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Actions & Campaigns

ONIWG turns to the courts for fair cost-of-living adjustment for injured workers

December 14, 2022

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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Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Benefits, Deeming, Injured workers

A look-back on 2021

December 30, 2021

In leaving 2021 behind, a round up of selected events from the past year that underscore increased awareness of social and health inequities that face too many workers and their families; the power of solidarity and support, collaboration and compassion among the…

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Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Diseases & Injuries, In the News, Law Reform

Coming up! Injured Workers’ Day & the Vigil

May 28, 2021

We hope you’ll join us next week for the annual Vigil (Monday at 4 p.m.) organized by the Women of Inspiration  and Injured Workers’ Day (Tuesday at 11 a.m.) organized by the Workers’ Comp Is A Right campaign (WCIAR). June…

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Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Injured workers

Let’s reach as many injured workers as possible for the CIWA survey on COVID-19

May 13, 2021

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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Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Covid-19

Stop Unsafe Evictions during COVID-19

October 7, 2020

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…

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Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Covid-19, Poverty

A Labour Day message from injured workers

September 7, 2020

Friends, Please click below to see a message from injured workers on Labour Day, celebrating the things we can accomplish when workers unite, and setting out a plan for the future. View the video here: Feel free to share far and…

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Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Injured workers, Videos

Today is Injured Workers Day: Help us ask Ontario to #ProtectUs

May 31, 2020

June 1st 2020 is the 37th annual Injured Workers Day. Because of COVID-19, it is the first time since 1983 that we could not be together in person celebrate our collective power. Instead we must come together online. Today, the Ontario…

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Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Covid-19, Injured workers

Tell the Premier that the time for universal coverage is NOW!

May 6, 2020

Dear Friends and Allies, re: Universal Workers’ Compensation Coverage and the COVID Pandemic The Women of Inspiration (WOI) is an injured worker activist group. We strongly believe that all Ontario workers should be covered under the umbrella of the workers’ compensation (WSIB)…

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Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Coverage, Covid-19

Commemorating workers on Day of Mourning – April 28

April 27, 2020

Although we cannot gather in the same way this year due to COVID-19 safety measures, tomorrow we will commemorate injured workers killed, injured or made ill on the job. A report released today,  2020 Report on Work Fatality and Injury Rates in …

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Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Covid-19, In the News, Injured workers

Tell Doug Ford and the WSIB: Injured Workers Need COVID-19 Relief NOW!

April 8, 2020

In these frightening and unprecedented times, the Province of Ontario and and the WSIB need to double down on protecting workers who get sick or injured on the job. The Ontario Network of Injured Workers’ Groups (ONIWG) has written to the Premier…

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Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Covid-19, Injured workers

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