By Jennifer Maddox Parks
The Albany Herald
April 15, 2010
ALBANY — Georgia Industries for the Blind (GIB) recently received the Employment Retention/Growth/Upward Mobility Award from the National Industries for the Blind.
The award is for GIB’s commitment to increasing employment and economic opportunities for those who are blind, officials say.“It (the award) is a sense of pride for employees,” said GIB Executive Director Jim Hughes. “It puts us among only a few agencies under the NIB umbrella.”
GIB, which is operated by the Georgia Department of Labor, has added 20 new workers at its manufacturing plant in Albany. That increased by 7.2 percent the total number of hours worked in the past year at its three plants.
“They are full-blown state employees (with similar benefits),” Hughes said. “The average wage is well above minimum wage.”
The other two facilities are located in Bainbridge and Griffin.
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