This is long overdue! Applause for the Governor. A win for employees trying to support themselves. Hope it spreads nationwide. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kansas-subminimum-wage-disabled-employees_n_65c7eb61e4b0fb721d6151b0
@NorCalCherylLyn Gee, let’s just call them half a human and get it over with. How dare they pay disabled workers less than non disabled workers! What dictator wannabe came up with that glorious solution?
@cjcrew this is almost universal. If they hire folks with challenges they do so at a much, much, lower rate.
This article shows the attitude they have and it sucks…
https://themighty.com/topic/disability/goodwill-exploits-workers-disabilities/
@NorCalCherylLyn That’s a frustrating thing to read. That woman is a cheap asshole who wants something for nothing, even if it hurts the very people she claims to be helping. People like her piss me off and are why I hate people.
@NorCalCherylLyn I honestly had no reason to go there. We had several second hand stores in Lansing that I used to go to and I’ve heard bad things about Goodwill as well as several other charities.
It bugged me that employers would force you to give a donation to United Way every year when the local Chapter’s president had been busted stealing money so she could buy her horse ranch. There are good places to give your money but most big ones aren’t them.
@cjcrew totally agree. I give to small charities and shy away from big ones.
@NorCalCherylLyn I used to listen to Randi Rhodes when I worked second shift. She always said boycotts don’t work. I boycott anyway, but it’s for me, I know it doesn’t effect them. I am stubborn and I can hold a grudge. But yeah, it makes sense that the workers would be the ones who get hurt, most help is geared toward big business because they “create jobs”.
@cjcrew lol…are we related? U a fellow Taurean? 😄
I’m the same way. When I abandon a company I do it because I don’t want to give them my money. I know that it doesn’t mean anything to them but it does to me.
@NorCalCherylLyn I’m a hard headed Aquarian waiting to dump cold buckets of water on those corporations that piss me off.
@cjcrew I’ve got you’re back…they’ll have a hard time moving me. 🐂♉️
@NorCalCherylLyn We’ll show them!
This month's free ebook from the University of Chicago Press is about this subject.
https://press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html
@cjcrew she’s continuing the standard Goodwill policy. I stopped buying there years ago. I found out the CEO was making more than 250k and the workers got $2.50hr.
There thinking on it that boycotting them hurts the workers more but I just can’t support the people getting rich on the backs of the disabled workers.