[nfb-talk] Des Moines Register About Iowa Goodwill Protest

[Chris Nusbaum]

Loraine,

You are right. I didn't pay as much attention to the article as I probably
should have; I was just impressed that Iowa got some mention in the local
newspaper. However, I agree with you that their reporter did seem to take
Goodwill's side implicitly. If we look back at the NFB's history, I wouldn't
be surprised, as the Des Moines Register was the very paper which was
attacking Dr. Jernigan for many years because of his leadership role as
President of the Federation. See Chapter 6 of Walking Alone and Marching
Together. Those reporters probably are no longer there, but I wonder if the
newspaper still has some kind of dislike for the Federation and our
positions.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Rovig, Lorraine
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 5:20 PM
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Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Des Moines Register About Iowa Goodwill Protest

Chris, I have to disagree a little with you. We in the NFB do rock but that
article is written to throw rocks, lots of rocks right at us. The article
states in the second sentence: "... the National Federation of the Blind of
Iowa braved a steady rain to voice opposition to Goodwill Industries' use of
the federal provision, which allows employers to pay the disabled according
to their productivity rather than at the established minimum hourly wage."
That sentence states blind workers are paid "according to their
productivity" with nowhere in the article any facts on how the employers
manage conditions in their tests and in their factories to show workers at
less than full productively.  Any fair-minded person reading this will think
it fair to pay people who do less work a lesser salary.  The article never
says that blind workers are worth minimum wage because they can work as
hard, as fast, and with equal productivity as their sighted neighbors.  The
article then gives us all the employer lines about employees in Goodwill
moving out after training into jobs that pay at least minimum wage; and
right at the end it boo-hoos about all that money Goodwill would have to pay
out if it went to minimum wage.  Again, we know the employers are tossing
around numbers that hide the ugly real story.  In what this reporter must
think is fairness, this reporter quotes our side every now and then, but he
did not dig very deep; not enough to show that what we are saying is
factual.  We have more work to do in Des Moines to get the facts out, but
our protest there is one of the good things that at least influences all the
people passing by to start thinking.

Lorraine Rovig


-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Chris Nusbaum
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 5:51 PM
To: 'NFB Talk Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Des Moines Register About Iowa Goodwill Protest

Hi Michael,

You all in Iowa do rock, as does our Federation as a whole!!!! I'm glad you
all got some good press in the Des Moines Register! This inspires me to
check the Baltimore Sun to see if our protest got any press.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Michael D. Barber
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 10:58 AM
To: NFB Talk Mailing List; NFB Affiliate Presidents List; NFB Chapter
Presidents discussion list
Subject: [nfb-talk] Des Moines Register About Iowa Goodwill Protest

Here's the link to an article which appeared in the Sunday edition of the
Des Moines Register.  We rock!!!!

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120826/NEWS09/308260049/Disabled-
worker-pay-law-assailed?News&nclick_check=1
Cordially,
Michael Barber, President
National Federation of the Blind of Iowa


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