[nfbmi-talk] Fw: Goodwill

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Jarvis" <carjar82 at gmail.com>
To: <blind-democracy at octothorp.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 11:07 AM
Subject: Fw: Goodwill


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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Shelia Leighland via Change.org" <mail at change.org>
> To: <carjar82 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 6:25 AM
> Subject: Goodwill
>
>
> My husband and I are both blind. We've struggled for years to find
> consistent employment, even though we both have college degrees. We 
> finally
> took jobs hanging clothes at Goodwill for only $3.50 an hour: barely 
> enough
> to live on, less than minimum wage, and less than our non-disabled
> co-workers got paid.
>
> After I had knee surgery last summer I returned to my job to find out my
> wage had been lowered to $2.75 an hour. Working for this little money 
> barely
> covered my cost of getting to work. I wasn't making enough money and
> eventually was forced to quit.
>
> I was shocked to find out that Goodwill exploits a 75-year-old legal
> loophole to pay disabled workers like me far less than the minimum wage --
> some make as little as .22 cents an hour. I want to be paid a living wage
> for meaningful work, and other workers like me deserve the same.
>
> My friends at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network started a petition on
> Change.org asking Goodwill to pay disabled workers like me a living wage.
> Click here to sign the petition.
> https://www.change.org/petitions/goodwill-industries-international-pay-disabled-workers-a-real-wage?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=29834&alert_id=QRLsgShbZX_vXlxdNaTSi
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> Goodwill determines how much they pay disabled workers using "time 
> studies"
> where an employee uses a stopwatch to time how long it takes to complete a
> certain task and compares it to a non-disabled worker. Time studies were 
> the
> most stressful part of my job because I never knew what the task would be
> and how they would turn out. My husband even had his wages lowered because
> of a time study, and they could cut it again.
>
> My husband and I feel trapped by Goodwill. They know they can pay disabled
> workers like us less and less because we have fewer places to go. Goodwill
> recently came under scrutiny for this practice of paying disabled people
> pennies for their labor, and defended it. I know they are vulnerable right
> now and could be pressured to change this practice if enough people join 
> me
> in speaking out.
>
> Click here now to sign a petition demanding that Goodwill stop exploiting
> disabled workers and pay a fair wage.
> https://www.change.org/petitions/goodwill-industries-international-pay-disabled-workers-a-real-wage?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=29834&alert_id=QRLsgShbZX_vXlxdNaTSi
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> Thank you for your support.
>
> Sheila Leighland
> Great Falls, Montana
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