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Starting next week – IWC’s online town hall & education sessions

May 19, 2020

As we continue to adjust to our ongoing office closure, Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic will begin having online town hall/education events about pressing issues related to Workers’ Compensation. The first session, presented by IWC staff, along with injured workers and allies,…

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Hamilton group issues May newsletter, The Beacon

May 12, 2020

A new issue of The Beacon, Hamilton & District Injured Workers Group’s newsletter, is now available – with updates on COVID-19 support, workers’ compensation campaigns and injured workers’ news and events. Subscribe on the Hamilton group’s website https://hdiwg.net/newsletter to get the…

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Find out how the Injured Worker Speaker School can help you

February 25, 2020

Do you want to learn more about the founding principles of workers’ compensation -and the injured workers’ movement? Do you want to learn to speak out and get involved with changing the system? You can do it with the Injured Workers Speakers …

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Upcoming Bancroft session on injured workers and international human rights law

February 24, 2020

In September of last year, the Ontario Network of Injured Workers’ Groups presented a submission to the United Nations that the practice of “deeming” in Canadian workers’ compensation systems is a violation of human rights under the UN Convention on the Rights…

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Precarious workers and return to work

November 26, 2019

How do precarious workers access workers’ compensation and return to work accommodation? How do power imbalances, aggressive WSIB deeming and vocational rehabilitation practices affect the low-wage injured worker? What are the barriers to meaningful access by Ontario’s migrant workers to return to…

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Upcoming Bancroft: Sick & Tired – health and safety inequalities

September 24, 2019

Still time to register for the October 1 Bancroft session! Editor Stephanie Premji (associate professor, McMaster University) will be discussing the recently published Sick and Tired: Health and Safety Inequalities (Fernwood, Dec. 2018). The collection by experts from the fields of labour…

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New issue of “Justice for Injured Workers”

September 15, 2019

The September issue of Justice for Injured Workers is now out! Released on Labour Day, the latest issue of the Ontario Network of Injured Workers’ Groups’ newspaper includes: Campaign recap: Workers’ Comp Is a Right – a year of growth and perseverance…

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Town of Widows – the Peterborough legacy

August 5, 2019

Town of Widows, a documentary on the fight for recognition of occupational diseases suffered by workers exposed to Peterborough’s General Electric plant’s “lethal legacy”, will be broadcast this coming Thursday (August 8) at 9 p.m. on CBC Docs POV.…

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Update from the ONIWG AGM & Conference

June 26, 2019

Fair workers’ compensation for victims of occupational disease (and lessons learned in fighting for it) was just one of the topics addressed at last week’s annual general meeting and conference of the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups. The OFL/ONIWG joint…

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Sharing lessons on the legacy of asbestos

April 9, 2019

A delegation from Casale Monferrato, the small Italian town devastated by high rates of mesothelioma and related disease after occupational and environmental exposure to asbestos, yesterday began its week-long visit to Ontario. The group, which includes oncologists, a civic politician, educators and…

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