[nfbmi-talk] FW: [Chapter-presidents] HR 3086 Update: Please share

[Fred wurtzel]

From: chapter-presidents-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:chapter-presidents-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lewis, Anil
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 3:59 PM
To: Lewis, Anil
Subject: [Chapter-presidents] HR 3086 Update: Please share

 

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> http://www.nfb.org/fairwages

 

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
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Email:  <mailto:alewis at nfb.org> alewis at nfb.org
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