License to injure or kill

Only in a sick system such as WCB would a human life be worth $8000.00

Commenting on Toronto Star article, "WORKING WOUNDED - When companies get rewarded for mistakes", longtime WCB critic for Alberta states, ". . . people who have been fighting the system for decades know exactly what the system is all about. Injured and disabled workers have to fight to have their claims accepted and even if they are accepted they then have to fight years for benefits while WSIB and other WCB systems provide rebates on an annual basis as a reward for injuring and killing workers. . . . In Alberta the death benefit for a single worker with no dependents is $8000.00 . . . Only in a sick system such as WCB would a human life be worth $8000.00 "

Perhaps more newspapers will start to investigate and report the dire circumstances that injured and disabled workers face due to employers who are guaranteed that they cannot be sued for negligence while injured and disabled worker's claims and benefits are unjustly denied. Rather than fines why are companies not charged with criminal negligence causing injury or death and the people in charge incarcerated?

How could WSIB not realize that they were paying companies more rebates than the fines they were receiving by the province is difficult to imagine although for people who have been fighting the system for decades know exactly what the system is all about. Injured and disabled workers have to fight to have their claims accepted and even if they are accepted they then have to fight years for benefits while WSIB and other WCB systems provide rebates on an annual basis as a reward for injuring and killing workers. This is the system that the Provincial Governments have forced workers to accept. Is it not about time that this whole sick system was abolished and workers who are injured or their dependents or family when they are killed given the same legal rights as other Canadians to sue the individual or company who is responsible for causing injury or death. In Alberta the death benefit for a single worker with no dependents is $8000.00 There is no benefits provided to the estate of a deceased single worker in Alberta. Only in a sick system such as WCB would a human life be worth $8000.00

Gerry Miller