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

Tue Jul 12 20:04:38 UTC 2011

Awesome! Done , just got back from convention

Monica Webster
Coldwell Banker Previews Int'l

On Jul 12, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Joe ToLove <lovenergy at optonline.net> wrote:

> Hello Monica,
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> Here is Senator Richard Blumenthal's phone number, 202) 224-2823.
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> Joe
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> ----- 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
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________________
>> 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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