I need to apologize for the misprint in the calculation methodoloy for the
WCB of Alberta's proposed Farm rates coming into effect on Jan 01, 2016 as per the WCB of Alberta's webpage for Farm and ranch workers. I had misprinted or misquoted the rates as the number of dollars per hour, which is an error I take responsibility for. The correct calculation method is in dollars per 100 dollars earned. For that misprint I am sorry. That is my official correction and it is the proper thing to do when you have made a published error.
The fact of the matter is that this simple little admission of error is approximately 1000 times more sincere than any measures that the WCB of Alberta has ever made in any of their published propaganda errors over the last 20 years.
The reason that I can make this statement is because the Workers Compensation Board could absolutely CARE LESS about any errors, omissions or any of their deliberate misrepresentations of fact they have made in the last 20 years. The WCB of Alberta does not NEED to apologize for any of their abusive practices since this organization has NEVER been accountable to the Government of Alberta or the citizens of this province who pay their salaries. The WCB AB have been empowered with Legislative Powers that go far beyond what any bureaucrat should EVER be entrusted with.
That is in essence the reason that the WCB AB needs to make no apologies, or retractions since they are allowed to operate at arms length from the government; and in doing so are allowed to dole out abuse with cognitive malice and without fear of any reprisals from government officials. Since the WCB AB claims to be funded by the employers, they do not believe they any owe any Duty to Accountability or fairness. The WCB AB believes that they do not have to be accountable to anybody, except the Corporations that contribute to the fund.
This is a really strange attitude coming from the Workers Compensation Board of Alberta given that they were given the powers of a court of Law to resolve disputes and to keep the litigation costs artificially LOW because there are NO Lawyers in Alberta that are interested in taking on a WCB Case. The WCB of Alberta is in technical terms a fiduciary institution. As such they owe a Duty of Care to the Injured Worker as he is the #1 Stakeholder in this tragic organization.
No casual observer would be able to confirm this Duty of Care that the WCB of Alberta is entrusted with, given their horrific treatment of Seriously Injured Workers over the last 20 years since Ralph Klein implanted Dr. John F. Cowell as CEO of the WCB of Alberta. Thus was born the John Cowell WCB MIRACLE, that seen the WCB of Alberta costs SLASHED in half in one year! Dr. Cowell knew if the WCB were to simply STOP TREATING Injured workers the WCB would save Millions.
The CEO John Cowell WCB Miracle would result in his crony appointment by
Fred Horne on Sept. 12, 2013 effectively becoming the Alberta Health Services CZAR, as the sole Administrator. That is your AB history of Cronyism lesson for today kids.
The WCB of AB is a Fiduciary and is in charge of a very large financial fund funneling BILLIONS of dollars into the Fund to be held In Trust. This Trust Fund was originally intended to help seriously injured workers with their medical bills and medical recovery needs, but it has morphed into an abusive TOOL that is wielded with inpunity for the express purpose of defrauding Seriously Injured Workers out of any benefits at all. This is a travesty of Justice that exists within this super corrupt WCB Scheme that seeks to deny the most basic of needs to injured workers.
What does the existence of such a super corrupt organization like the WCB of Alberta SAY about the Judicial System in Alberta? It says the entire Judiciary branch of the AB Government is corrupt is what this fact reveals, and eradicates any kind of fair treatment in the Alberta courts.
Need proof? See: Travis Vader
I have always said that the PC Party of Alberta created this WCB model of robotic responses for serious questions of a time critical nature that require real-time fiduciary responses. As you will recall from the WCB Media-relations press releases about the Patrick Clayton hostage takings, the WCB Alberta always "Stayed on Message" like the Harper govt. Ad-nauseum since 1995.
The WCB Alberta has been spewing the same Robotic Press Release since 1995 the year that
Dr. John F. Cowell served as the CEO of the WCB Alberta under Ralph Klein. The PC's resurrected Dr. John F. Cowell from his crony grave and he became the SOLE CEO of Alberta Health Services.
Alberta WCB has been lying about the 85% of the WCB claimants they "CLAIM" are HAPPY with the service delivered by the WCB of Alberta. The WCB and Guy Kerr have NEVER apologized for the biggest lie ever told in Alberta. The WCB of Alberta has never apologized for their monster lie that they were going to expose the biggest offenders on their website. My injury was not even on their site, it is all just MORE WCB Alberta propaganda. This is another example of how the WCB of Alberta simply does not include information they don't happen to feel is relevant on that particular day.
