HEALTH & SAFETY NATIONAL PUBLIC INQUIRY REQUESTED

Jim Brophy, a University of Windsor professor is calling for a national inquiry into work and health conditions inside factories and plants. Dr. Brophy has studied occupational disease for more than thirty years. He stated that there is a lack of recognition by the compensation system regarding occupational diseases and that the recent, ongoing rubber workers issues and stories in Kitchener-Waterloo cry out for change and improvement. Today's story in the Waterloo Region Record is titled "A matter of national importance" and is the lead story on the front page. At least that is the title on my copy of today's Record delivered to my door. Unfortunately the Record routinely amend their story titles after the fact so on-line it is likely something different.

Back on July 23/19 I posted a story about the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB) on my other blog, the Waterloo Region Advocate. My posting certainly was not very complimentary about the WSIB (formerly Workman's Compensation i.e. WCB). Even then a public inquiry was being called in relation to the WSIB's penchant for dismissing legitimate claims. Today's story in the Record indicates that 30 new claims out of a possible 300 have been accepted by the Board. My only wish is that every bastard in a position of authority at the WCB should have to spend at least a week working in those conditions. I have done it and much more and they aren't pleasant but to later find out that they have killed you is even worse.