CBC interview with Fred Palmer
"Thirty years of doing battle
with workers compensation has made Fred Palmer a very angry man. He says
it's kept him spinning in a vicious circle of poverty.
"Palmer was seriously injured
in a railway accident thirty years ago. Among his stacks of documents
are any number of letters by doctors declaring him disabled.
"All he has to show for it is
a disability pension of $200 a month. He says all his efforts to get
more have run into red tape and slammed doors, he feels his right to
justice and happiness has been taken away."
In the world of permanently injured workers, news
travels fast. A sure sign of just how desperate injured workers across
It was simply put “amazing” to see the CBC Television had enough sympathy for what they too saw as very clear testimony of the fraud committed the Newfoundland Compensation system.
Not mentioned is that the same fraud is no less than
equal all across
Unfortunately this story was only available to viewers in
I do not mean to be ungracious, or unthankful to the CBC, I merely would like to point out what thousands of permanently injured workers have observed for years, that dog abuse stories have always made the news, yet human crisis stories get only the rare recognition. Most injured workers would agree that dogs really do supersede injured workers in importance by the governments of the day.
I do wish to thank CBC for airing this story;
thousands of injured workers now will be able to see they are not alone
in surviving the inhumane tactics of Worker Compensation Boards all
across
Commentary by WCBCANADA staff writer.
