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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hello Monica,</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=monicawebster@me.com href="mailto:monicawebster@me.com">Monica
Webster</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ct-nfb@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org">NFB of Connecticut Mailing List</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 12, 2011 6:46
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Ct-nfb] RESOLUTION 2011-17
Regarding the Workforce Investment Act Reauthorization</DIV>
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<DIV>What is richard blumenthals number? Anyone have it, that makes life even
easier if so<BR><BR>Monica Webster
<DIV>Coldwell Banker Previews Int'l</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>On Jul 12, 2011, at 6:43 AM, Richard McGaffin <<A
href="mailto:rmcgaffin@snet.net">rmcgaffin@snet.net</A>>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5>Hey Justin:</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5>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.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5>have a good one</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5>Rich</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 7/11/11, Salisbury, Justin Mark <I><<A
href="mailto:SALISBURYJ08@students.ecu.edu">SALISBURYJ08@students.ecu.edu</A>></I></B>
wrote:<BR></DIV>
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Salisbury, Justin Mark <<A
href="mailto:SALISBURYJ08@students.ecu.edu">SALISBURYJ08@students.ecu.edu</A>><BR>Subject:
Re: [Ct-nfb] RESOLUTION 2011-17 Regarding the Workforce Investment
Act Reauthorization<BR>To: "NFB of Connecticut Mailing List" <<A
href="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org">ct-nfb@nfbnet.org</A>><BR>Date:
Monday, July 11, 2011, 2:55 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>We need everyone to call about this! That
means you! <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Justin<BR><BR>Justin M. Salisbury<BR>Undergraduate
Student<BR>The University Honors Program<BR>East Carolina
University<BR><A
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doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
—MARGARET
MEAD<BR><BR><BR>________________________________________<BR>From: <A
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Monday, July 11, 2011 2:31 PM<BR>To: NFB of CT list
serve<BR>Subject: [Ct-nfb] RESOLUTION 2011-17 Regarding the
Workforce Investment Act
Reauthorization<BR><BR>Here is a resolution that
was passed at the NFB National Convention last
week.<BR><BR><BR>RESOLUTION 2011-17<BR>Regarding the Workforce
Investment Act Reauthorization<BR>Proponent:<BR><BR>WHEREAS, the
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and<BR>Pensions has
distributed language for the reauthorization of the<BR>Workforce
Investment Act including a proposed Section 511 of Title V<BR>(the
Rehabilitation Act), which would provide for employment of<BR>people
with significant disabilities at wages below the
federally<BR>mandated minimum wage; and<BR><BR>WHEREAS, the proposed
language of Section 511 would be a tacit<BR>endorsement of the
subminimum wage provision found in Section 14(c)<BR>of the Fair
Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and its antiquated contention<BR>that
people with disabilities cannot be competitively employed;
and<BR><BR>WHEREAS, this language links the Rehabilitation Act,
which was<BR>established to assist people with disabilities in
obtaining<BR>competitive integrated employment, with Section 14(c)
of the FLSA,<BR>which is based on the false premise that people with
disabilities can<BR>not be competitively employed and therefore can
be paid subminimum wages;<BR>and<BR><BR>WHEREAS, the language in
Section 511 that defines what steps a<BR>vocational rehabilitation
counselor must take before steering a<BR>client into subminimum-wage
employment is intended to prevent youth<BR>with disabilities from
being tracked into subminimum-wage jobs, but<BR>is likely instead to
track clients into subminimum-wage employment; and<BR><BR>WHEREAS,
language in Section 511 asserts that employers holding
a<BR>certificate that allows them to pay subminimum wages can also
serve<BR>as training facilities for people with disabilities, a
claim that<BR>ignores the fact that job training services provided
by an employer<BR>holding a special wage certificate are likely to
reinforce the low<BR>expectation that workers with disabilities
cannot be competitively<BR>employed, since the incentive is for the
employer to continue<BR>exploiting their labor rather than prepare
workers for other employment; and<BR><BR>WHEREAS, the Section 511
documentation and review process, which is<BR>meant to provide
safeguards against inappropriate use of<BR>subminimum-wage
employment, does not take into consideration the fact<BR>that state
Vocational Rehabilitation programs do not have the<BR>resources to
ensure effective compliance with the various<BR>documentation and
review requirements, including the six-month review<BR>period in the
proposed language, creating an opportunity to expand<BR>the
exploitation caused by Section 14(c) of the FLSA;
and<BR><BR>WHEREAS, the good intentions motivating the development
of Section<BR>511 are likely to result in enormous negative
consequences,<BR>especially the validation of subminimum-wage
employment as a viable<BR>outcome for people with disabilities;
and<BR><BR>WHEREAS, the language does not provide an effective
procedure for<BR>workers to challenge improper placement in such
employment: Now, therefore,<BR><BR>BE IT RESOLVED by the National
Federation of the Blind in Convention<BR><BR>assembled this seventh
day of July, 2011, in the city of Orlando,<BR>Florida, that this
organization call on members of the Senate<BR>Committee on Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions to remove Section<BR>511 of the
proposed Rehabilitation Act; and<BR><BR>BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that
we call upon all members of Congress,<BR>not to address the unjust
law of Section 14(c) with ineffective<BR>measures, but to take
direct action to abolish the reprehensible<BR>practice of
subminimum-wage employment
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