[nabs-l] [Nfb-announce] Blind Americans to Protest SubminimumWages

[Chris Nusbaum]

Hi Dave,

Hmm...  that's weird.  I saw it only come through to 
NFB-ANNOUNCE.  That happens a lot with messages that you send to 
a bunch of lists, it only shows one of the lists it was sent to 
that I'm a member of, but doesn't show all the lists you sent it 
to.  Do you know what's going on?

 Chris

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list	
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:25:08 -0500
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfb-announce] Blind Americans to Protest 
SubminimumWages

You don't, and shouldn't forward these messages
to this and other lists.  Anything sent to
nfbnet-members-list or nfbnet-master-list, as
this one was, has already gone to everybody.

David Andrews, List Owner

At 07:07 PM 7/20/2011, you wrote:


---- Original Message ------
From: "Freeh,Jessica" <JFreeh at nfb.org> (by way
of David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com>)
Subject: [Nfb-announce] Blind Americans to Protest Subminimum 
Wages
Date sent: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:32:54 -0500

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



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
legislation­the Workforce Investment Act­which
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 <http://www.nfb.org/>www.nfb.org.





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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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