[Colorado-talk] FW: [birthdaypenpalcircle] FW: [nfbsc] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Letter to the Editor

[Gary Van Dorn]

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On Jul 18, 2012, at 9:33, Lee Baze <drleebert at msn.com> wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 06:39:35 -0500
> Subject: [Colorado-talk] FW: [birthdaypenpalcircle] FW: [nfbsc] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Letter to the Editor
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> Subject: [birthdaypenpalcircle] FW: [nfbsc] FW: [Chapter-presidents]
> Letter to the Editor
> Date: 
> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:41:33 -0500
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> Steve and Shannon Cook
> Today I married my best friend.  
> The one that I laugh with, live for, love.
> October 11, 2003 
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> From: chapter-presidents-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:chapter-presidents-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lewis, Anil
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 3:14 PM
> To: Affiliate Presidents (nfbaffiliatepresidents at nfbnet.org); NFB Chapter
> Presidents discussion list (chapter-presidents at nfbnet.org); NABS List
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> Subject: [Chapter-presidents] Letter to the Editor
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> All:
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> The following is a copy of a letter to the editor submitted by one of our
> members in response to a Goodwill article.  As you can tell by the tone of
> the letter, Goodwill continues to try to understate or dismiss the use of
> the Special Wage Certificates they use to pay their workers with
> disabilities subminimum wages.  Feel free to use the language in this
> response to draft comments to your local papers.
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> July 12, 2012
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> Dear Editor:
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>                Your article "Goodwill Good for Economy" failed to
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> that the Rappahannock Goodwill Industries and other Goodwill affiliates
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> the United States are allowed to pay their workers with disabilities less
> than the federal minimum wage.  This practice is legal because these
> nonprofits receive special wage certificates from the U.S. Department of
> Labor under an obscure, seventy-five-year-old provision of the Fair Labor
> Standards Act.  But the fact that something is legal doesn't make it
> right,
> and the practice of paying less than minimum wage to workers just because
> they have a disability is unfair, discriminatory, and immoral.  I would
> urge
> readers to find a more worthy recipient of their donations than Goodwill
> until all of its affiliates stop this practice, and to call their
> congressional representatives and ask them to support the Fair Wages for
> Workers with Disabilities Act (H.R. 3086).  That's certainly what I plan
> to
> do.
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> Sincerely,
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> Michael Kasey
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