Publications
Selected print documents and multimedia from Ontario's injured workers and their advocates
- Policy & law reform submissions
- Fact sheets & backgrounders
- News releases
- Articles, conference papers, reports
- Injured Workers History Project bulletins
- "Their Only Power was Moral" (Video)
Policy & law reform submissions
Oral and written presentations and briefs on workers' compensation policy and legislation
2013
- Presentation to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs (Apr. 3, 2013) ⁄ Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group [pdf]
- Letter to the Premier re Appeals Tribunal access to justice for injured workers (Mar. 28, 2013) ⁄ Ontario Legal Clinics Workers' Compensation Network [pdf]
- Presentation to the OFL People's Budget community conversations (Mar. 7, 2013) ⁄ Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group [pdf]
- Presentation to the City of London Public Budget meeting (Feb. 13, 2013) ⁄ Wendy Pinkerton-Knelsen (London Injured Workers Group [pdf]
- Submission re Injured worker response to new appeal changes (Feb. 26, 2013) ⁄ Bright Lights and Injured Workers Consultants [pdf] ¦ Appeals form protest statement [pdf]
- Declaration - Workers' compensation: justice not poverty for injured workers (Jan. 9, 2013) ⁄ Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group [pdf]
2012
- Review of WSIB Case Scenarios presentation (Nov. 15, 2012) ⁄ Ontario Legal Clinics Workers' Compensation Network [pdf]
- WSIB Benefits Policy Review presentation (Nov. 14, 2012) ⁄ Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group[pdf]
- Submission to the WSIB 2012 Benefits Policy Review Consultation (Nov. 9, 2012) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants [pdf]
- Comments on WSIB case scenarios (Nov. 8, 2012) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants [pdf]
- Submission to Jim Thomas WSIB Policy Consultation (Oct. 29, 2012) ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups [pdf]
- Letter to the WSIB President on issues of concern (Oct. 19, 2012) ⁄ Women of Inspiration [pdf]
- Submission re the proposed changes in the Appeals System (Oct. 6, 2012) ⁄ Chinese Injured Workers' Group [pdf]
- Submissions on ... Modernization of WSIB Appeals Program (Oct. 1, 2012) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants [pdf]
- Submission re Proposed changes to the Appeals Program (Oct. 1, 2012) ⁄ Women of Inspiration [pdf]
- Response to WSIB Appeals "modernisation" (Sept. 28, 2012) ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups [pdf] ⁄ letter [pdf]
- Letters to the Minister of Labour & WSIB and submission re Appeals modernization (Sept. 18, 2012) ⁄ Bright Lights Injured Workers' Group [pdf]
- Letters to Minister of Labour and Chair Thomas on Benefits Policy Review consultation process (September 14 & 4, 2012) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants & Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups [pdf]
- Submissions to the WSIB & Minister of Labour on appeals changes (Sept. 5, 2012) ⁄ Tamil Speaking WSIB Group [pdf]
- Joint presentation to the Standing Committee on Government Agencies : "Current issues in workers' compensation" ⁄ OLCWCN & ONIWG [transcript]
- Letter to the Minister of Labour re Consultation processon the WSIB's Appeals Program (June 14, 2012) Injured Workers Consultants [pdf]
- Letter to Premier McGuinty re KPMG Value for Money Audit (January 31, 2012) ⁄ Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network [pdf]
- Letter to Premier McGuinty on experience rating (January 27, 2012) ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups [pdf]
- Submission on the KPMG value for money audit (January 26, 2012) ⁄ Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network [pdf]
2011
- Response to the KPMG report on WSIB adjudication (December 13, 2011) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants [pdf]
- Letter to the Premier re the KPMG report on WSIB adjudication (November 9, 2011) ⁄ Bright Lights Injured Workers Group [pdf]
- Commentary on the WSIB "Framework for policy development and renewal" (September 19, 2011) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants CLC [pdf]
- Third submission to the WSIB Funding Review (August 31, 2011) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants CLC [pdf]
