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

Joe ToLove lovenergy at optonline.net
Tue Jul 12 17:13:39 UTC 2011


Hello Monica,

Here is Senator Richard Blumenthal's phone number, 202) 224-2823.

Joe



   
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Monica Webster 
  To: NFB of Connecticut Mailing List 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 6:46 AM
  Subject: Re: [Ct-nfb] RESOLUTION 2011-17 Regarding the Workforce Investment Act Reauthorization


  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


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            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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