[nfbmi-talk] We should Extend this to Peckam and new horizons --FW: [Nfbnet-members-list] Fwd: National Federation of theBlind Urges Boycott of Goodwill Industries

[joe harcz Comcast]

I agree and let's not forget about the conflicts of interest as well as the 
issues that faced both in the RSA monitoring eport.

Moreover, the best thing we can do is to also get MCB and, indeed MRS to 
stop contracting them for services until they amend their wicked ways.

Best,

Jioe
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at att.net>
To: "'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 9:29 PM
Subject: [nfbmi-talk] We should Extend this to Peckam and new horizons --FW: 
[Nfbnet-members-list] Fwd: National Federation of theBlind Urges Boycott of 
Goodwill Industries


> hello,
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> RThe argument is exactly the same for Peckam and New Horizons.  New 
> horizons
> actually gave bonuses to staff while paying sub-minimum wages.  We need to
> get The Michigan Agency for the Blind to stop doing business with these
> feudalistic places.
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> Warm Regards,
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> Fred
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> From: nfbnet-members-list-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:nfbnet-members-list-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David Andrews
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 12:38 AM
> To: nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] Fwd: National Federation of the Blind Urges
> Boycott of Goodwill Industries
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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
>
> National Federation of the Blind
> (410) 659-9314, extension 2330
> (410) 262-1281(Cell)
> 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): The National Federation of the Blind
> <http://www.nfb.org/>  (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
> <http://nfb.org/Images/nfb/documents/word/HR_3086_Support_List_2.doc>
> support legislation, the Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities Act
> <http://nfb.org/Images/nfb/SI/Fair%20Wages%20for%20Workers%202012.pdf>
> (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
> <http://www.dol.gov/whd/specialemployment/CRPlist.htm>  to pay subminimum
> wages to workers with disabilities.
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> Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind
> <http://www.twitter.com/nfb_voice> , 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
> 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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