I have to rest my pain level is extremely high during these winter storms, and that leads to Chronic fatigue. More to come. Chronic Pain does not take any days off, nor does it take any hours off. Chronic Pain is 24/7 it is debilitating and it wakes me up at night, this is why on evenings when I can I add to my blog. The Spinal Arthritis that pulses out from my spine is so bad some days I just want to scream. I need to move to a warmer climate, these winters are literally killing me.
Monday, December 14, 2015
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
WCB is OF the Corporations and FOR the Corporations
The AB WCB is a product OF the Corporations because the Corporations are the ONLY ones ever allowed into a WCB Consultation meeting! I am shocked that they even told the Farmers about the location or the dates for these phony consultations. I was told the very first year after I fell that
A.) I was not on the guest list, B.) I was not invited! C.) You are NOT a recognized "Stakeholder"
After I was cut off of benefits just 6 months after I broke my back in a fall at work, I decided, "Hey, why don't I go see what one of these stakeholder meetings is all about". I was told to leave.
So the LIE that Farmers will be included in these phony consults is just nothing more than pure Propaganda by the WCB of Alberta. This is HOW the WCB of Alberta misleads the people who have the most at stake and who stand to loose the most, is by holding BOGUS consultations across Alberta!
If the WCB is actually listening to stakeholders now, that would be a shocking turn around in this Legal Hack organization that is empowered by the Hacks and Quacks Network of bogus doctors supplied by the College of Physicians. If you don't know, the College is a lobby group for private Health care.
Today I met a farmer at one of the local farmer's markets here in Edmonton and we got to talking about Bill 6. He was hurt in a workplace accident just like myself, and he received a bad back injury. He told me that it took the WCB of Alberta TEN YEARS to finally help him. His account of what happened after he was injured mirrored my experience where the WCB AB would only expose him to Hacks and Quacks crony WCB doctors. This is a common thread amongst Seriously Injured Workers here in Hellberta. Farmers KNOW how the WCB operates, and he as a farmer is NOT interested in allowing those WCB/OHS people onto his property. He said the WCB of Alberta finally paid him out only 10% for his disability, saying that it only affected his one leg.
But more importantly we got to discussing the WCB of Alberta itself as an organization, and we are both of the same opinion that the WCB is ONLY in business for the Corporations and nobody else, other than of course the Government Workers that are guaranteed benefits in their Union Agreements.
The Alberta Government is the LARGEST EMPLOYER in the province of Alberta and as such they are guaranteed benefits, so the Government Employees and their Unions like Cops, Firemen and bureaucrats naturally feel as though they are served well by this super corrupt organization.
We were both in agreement that we feel that this Bill is the means by which the large American Corporations will wield this government mechanism to bring about the END of the Family Farm in Alberta.
If you look at every other Industry that the PC Conservatives have tampered with, they have in EVERY instance chosen to make a small group of their cronies into the beneficiaries as owners of the new MONOPOLY in the industry they have chosen to corrupt.
This instance is no different, the only difference is that the Corporations have cleverly manipulated the NDP Government into being the "Bad Big Brother" government agency that the WildRose is using to their full advantage for political gain. WildRose is the political benefactor of Bill 6 and the NDP will be remembered as the government that pounded the Final Nail into the Family Farm coffin in Alberta, that is the political fallout of this bill.
The Farmers can easily recognize that injured workers have failed miserably at reverse engineering the Laws of the Land, and they also know that the FARMERS will never be able to rescind the Laws once they are written. This is WHY we need to KILL Bill 6!
There is NO worker in history that has managed to rewrite the WCB LAWS to correct wrongs by this super corrupt corporation. Injured workers have never changed ANY WCB Policies.
It is important to recognize that the WCB has never in their history "ALLOWED the Public to be Consulted!" That is a fact. NO PUBLIC CONSULTATION is the "Modus Operandi" for the WCB of Alberta. This is how they operate, the WCB AB don't WANT any of the people the claim are "Stakeholders" to have any input. When the WCB of Alberta indentifies you as a "Stakeholder", this means hang onto the tops of your rubber boots and bend over because the WCB of AB is about to drop by and give you a Stakeholder inspection!
The WCB could care less about your opinon or the opinon of any other Albertan, consultation is not how they manage to wantonly ABUSE injured workers. Consultation would reveal that the majority of claimants are not happy and never were, the WCB of Alberta does not want these FACTS leaking out.
