[Ct-nfb] Which would you prefer working for a penny or sitting home?

[Nathanael T. Wales]

Rich,

My compliments to our host chapter as well.  We did indeed have a great and lively meeting.

I got the impression that it wasn’t so much DORS and Maloy’s representative that feel it’s better to pay the disabled pennies an hour than they just sit home.  I think it’s much more some of their vendors with whom they contract, like the Kennedy Center.  And some of our members still need to be educated on this issue still, too.  I did think that DORS and Maloy’s representative were not as strong as they could’ve been, but I am hopeful that they’ll adopt the policies that we want.  I could be wrong though.  They have an immediate challenge with outfits like the Kennedy Center threatening to lay off their disabled workers, and I think we have an opportunity to help DORS address this challenge if they’ll truly and honestly work with us towards our mutual goals.  DORS wants to help its clients in the immediate term, and we have a longterm proposal to truly rehabilitate these clients so that this won’t be an issue when this contract, which is for training and not because these clients actually have jobs like you had and my wife and I are blessed with, is over in a few years (and this model does need to end over a responsible period of time).

Best, and keep up your passion!

Nathanael


From: Richard McGaffin 
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 5:55 AM
To: NFB of Connecticut Mailing List 
Subject: [Ct-nfb] Which would you prefer working for a penny or sitting home?

Good morning all;

First let me say how happy I was to see all my good friends yesterday, and in my opinion, I thought the host chapter did a great job in taking care of all of us.

However, I have to admit after hearing the response to our questions yesterday, I amost feel that we've been had, by both DORS/BESB and Malloy's representative. Its there something wrong with me, or did I get the impression that it's fine that they pay the disabled less than minimum wage as long as they had a place to go to each day. Perhaps I'm wrong, but that was the impression I got. I am very disgusted, with what I heard. And I say I don't know about the rest of you but I'd rather sit home with my thumb up my Ass then get paid less than minimum wage! This crap about having to move slowly is just that! I personally think it's wrong that anyone should have to swallow that bullshit!

Okay I've vented. and I apologize for my poor language, but I'm very angry. One last thing I should say, that if I had the cance to speak my mind yesterday I may have kicked out of the NFB.

Have a great day my friends. I'm off to clean my back yard.

Rich


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