- Supplementary submission to the WSIB Funding Review (August 31, 2011) ⁄ ONIWG [pdf]
- Submission to Ontario's Social Assistance Review (August 9, 2011) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants CLC [pdf]
- Second submission to the WSIB Funding Review (June 15, 2011) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants CLC [pdf]
- Follow-up of the submission to the Funding Review (June 13, 2011) ⁄ Women of Inspiration [pdf]
- Submissions to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 27, 2011) ⁄ Ontario Legal Clinics Workers Compensation Network [pdf]
- Submission to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 27, 2011) ⁄ Bright Lights [pdf] - accompanied by the many, many letters that have been sent, over the years, on cost of living, experience rating, funding and other issues
- Submission to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 27, 2011) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants CLC [pdf]
- Submissions to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 18, 2011) ⁄ Hamilton Community Legal Clinic [pdf]
- Submissions to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 13, 2011) ⁄ Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group [pdf]
- Submissions to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 13, 2011) ⁄ IAVGO CLC [pdf]
- Initial submissions to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 7, 2011) ⁄ Toronto Workers' Health and Safety Legal Clinic [pdf]
- Submission to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 5, 2011) ⁄ Experience Rating Working Group[pdf]
- Joint submission to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 5, 2010) ⁄ OCEU & CUPE Ontario [pdf]
- Preliminary submission to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 5, 2011) ⁄ ONIWG [pdf]
- Submissions to the WSIB Interim Work Reintegration Policy Consultation (Feb. 15, 2011) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants Community Legal Clinic. [pdf]
- Letter to the Board - Our response to Work Reintegration policy (Feb. 10, 2011) ⁄ Bright Lights Injured Workers Group [pdf]
- Submission on Bill 135 (Sch. 21 - amendments to workers' compensation Act) to the Standing Committee on Finance & Economic Affairs (Dec. 2, 2010) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
- Presentations on Bill 135 to the Standing Committee (Dec. 2, 2010) ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG), Industrial Accident Victims' Group of Ontario (IAVGO) & IWC [pdf]
- Submission [re CPP] to the Ministry of Finance consultation on retirement income security (Nov. 30, 2010) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants [pdf]
- Letter [re Funding Review] to David Marshall, WCB/WSIB President (Nov. 26, 2010) [pdf] re his response (Oct. 27) to letter of Oct.14 [pdf] ⁄ Bright Lights Injured Workers Group [pdf]
- [Letter to Minister of Labour] on the Funding Review mandate and process (Oct. 19, 2010) ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) [pdf]
- [Letter to the WSIB/WCB President on the Funding Review] (Oct 15, 2010) ⁄ Women of Inspiration Injured Workers Group [pdf]
- [Brief] re: WSIB Work Reintegration Program (Sep. 27, 2010) ⁄ Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network [pdf]
- [Brief to the Board] re: new Work Reintegration Program (Sep. 20, 2010) ⁄ Toronto Injured Workers’ Advocacy Group (TIWAG) [pdf]
- Submission on the Auditor General's 2009 report to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (June 2, 2010) ⁄ Hamilton Community Legal Clinic [pdf]
- Submission on the Auditor General's report (June 1, 2010) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
- Submission on the Auditor General's report (June 1, 2010) ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) [pdf]
- Letter (with analysis) on the Auditor General's report to the Standing Committee (May 28, 2010) ⁄ Injured Workers Speakers School [pdf]
- Letter of concern on the Auditor General's report to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Apr. 20, 2010) ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG)[pdf]
- Commentary on the new WSIB "Narcotics Strategy" (Mar. 18, 2010) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
