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Reading up on Justice for Injured Workers

October 1, 2015

A reminder – If you’re not on the mailing list for ONIWG’s “Justice for Injured Workers” newspaper or picked up a copy at the Labour Day parade, the September issue is now available. Find here news from injured worker groups around the…

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Register for Bancroft Research to Action Workshop on Poverty

October 1, 2015

The role of research (its use and misuse) in shaping public policy and public opinion affects injured workers in very concrete ways. It is a topic addressed in the upcoming Bancroft Institute session which will focus on Workers’ Compensation and Poverty:…

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The Changing Workplaces Review & the injured worker

September 28, 2015

The Injured Workers’ Consultants Community Legal Clinic has, in its submissions to the ongoing Changing Workplaces Review, asked for the experience and perspective of injured workers to be taken into account in reforming the employment standards regime. The Sep. 18 IWC …

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Denied claimant supports fired medical consultant

September 28, 2015

“WSIB lawsuit: Fired hospital worker details struggles after losing his claim: Doctor who assessed Shawn McCabe claims she was pressured to alter her medical opinion” / Jacques Gallant (Toronto Star, Sep. 26, 2015) The injured hospital worker at the heart…

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Peterborough workers fighting back against rejected claims

September 21, 2015

“Group holds public meeting to fight back against rejected WSIB claims by ill General Electric workers ” / Jessica Nyznik (Peterborough Examiner, Sep. 17, 2015) Occupational and Environmental Health Coalition-Peterborough meeting with former GE employees, many of whose claims (including asbestosis and…

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Twitter for your injured workers group – social (justice) media

September 15, 2015

Online social networking can be an easy way (especially for those with limited mobility but access to a computer or mobile device) to keep in touch with other injured workers or to find out what’s happening with people or topics that matter…

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ONIWG: Board’s positive spin on poverty report misplaced

September 3, 2015

On its website, the WSIB website is highlighting the key finding of a recently published Institute for Work & Health study (Final Report on Work Injury and Poverty: Investigating Prevalence across Programs and Over Time ) as being that “there is…

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Women’s health & the workplace

August 26, 2015

Some recent discussions on the role of gender and tasks as they affect the working experiences of women… Canadian researchers Katherine Lippel and Karen Messing were among presenters at the International Conference “Women’s Work & Health” held March 2015 in Brussels. Organized…

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“Isolated all the time – frustrated and angry”

August 26, 2015

“36 years spent in poverty and pain, injured worker says” (CBC News, Aug. 18, 2015) Fred Palmer still lives with the chronic pain, financial and mental health aftermath of serious injuries sustained while working on a railway in northern Ontario over three…

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Awaiting appeals

August 3, 2015

Appeal backlogs and delays, appointee terms, reconsideration powers … some of the issues facing Canadian workers’ compensation appeals tribunals. On Tuesday, the Ontario Ombudsman’s 2014-2015 Annual Report highlighted two matters of concern regarding the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT). Ontario…

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