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This shameful agenda must be exposed and reversed…

May 31, 2016

“WSIB’s Reforms: Smoke, mirrors and broken workers” / Orlando Buonastella & Kathrin Furniss (Rankandfile.ca, May 31, 2016) While there has been recent widespread media coverage of the way in which the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board systematically ignores the opinion of injured…

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A Miracle on Front St

May 30, 2016

Ontario’s Workplace and Safety Insurance Board presents … A Miracle on Front St. The WSIB’s annual benefits payment to workers have been reduced by over $800 million a year since 2009, from $3.2 billion to $2.4 billion in 2014. They expect to…

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Community support with income tax preparation

March 28, 2016

The deadline for most who are reporting 2015 personal income is fast approaching – April 30, 2106. Injured workers who need free help to file their income tax returns might wish to contact one of the many Volunteer Tax Preparation Clinics available…

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Time to change the austerity agenda?

March 28, 2016

For at least the last five years, the Ontario Government and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) have been operating the province’s workers compensation system with a clear cost-saving mandate. In large part, this has been in line with a…

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What injured workers wish for in the New Year

December 23, 2015

The government has announced its choice for the new WSIB President and CEO : Thomas Teahen, Wynne’s current Chief of Staff and formerly the Board’s Chief Services Officer (2010-2013). Injured worker groups are disappointed that requests to the Premier for an open…

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Turning around the balance sheet – at whose expense?

November 21, 2015

[Updated] Two recent articles underscore how injured workers’ continue to bear the burden of the Board’s financial management: “WSIB (Ontario) on a claims-denial binge as they transfer $285 million into their investment fund fund.” / Alec Caldwell (Canadian Contractor, 10 Nov.) “The…

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Rating the proposed Framework

October 8, 2015

Responding to the expansion and further entrenchment of experience rating in the proposed WSIB Rate Framework reforms, injured worker groups and their advocates have provided their objections and recommended alternatives in submissions to the ongoing Consultation The proposed rate framework conceptualizes the…

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New reports on destructive trends – a look south of the border

March 10, 2015

“Insult to Injury”, a 4-part joint investigative series by ProPublica and NPR (National Public Radio) takes an in-depth look at the decimation of workers’ comp in the United States. Using statistical and official documentary evidence, it also lays bare through injured workers’…

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Responding to Marshall’s claims

February 9, 2015

The Jan. 31 2015 Toronto Star article “Meet the man injured Ontario workers ‘love to hate'” drew many comments on the Star’s website, and published letters to the editor: “WSIB destroys workers’ lives” (Hamilton Spectator, Feb. 9). Jeannie Howe, Southwestern Vice-President of…

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WSIB’s Marshall: financial saviour or modern day bounty hunter?

February 1, 2015

“Meet the man Ontario injured workers ‘love to hate’ ” / Richard J. Brennan (Toronto Star, Jan. 31, 2015) Injured workers sincerely wish they had reason to praise the WSIB CEO and President for leadership of a fair compensation system. However in…

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