Continue Reading Coming up! Injured Workers’ Day & the Vigil
Actions & Campaigns
We hope you’ll join us next week for the annual Vigil (Monday at 4 p.m.) organized by the Women of Inspiration and Injured Workers’ Day (Tuesday at 11 a.m.) organized by the Workers’ Comp Is A Right campaign (WCIAR). June…
Let’s reach as many injured workers as possible for the CIWA survey on COVID-19
A message from the Canadian Injured Workers Alliance (CIWA) urging injured workers to fill in the survey and share the survey link through their contacts and personal social media sources:
The WSIB denied injured workers a supplement to assist with extra costs…
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Stop Unsafe Evictions during COVID-19
Many injured workers know the fear of losing their housing when cut off or denied benefits. The current pandemic of Covid-19 has put additional pressure on those deemed by the WSIB to have a job at a time at a time when…
A Labour Day message from injured workers
Friends,
Please click below to see a message from injured workers on Labour Day, celebrating the things we can accomplish when workers unite, and setting out a plan for the future.
View the video here:
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Today is Injured Workers Day: Help us ask Ontario to #ProtectUs
June 1st 2020 is the 37th annual Injured Workers Day. Because of COVID-19, it is the first time since 1983 that we could not be together in person celebrate our collective power. Instead we must come together online.
Today, the Ontario…
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Tell the Premier that the time for universal coverage is NOW!
Dear Friends and Allies,
re: Universal Workers’ Compensation Coverage and the COVID Pandemic
The Women of Inspiration (WOI) is an injured worker activist group. We strongly believe that all Ontario workers should be covered under the umbrella of the workers’ compensation (WSIB)…
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Commemorating workers on Day of Mourning – April 28
Although we cannot gather in the same way this year due to COVID-19 safety measures, tomorrow we will commemorate injured workers killed, injured or made ill on the job. A report released today, 2020 Report on Work Fatality and Injury Rates in …
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Tell Doug Ford and the WSIB: Injured Workers Need COVID-19 Relief NOW!
In these frightening and unprecedented times, the Province of Ontario and and the WSIB need to double down on protecting workers who get sick or injured on the job. The Ontario Network of Injured Workers’ Groups (ONIWG) has written to the Premier…
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COVID-19: ONIWG calls for WSIB support
The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board recently posted on their website how they make decisions on COVID-19 claims: that is, on a case-by-case basis. Today the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) sent a letter to Premier Ford calling on the…
How to reduce poverty?
December 2019 the Ontario government announced a consultation on the next five-year Poverty Reduction Strategy. According to Ministry figures, one in seven Ontarians live in poverty. Several recent reports provide a closer look at the social and economic dimensions of poverty.…