Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group invites you to our weekly morning Zoom meetings (held from 10:00 a.m. to 12:noon on Tuesdays until Dec. 16, 2025). Everyone is welcome! Each session features a Guest Speaker, and is focused on particular issues of interest to Injured Workers. This is followed by how we can take action on the topics of discussion.
Guest speakers Alec Farquhar & Glenn Shor will present on Mobilizing for the compensation and prevention of occupational disease: lessons from the past and proposals for the way forward.
Session description: Working people experience many risks of harm just to make a living. This includes the risk of physical and mental injuries as well as hazardous exposures which can cause occupational diseases. Overall, occupational diseases are under-compensated and prevention measures are often insufficient.
The Demers study in 2021 documented extreme under-compensation of occupational cancers in Ontario and the situation is similar across Canada and the US. Just as injured workers have mobilized to take collection action, occupational disease victims, family members and allies have mobilized for the compensation and prevention of occupational disease.
The presenters will review the history of these mobilizations in Canada and in the US, the challenges to winning gains around occupational disease and proposals for the way forward. This will be followed with discussion for injured workers to contribute their own ideas on the best strategy to adopt.
Contact tbiwsg@gmail.com to be on the mailing list to get notices and the Zoom link for upcoming sessions. (This zoom link will be the same every Tuesday morning so you may want to save it to join where ever you are available).
See webpage and facebook for regular updates:
https://thunderbayinjuredworkers.com/tuesday-events/
https://www.facebook.com/ThunderBayInjuredWorkersSupportGroup/
Contact tbiwsg@gmail.com to be on the mailing list to get notices and the Zoom link for upcoming sessions. (This zoom link will be the same every Tuesday morning so you may want to save it to join where ever you are available).
See webpage and facebook for regular updates:
https://thunderbayinjuredworkers.com/tuesday-events/
https://www.facebook.com/ThunderBayInjuredWorkersSupportGroup/