[Jayhawk-chapter] Fw: [Home-on-the-range] Blind Kansans to picketSen. Roberts Wichita office

[Sidney]

Chikako,

 

I'm sorry to be responding so late - what a good cause.  I won't be able to
participate since, obviously, the event  has already taken place!  If
another event is planned, I will participate if the temperature is lower (a
lot lower) than it is now.  I am not faring very well in this awful heat.

 

Apologies!

 

Sidney

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From: Tom Page <topage at swbell.net>
To: topage at swbell.net
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 2:48 PM
Subject: [Home-on-the-range] Blind Kansans to picket Sen. Roberts Wichita
office




FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

  

Members of the National Federation of the Blind of Kansas will stage an
informational picket on Tuesday July 26th at 10:00am at the offices of
Senator Pat Roberts in Wichita (155 N. Market).  See below for more
information about the issue.  At this time Senator Roberts office has not
released a statement. 

  

CONTACT: 

In Wichita: 

Tom Page 

1st Vice President 

National Federation of the Blind of Kansas 

316-734-4839 

316-267-7868 

 <mailto:topage at swbell.net> topage at swbell.              net 

  

national contact: 

Chris Danielsen 

Director of Public Relations 

National Federation of the Blind 

(410) 659-9314, extension 2330 

(410) 262-1281 (Cell) 

cdanielsen at nfb.org 

  

Blind Americans to Protest Subminimum Wages 

  

Members of National Federation of the Blind Plan 

 Informational Pickets Across United States 

  

Baltimore, Maryland (July 20, 2011): The National Federation of the Blind,
the oldest and largest nationwide organization of blind people, announced
today that its members will conduct informational protests across the United
States to raise awareness about the practice of paying wages below the
federal minimum wage to Americans with disabilities.  The protests will take
place at the primary district office locations of United States Senators
serving on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
(the HELP Committee).  The HELP Committee is currently considering
legislation-the Workforce Investment Act-which would reauthorize the payment
of subminimum wages to disabled workers. 

  

Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said:
"Unequal pay for equal work on the basis of disability is unfair,
discriminatory, and immoral.  The senators who serve on the HELP Committee
must decide whether they stand for the outrageous exploitation of disabled
workers, or for true equality for Americans with disabilities." 

  

On Wednesday, August 3, the HELP Committee is scheduled to vote on the
Workforce Investment Act (WIA), which contains language reauthorizing the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.   The Rehabilitation Act is supposed
to provide services to disabled Americans so that they can obtain
competitive employment, but Title V, Section 511 of the proposed
Rehabilitation Act language references Section 14(c) of the 1938 Fair Labor
Standards Act (FLSA), which allows certain entities holding special wage
certificates to pay workers with disabilities less than the federal minimum
wage.  

  

For more information on the National Federation of the Blind and fair wages
for workers with disabilities, please visit www.nfb.org. 

  

### 

  

About the National Federation of the Blind 

  

With more than 50,000 members, the National Federation of the Blind is the
largest and most influential membership organization of blind people in the
United States.  The NFB improves blind people's lives through advocacy,
education, research, technology, and programs encouraging independence and
self-confidence.  It is the leading force in the blindness field today and
the voice of the nation's blind.  In January 2004 the NFB opened the
National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute, the first research and
training center in the United States for the blind led by the blind. 

 

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