[Nfb-kzoo] Fwd: [Nfbnet-members-list] Fwd: National Federation of the Blind Urges Boycott of Goodwill Industries

[J.J. Meddaugh]

On a related note, have you been to a Goodwill store lately? The prices are 
much higher than they used to be.
So if most of your inventory is donated and you're charging a fair amount 
for your product, how can you not afford to pay your employees minimum wage? 
I'm not sure what percent of retale store employees are disabled, but I know 
I've seen some before.
I'm glad we have bipartisan support for the bill, but we need more.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jon searles" <theblindrepublican at gmail.com>
To: <nfb-kzoo at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 5:28 PM
Subject: [Nfb-kzoo] Fwd: [Nfbnet-members-list] Fwd: National Federation of 
the Blind Urges Boycott of Goodwill Industries


> howdy list,
>
> Don't know how many of the local chapter is on the national list
> serve.  in case there are those outthere who arn't, i figured I would
> forward this message for all to read.  It effects all of us, and
> figured it would be benificial to pass along to everyone.
>
> Best,
> Jhonathan Searles
>
>
>
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> From: David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com>
> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:37:49 -0500
> Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] Fwd: National Federation of the Blind
> Urges Boycott of Goodwill Industries
> To: nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org
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>>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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>>CONTACT:
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>>Chris Danielsen
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>>Director of Public Relations
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>>National Federation of the Blind
>>(410) 659-9314, extension 2330
>>(410) 262-1281(Cell)
>><mailto:cdanielsen at nfb.org>cdanielsen at nfb.org
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>>National Federation of the Blind Urges Boycott of Goodwill Industries
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>>Condemns Practice of Paying Subminimum Wages to Workers with Disabilities
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>>Baltimore, Maryland (June 7, 2012): <http://www.nfb.org/>The
>>National Federation of the Blind (NFB), one of the oldest and
>>largest organizations of Americans with disabilities, today called
>>for a boycott of Goodwill Industries International, Inc., the
>>nonprofit manufacturer and retailer, for its payment of subminimum
>>wages to many of its workers with disabilities.  Freedom of
>>information requests filed by the NFB confirmed that Goodwill
>>Industries employees have been paid as low as $1.44 an hour.  The
>>NFB and
>><http://nfb.org/Images/nfb/documents/word/HR_3086_Support_List_2.doc>over
>>forty-five other organizations support legislation, the
>><http://nfb.org/Images/nfb/SI/Fair%20Wages%20for%20Workers%202012.pdf>Fair
>>Wages for Workers with Disabilities Act (H.R. 3086), which would
>>phase out and then repeal the nearly seventy-five-year-old provision
>>of the Fair Labor Standards Act that permits
>><http://www.dol.gov/whd/specialemployment/CRPlist.htm>special
>>certificate holders to pay subminimum wages to workers with disabilities.
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>>Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the
>><http://www.twitter.com/nfb_voice>National Federation of the Blind,
>>said: "Goodwill Industries is one of the most well-known and
>>lucrative charitable organizations in the United States, yet it
>>chooses to pay its workers with disabilities less than the federal
>>minimum wage.  While this practice is currently legal and many
>>entities engage in it, many other nonprofit organizations have
>>successfully transitioned to paying their employees the minimum wage
>>or higher.  That Goodwill Industries exploits many of its workers in
>>this way is ironic, because its president and chief executive
>>officer is blind.  Goodwill cannot credibly argue that workers with
>>disabilities are incapable of doing productive work while paying its
>>blind CEO over half a million dollars a year.  Goodwill should be
>>ashamed of such blatant hypocrisy.   We are calling upon all
>>Americans to refuse to do business with Goodwill Industries, to
>>refuse to make donations to the subminimum-wage exploiter, and to
>>refuse to shop in its retail stores until it exercises true
>>leadership and sound moral judgment by fairly compensating its
>>workers with disabilities."
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>>For more information on this critically important issue, please
>>visit <http://www.nfb.org/fairwages>www.nfb.org/fairwages.
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>>About the National Federation of the Blind
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>>
>>
>>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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>
> -- 
> Best,
> Jon Searles
> 231 - 622 - 9382
> Theblindrepublican at gmail.com
> yes i'm a republican but a good guy...somewhere very deep down, or so I'm 
> told.
>
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