehabilitation Act), which would provide for employment of
> people with significant disabilities at wages below the federally
> mandated minimum wage; and
> 
> WHEREAS, the proposed language of Section 511 would be a tacit
> endorsement of the subminimum wage provision found in Section 14(c)
> of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and its antiquated contention
> that people with disabilities cannot be competitively employed; and
> 
> WHEREAS, this language links the Rehabilitation Act, which was
> established to assist people with disabilities in obtaining
> competitive integrated employment, with Section 14(c) of the FLSA,
> which is based on the false premise that people with disabilities can
> not be competitively employed and therefore can be paid subminimum wages;
> and
> 
> WHEREAS, the language in Section 511 that defines what steps a
> vocational rehabilitation counselor must take before steering a
> client into subminimum-wage employment is intended to prevent youth
> with disabilities from being tracked into subminimum-wage jobs, but
> is likely instead to track clients into subminimum-wage employment; and
> 
> WHEREAS, language in Section 511 asserts that employers holding a
> certificate that allows them to pay subminimum wages can also serve
> as training facilities for people with disabilities, a claim that
> ignores the fact that job training services provided by an employer
> holding a special wage certificate are likely to reinforce the low
> expectation that workers with disabilities cannot be competitively
> employed, since the incentive is for the employer to continue
> exploiting their labor rather than prepare workers for other employment; and
> 
> WHEREAS, the Section 511 documentation and review process, which is
> meant to provide safeguards against inappropriate use of
> subminimum-wage employment, does not take into consideration the fact
> that state Vocational Rehabilitation programs do not have the
> resources to ensure effective compliance with the various
> documentation and review requirements, including the six-month review
> period in the proposed language, creating an opportunity to expand
> the exploitation caused by Section 14(c) of the FLSA; and
> 
> WHEREAS, the good intentions motivating the development of Section
> 511 are likely to result in enormous negative consequences,
> especially the validation of subminimum-wage employment as a viable
> outcome for people with disabilities; and
> 
> WHEREAS, the language does not provide an effective procedure for
> workers to challenge improper placement in such employment: Now, therefore,
> 
> BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention
> 
> assembled this seventh day of July, 2011, in the city of Orlando,
> Florida, that this organization call on members of the Senate
> Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to remove Section
> 511 of the proposed Rehabilitation Act; and
> 
> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we call upon all members of Congress,
> not to address the unjust law of Section 14(c) with ineffective
> measures, but to take direct action to abolish the reprehensible
> practice of subminimum-wage employment forever.
> 
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