Like I said the WCB is of the corporations, and is designed FOR the biggest Transnational Corporations operating in Alberta. The Farmers can see this and they don't like what is coming down their driveway. If you are Turkey shooting when they show up, tell them that you did not want to "Raise your voice" cuz you thought you might scare them. AB Govt. workers have "Zero Tolerance for Loud Voices" in their work environment. God, these govt. people would be of no use on a Farm, right?
Safety First: So for the protection of Govt. workers that are afraid of loud voices it is best if you don't holler any warnings, for their own protection you understand.
You see that Lay-a-bout Government workers are not able to comprehend "Loud Voices" directed at them because of their pampered life styles the enjoy working for a government emloyer who is NOT allowed to FIRE their lazy asses. I have always said that when they put up those Zero Tolerance signs in Govt. offices, now you have empowered these people to Act like GOD!
Injured workers know what it is to be told by WCB personnel that THEY ARE GOD! Nice huh?
And THAT is how the WCB of AB manages to Marginalize claimants and ban them from their property, is by their Loud Voices policy. But they can phone you at home and yell all they want at YOU?
First the WCB enrages you, and then they MARGINALIZE you, it is their MOST important and effective TOOL to deny you your rights as an injured worker.
Just tell the WCB Employees (OHS) that the light switches in the barn don't work and this will be enough to scare them from ever looking inside the barn.
The Lazy do-nothing Home Care people sent by the WCB told me it was Too Dangerous for them to go down the stairs", but it was OK for me to climb the stairs everyday by myself after surgery while the do-nothings stood at the top of the stairs watching!
The Lazy do-nothing WCB Homecare people did not even SHOW UP for 4 days after I was released from the hospital, the WCB AB is a damn poor excuse for Injured Worker care that is for damned sure.
A.) I was not on the guest list, B.) I was not invited! C.) You are NOT a recognized "Stakeholder"
After I was cut off of benefits just 6 months after I broke my back in a fall at work, I decided, "Hey, why don't I go see what one of these stakeholder meetings is all about". I was told to leave.
So the LIE that Farmers will be included in these phony consults is just nothing more than pure Propaganda by the WCB of Alberta. This is HOW the WCB of Alberta misleads the people who have the most at stake and who stand to loose the most, is by holding BOGUS consultations across Alberta!
If the WCB is actually listening to stakeholders now, that would be a shocking turn around in this Legal Hack organization that is empowered by the Hacks and Quacks Network of bogus doctors supplied by the College of Physicians. If you don't know, the College is a lobby group for private Health care.
Today I met a farmer at one of the local farmer's markets here in Edmonton and we got to talking about Bill 6. He was hurt in a workplace accident just like myself, and he received a bad back injury. He told me that it took the WCB of Alberta TEN YEARS to finally help him. His account of what happened after he was injured mirrored my experience where the WCB AB would only expose him to Hacks and Quacks crony WCB doctors. This is a common thread amongst Seriously Injured Workers here in Hellberta. Farmers KNOW how the WCB operates, and he as a farmer is NOT interested in allowing those WCB/OHS people onto his property. He said the WCB of Alberta finally paid him out only 10% for his disability, saying that it only affected his one leg.
But more importantly we got to discussing the WCB of Alberta itself as an organization, and we are both of the same opinion that the WCB is ONLY in business for the Corporations and nobody else, other than of course the Government Workers that are guaranteed benefits in their Union Agreements.
The Alberta Government is the LARGEST EMPLOYER in the province of Alberta and as such they are guaranteed benefits, so the Government Employees and their Unions like Cops, Firemen and bureaucrats naturally feel as though they are served well by this super corrupt organization.
We were both in agreement that we feel that this Bill is the means by which the large American Corporations will wield this government mechanism to bring about the END of the Family Farm in Alberta.
If you look at every other Industry that the PC Conservatives have tampered with, they have in EVERY instance chosen to make a small group of their cronies into the beneficiaries as owners of the new MONOPOLY in the industry they have chosen to corrupt.
This instance is no different, the only difference is that the Corporations have cleverly manipulated the NDP Government into being the "Bad Big Brother" government agency that the WildRose is using to their full advantage for political gain. WildRose is the political benefactor of Bill 6 and the NDP will be remembered as the government that pounded the Final Nail into the Family Farm coffin in Alberta, that is the political fallout of this bill.
