Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group

Submissions to Parliamentary Committee pre-budget hearings, Dryden

January 21, 2019

Presentation by Steve Mantis to the Standing Committee on Finance & Economic Affairs pre-budget hearings addresses the growing income inequality, its negative impacts on a democratic society, and how austerity cuts have hurt injured workers. The attached supplementary submission discusses the development…

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Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs pre-budget consultations

April 3, 2013

Group calls for implementation of Arthurs’ recommendations; discusses cost-shifting from employer to the individual and the public purse; permanent disability and injured worker poverty and unemployment.…

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Rally at MPP Gravelle’s office

January 9, 2013

Rally to protest government attempts – by cutting injured workers’ benefits – to solve solve years of underfunding the workers’ compensation system.…

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Workers’ compensation: justice not poverty for injured workers

January 1, 2013

Declaration on an all-out assault on the fundamental right to workers’ compensation, a system being designed to fail with a private-insurance approach that hurts injured workers.…

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Submission to WSIB Benefits Policy Review

November 14, 2012

Injured workers with real experience in dealing with the Board respond angrily to the case scenarios issued by the Board, stories carefully drafted to garner support for additional erosion of benefits rather than assist policy review. In the proposals, Group urges no…

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Presentation to the WSIB Funding Review

April 13, 2011

Detailed response and recommendations based on injured worker experiences and research; paper calls for the Chair to follow Meredith’s example and create a balanced vision of a workers’ compensation system, to look beyond the North American norm to European systems that have…

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Submission to the Standing Committee … on the Poverty Reduction Act

April 29, 2009

Group details the ongoing poverty faced by injured workers in its submission to the hearings of the Standing Committee on Social Policy on Bill 152. It also calls for restoration of funding to community groups to ensure their voice is heard.…

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Poverty in Motion

February 1, 2008

Study, co-written by Karli Brotchie and Becky Casey, aimed to to identify the impact of injury on workers, the extent to which it affects their income, the unique challenges of impoverished injured workers in Thunder Bay and characteristics of those particularly vulnerable…

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