RICHMOND – The effort to maintain Missouri’s model for paying sheltered workshop employees continues. Ideal Industries Director Heather Pugh credited the Baker family for raising awareness for workshop employees from Ray and Clay counties. “This family has been really involved with our A-Team Ray County, which is an advocacy group,” she said. Family spokesman Gabe Baker talked about the A-Team while volunteering at Idea’s chili fundraiser Saturday. “We’re a newly formed organization. We’re trying to help get the word out and advocate for Ideal Industries and people that work at sheltered workshops,” Baker said. “Not everybody knows what this is all about. … “The government is trying to close a lot of these places down and we’re trying to let people know why this is such a good thing.” Congress is considering ending Fair Labor Standards Act Provision 14(c), which affects workshops. Ending 14(c) would mean the handicapped, often paid less than minimum wage, would be paid the…