[nabs-l] HR 3086 Update: Please share

[Lewis, Anil]

All:

HR 3086, the Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities Act, continues to gain additional support.   We currently have 81 co-sponsors of this legislation that will phase out the payment of subminimum wages to workers with disabilities.  We have a list of over 45 supporting organizations.  We are grateful for the support of each national organization, but we have noticed that local organizations of people with disabilities and employers of workers with disabilities carry a lot of weight when encouraging members to co-sponsor the legislation.  Please have any of your state organizations email me if they are willing to have their organizations added to our support list.

Our Goodwill boycott is garnering more and more media attention.  I have attached a copy of a feature article from the Examiner, along with a powerful editorial from the paper about the subminimum wage issue.  Channel 9, WUSA, in D.C. did a feature story on our Goodwill boycott.  You can take a look at the  story at: http://www.wusa9.com/rss/article/208068/158/Goodwill-Pays-Disabled-Employees-Less-than-Minimum-Wage. Goodwill could be the champion entity for this issue if their leadership has the courage to do the right thing.  They state that 101 of their 165 affiliated agencies already pay the federal minimum wage to their employees with disabilities.  We need them to require the other 64 to do the same.  We may be conducting actual protests of some of the  facilities.  If any of your local organizations are interested in participating in an active protest at some of the Goodwill locations, please have them contact me directly.

The following is a list of members of the Ed and Workforce Committee.  A (*( designates those members that have already co-sponsored HR 3086.  Please have your members thank these members, an encourage the others to consider co-sponsoring the legislation. Moreover, ask committee members to contact Ed&Workforce Committee Chair and committee staff to requests a hearing on this legislation.

Education and the Workforce Committee Members

Majority
John Kline, Minnesota  , Chairman
Tom Petri, Wisconsin
Howard "Buck" McKeon, California
Judy Biggert, Illinois
Todd Russell Platts, Pennsylvania
Joe Wilson, South Carolina
Virginia Foxx, North Carolina
Bob Goodlatte, Virginia
Duncan D. Hunter, California
Phil Roe, Tennessee
Glenn "G.T." Thompson, Pennsylvania
Tim Walberg, Michigan
Scott DesJarlais, Tennessee
Richard L. Hanna, New York
Todd Rokita, Indiana
Larry Bucshon, Indiana
Trey Gowdy, South Carolina

·         Lou Barletta, Pennsylvania
Kristi Noem, South Dakota
Martha Roby, Alabama
Joe Heck, Nevada
Dennis A. Ross, Florida
Mike Kelly, Pennsylvania

Minority
George Miller, California, Ranking Member

·         Dale E. Kildee, Michigan
Donald M. Payne, New Jersey
Rob Andrews, New Jersey
Bobby Scott, Virginia

·         Lynn Woolsey, California
Rubén Hinojosa, Texas

·         Carolyn McCarthy, New York
John F. Tierney, Massachusetts
Dennis Kucinich, Ohio
Rush D. Holt, Jr., New Jersey

·         Susan Davis, California
Raúl Grijalva, Arizona

·         Timothy Bishop, New York
David Loebsack, Iowa
Mazie Hirono, Hawaii
Jason Altmire, Pennsylvania

I appreciate your assistance with this effort.  Please contact me with any questions.

Sincerely,

Anil

Mr. Anil Lewis, M.P.A.
Director of Strategic Communications

"Eliminating Subminimum Wages for People with Disabilities"
http://www.nfb.org/fairwages

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
200 East Wells Street at Jernigan Place
Baltimore, Maryland   21230

(410) 659-9314 ext. 2374 (Voice)
(410) 685-5653 (FAX)
Email: alewis at nfb.org<mailto:alewis at nfb.org>
Web: www.nfb.org<http://www.nfb.org>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: A06.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 1482942 bytes
Desc: A06.pdf
URL: <http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/attachments/20120711/c9d7e8e2/attachment.pdf>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Examiner Editorial.docx
Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
Size: 14214 bytes
Desc: Examiner Editorial.docx
URL: <http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/attachments/20120711/c9d7e8e2/attachment.docx>