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Thunder Bay injured workers tell panel how minimum wage & deeming a bad combination

October 19, 2013

“Minimum wage discussion in Thunder Bay” (NetNewsLedger, Oct. 19, 2103) Greg Snider and Steve Mantis of the Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group addressed the Minimum Wage Advisory Panel. While supporting an increase in the minimum wage pegged to inflation…

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Meredith hearings come to the north

October 8, 2013

“Injured workers bear ‘burden’ ” / Sandi Krasowski (Chronicle Journal, Oct. 6, 2013) Update on the latest Reconvened Meredith hearing held at the Lakehead Labour Centre where injured workers and advocates voiced their thoughts on the state of workers’ compensation in Ontario.…

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Their Only Power was Moral

April 18, 2013

A video of the history of injured workers in Ontario, telling the important story of their struggles for justice from the early 1900s to the present day, has just been released by the Injured Workers’ History Project. Using historical records such as…

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Traumatic work injury, 8 appeals, still waiting

January 11, 2013

“Injured worker fights 16-year battle with WSIB.” / Sarah Sacheli (Windsor Star, Jan. 10, 2013) Richard Owens, a department store manager shot during a robbery in 1996 at his workplace that made headlines at the time, is still fighting to have his…

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