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[Kirk]

Tara, as bad as this is with Goodwill industries, I personally believe that 
we need to work really hard to bring awareness to this blatently ridiculous 
law and have it repealed as quick as possible! It is ridiculous to say that 
in this 21st century a law that and is so obviously ignorant and predjudice 
to the disabled should be removed from the books and never bbe seen again! 
If we were do focus on removing this law then there wouldn't vbe any 
businesses legally being allowed to practice such unfairness to the disabled 
ever again! Just one man's opinion my friend! Kirk



Kirk Harmon
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Not sure it has been posted here.

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Boycott of Goodwill Industries



  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




  National Federation of the Blind Urges Boycott of Goodwill Industries





  Condemns Practice of Paying Subminimum Wages to Workers with Disabilities





  Baltimore, Maryland (June 7, 2012): 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 
over forty-five other organizations support legislation, the 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 special certificate holders to pay subminimum 
wages to workers with disabilities.



  Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the 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."



  For more information on this critically important issue, please visit 
www.nfb.org/fairwages.






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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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