Actions & Campaigns

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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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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Defending the rights of injured workers – making common cause

July 26, 2017

In the current issue of Canadian Dimension Aidan Macdonald, a community legal worker with Injured Workers’ Consultants CLC, explains why the struggle against poverty wages and for universal workers’ compensation coverage are inextricably linked. The injured worker movement, with a decades-long history…

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Making a difference – with your support

June 25, 2017

On June 1st the 2017 Justice Bike Riders joined Injured Workers’ Day events at Queen’s Park and the Ministry of Labour, the final stop on a 600-km ride from Ottawa to Toronto. In making their route along southeastern Ontario through seven communities, …

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As seen (and heard) on Injured Workers’ Day

June 5, 2017

At this year’s Injured Workers’ Day rally and march in Toronto energized communities of injured workers and their families, health and safety activists, labour, advocates and academics came together with demands for meaningful action on longstanding problems to ensure fair workers’ compensation…

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June 1 – Injured workers demand a system that protects everyone

May 31, 2017

Join us on the streets! On Injured Workers Day, the province’s injured workers, labour, health and safety activists, advocates and families are taking this message to government. Meet at 11:30 a.m. Thursday June 1st outside the Legislative Assembly building at Queen’s…

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Justice for Injured Workers Bike Ride 2017 reachToronto

May 30, 2017

May 31 update – After delivering injured workers’ message in Oshawa to the mayor, riders Peter Page, Richard Hudon, Allen Jones and Nicole Simpson, with support driver Karl Crevar, hit the road again on the last stage of their 660 km Ottawa…

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June 1st : Injured Workers’ Day Rally & March

April 30, 2017

Thursday June 1st, 11:30am Queen’s Park Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1044072909025603/ Injured workers, their families, advocates and supporters will be taking to the streets once more as we have every year, since the first Injured Workers’ Day in 1984, to celebrate the gains made…

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ONIWG has added a new Facebook page

April 30, 2017

The Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups has added a new Facebook page for ONIWG as an organization – do check it out and be sure to LIKE and SHARE it! The new page lets ONIWG take advantage of Facebook features for…

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Day of Mourning 2017

April 25, 2017

On April 28 those who have been killed, made ill or injured as a result of occupational disease or work-related accidents are commemorated around the world in ceremonies of remembrance and action. In Canada, the Day of Mourning, launched in 1984 by…

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