[nfbmi-talk] FW: [State-affiliate-leadership-list] Pushing Limits Radio Discusses Sheltered Workshops and Fair Wages

[Fred wurtzel]

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Lewis, Anil
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 1:38 PM
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Subject: [State-affiliate-leadership-list] Pushing Limits Radio Discusses
Sheltered Workshops and Fair Wages

 

Four hundred thousand people with disabilities in the USA work for
sub-standard wages, some of

them for as little as 3¢ an hour.   On Friday, Nov 1,

at 2:30 pm PST on KPFA 94.1 fm, www.kpfa.org Pushing Limits discusses these
“sheltered workshops”

– segregated, low-pay work places for workers with disabilities.

 

This August people with disabilities protested in front of 90 Goodwills
around the country.  In the back rooms of Goodwill, people with disabilities
turn cast offs into items for resell.  In other places, they do assembly
work for Goodwill.

 

Our guest, Mr. Anil Lewis is the director of advocacy and policy for the
National Federation of the Blind and an expert on these sheltered workshops.
He and the Federation have called for a boycott of Goodwill and want to
repeal Section 14 C of the Fair Labor Standards Act.  It is Section 14 C
that allows employers to legally pay these sub-minimum wages.

 

Eddie Ytuarte and Adrienne Lauby host.

 

National Federation of the Blind - Fair Wages https://nfb.org/fair-wages

 

Podcast & archives of this program:

http://www.kpfa.org/archive/show/complete/33

http://www.pushinglimits.org

http://www.facebook.com:  Pushing Limits Radio

 

Live Streaming:

www.kpfa.org

 

Pushing Limits is produced collectively.

Contact us. Tell us what you think about what you hear.

(510) 848-6767 ext. 636

pushinglimits at kpfa.org

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