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Talking Radical Radio host Scott Neigh recently interviewed activist leaders from the Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group: one of the founders, Steve Mantis; president Eugene Lefrançois; and vice-president Janet Paterson (Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups…
Response to the Appeal Tribunal’s New Pre-hearing Process Consultation
The Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT) has provided a number of proposed changes regarding their pre-hearing processes in order to reduce delays. The Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic made a submission to the consultation, which can be reviewed here.…
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Add your story on Dryden Mill RB4
Dryden Weyerhaeuser Paper mill built Recovery Boiler #4 as part of reducing air emissions from their mill. Weyerhaeuser had already completed pretty much the same project at their mill in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, where they installed manifolds on…
Between 2002 and 2004, ONIWG turns to the courts for fair cost-of-living adjustment for injured workers
Inflation was not an issue when the workers’ compensation system was introduced back in 1915. But by the 70’s and 80’s injured workers saw their benefits being swallowed up by rising prices and increased cost-of-living. Annual indexing is supposed to protect injured…
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Calling on injured workers to take part in Human Rights Commission survey on poverty
The Ontario Human Rights Commission is doing a survey of people who are experiencing poverty, or have experienced poverty in the past, and also family members, friends or service providers who know someone who has experienced poverty.
This is part of a…
University of Waterloo seeks injured workers for study on retirement & poverty
Tony Mauro: the passing of a long time fighter for injured workers
Training for injured workers on accommodation law
Remembering Jim Nugent
ONIWG continues to speak out on key issues facing injured workers
In two recent communications, the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) continues to raise its voice on issues of long-standing concern to the injured worker community.
Claims suppression, non-reporting and abandoned claims
A letter to the President and CEO of the…
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