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To: Jim Gibbons, CEO of Goodwill Industries
Goodwill: Pay your disabled workers a fair wage!
Jim Gibbons: Don't abuse your disabled workers by paying them grossly low wages. It's time that you pay all of your employees a fair wage and not just those at the top!
Why is this important?
Recently, NBC News did a story on a shocking subject—Goodwill doesn't pay it's disabled employees minimum wage, more than that, some employees make mere PENNIES an hour!
Claiming legality under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, Goodwill utilizes a loophole to pay some of its, most at need employees, as low as $0.22 an hour.
While half a dozen Regional CEOs, of this 5 Billion dollar a year "organization", are making a salary over $400,000, it's reprehensible to think that they are so grossly abusing their disabled workers.
As America rallies together to fight for a much needed raise to the federal minimum wage, we can't forget those who legally still aren't making even that. Tell Goodwill CEO Jim Gibbons that it's time to start treating his workers fairly and paying them an honest wage!
NBC News Video Reference via UpWorthy.com: http://www.upworthy.com/words-like-good-and-will-dont-belong-together-if-this-is-the-kind-of-thing-they-do-5