WHEREAS, Blind Industries and Services of Maryland (BISM) is charged with providing quality employment to blind citizens of Maryland; and
WHEREAS, upward mobility is a vital component of quality employment; and
WHEREAS, the management of BISM acknowledges this, yet it
has been slow to act in accordance with that acknowledgment:
Now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind of Maryland in Convention assembled this 11th day of September 1988, in the City of Towson, Maryland, that this organization call upon the management of BISM to take the following steps to promote upward mobility among blind employees:
(1) List all vacancies in Braille and in print on all bulletin boards as soon as they occur.
(2) Encourage blind persons working in the direct labor population to apply for vacancies in the clerical, maintenance, and supervisory staffs, giving careful consideration to all who do so.
(3) Provide training to able and ambitious blind persons working in direct labor that will enable them to develop skills and knowledge essential to the performance of supervisory functions.
(4) Provide encouragement and financial assistance to employees wishing to take courses designed to enhance on-the-job performance.
(5) Include the direct labor population in discussions of long term goals and objectives and product development; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the National Federation of the Blind of Maryland will act as a resource for the management of BISM by providing information concerning the techniques used by successful blind persons while performing various functions associated with clerical, maintenance, supervisory, and xecutive positions.