Every day, skilled and dedicated case managers, nurses, return to work specialists, health & safety specialists and other crucial workers who provide much needed services to injured workers at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) go to work to help keep Ontarians safe. They make sure more than 5.3 million workers across 325,000 workplaces can access their benefits, that their families get the support they need when an injury occurs, that workplaces take steps to mitigate risk, and that hurt workers have a path to return to work when they’re ready.
This isn’t just insurance. The workers of CUPE 1750 (also known as the Ontario Compensation Employees Union - OCEU) look at the people behind the cases and ensure everyone is taken care of. Their work takes time – to properly evaluate a case, to map out necessary preventative measures for a workplace, to work with families.
Except they’re not given enough time or resources. They used to get six months training. Now, it’s three. They used to have a caseload of 70. Now it’s 140 or more.
While CUPE 1750 members see the people in their casefiles, senior management at WSIB just sees numbers. Staff are stretched thin, overworked, and told to do more with less while management gives themselves compensation improvements.
Ontario relies on the WSIB. We rely on these workers. Send a message to their Board of Directors to avert a strike and give CUPE 1750 members a fair deal now.
