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Hamilton and District
INJURED WORKERS Group
Events Calendar
General membership meetings of the Hamilton & District Injured Workers' Group are held on the last Wednesday of every month. There are no meetings held in July, August or December. All interested parties are welcome to join us at:
Legion # 58 (upstairs)
1180 Barton Street East
Hamilton, Ontario
(across from the Centre Mall)
Next meeting: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 @ 7:30 p.m.
Guest Speaker: Lynn Cooper, Canadian Pain Coalition
International Day of Mourning
Memorial Services are held in Hamilton on the 28th of April each year, at 10:30 a.m. in front of the
Monument to Workers, Hamilton City Hall (Main W. and Bay Street). Please join us to remember and honour those whose lives have been impacted by workplace fatality, injury and illness.
Monument to Workers, Hamilton City Hall
JUNE 1ST INJURED WORKERS' DAY
For more information and meeting times:
On June 1, 1983, over 3,000 injured workers, their families and supporters showed up for a meeting of the government committee
charged with fashioning the new compensation act.
The meeting room in the Macdonald Building at the corner of Bay and Wellesley streets in Toronto could hold a few hundred people. Not
3,000! Worried committee members gladly accepted the suggestion of injured worker supporters to shift the meeting to the grounds of Queen's Park.
It was an historic and momentous event. Historic because never before had a government committee meeting been held on the grounds of
the Legislature. Momentous because when the government introduced the new compensation act a year later, the dual award plan was not included.
Instead, the pension plan was maintained. A year later, in 1985, the long-standing demand of injured workers that their pensions
be indexed was implemented. And, in the midst of these events there was another moment of recognition: the proclamation of Injured Workers' Day!
This short history of Injured Workers' Day was written by
members of the Injured Workers History Project (IWHP). The IWHP is a group of injured workers, advocates and researchers who are uncovering and writing the history of injured workers in Ontario.
To find out more contact us at: The Bancroft Institute for Studies in Workers' Compensation and Workplace Health and Safety (416-411-2411; Robert Storey, Labour Studies & Sociology, McMaster University (905-
525-9140, x24693)
I n j u r e d W o r k e r s ’ H i s t o r y P r o j e c t