The Farmers can easily recognize that injured workers have failed miserably at reverse engineering the Laws of the Land, and they also know that the FARMERS will never be able to rescind the Laws once they are written. This is WHY we need to KILL Bill 6!
There is NO worker in history that has managed to rewrite the WCB LAWS to correct wrongs by this super corrupt corporation. Injured workers have never changed ANY WCB Policies.
It is important to recognize that the WCB has never in their history "ALLOWED the Public to be Consulted!" That is a fact. NO PUBLIC CONSULTATION is the "Modus Operandi" for the WCB of Alberta. This is how they operate, the WCB AB don't WANT any of the people the claim are "Stakeholders" to have any input. When the WCB of Alberta indentifies you as a "Stakeholder", this means hang onto the tops of your rubber boots and bend over because the WCB of AB is about to drop by and give you a Stakeholder inspection!
The WCB could care less about your opinon or the opinon of any other Albertan, consultation is not how they manage to wantonly ABUSE injured workers. Consultation would reveal that the majority of claimants are not happy and never were, the WCB of Alberta does not want these FACTS leaking out.
Like I said the WCB is of the corporations, and is designed FOR the biggest Transnational Corporations operating in Alberta. The Farmers can see this and they don't like what is coming down their driveway. If you are Turkey shooting when they show up, tell them that you did not want to "Raise your voice" cuz you thought you might scare them. AB Govt. workers have "Zero Tolerance for Loud Voices" in their work environment. God, these govt. people would be of no use on a Farm, right?
Safety First: So for the protection of Govt. workers that are afraid of loud voices it is best if you don't holler any warnings, for their own protection you understand.
You see that Lay-a-bout Government workers are not able to comprehend "Loud Voices" directed at them because of their pampered life styles the enjoy working for a government emloyer who is NOT allowed to FIRE their lazy asses. I have always said that when they put up those Zero Tolerance signs in Govt. offices, now you have empowered these people to Act like GOD!
Injured workers know what it is to be told by WCB personnel that THEY ARE GOD! Nice huh?
And THAT is how the WCB of AB manages to Marginalize claimants and ban them from their property, is by their Loud Voices policy. But they can phone you at home and yell all they want at YOU?
First the WCB enrages you, and then they MARGINALIZE you, it is their MOST important and effective TOOL to deny you your rights as an injured worker.
Just tell the WCB Employees (OHS) that the light switches in the barn don't work and this will be enough to scare them from ever looking inside the barn.
The Lazy do-nothing Home Care people sent by the WCB told me it was Too Dangerous for them to go down the stairs", but it was OK for me to climb the stairs everyday by myself after surgery while the do-nothings stood at the top of the stairs watching!
The Lazy do-nothing WCB Homecare people did not even SHOW UP for 4 days after I was released from the hospital, the WCB AB is a damn poor excuse for Injured Worker care that is for damned sure.
Monday, November 30, 2015
Rachel Notleys WCB Plan is a giant TAX GRAB on Farmers/Farm workers
Here is a newsbit from the 2014 Highlights of the WCB Financial Statements.
Average premium rate:
Here is a Screen Capture of the new Farm and Ranch rates proposed by the Notley Government and that will be EXTRACTED directly from the pocketbooks of Farmers as published on the WCB's own website. www.wcb.ab.ca
Click on the image below to view the NEW FARM RATES, you will be shocked if you own animals.
The page this info is located on is http://www.wcb.ab.ca/employers/farm_owners.asp and if you look at the Screen Grab I snapped, it is looking very BAD for ranchers and any farmer who raises hoofed animals; as they will be paying an average of $3 dollars/per hour for every hour worked by the farm hands working on these operations.
That is a very large sum of money when extrapolated across all of the Farm Workers in Alberta. Here is a screen grab of the WCB page which confirms the massive Finacial Injury that the WCB plans to implement to further INSULATE Transnational Oil Companies from the TRUE COST of injured workers/Albertans. The WCB is so damned presumptive and GREEDY, that they have already produced the rates for farmers who have NO INJURY HISTORY with the WCB AB.
Click on image below
Think about this: World Oil Prices CRASH. Transnational Oil Corporations SLASH workers to cut costs, and their contractors SELL OFF Equipment in record breaking Heavy Equipment sales. Workers wages have been cut, so what is LEFT for cost cutting?