- Letter to the Board on the narcotics strategy (March 16, 2010) ⁄ Bright Lights Injured Workers' Group [pdf]
2009
- " Are oral hearings further threatened?" Response to the KPMG Value for Money Audit of the Appeal System report (June 26, 2009) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
- Submission on Bill 152, Poverty Reduction Act, to the Standing Committee on Social Policy (Apr. 21, 2009) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
- Submission on Bill 152 (Apr. 20, 2009) ⁄ Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group [pdf]
2008
- Submission on Bill 119 [re amendments in coverage under workers' compensation Act] to the Standing Committee on Social Policy (Nov. 17, 2008) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
- Pre-budget presentation to the Standing Committee on Finance & Economic Affairs (Jan. 24, 2008) ⁄ Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group [pdf]
2007
- Submission regarding Bill 187 July 2007 interim policies - Deeming adds insults to injury (Nov. 2007) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
- IWC response to the "WCB/WSIB Consultation on Accreditation for Ontario Workplaces" (May 30, 2007) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
- Presentations on Bill 187 to the Standing Committee (Apr. 26, 2007) ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG), Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC), Toronto Workers' Health & Safety Legal Clinic [pdf]
- Submission on Bill 187 to the Minister of Labour (Apr. 19, 2007) ⁄ Bright Lights Injured Workers [pdf]
- Submission on Bill 187 [deeming] to the Minister of Labour (Apr. 18, 2007) ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) [pdf]
- Submission on Bill 187 to the Minister of Labour (Apr. 5, 2007) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
- Letter to the Minister of Labour re Bill 187 [on the impact of minimum wage on deemed wages] (Mar. 29, 2007) ⁄ IWC Chair, Peter Bird [pdf]
- WSIB/WCB Consultation on Early and Safe Return to Work policies [second] : submissions (Feb. 2007) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
Fact sheets & backgrounders
- The real facts about injured worker benefits ⁄ IWC (Jun. 7, 2013)
- WSIB cuts to injured workers : the facts ⁄ IAVGO (May 2013)
- Workers' compensation news (May 4, 2012)
- KPMG by the numbers (Feb. 2012)
- ONIWG guide to the KPMG audit report, "KPMG compensation" for dummies (Dec. 2011)
- Fact sheet : Cost of living inflation adjustment to benefits (Nov. 2010)
- Fact sheet : Deeming is demeaning! (Nov. 2010)
- Fact sheet : Experience rating (Nov. 2010)
- Fact sheet : Universal workers' compensation coverage (Nov. 2010)
- Backgrounder : Workers' compensation finances : crisis or smokescreen? (Nov. 2010) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants
- Who Paid for the WCB's 'Unfunded Liability' in the Harris years? (2010)
- On the record : why are injured workers are expecting compensation cuts? (Jun. 2010)
- IWC commentary on the new WSIB Narcotics Strategy(Mar. 18, 2010)
- The injured worker community view of the unfunded liability issue (Aug. 2005)
Articles, conference papers, reports
- Maryam's speech to Day of Mourning gathering, Toronto, April 26, 2013
- "Reflections on workers' compensation and occupational health and safety" ⁄ Terence G. Ison (2013) 26 C.J.A.L.P. 1-22
- "Injured Workers & Poverty Survey 2010/2011 - summary results" ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (2011)
- "WSIB: The Big Ship" ⁄ Terri Aversa (OPSEU) - personal stories of Injured Workers Speaker School graduates (Mar. 29, 2011)
- "Presentation to the Health & Safety and WCB Conference of the Joint Ontario Federation of Labour and Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups" [on experience rating and other current issues] ⁄ Terence G. Ison (Nov. 26, 2010)
- "Age-Based Discrimination in Ontario's Workers' Compensation Laws: 'Promises to keep, and miles to go before we sleep…' " ⁄ John McKinnon (IWC) - paper presented to the Canadian Conference on Elder Law, Toronto (Oct. 29, 2010)
- "WSIB has plenty of reserves" [Letter to the editor] Aug. 23, 2009]
- "Injured workers and poverty survey report: Impacts of workplace injury - is this what Justice Meredith envisioned?
