February 2007 : Northern Regional Training Workshop, Sudbury
This workshop on workers' compensation practice in a general service
community legal clinic included a session by Orlando Buonastella (Injured Workers' Consultants)
on community organizing. The following related paper by Ivana Petricone of the Rexdale Community
Legal Clinic discusses her experiences in starting an injured workers' group and the impact for
the workers and her clinic practice. Read more...
Two new training programs for injured workers were established for injured workers
in 2006:
Speaker school – a 10 session program to help injured workers to speak in public: in a group setting,
injured workers learn public speaking techniques and the transition form “venting” to “convincing”.
Injured Worker School – a 3 part session to help injured workers realize the history and principles of our
workers’ compensation system and the importance of their active participation in the struggle for justice.
Session one deals with the founding principles, session two with the transition from the pensions to “deeming”,
session three with the formation and maintenance of injured worker groups. [Notes from Session 3]