Tar Sands Corporations like Exxon/CNRHell already ENJOY the lowest WCB RATES in Alberta at less than $1 Dollar/Hr worked. Well that does not gather a lot of revenue particularly when workers are being laid off. The WCB AB does NOT want to raise rates to the ACTUAL RATE that is necessary to meet the Medical and Financial needs of workers.
O.K. now we need to calculate the MASSIVE LOSS of revenue stream that WCB Alberta needs to be replaced by over 150,000 job losses in the Alberta Oil Patch and related industries. That is a LOT of Money, Millions and Millions of dollars. The WCB Alberta and the Alberta Government are starving for money, and they need a pack of Farmer Donkeys to carry them since WCB is feeling WEAK from paying their Corporate Crony CEO's their MILLION DOLLAR Salaries for corruption.
Look at the TIMING of this push. This is just too damned obvious. The NDP Government does not want to RISK raising WCB rates to the level that would actually cover Non-government Workers. The NDP are going to do HACK fake Surgery on WCB AB, and SEW ON a NEW ARM of this flailing money fleecing scheme. Yeah, they are going to SEW on the hard working arm of farmers the WCB has identified as RICH Farmers. This new Green ARM is very muscular from actually working for a living, will be not so skillfully sewed onto the drunken WCB Body by their corrupt team from the Hacks and Quacks Network.
The Farmers of Alberta are going to shoulder the COST of the failing Tar Glop Industry, and become the new DONKEY on the block, doing ALL THE HEAVY Lifting for the WCB of Alberta. As you can see the Tar Glop Corporations that KILL WORKERS will get ALL of their WCB dues Refunded, Joe Farmer you get ZERO back because this is how the WCB AB Scams the small business operators!
And the NDP comes out smelling like roses to the CFIB for NOT raising the WCB rates in times of Financial austerity. CFIB has strongly influenced the Conservative Govt's policy for years now.
Notley and Crew have dangerously calculated that it is better to Enrage the Farmers, than it is to propose a rate hike to cover huge INCOME LOSSES and gaps for the WCB, and Guy Kerr continues to get cash bonuses for dead workers once again. How sick is that?
So there you go. I have to take a break and get my Botox injections to help kill my nerve pain that radiates from my Spine. More to come. Thks for your patience.
Here is a link to a Orthopaedic Doctor Fraud Scheme in California where Spinal Surgeons were paying Kick-backs to clinics for referrals for Spinal Fusion surgery. Scary stuff considering that I had the same surgery and now I am screwed for life, and my bogus Surgeon refuses to ever see me again. He knows what happened at the Royal Alexandra Hospital and he does not want those dead bodies to come floating back to the surface of the murky swamp we call WCB Alberta CORRUPTION.
Former hospital CFO, two surgeons admit kickback scheme for spine surgeries
The Government of Alberta obviously believes that the AHS is not corrupt, and the PC Govt's of the past have all made points of praising our Health Care system here in AB. The reality is that 40+ years of PC Communist Rule have opened AHS wide open to the exact copy of how the American Hospital and Health Care systems were ravaged by GREED engorged Doctors and Corporations seeking monopolies that these private operators knew would make them RICH beyong their wildest dreams.
I have always knew that the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons were corrupt, because of one of their most influential members Dr. Olhauser, but I did not recognize how this organization was able to influence the PC Party of Alberta into making sure that they were specifically INSULATED from the Alberta privacy Laws back in 2003/2004. The College LIED to me about launching an investigation into WCB Crony doctor Lorri Galbraith who wrote a bogus report on my condition from her
PO MAIL BOX on Jasper Avenue, Edmonton.
Alberta WCB employs doctors who work out of P.O. Mail Boxes inside the UPS Store on Jasper Ave, nice huh?
Can you imagine that you are such a HACK and a Quack that you have to work out of a Post Office Box in a UPS Store in Edmonton? WCB AB can imagine this and pay you as a Hack, big FAT Farmer cheques too!
I cannot find Dr. Lorri Galbraith registered with the AB College of Physicians, but I did find a reference to her on Rate my MD in Vancouver working for WorkSafe BC.
This is what the Farmers of Alberta have in store for them, a bunch of bogus HACKS and Quacks that will be soon Hacking and Quacking their way through their workforce and leaving their workers disabled for life, Sad isn't it?
The Alberta Farmer is now saddled with 1 MORE useless government agency to carry on it's back, making them feel like a common DONKEY! This is not how a friendly business relationship is supposed to feel, but as long as the Transnational Oil Corporations are feeling the Farmer GREEN, then that is all that matters to Rachel and her Million Dollar Executive FRIENDS at WCB of Alberta, right?