A study of the economic and social impacts of workplace injury and illness" ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups, Bonnie Heath (Jun. 2009)
Key findings [pdf] ¦ Pre-and post-injury income [chart] ¦ Post-injury sources of income [chart] - "Experience rating: prevention of injuries or managing injured workers?" ⁄ Terri Aversa (OPSEU)(Apr. 6, 2009)
- Papers & presentations from the 2008 ONIWG Conference (Oct. 17-19, 2008)
- Letters to the editor on experience rating, Apr. 8, 2008: IWC IAVGO
- "Poverty in Motion" ⁄ Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group (Feb. 2008)
- Injured Workers Annual report 2007-2008 ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (2008)
- "The Perils of experience rating: Exposed!" ⁄ Ontario Federation of Labour (Oct. 5, 2007)
- "Making the system better: Injured workers speak out..." ⁄ Injured Worker Participatory Research Project (2001)
- "The 1999 Injured Workers' report on workers' compensation in Ontario" ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (1999)
- "Squeezing the worker: how experience rating works." ⁄ Marion Endicott (IWC). IAVGO Reporting Service v. 11, no.1 (Sep. 1996): 6-9
News releases
- Jan. 9, 2013: Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group ⁄ "Rally at MPP Gravelle's office" [pdf]
- Nov. 30, 2012: ONIWG ⁄ "Health and safety rebate and surcharge incentive system harms injured workers international experts agree" (at symposium that addresses experience rating) [pdf]
- July 19, 2012: ONIWG ⁄ "Law Commission reports workers' compensation age limits undermine the worth and dignity of older adults [pdf]
- Apr. 30, 2012: ONIWG ⁄ "McGuinty's choice of WSIB Chair called a betrayal of injured workers" [pdf]
- Mar. 15, 2012: ONIWG ⁄ "WSIB President earns bonus cutting injured workers' benefits" [pdf] ¦ "Open letter to the Premier" [pdf]
- Nov. 16, 2011: ONIWG ⁄ Ontario's Injured Worker Community Stands in Solidarity with the Movement Against "Austerity" Measures Proposed by KPMG [pdf]
- Sept. 28, 2011:ONIWG ⁄ Letter to the Board "Request that WSIB sever its lnks with discredited KPMG [pdf]
- Sept. 23, 2011:ONIWG ⁄ Letter to the 3 Ontario party leaders "re injured workers' election issues"[pdf]
- July 27, 2011: IWC ⁄ "Workers' Compensation Board agrees to hear hunger striker" [pdf]
- June 15, 2011: ONIWG ⁄ "Cuts on the backs of injured workers" [pdf]
- May 31, 2011: ONIWG ⁄ "Overnight vigil (May 31) and Injured Workers' Day rally (June 1) at Queen's Park" [pdf]
- January 14, 2011: ONIWG ⁄ "Broken promise to injured workers? " [pdf]
- Dec. 8, 2010: ONIWG ⁄ "Injured workers' bake sale against cuts to compensation" [pdf] ¦ [Rally flyer]
- Nov. 10, 2010: ONIWG ⁄ "Open letter : Who cares about injured workers today?" [pdf]
- Oct. 4, 2010: ONIWG ⁄ "New WSIB funding review - are Ontario's injured workers on the chopping block again?" [pdf] ¦ Vigil leaflet
- June 1st, 2010: ONIWG ⁄ "Injured Workers' Day" [pdf] ¦ [Flyer]
- June 1st, 2009: ONIWG ⁄ "Injured Workers' Day rally & vigil" [pdf] ¦ [Flyer]
- June 1st, 2009: ONIWG ⁄ "Injured worker poverty survey" [pdf]
- Dec. 11, 2007: ONIWG/TIWAG/IAVGO ⁄ "16th Annual Injured Worker Christmas Demo" [Flyer]
- Oct. 2, 2007: ONIWG / OFL ⁄ "Injured workers betrayed by another Liberal broken promise - rally on deeming" [[pdf]]
- May 28, 2007: ONIWG ⁄ "Injured Workers' Day - Minister of Labour commits to abolishing phantom jobs for injured workers - will the WSIB do it?"[ [pdf]
- Mar. 19, 2007: ONIWG ⁄ "Vigil at Queen's Park - injured workers want an end to poverty" [pdf]
- Nov. 20, 2006: ONIWG / OFL ⁄ "Injured workers demand McGuinty live up to his promise to his promise to protect worker benefits from inflation" [pdf]
- Sep. 23, 2006: IWC ⁄ "Remembering Carol McGregor - champion of injured workers' rights and dear colleague" [pdf]
Injured Workers History Project bulletins
- 1 - Injured Workers' Day (origins of June 1st commemoration)
- 2 - A merry protest (a Dickensian tale of ongoing struggle for justice)
- 3 - No more cap in hand (begging(?) for cost of living protection)
- 4 - Deeming - it's just wrong!
- 5 - Back to the future (political response to the dual award system & deeming)
- 6 - Experience? Rating? (the program's origins and problems)
- 7 - Miracle at 200 Front Street : a play (what a fair system looks like)
- 8 - "The Historic Compromise" (why a no-fault system benefits workers, employers & the public)
- 9 - Meredith's Principles (origins and philosophy behind our workers' compensation system)
- 10 - The Politics of workers' Compensation (renewed assault on injured workers?)
- 11 - Justice : speedily and humanely rendered (the Funding review and Meredith principles)