Injured Workers Demand Justice

Introduction

This may not be the best way to start a united voice among injured workers but it is a start. I am putting my name at the end of this message in hopes that other injured workers and injured workers groups will also sign. This can also be signed by family, friends, medical personal, politicians and employers who have knowledge of the mistreatment of injured workers, by the corrupt practices of Workers Compensation Boards across Canada and the USA. Please pass this on to others who have taken abuse from uncaring Workers Compensation Boards, Politicians and medical personal, and will not accept this type of treatment it anymore. When complete, take this and present it to caseworkers, doctors, politicians etc. along with your personal information. By presenting this, to every person you are required to deal with, you create an ever growing voice, which will not be able to be ignored, by the people, who can make the changes to protect all injured workers.

Contributed by an injured worker.

Consider This

We are Canadians. We are injured workers.

Before our injuries we were considered honest, hard working, taxpaying citizens. We have / or want families who can depend on us to provide the basics required to make life good.

We have enjoyed/or want to enjoy the perks in which hard work and employment can provide. The ability to earn an income is the only way to make these perks available.

We all have one thing in common. We have been devastated financially and/or mentally by the corrupt practices and mandates of Workers Compensation Boards across twenty-­seven States in the USA and eleven Provinces in Canada. (This has been taken to the ultimate in despair, suicide.)

Our own elected politicians who, if they acknowledge these injustices, would have to admit collusion, which could involve human rights violations, have also ignored us. This is a well-known problem, which has been studied over and over. Every type of excuse has been given for not doing anything. The only reason for not correcting the known atrocities is the cost. It is easier to allow the devastation of injured workers to continue, than to do what is morally required.

Criminals are given more respect than injured workers. They do not have to worry about things as basic as food and education. They have access to basic needs like dental and eye glasses. They also have access to lawyers and bring forward costly and frivolous lawsuits. Our only crime is being injured while trying to make a living. We do not have affordable access to these most basic of human rights!

We are forced to depend on family, welfare and food banks to exist. The compensation boards have shuffled their responsibilities onto the taxpayer.

We believe that this mistreatment of an entire section of society must end. Politicians must take a stand and end the vile, corrupt treatment of injured workers by Workers Compensation Boards.

Simple Questions to ask yourself and others

Would you or any of your friends become a Liar and

Cheat should you become injured while at work?

If you answered no would you like to be accused of being that type of person?

If you had options to do otherwise, would you want to lose everything you had gained, previous to your injury?

If you had options to do otherwise, would you put financial and extra workload stress on your wife and family?

Would you feel good about going to friends, family, taxpayers etc. in order to provide food and money in order to just exist?

After being diagnosed by your doctor and specialists, would you like to have these diagnosis be ignored and replaced by those who may or may not be a medical doctor and has never physically seen you?

If you belonged to a group, which is thousands strong, and all across Canada and the USA, would you like to be ignored by or sent in circles by the people you elected to serve you?

Would you risk mental breakdown, financial ruin, and in to many cases suicide. This for the "remote chance" of receiving, a small inadequate pension?

Neither would “WE” if we had a choice

Webmasters Note: The original software for this petition crashed, this is a new program, however we recovered the signatures of all those considerate Canadians who signed this petition already. To view the signatures prior to Feb 2009 click this link. (View Signitures)

We the following demand the changes necessary to protect injured workers from the corrupt practices of Workers Compensation Boards