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Remembering Katherine Lippel

October 5, 2021

Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic was saddened to learn of the death of Dr Katherine Lippel, Distinguished Research Chair in Occupational Health & Safety Law at the University of Ottawa, widely respected for her commitment to employment law that advanced workers’…

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“A disregard for workers’ environmental & health concerns”: lessons of the McIntyre Powder program

March 30, 2021

A recently published article “Dust versus Dust: Aluminum Therapy and Silicosis in the Canadian and Global Mining” (Canadian Historical Review, 102(1) Mar. 2021: 1-26) provides a thorough, if disturbing, examination of the forces in play behind the development and widespread adoption of…

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Amazon’s workplace safety under scrutiny

December 14, 2020

In a Toronto Star investigation reporter Sara Mojtehedzadeh has thrown new light on Amazon’s record of worker injury and illness in Canadian warehouses. The newspaper has confirmed at least 25 COVID-19 cases in Amazon’s Brampton warehouses alone. Documents received through Freedom of…

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“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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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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A survey of workers’ experiences during a pandemic

April 26, 2020

Your participation is requested in this OHCOW survey which seeks information on not just your experiences of the physical aspects of working conditions during the pandemic but also the psychological impacts: This survey is designed to learn about your experiences as a…

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COVID-19 Frequently asked workplace health and safety questions

March 29, 2020

The Workers’ Health & Safety Legal Clinic (WHSLC) is keeping Ontario workers informed on key questions about COVID-19 and their employment: What can I do if I think my workplace is not following appropriate health and safety protocols with respect to COVID-19?…

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Auditor General finds Ministry of Labour health & safety enforcement lacking

December 5, 2019

As an injured worker advocate, I see many workers in economic vulnerability and in precarious and unsafe working conditions. I see workers who think of their workplace injuries every day, who think about “what if the factory actually kept to their safety…

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Injured workers denounce premium rate reduction & death at Fiera Foods

September 26, 2019

(Press Release, Sep. 26 2019) The Ontario Network of Injured Workers’ Groups (ONIWG) is appalled that the Ford government and WSIB are giving yet another massive gift to employers in the form of a 17% premium rate reduction, especially with…

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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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