Poverty

Letter to WSIB Chair on downplaying poverty

September 2, 2015

ONIWG objection to positive spin being put by the Board on IWH study “Final report on work injury and poverty” details how the WSIB’s characterization of the data and analysis contained in the study is either inaccurate or disingenuous.…

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Submission to the 2013 Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy

October 4, 2013

Since the IWC brief to the 2009 Strategy, the Board’s austerity measures with benefits cuts and increased claims denials have only increased injured workers’ poverty – forcing them onto taxpayer-funded social assistance,…

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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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Injured workers and poverty survey 2010: full report

March 1, 2012

Study, led by Bonnie Heath, surveys Ontario injured workers 2010-2011 on the economic, social and health impacts of work injury.…

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Injured workers’ “bake sale” against cuts to compensation

December 8, 2010

At the 19th annual Christmas demonstration outside the Ministry of Labour, injured workers – among Ontario’s most vulnerable groups facing increased poverty and insecurity from benefit reductions due to inflation – wonder if they should hold a bake sale to fill the…

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June 1st rally : the elephant in Queen’s Park

May 30, 2010

Since the release of last year’s survey of injured workers revealing they experience nearly 4 times the poverty rate in Ontario, it appears more cuts to benefits are coming following an invented financial crisis – with all roads leading back to the…

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