Guy Kerr is NOT interested in a pay cut on his $1Million dollar/year paycheque, taxing his new friends the Farmers of AB at 20% per cent of every dollar your Farm and Ranch hands earn should Top Up Guy Kerr's bonus cheque nicely. Right Rachel Notley?
Average premium rate:
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$1.03 per $100 of insurable earnings was the average collected in
2014. The average rate set for 2015 is $0.97.
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Operating surplus: $792.5 million (2013: $921.6 millionHere is a Screen Capture of the new Farm and Ranch rates proposed by the Notley Government and that will be EXTRACTED directly from the pocketbooks of Farmers as published on the WCB's own website. www.wcb.ab.ca
Click on the image below to view the NEW FARM RATES, you will be shocked if you own animals.
The page this info is located on is http://www.wcb.ab.ca/employers/farm_owners.asp and if you look at the Screen Grab I snapped, it is looking very BAD for ranchers and any farmer who raises hoofed animals; as they will be paying an average of $3 dollars/per hour for every hour worked by the farm hands working on these operations.
That is a very large sum of money when extrapolated across all of the Farm Workers in Alberta. Here is a screen grab of the WCB page which confirms the massive Finacial Injury that the WCB plans to implement to further INSULATE Transnational Oil Companies from the TRUE COST of injured workers/Albertans. The WCB is so damned presumptive and GREEDY, that they have already produced the rates for farmers who have NO INJURY HISTORY with the WCB AB.
Click on image below
Tar Sands Corporations like Exxon/CNRHell already ENJOY the lowest WCB RATES in Alberta at less than $1 Dollar/Hr worked. Well that does not gather a lot of revenue particularly when workers are being laid off. The WCB AB does NOT want to raise rates to the ACTUAL RATE that is necessary to meet the Medical and Financial needs of workers.
O.K. now we need to calculate the MASSIVE LOSS of revenue stream that WCB Alberta needs to be replaced by over 150,000 job losses in the Alberta Oil Patch and related industries. That is a LOT of Money, Millions and Millions of dollars. The WCB Alberta and the Alberta Government are starving for money, and they need a pack of Farmer Donkeys to carry them since WCB is feeling WEAK from paying their Corporate Crony CEO's their MILLION DOLLAR Salaries for corruption.
Look at the TIMING of this push. This is just too damned obvious. The NDP Government does not want to RISK raising WCB rates to the level that would actually cover Non-government Workers. The NDP are going to do HACK fake Surgery on WCB AB, and SEW ON a NEW ARM of this flailing money fleecing scheme. Yeah, they are going to SEW on the hard working arm of farmers the WCB has identified as RICH Farmers. This new Green ARM is very muscular from actually working for a living, will be not so skillfully sewed onto the drunken WCB Body by their corrupt team from the Hacks and Quacks Network.
The Farmers of Alberta are going to shoulder the COST of the failing Tar Glop Industry, and become the new DONKEY on the block, doing ALL THE HEAVY Lifting for the WCB of Alberta. As you can see the Tar Glop Corporations that KILL WORKERS will get ALL of their WCB dues Refunded, Joe Farmer you get ZERO back because this is how the WCB AB Scams the small business operators!
And the NDP comes out smelling like roses to the CFIB for NOT raising the WCB rates in times of Financial austerity. CFIB has strongly influenced the Conservative Govt's policy for years now.
Notley and Crew have dangerously calculated that it is better to Enrage the Farmers, than it is to propose a rate hike to cover huge INCOME LOSSES and gaps for the WCB, and Guy Kerr continues to get cash bonuses for dead workers once again. How sick is that?
So there you go. I have to take a break and get my Botox injections to help kill my nerve pain that radiates from my Spine. More to come. Thks for your patience.
Here is a link to a Orthopaedic Doctor Fraud Scheme in California where Spinal Surgeons were paying Kick-backs to clinics for referrals for Spinal Fusion surgery. Scary stuff considering that I had the same surgery and now I am screwed for life, and my bogus Surgeon refuses to ever see me again. He knows what happened at the Royal Alexandra Hospital and he does not want those dead bodies to come floating back to the surface of the murky swamp we call WCB Alberta CORRUPTION.
