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<DIV><SPAN class=500300214-09062012><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>Important Press release!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr class=OutlookMessageHeader align=left><FONT size=2
face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Kevan Worley
[mailto:kevanworley@blindmerchants.org]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 08, 2012
11:25 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Najla's; Ms. Nancy Calderon; Nancy Darcy; Deal, Nancy;
Nancy Engle; nancy_gilman@ca11.uscourts.gov; Nancy Hoover; Nancy Hoyme; Nancy
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Division - Students (NABS); NFB Division - Veterans; NFB of Alabama; NFB of
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NFB of Pennsylvania; NFB of Tennessee; NFB of Texas; NFB of Virginia; NFB of
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Handy Tech North America; Handy Tech North America; North Carolina Clay Pope;
NPR Labs; Nydia Colón-Zayas<BR><B>Subject:</B> National Federation of the Blind
Urges Boycott of Goodwill Industries<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Freeh, Jessica
[mailto:JFreeh@nfb.org] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 07, 2012 9:15
AM<BR><B>Subject:</B> National Federation of the Blind Urges Boycott of Goodwill
Industries<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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RELEASE<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">CONTACT:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Chris
Danielsen<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Director of
Public Relations<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">National
Federation of the Blind<BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">(410) 659-9314, extension
2330<BR>(410) 262-1281(Cell)<BR></SPAN><A href="mailto:cdanielsen@nfb.org"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">cdanielsen@nfb.org</SPAN></A><o:p></o:p></P>
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of the Blind Urges Boycott of Goodwill Industries<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H1>
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align=center><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Condemns Practice of
Paying Subminimum Wages to Workers with Disabilities</SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">Baltimore, Maryland (June 7,
2012):</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'"> <A
href="http://www.nfb.org/">The National Federation of the Blind</A> (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 <A
href="http://nfb.org/Images/nfb/documents/word/HR_3086_Support_List_2.doc">over
forty-five other organizations</A> support legislation, the <A
href="http://nfb.org/Images/nfb/SI/Fair%20Wages%20for%20Workers%202012.pdf">Fair
Wages for Workers with Disabilities Act</A> (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 <A
href="http://www.dol.gov/whd/specialemployment/CRPlist.htm">special certificate
holders</A> to pay subminimum wages to workers with disabilities.
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">Dr. Marc
Maurer, President of the </SPAN><A href="http://www.twitter.com/nfb_voice"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">National Federation of the
Blind</SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">, 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.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">For more
information on this critically important issue, please visit </SPAN><A
href="http://www.nfb.org/fairwages"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">www.nfb.org/fairwages</SPAN></A><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoBodyText3><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">About the
National Federation of the Blind<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">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.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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