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Home / Blog / Diseases & Injuries / Covid-19

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

“The pandemic is a mirror, and it shows us who we care about. And who we don’t”

June 29, 2020

Treatment of some farm workers ‘a national disgrace’: Minister Canada’s Minister of Health Patty Hajdu was speaking to the special committee in the House of Commons following the death of the third migrant farmworker to die of COVID-19 on an Ontario farm.…

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Filed Under: Covid-19, Health Care, Migrant workers, Safety

Migrant farmworkers at the epicentre

June 7, 2020

Only a few days after the heartbreaking death of essential worker 31-year-old Mexican Bonifacio Romero, a second young migrant farmworker has died from COVID-19 in the Windsor-Essex region. Nearly one-fifth of confirmed cases in the area have been agricultural workers, local and…

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Filed Under: Covid-19, Migrant workers, Safety

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

Research project on impact of physical distancing seeks survey participants

May 19, 2020

A new research study is being launched focusing on the mental health consequences of physical distancing among low-income Ontario residents during the COVID-19 crisis. The researchers (McMaster University and University of Western Ontario) seek participants willing to complete an online survey. You…

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Filed Under: Covid-19, Mental Health, Research

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

COVID-19 updates for injured workers

May 3, 2020

Regularly updated information and selected resources for injured workers on claims and appeals handling, employment rights, government programs and services, and campaigns to ensure injured workers receive their just support. Workplace Safety and Insurance Board COVID-19 updates The WSIB’s offices are now…

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Filed Under: Covid-19, Employment, Injured workers, Legal services

On the Day of Mourning, workers who risk their lives MUST be covered

April 28, 2020

Each year on April 28th, we gather to remember workers who have been killed, made ill or suffered a workplace injury and to once again commit to continuing the fight to protect all workers with safe and healthy workplaces. COVID-19 has forced…

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Filed Under: Coverage, Covid-19, Injured workers

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, 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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