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Registration open – Bancroft Institute session on pre-existing conditions

September 24, 2017

The 2017/2018 season of the Bancroft Institute for Studies on Workers’ Compensation and Work Injury gets underway Tuesday week on October 3rd. The first session is a full-day event to share the latest information from both health care and legal perspectives on…

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GE Peterborough claims review: “just the start”

September 22, 2017

Following a long and active campaign seeking fair compensation for occupational disease claims (detailed in the Toronto Star’s investigative report “Lethal Legacy”), retired General Electric Peterborough workers, their families, occupational health & safety and workers’ compensation advocates learned this week that…

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Up for debate…

September 16, 2017

A busy first week as the Legislative Assembly resumed sitting .. On Monday September 11, Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017 was reported (with amendments) from the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs, and House debate on…

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The state of Ontario’s temporary agency work

September 13, 2017

“Undercover in temp nation” / Sara Mojtehedzadeh, Brendan Kennedy (Toronto Star, Sep. 9, 2017) “In workplaces around the province, the use of temp agencies limits companies’ liability for accidents on the job, reduces their responsibility for employees’ rights, and cuts costs…” In…

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Rights campaign kicks off

September 12, 2017

Ahead of a press conference by injured workers this morning at Queen’s Park on a flawed workers’ compensation system, CBC’s Metro Morning interviewed injured worker David Morales about the reasons behind the Workers’ Comp Is a Right Campaign. In his own…

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Reminder: Workers’ Comp is a Right campaign launch

September 8, 2017

At a community forum this coming Monday, the Ontario Network of Injured Workers will be launching its Workers’ Compensation is a Right campaign. Injured workers across the province are calling for an end to some of the main methods by which the…

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Changes to Ontario social assistance programs

September 8, 2017

Several of the changes to the province’s social assistance programs – Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) and Ontario Works – announced in the April Budget are now in effect. These build on other initiatives over the past year, including a simpler, less …

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Celebrating Labour Day

September 1, 2017

On April 15 of 1872 a massive working class demonstration of 2,000 workers from 27 unions made its way down the streets of Toronto in support of the printers’ strike for a shorter work day. By the time the street procession reached…

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Latest issue of JFIW newspaper now available

August 27, 2017

The Justice for Injured Workers’ Newspaper Issue No 13 (August. 2017), the must-read newspaper of the Ontario Network for Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG), is now available. Find details about ONIWG’s Provincial Organizing Campaign, Workers’ Compensation is a Right! and the three main…

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A right to compensation – and to answers

August 22, 2017

Last week saw some good steps forward in the fight for justice for the Ontario miners – some 10,000 between 1943 to 1979/80 – who, at the start of their shifts, were required to inhale the aluminum dust known as McIntyre Powder…

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