[nabs-l] [Nfb-announce] Blind Americans to Protest Subminimum Wages

[David Dodge]

I would really like to help out with this if individual states are doing
protests. Please let me know if any of you know what is going on in NY.
Thanks.

David
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David Dodge
Doctoral Degree Granting Institutions Rep.
State University of New York Student Assembly
English Major
University at Buffalo
306 Clemens Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260
daviddod at buffalo.edu


2011/7/20 <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>

> Chris,
> Everyone already got this message. But anyway is anyone going to protest?
> It says in front of their offices. Does this mean its only in DC then or
> local congressmen's offices?
> I hope to get more details from my state president as to when and where
> they will be and I might go to one. This is a very important issue.
>
> Ashley
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> From: "Freeh,Jessica" <JFreeh at nfb.org> (by way of David Andrews
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> Subject: [Nfb-announce] Blind Americans to Protest Subminimum
> Wages
> Date sent: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:32:54 -0500
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> CONTACT:
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> Chris Danielsen
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> Director of Public Relations
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> Blind Americans to Protest Subminimum Wages
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> Members of National Federation of the Blind Plan
>  Informational Pickets Across United States
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> 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
> legislation춗he Workforce Investment Act춛hich
> would reauthorize the payment of subminimum wages to disabled
> workers.
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> Dr.  Marc Maurer, President of the National
> Federation of the Blind, said: 밬nequal 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.?
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> 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.
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> of the Blind and fair wages for workers with
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