[Ohio-talk] Fwd: Organizer's Forum August 20: Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities

[Suzanne Turner]

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Date: August 17, 2013, 10:13:49 AM EDT
To: Suzanne Turner <sturner at ClevelandSightCenter.org<mailto:sturner at ClevelandSightCenter.org>>
Subject: Fwd: Organizer's Forum August 20: Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities



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From: Jessica Lehman <jlehman7 at gmail.com<mailto:jlehman7 at gmail.com>>
Date: August 15, 2013, 3:24:00 PM EDT
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Subject: Organizer's Forum August 20: Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities
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ORGANIZER'S FORUM

We are trying something new -- every other month will be focused on a major national issue!

Join us next Tuesday to discuss the issue of Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities

Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) allows employers to obtain Special Wage Certificates permitting them to legally pay their disabled workers subminimum wages that are less than the federal minimum wage. These entities are almost always sheltered workshops, segregated workplaces that employ workers with various disabilities, including sensory, physical, and cognitive or developmental disabilities.  Currently there are approximately 400,000 workers with disabilities being paid subminimum wages, some as low as pennies per hour.

Is this work? Is this training? Is this right?

Mr. Anil Lewis, Director of Advocacy and Policy for the National Federation of the Blind will discuss the legislative advocacy, grassroots organizing, and other social action being taken to secure Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1-2 pm Eastern time, 12-1 Central time, 11-12 Mountain time, 10-11 am Pacific time

Call in number:  1-213-342-3000<tel:1-213-342-3000>

Code: 193134#

To get an idea of who joins our calls, if you are interested in joining on Tuesday, please fill out this quick form! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dHAxWEV5Y3h3MUtrcW1LYXhTcjZyYUE6MQ

CART: The call will have real-time captioning (CART)! The website where you will be able to view the captioning is https://2020captioning.icapapp.com<https://2020captioning.icapapp.com/>. Username: forum. Password: forum. Thank you to the National Disability Leadership Alliance for sponsoring the captioning of this call.

** If you need additional accommodations to participate in the call, please let us know as soon as possible.

Contact Anil Lewis:
http://www.nfb.org/fairwages
Work: 410-659-9314 ext. 2374<tel:410-659-9314%20ext.%202374>
Twitter: @anillife


MARK YOUR CALENDARS! The Organizer's Forum has a call on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, 1-2 pm EST (10-11 am PST).

NOTE: We have a listserv for discussion on these issues. It's organizersforum at yahoogroups.com<mailto:organizersforum at yahoogroups.com>; please go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/organizersforum/ and click "Join this group!" We also have our separate announcement-only listserv to allow everyone to easily get notices about the Organizer's Forum, called disabilityorganizing at googlegroups.com<mailto:disabilityorganizing at googlegroups.com>. Please email us to be added.

We also have a facebook page! We can use this is a way to continue conversation beyond the monthly calls. Please "like" Organizer's Forum on facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?cropsuccess&id=680444432#!/pages/Organizers-Forum/228971863811531?sk=info<http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?cropsuccess&id=680444432#%21/pages/Organizers-Forum/228971863811531?sk=info>

Background:

The Organizing Workgroup of the National Disability Leadership Alliance hosts these calls the third Tuesday of every month as a resource for disability organizers, in an effort toward building the organizing capacity of the disability community across the country. They generally follow the format of a Welcome followed by 2-3 experts in a given area speaking for a few minutes on their experiences, advice and challenges. The calls include a 20-30 minute question and answer period.

To ask questions via CART: Sign-in to the Chat function on the right side of the transcript and type your question.  One of the call facilitators will read out any questions posted there.

Because we want to maximize the generously donated CART services, we will begin the call promptly at 1pm and end the call promptly at 2pm (eastern time).  A few other reminders about call etiquette:
·         Say your name before each time you speak
·         Speak one at a time
·         Speak slowly and as clearly as possible

So you can mark your calendars now, Organizer’s Forums are held on the 3rd Tuesday of every month.  If you have suggestions for call topics or presenters for upcoming topics, please email them to jlehman7 at gmail.com<mailto:jlehman7 at gmail.com> or dcoleman at cdrnys.org<mailto:dcoleman at cdrnys.org>.

Looking forward to talking with you all!

Jessica Lehman and Diane Coleman
Co-Chairs, National Organizing Workgroup













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Suzanne Turner, BSW, MPA
Employment Coordinator and Benefit Specialist

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