Injured Workers & Injured Workers Advocates Demand Justice
Introduction
This may not be the best way to start a united voice among injured workers but it is a start.This letter, drafted by injured workers advocates, can be signed, emailed, posted or tweeted by you, your family, friends, medical personal, politicians and employers who have knowledge of the mistreatment of injured workers, by the corrupt practices of Workers Compensation insurances across Australia.
When complete, take this and present it to case managers, doctors, politicians etc. along with your personal information.
By presenting this, to every person you are required to deal with, you create an ever growing voice, which will not be able to be ignored, by the people, who can make the changes to protect all injured workers.
Consider This
We are Australians. We are injured workers.
Before our injuries we were considered honest, hard working, taxpaying citizens. We have / or want families who can depend on us to provide the basics required to make life good.
We have enjoyed/or want to enjoy the perks in which hard work and employment can provide. The ability to earn an income is the only way to make these perks available.
We all have one thing in common. We have been devastated financially and physically/or mentally by the corrupt practices and mandates of Workers Compensation insurances across Australia. (This has been too often taken to the ultimate in despair, suicide.)
Our own elected politicians who, if they acknowledge these injustices, would have to admit collusion, which could involve human rights violations, have also ignored us. This is a well-known problem, which has been studied over and over. Every type of excuse has been given for not doing anything. The main reason for not correcting the known atrocities is the cost (premiums, bribes, votes). It is easier to allow the devastation of injured workers to continue, than to do what is morally required.
Criminals are given more respect than injured workers. They do not have to worry about things as basic as food and education. They have access to basic needs like dental and eye glasses, and even surgery. They also have access to lawyers and bring forward costly and frivolous lawsuits. Our only crime is being injured while trying to make a living. We do not have affordable access to these most basic of human rights!
We are forced to depend on family, welfare and food banks to exist. The workcover organisations and insurance companies have shuffled their responsibilities onto the taxpayer and medicare.
We believe that this mistreatment of an entire section of society must end. We must make the politicians take a stand and end the vile, corrupt treatment of injured workers by Workers Compensation organisations/insurance companies.
Simple Questions to ask yourself and others
Would you or any of your friends become a liar and /or a cheat should you become injured while at work?
If you answered no would you like to be accused of being that type of person?
If you had options to do otherwise, would you want to lose everything you had gained, previous to your injury?
If you had options to do otherwise, would you put financial and extra workload stress on your wife and family?
Would you feel good about going to friends, family, taxpayers etc. in order to provide food and money in order to just exist?
After being diagnosed by your doctor and specialists, would you like to have these diagnosis be ignored and replaced by those who may or may not be a medical doctor and has never physically seen you?
If you belonged to a group, which is thousands strong, and all across Australia, would you like to be ignored by or sent in circles by the people you elected to serve you?
Would you risk mental breakdown, financial ruin, and in to many cases suicide. This for the “remote chance” of receiving, a small inadequate pension?
Neither would “WE” if we had a choice!
We the following demand the changes necessary to protect injured workers from the corrupt practices of Workers Compensation.
Please join aworkcovervictimsdiary in its crusade to start a united voice among injured workers!
Great initiative, workcover victim, please all injured workers, all disabled people and their families and all those who remotely care about the injustices inflicted upon an injured worker (family, friend, colleague, patient, acquaintance etc) spread the word as wide and fast as you can!
Done
Something to sign, click, etc would be useful – people dont like spreading things without ‘calls to action’ – sad but true. But for now, spreading!
Thank you muchly S, and yes I am working on a click-able version of a call-to action but guess what, I recently found out that Victoria is the only state that does NOT recognise e-petitions!!!!!! Howz that for democratie, eh!
when will xchanging be exposed for not compensating injured workers and there mis use of the mental health act .police were at my door re phony allegations by a certain team leader they were going to put me in a metal institution .she tried to declare me insane.can some one let me know when we will get justice ? please 0411187162
Dear Curtis,
Exposing Allianz for ill treating injured workers is slowly being done by sites like this one, where injured workers, like you, publicly share their horrible stories. (see: http://aworkcovervictimsdiary.com/2012/04/a-gut-wrenching-injured-workers-story-of-extreme-bullying-by-xchanging-and-plea-for-help/).
However, for a potential class action to occur against insurers like Xchanging and Allianz, as Erin Brockovich said, many many more stories need to be publicly shared and evidence showed. That is why it is so important for injured people to tell their stories and yell! (see: http://aworkcovervictimsdiary.com/2012/03/erin-brockovich-visits-workcover-victim-in-australia/)
In the meantime, the only thing you can do is to seek legal advise and representation, we would strongly suggest you to go to Shine Lawyers, the only lawyers who Erin Brockovich trusts. You can find Shine Lawyer’s details on the right hand sidebar of this side. It is extremely important that you do get legal help as Xchanging will take even more advantage of you if you don’t have representation. What happened to you is of extremely grave concern and needs to be legally addressed as a matter of urgency.
Hi fellow ‘WorkCoverVictim’
Try contacting the ‘Get Up’ author and utilise both sites to demand a royal commission into the fucked up systems referred to as workcover across our beautiful nation.
Fight the good fight.
Note added on 16 April: unprivatised by workcovervictim – it’s a very good idea – we shall do our best!
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And you can now sign here: http://www.change.org/petitions/reform-workcover-give-injured-workers-a-fair-go