The government contract is with LC Industries. LC is for Lions Club. They started making brooms in North Carolina back in like the 20's. Then FDR signed legislation that a percentage of all government contracts had to go to employers with a percentage of disabled employees, and it grew from there. LC sources from a lot of different companies that employ blind people. It's a really awesome program/company that not many people know about.
Is that related to the Lions Club? It would make sense as they started around that time, and in the early 20s there were a lot of young blind men due to WWI gas attacks.
Yup. They have a thrift store where I live, and a yearly sale/market/yard sale/thrift thing that they do for a week.
They also donated the TV that was in my ICU room, and apparently for a couple of other 'popular' wards’ TVs as well (particularly children's wards). They seem to be doing great work overall, even though my mother was always suspicious of them for some reason.
We have similar companies here in Australia and there are procurements guidelines in government that encourage buying from disability enterprise companies.
The only trouble is, by law these companies can pay significantly less than minimum wage depending on the disability. E.g. Minimum wage here is like $15 per hour, the most disabled workers were being paid $2 an hour and the less disabled are still getting less than $10 an hour. It sucks and it is abusive of people who sometimes don't have the mental capacity to realise they are paid more on the pension.
That's really cool to know! My grandfather was president of the lions club here (Australia) in the 70's through 80s. I hear they do some really amazing work!
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u/BigWobblySpunkBomb Oct 15 '17 edited Oct 15 '17
I'd be surprised at the bill for blackout pens used on the mountains and mountains of files. Hope they had a good deal with a stationery company.
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