Injured workers in Thunder Bay are rallying against the practices of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board.
Jim Littleford is an electrician who was injured on the job in Dryden in 2003.
Littleford tells us he’s been fighting since his brain injury with the WSIB over his claim.
“If you get hurt at work, you have no protection. They are, for a lack of a better word, they are useless garbage.”
He wants the provincial government to step in over the WSIB’s practices of deciding for or against claims including using their own doctor.
“Family doctors who should have more say over a doctor who has never met you. I have 5 doctors, the WSIB has 1, who I have never met or even talked to. He’s never called to ask me any questions. They should be listening to our doctors, not to a doctor who is paid by them to take money away from injured workers.”
Workers rallied in front of Thunder Bay’s WSIB office Monday afternoon.
