[Nfbmt] Going back to the begining of our present Day Effort

[James Aldrich]

Hi all,

In the process of managing my Gmail Account, I came across this post on 
our present day effort to pass the Fair Wages For Workers With 
Disabilities Act.  This is for your information only!  Do pay close 
attention to any posts on the Washington Seminar.  These are up to date 
on this objective.  I started out with some 28,000 messages.  I have it 
down to 18,500 posts.  I'm in the year 2011. I've managed the battery 
on my IPhone and IPods rather nicely by swiping away all these messages 
especially when I'd swipe a 200 message thread away in seconds. There 
may be better ways of handling this massive deletion of messages but 
I'm making headway! I've managed the batteries on these devices rather 
nicely as well.

This post illustrates how long it might take for an objective  to be 
accomplished yet the NFB works diligently   till any objective becomes reality!

Here is this post!

James Aldrich

From:Freeh, 
JessicaTo:nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.orgSubject:[Nfbnet-members-list] 
U.S. Representatives Stearns and Bishop Introduce Fair Wages for 
Workers with Disabilities Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



CONTACT:

Chris Danielsen

 Director of Public Relations

 National Federation of the Blind

 (410) 659-9314, extension 2330

 (410) 262-1281 (Cell)

cdanielsen at nfb.org





U.S. Representatives Stearns and Bishop Introduce
 Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities Act




National Federation of the Blind Commends Action


 Washington, D.C. (October 4, 2011): Congressman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) 
and Congressman Tim Bishop (D-NY) today introduced the Fair Wages for 
Workers with Disabilities Act of 2011 (H.R. 3086).  The bill would 
phase out Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which 
allows employers holding special wage certificates to pay their workers 
with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage.



 Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, 
said: “The Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities Act is a 
long-overdue effort to correct an injustice written into a law meant to 
protect all American workers from abuse and exploitation.  Workers with 
disabilities were excluded from the protections of the Fair Labor 
Standards Act because of the false belief that we cannot be as 
productive as Americans without disabilities.  Courage and creativity 
are required to replace the misguided benevolence that has historically 
shaped policies toward people with disabilities with real opportunity 
for our equal employment and full participation in the workplace.  We 
applaud Representatives Stearns and Bishop and we hope that a 
significant majority of their colleagues possess the courage and 
creativity to end over seventy years of exploitation of people with 
disabilities.”



 “Simple fairness and decency require that workers with disabilities 
receive equal pay for equal work,” said Congressman Stearns.  “I am 
asking all of my colleagues to join me in this historic effort to end 
wage discrimination against workers with disabilities once and for all.”



 “Ensuring that Americans with disabilities receive equal pay for equal 
work is more than a matter of basic fairness, it’s a long-overdue 
acknowledgement of the value disabled Americans contribute to our 
workplaces every day,” said Congressman Tim Bishop.  “I hope all of my 
colleagues will support this bipartisan effort to correct over seventy 
years of injustice.”



 For more information about the Fair Wages for Workers with 
Disabilities Act and the National Federation of the Blind, please visit 
www.nfb.org.








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