[Nfbv-fairfax] Fwd: [Nfbnet-members-list] Fair Wage Call to Action on the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Reauthorization

[Wanda Taylor]

Hello,
I am forwarding this in case you haven't received it.


Regards,
Wanda

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From: Lewis, Anil <ALewis at nfb.org>
Date: Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:14 PM
Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] Fair Wage Call to Action on the Workforce
Investment Act (WIA) Reauthorization
To: nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org



WE are respectfully asking for your continued support to end the payment of
subminimum wages to workers with disabilities. Senate Bill S. 1356 has been
introduced to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act (WIA).  This bill
includes a major policy change in the language of the Rehabilitation Act
that threatens to send us backwards in our struggle to repeal Section 14(c)
of the Fair Labor Standards Act.  This bill has proposed language in
Section 511 of the Rehabilitation Act that requires vocational
rehabilitation agencies to include training and employment at wages below
the federal minimum wage as a VR service.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee is
scheduled to discuss and vote on this bill on Wednesday, July 31, and we
need to act to ensure that this tremendously flawed proposal is removed.
 Our initial action is simple, but it will require all of us to take
action.  We need all of our members, family members, friends, colleagues,
and acquaintances that reside in states with a Senator who serves on the
HELP Committee to make calls, send emails, and post tweets and Facebook
messages to communicate the following straightforward request to their
Senators:

I am a voting constituent in the state, and I respectfully request that the
WIA reauthorization be amended to remove Section 511 of the Rehabilitation
Act.

We are encouraging that only the actual residents make these requests of
their Senators.  Start recruiting individuals to begin this action now and
continue it through Tuesday, July 30.  Use the information below to
communicate with your Senator's office.

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN)
@AlFranken
(202) 224-5641
Chief of Staff: Casey Aden-Wansbury
casey_aden-wansbury at franken.**senate.gov<casey_aden-wansbury at franken.senate.gov>
HELP Contact: Momoko "Peach" Soltis
peach_soltis at franken.senate.**gov<peach_soltis at franken.senate.gov>
Additional Contact: Beth Meloy beth_meloy at franken.senate.gov

Please contact me with any questions, and keep me posted on your progress.
 The only way we will be able to prevent a dismantling of the essential
training and employment services for all people with disabilities is to act
now.  Remember, once you have made your calls, sent your emails, posted
your tweets and Facebook messages, get others to do the same.
Sincerely,

Mr. Anil Lewis, M.P.A.
Director of Advocacy and Policy

"Eliminating Subminimum Wages for People with Disabilities"
http://www.nfb.org/fairwages
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
200 East Wells Street at Jernigan Place
Baltimore, Maryland   21230
(410) 659-9314 ext. 2374 (Voice)
(410) 685-5653 (FAX)
Email: alewis at nfb.org
Web: www.nfb.org
twitter: @anillife


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