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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5>I made my call as well I'm now unemployed to due a layoff, and if they think I'm looking for a job that will pay me less than minum wage well they're crazier than I am. ( sorry for the miss spelling)</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, Trudy Swenson <I><trudyswenson@charter.net></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Trudy Swenson <trudyswenson@charter.net><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, 8:07 PM<BR><BR>
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<P class=yiv1328332226MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">It was very easy. I suggest circulating this to friends and family. The issue is straightforward and, honestly, non-partisan. It’s a no-brainer. <B>No</B> politician would like to be known as voting in favor of this debacle. Join voices and act now!</SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=yiv1328332226MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> ct-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org [mailto:ct-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Deb Reed<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, July 11, 2011 5:43 PM<BR><B>To:</B> NFB of Connecticut Mailing List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Ct-nfb] RESOLUTION 2011-17 Regarding the Workforce Investment Act Reauthorization</SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=yiv1328332226MsoNormal>Thank's to all our members who worked on this very important resolution in Florida! I called early on to Senator Blumenthal's office and stated our position and the assistant took my zip code and that was that. It only takes a minute.</DIV>
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<P class=yiv1328332226MsoNormal>On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:31 PM, <<A href="http://us.mc811.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=llee@nfbct.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:llee@nfbct.org">llee@nfbct.org</A>> wrote:</DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=yiv1328332226MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><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
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