[nfbwatlk] Baltimore Meeting

[Walt Cone]

And what organizations pray tell are those who want us to work for half 
the minamum wage?


On 8/11/2011 12:02 AM, Mike Freeman wrote:
> I lied; it's tonight rather than last night. (grin)
>
> The majority of the seminar was taken up with discussion of the financial
> coding system devised by our national office for state affiliates to
> categorize their income and expenditures in order to facilitate filling out
> IRS Form 990's for the affiliates. This is now done in the national office.
> Their was also a fair amount of discussion of the rationale for these forms
> and a discussion of the increased scrutiny all nonprofits undergo these days
> by both government and the public.
>
> However, in his welcoming remarks last Friday evening, Dr. Maurer said that
> what we (NFB) are searching for now is someone in Congress with the courage
> to introduce the legislation we've drawn up to repeal Section 14(c) of the
> Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) which provides the mechanism for employers
> to gain certificates that allow them to pay disabled employees less than the
> minimum wage. We are also continuing our opposition to Section 511 of the
> reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act which enshrines these
> minimum wage exemptions into the Rehab Act. We have been singularly
> successful in blocking consideration of this section so far and we have made
> it clear that we will continue to oppose this proposal despite protests of
> staff of senators and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP)
> Committee that (1) we don't know what we're talking about and (2) other
> organizations do not espouse our position.
>
> We still want signatures on written petitions such as those we passed out
> before our recent protest to be sent back to HQ to keep the pressure up.
>
> Also (and this is my injunction), I believe that we should see if Senator
> Murray will be holding any town meetings in NFBW chapter cities and we
> should make the effort to attend these and bring up the minimum wage issue
> during Q&A.
>
> Mike Freeman
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Mike Freeman
> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 8:39 AM
> To: NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Baltimore Meeting
>
> The seminar went very well. Nothing really knew on the minimum wage front
> although plenty is quietly going on. More tonight.
>
> Mike Freeman
>
>
> On Aug 9, 2011, at 7:29, "Prows, Bennett (HHS/OCR)"<Bennett.Prows at HHS.GOV>
> wrote:
>
>    
>> Hey Mike,
>>
>> The Presidential Release for August mentioned the trip you and Doug took
>>      
> to the Presidents and Treasurers meeting last weekend.  Hope it went well.
>    
>> Anything new for the list?  How about with the battle to remove the
>>      
> language supporting less than the minimum wage for blind folks?
>    
>> /s/
>>
>> Bennett Prows
>>
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