[gps-talkusers] Re: FW: [Nfbnet-master-list] Legislative Alert Subminimum wage
- From: Linnette Whalen <linnettew@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, George B <gbmagoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:06:48 -0400
This is truly a stretch.
On Jun 24, 2011, at 3:00 PM, George B wrote:
> yes it does because the developers of the products can higher disabled
> persons, (blind) and pay them crap by law if this passes and the price of the
> products would not come down to reflect the crap wadges if this bill passed
>
> From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Linnette Whalen
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 11:56
> To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Jacob Struiksma
> Cc: Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone Users List
> Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: FW: [Nfbnet-master-list] Legislative Alert
> Subminimum wage
>
> What you are sharing may be of interest to many. However, it has nothing to
> do with the topic of GPS.
> On Jun 24, 2011, at 8:46 AM, Jacob Struiksma wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Dear Fellow Federationists:
>
> I am writing to inform you that a principle tenet of our organization is
> being threatened. We are actively developing legislation that will work
> toward the repeal of Regulation 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
> Meanwhile, the proposed language in Title V of the Workforce Investment Act
> (WIA) reauthorization, specifically Section 511 of the Rehabilitation Act,
> threatens to send us backward in our struggle for full participation and
> competitive employment at competitive wages.
>
> Most of us are aware that in 1938, when every other employee in America was
> being guaranteed the workforce protection of a federal minimum wage through
> the passage of the FLSA, Section 14(c) of this act denied the blind and other
> workers with disabilities this same protection by allowing for the payment of
> subminimum wages. Since our founding in 1940, the National Federation of the
> Blind has fought against the erroneous misconception that blind people cannot
> be productive employees, and we have made significant strides toward a
> correct understanding of the true capacity of the blind. Contrarily, the
> proposed language found in Section 511 of the Rehabilitation Act is a tacit
> endorsement of Section 14(c) of the FLSA and its antiquated contention that
> people with disabilities cannot be competitively employed.
>
> If passed by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, language in
> Section 511 of the Rehabilitation Act will create a link between the
> Rehabilitation Act and Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act that has
> never before existed. This will create legislation with a conflict between
> the philosophy of capacity for competitive employment set by the
> Rehabilitation Act, and the philosophy of incapacity toward subminimum wages
> set by Section 14(c) of the FLSA, setting the stage for more workers with
> disabilities to be inappropriately steered toward sheltered employment and a
> life of low expectations rewarded with subminimum wages.
>
> The following list contains the names of members of the Senate HELP
> committee. If your Senator is a member of the committee, please call his/her
> office to respectfully express your adamant objection to linking subminimum
> wage to the Rehabilitation Act, and to insist that Section 511 of the
> Rehabilitation Act be removed from the bill. If your Senator is not a member
> of the HELP committee, call the committee chair (Senator Tom Harkin) and the
> ranking member (Senator Michael Enzi) to register your objection.
>
> Please share this information with friends and family and encourage them to
> assist us with this effort. Please call or e-mail me with any questions, and
> to keep me posted on your progress.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Anil Lewis
> Director of Strategic Communications
> NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
> Telephone: (410) 659-9314, extension 2374
> E-mail: alewis@xxxxxxx
>
> Senator
> State
> Telephone
> Senator Lamar Alexander
> Tennessee
> (202) 224-4944
> Senator Michael F. Bennet
> Colorado
> (202) 224-5852
> Senator Jeff Bingaman
> New Mexico
> (202) 224-5521
> Senator Richard Blumenthal
> Connecticut
> (202) 224-2823
> Senator Richard Burr
> North Carolina
> (202) 224-3154
> Senator Robert Casey, Jr.
> Pennsylvania
> (202) 224-6324
> Senator Mike Enzi
> Wyoming
> (202) 224-3424
> Senator Al Franken
> Minnesota
> (202) 224-5641
> Senator Kay R. Hagan
> North Carolina
> (202) 224-6342
> Senator Tom Harkin
> Iowa
> (202) 224-3254
> Senator Orrin G. Hatch
> Utah
> (202) 224-5251
> Senator Johnny Isakson
> Georgia
> (202) 224-3643
> Senator Mark Steven Kirk
> Illinois
> (202) 224-2854
> Senator John McCain
> Arizona
> (202) 224-2235
> Senator Jeff Merkley
> Oregon
> (202) 224-3753
> Senator Barbara A. Mikulski
> Maryland
> (202) 224-4654
> Senator Lisa Murkowski
> Alaska
> (202) 224-6665
> Senator Patty Murray
> Washington
> (202) 224-2621
> Senator Rand Paul
> Kentucky
> (202) 224-4343
> Senator Pat Roberts
> Kansas
> (202) 224-4774
> Senator Bernard Sanders
> Vermont
> (202) 224-5141
> Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
> Rhode Island
> (202) 224-2921
>
>
>
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