In this interview, with representatives of the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups we discuss how injured workers and their allies are organizing to affirm their rights by empowering themselves. Janet Patterson, President of the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups and Office Manager of the Injured Workers’ Alliance of Canada and Steve Mantis, the Chair of the Research Action Committee of ONIWG discuss the importance of their network to empowering injured workers across Ontario and a recent court challenge they launched to hold the Ontario government and its Workerplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) to account.
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