About Injured Workers' Day
June 1 is National Injured Workers’ Day, a day to stand in solidarity with injured workers, celebrate our successes and fight for a better, fairer workers’ compensation system. It is also a day to renew our demand that employers, the Workers’ Compensation Board and the provincial government do more to keep workers safe on the job.
Recognition of this day began in Ontario on June 1, 1983, when 3,000 marchers converged on the steps of the Ontario legislature. They demanded a voice for injured workers in committee meetings being held about changing the Ontario WCB system. Their voices couldn’t be ignored, and the committee allowed injured workers to have their say. Last fall, the Ontario legislature passed a bill introduced by NDP MPP Jamie West to formally recognize June 1 each year to be Injured Workers’ Day in Ontario.
Find out more
- Learn about the history of Injured Workers’ Day here.
- See our statement on Injured Workers' Day 2025 here.
Resources
General
- Injured Workers’ Resource and Advocacy Project website (IWRAP)
- BCFED Health & Safety Centre
- New Directions: Report of the 2019 WCB Review (the Patterson Report) (PDF)
- Workers Deserve Better: How We Can Build the Workers’ Compensation System that Injured Workers Need (Summary of the Patterson Report by Kevin Love) (PDF)
- Canadian Injured Workers’ Alliance
- WCB Fair Practices Commissioner
- BC Workers' Advisers Office
Psychological injuries
- BCFED OHS Lobby on Psychological Injuries & Presumption (2023)
- BCFED Submission to Gov’t on Psychological Injuries and Presumption (2023) (PDF)