Sure enough I learned that injured workers right here in Nova Scotia were going through the same kind of abusive treatment at the hands of these unionized caseworkers , then we learned that the abuse of power was also being displayed by those service companies who were hired by the WCB to service injured clients.
For example therapists hired by the board were using intimidation and that intimidation was placing much stress on the injured patient and in more case we learned that these therapists were threatening or as they call it these days bullying injured workers, no matter how great the pain was, if they did not do as the therapist demanded, they would be written as non-compliant …thus terminated by the WCB Board. This was and is still a very common practice.
So my small band of merry injured workers struck out to find more injured workers who had documentation and were willing to tape record all conversation between caseworkers, doctors and any other hired thug employed by these vile bad faith boards. Bingo, we learned that the abuse in one Board was the same practiced in all others. So, now we are educating and helping injured who have a story to sit in front of a camera, tell the truth and mention the names of each and every single person / caseworker who has abused them along their way, including therapists ,doctors and other health care providers.
Injured workers are now just starting to come together and right across this country, we are taking the bag off our head and putting aside the shame we were made feel. Injured workers will tell how the Compensation Board destroyed their life, forced them into bankruptcy, split apart their families and yes even drove the now widows, husband to suicide or visa versa. How the children and family were degraded by having to go to welfare, because some caseworker decided to play GOD with their life.
Christ you guys truly are cruel bastards.
I have been following this latest case about Cascade Aerospace which Worksafe B.C. is involved in and thanks to being able to post as an injured workers on Kathy Tomlinson CBC site, I have received emails and phone calls from right across Canada and we have been overwellemed with letters from injured workers from British Columbia.
I do not know who this Mark Evans is , but for some reason he seems to have lots to do with injured workers and has placed according to these letter injured workers under much stress. As you know and are well aware , that stress leads to mental health issues and as we are also learning has place a high number of injured workers in the position of either committing suicide or having made a failed attempt leaving them with another cross to bare.
There seems to be a common practice that flows out of the management practices of all of these vile Workers Compensation Boards and that is get rid of the injured workers at any cost . Injured Workers across Canada have had enough of this abuse , that is being administer at the hands of the unionized staff at these vile government agencies .
I am going to make a suggestion that you can pass onb to every person employed at Worksafe B.C. ,I suggest that you contact Dr. Hugues Hervé, he is a registered psychologist in British Columbia, then have him put the WCB Staff through a Psychological Assessment, including Mark Evans. Mark a real secretive man, if you know what I mean?
Trust me Mr. McCloy, injured workers are not going to stand for any more of this abuse, injured workers are more than willing to tell their story about how they were mentally abuse and some injured workers are of the opinion the the Workers Compensation is capable of out right murder and you know, I beginning to believe they might be right!
The British Columbia Provincial Government and all other Provincial Governments including the Federal Government will have little choice but to put in place a full blown public inquiry, this abuse must stop, injured workers are being murdered, by a piece of legislation, which will be proven that in the hands of the wrong people or organizations such as the WCB is akin to a man gone mad with a AK 47.
This letter was to inform the Association of Workers Compensation Boards in Canada, that we are pissed off and sick and tired of the abuse we are forced to take at the WCB hands, no more. I cannot continue to write, because just having to write this make me want to toss my guts. I do have my own site, and so does the Injured and abused Workers Coalition, but for now that site is closed to the public, but in due time it will be opened.
Sincerely
Wayne Coady
Injured and abused Workers Coalition
CC: Provincial Ministers of Labour
Federal Minister of labour
Provincial Minister of Human Rights
Provincial Minister of Justice
Federal Minister of Justice
Federal Minister of Human Rights
Canadian Labour Congress
Members of Parliament …through the speakers Office
The Association of workers Compensation Boards of Canada
The Medical Association of Canada
Canadian Civil Liberties
Membership of the Abused and Injured Workers Coalition
Stumble It!
And over the course of my working life from the early 50s, it has been ever more steadily eroded in its benefit to the working class, and harder and harder to get. And the recent decades since the late 70s to early 80s and the rise of extreme right wing Conservatism, which has infected and compromised every other political party in the country. in their approach to a broad range of working class benefits won in the immediate post WW2, has seen the greatest erosion of working class benefits and rights, along with their quality of life within capitalism generally.
So the first thing that needs to happen is, workers (and unions) need to let the scales fall from their eyes, and come to recognize that this is so, and this is where they are within extant capitalism in the here and now. Then, as you seem to be attempting to take some leadership in, workers need to organize, and by that I mean "Organize to Fight". Short of this, and the emergence of a new working class militancy in our time in general, one might as well be lying naked in a field of periwinkle blowing smoke rings.
For we are moving into a time... Nay, we are already in it. ...where it is going to be necessary, at a minimum, to scare the living bejeezus out of the ruling class again. And better yet, to dream and act even bigger; rolling over the status quo social and economic system by creating a new, more working class friendly economic and political social order.. so that your kids, and your kids' kids won't ever have to fight this same fight yet again and again... in the endlessly repeating, broken record way of capitalism.
Good luck to you, brother.
Reality can be your friend, once you understand it for what it really is, so that one, and the entire class, doesn't endlessly keep chasing its own tail.
Mark Evans is a retired 27 year veteran of the RCMP. He currently holds the position of Chief Fraud Investigator at WorkSafeBC.