<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><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><SALISBURYJ08@students.ecu.edu></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Salisbury, Justin Mark <SALISBURYJ08@students.ecu.edu><BR>Subject: Re: [Ct-nfb] RESOLUTION 2011-17 Regarding the Workforce Investment Act Reauthorization<BR>To: "NFB of Connecticut Mailing List" <ct-nfb@nfbnet.org><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 href="http://us.mc811.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=salisburyj08@students.ecu.edu" ymailto="mailto:salisburyj08@students.ecu.edu">salisburyj08@students.ecu.edu</A><BR><BR>“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<BR><BR><BR>________________________________________<BR>From: <A href="http://us.mc811.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ct-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org"
ymailto="mailto:ct-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org">ct-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org</A> [<A href="http://us.mc811.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ct-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org" ymailto="mailto:ct-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org">ct-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org</A>] on behalf of <A href="http://us.mc811.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=llee@nfbct.org" ymailto="mailto:llee@nfbct.org">llee@nfbct.org</A> [<A href="http://us.mc811.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=llee@nfbct.org" ymailto="mailto:llee@nfbct.org">llee@nfbct.org</A>]<BR>Sent: 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 forever.<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Nfbnet-members-list mailing list<BR><A href="http://us.mc811.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Nfbnet-members-list@nfbnet.org" ymailto="mailto:Nfbnet-members-list@nfbnet.org">Nfbnet-members-list@nfbnet.org</A><mailto:<A href="http://us.mc811.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Nfbnet-members-list@nfbnet.org"
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