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Diseases & Injuries
As injured worker activist Catherine Fenech notes in the Brampton Guardian this week, work injury and illness can severely affect mental health in addition to the physical impacts. For workers with permanent injuries in particular, depression, social isolation and loneliness are all…
Upcoming COVID-19 vaccination clinics for essential workers, migrants
Vaccination clinics for essential workers, migrants without OHIP and others facing barriers in accessing vaccines will be held in two downtown Toronto locations:
Bob Abate Community Centre, 485 Montrose Ave (Bloor & Christie – Christie subway)
Sat. June 26 from 12 –…
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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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CIWA survey on COVID-19 impact on Canadian injured workers (deadline extended to May 28)
The Canadian Injured Workers Alliance and its team of researchers are looking for Canadians who have had a workplace injury to take part in a study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
For this study you will be asked to complete…
“A disregard for workers’ environmental & health concerns”: lessons of the McIntyre Powder program
A recently published article “Dust versus Dust: Aluminum Therapy and Silicosis in the Canadian and Global Mining” (Canadian Historical Review, 102(1) Mar. 2021: 1-26) provides a thorough, if disturbing, examination of the forces in play behind the development and widespread adoption of…
Amazon’s workplace safety under scrutiny
In a Toronto Star investigation reporter Sara Mojtehedzadeh has thrown new light on Amazon’s record of worker injury and illness in Canadian warehouses.
The newspaper has confirmed at least 25 COVID-19 cases in Amazon’s Brampton warehouses alone. Documents received through Freedom of…
COVID-19 in the workplace and compensation claims
According to a recent CBC news investigation, at least 26,000 workers across Canada have filed workers’ compensation claims due to COVID-19. As the report highlights, these statistics present a misleading picture of what’s actually happening in the workplace.
David Newberry, of…
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OHCOW survey on workers’ experiences during COVID-19
This survey by Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW) is designed to learn about your experiences as a worker during a pandemic. As things have changed since this first survey was originally launched in April/May 2020, the survey is being re-launched…
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Bancroft online event on COVID-19 & injured workers
Injured workers are particularly vulnerable in this time of COVID-19 and are in need of greater support – as ONIWG, advocates and families have repeatedly told the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) and the government.
Tuesday November 10 an online event…
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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…