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Home / Blog / Actions & Campaigns / “Deck the halls with workers’ rights”

“Deck the halls with workers’ rights”

December 15, 2017

The week started off as bitterly cold as it ended, but that didn’t stop injured workers and their supporters from rallying this past Monday in 8 communities across the province to sing out carols “with a twist” and take the message that Workers Comp Is a Right to the street (and to the Ministry of Labour by phone …) Song sheet for Deck the Halls

In Thunder Bay, Barrie, Windsor, Chatham, Hamilton, London, Niagara and Toronto a holiday outreach blitz spread the word to the public, politicians and the media about why our workers’ compensation system is broken and changes needed to restore fairness. Passers-by read the leaflets and added their signatures to the petition on injured workers’ three key demands:

  1. No cuts based on phantom jobs!
  2. Listen to injured workers’ treating healthcare professionals!
  3. Stop cutting benefits based on “pre-existing conditions”!

For selected coverage of the event see:

  • ONIWG Facebook – Provide-wide Injured Worker Outreach Blitz album
  • CBC News Windsor. 2017 Dec. 11. “Union ‘carolers’ perform songs in support of injured workers outside WSIB building.”
  • Peden, Heather. 2017 Dec. 12. “Group claims injured workers’ compensation system flawed.” Chronicle-Journal (Thunder Bay)

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