About us:

The Canadian Injured Workers Alliance (CIWA) is a national network of injured workers groups that aims to support and strengthen the work of local, provincial, and territorial injured workers groups by providing a forum for exchanging information and sharing experiences. We exist to support injured workers and improve the Occupational Health and Safety of workers across Canada. We believe that injured workers, as individuals, should be in control of their own destinies. In a similar vein, injured workers groups must be democratically controlled by injured workers. We believe that a national organization of injured workers can best achieve these objectives by providing training and educational resources. Through partnerships with injured workers organizations at the provincial and territorial levels, as well as with the trade union movement, CIWA is working to fulfill these objectives. For more information, please contact the Canadian Injured Workers Alliance.

Our objectives:

CIWA has a number of specific objectives:

• work toward a just system of compensation, rehabilitation and re-employment in all provinces and territories of Canada.
• provide a national forum for debating issues of concern to injured workers and their organizations at national conferences and at national board workshops (as funding allows).
• gather and share information with groups and individuals across Canada.
• improve the occupational health and safety of workers in Canada.
• identify appropriate educational & training resources within the union movement as well as agencies serving injured workers, and to make these resources available upon request to provincial and local injured workers groups. The emphasis of this material will be on how to organize and maintain effective injured worker groups.
• design all of our activities in such a way as to enhance the local base of the injured workers movement.
• liase with organizations that represent persons with disabilities and organizations that represent workers to achieve a common goal.