Creative Solution for Slump ; Disabled Workers Create Products to Earn Money
Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo. › October 20, 2008
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Not just auto companies and chipmakers are sending jobs overseas or to Mexico. The workshop force at Goodwill Industries has had to scramble to compete with cheaper foreign labor that has taken contracts that had kept its clients employed.
When contract jobs fell 20 percent this year, there was no talk of laying off any of the 114 developmentally disabled workers in the program center at 2320 W. Colorado Ave.See the full content of this document
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Creative Solution for Slump ; Disabled Workers Create Products to Earn Money
Instead, managers used their heads to come up with ideas for workers to use their hands to create new products -- ribboned flipflops, hand-painted note cards and chalkboards.
"We brainsto...See the full content of this document
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