Former hospital CFO, two surgeons admit kickback scheme for spine surgeries
The Government of Alberta obviously believes that the AHS is not corrupt, and the PC Govt's of the past have all made points of praising our Health Care system here in AB. The reality is that 40+ years of PC Communist Rule have opened AHS wide open to the exact copy of how the American Hospital and Health Care systems were ravaged by GREED engorged Doctors and Corporations seeking monopolies that these private operators knew would make them RICH beyong their wildest dreams.
I have always knew that the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons were corrupt, because of one of their most influential members Dr. Olhauser, but I did not recognize how this organization was able to influence the PC Party of Alberta into making sure that they were specifically INSULATED from the Alberta privacy Laws back in 2003/2004. The College LIED to me about launching an investigation into WCB Crony doctor Lorri Galbraith who wrote a bogus report on my condition from her
PO MAIL BOX on Jasper Avenue, Edmonton.
Alberta WCB employs doctors who work out of P.O. Mail Boxes inside the UPS Store on Jasper Ave, nice huh?
Can you imagine that you are such a HACK and a Quack that you have to work out of a Post Office Box in a UPS Store in Edmonton? WCB AB can imagine this and pay you as a Hack, big FAT Farmer cheques too!
I cannot find Dr. Lorri Galbraith registered with the AB College of Physicians, but I did find a reference to her on Rate my MD in Vancouver working for WorkSafe BC.
This is what the Farmers of Alberta have in store for them, a bunch of bogus HACKS and Quacks that will be soon Hacking and Quacking their way through their workforce and leaving their workers disabled for life, Sad isn't it?
The Alberta Farmer is now saddled with 1 MORE useless government agency to carry on it's back, making them feel like a common DONKEY! This is not how a friendly business relationship is supposed to feel, but as long as the Transnational Oil Corporations are feeling the Farmer GREEN, then that is all that matters to Rachel and her Million Dollar Executive FRIENDS at WCB of Alberta, right?
Guy Kerr is NOT interested in a pay cut on his $1Million dollar/year paycheque, taxing his new friends the Farmers of AB at 20% per cent of every dollar your Farm and Ranch hands earn should Top Up Guy Kerr's bonus cheque nicely. Right Rachel Notley?
Had Rachel Notley cleaned out the Corruption laden WCB first, then tried to bring Farmers on board I could understand but forcing them to sing with the Devil is just plain underhanded
It is NO SECRET that the Workers Compensation Board of Alberta is a legalized Government Agency that can dole out a horrific amount of medical abuse, physical abuse in the form of legalized bogus Rehabilitation facilities and massive amounts of Mental Abuse by their taunting Claims Managers that glean great joy from torturing Seriously Injured Workers.
Rachel Notley is acutely aware of these systemic abuses at the Workers Compensation Board, from her time spent supposedly supporting Seriously Injured Worker protests, so it truly does bewilder me at WHY she is NOW trying to FORCE a super corrupt organization like WCB onto Farmers.
Here is a link to a video she did in support of the Canadian Injured Workers.com site https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4onyY2xMO0w.
I guess when Rachel Notley finds herself now sitting amongst the privileged and the self-entitled Elite Club that runs Alberta, that now you are simply unable to see the forest for the trees, because you are sitting around with all of the Old Dead Timber of the legislature now.
I believe that the Farmers should DEMAND a complete review of the WCB of Alberta as an organization, and that the farmers should demand a Legislative Investigation into the systemic abusive practices and tactics employed systematically by WCB. Why would the Farmers want to enter into any agreement with the organization that is FAMOUS for abusing workers? Why would they want their best hands to get NO Medical Treatments? Why would they want their best Cattle ropers to get NO Medical Imaging? It makes no sense to any normal person.
The WCB of Alberta routinely DISCRIMINATES against specifically TARGETED workers who have been seriously injured on the job. This practice of targeted abuse needs to end, to many lives have been terminated early by this corrupt organization.
All of this corruption is completely led from the TOP DOWN is my opinion. All of this Medical Corruption begins at the HIGHEST LEVELS of the Alberta Government. This includes some of the top medical doctors in the College of Physicians and Surgeons that have been meddling in the layout of the Alberta Health Services and the WCB Alberta's scope of power for decades now. A Legislative Committee properly empowered would be able to uncover this system wide corruption, so that ALL Albertans can enter a new age with a Proper, timely and non-discriminatory medical treatment. We can help to create a WCB organization that does NOT TARGET individuals for abuse based solely on the fact they are not government employees.
There are No WINNERS when your government sanctions DISCRIMINATION based solely on a persons disability. None whatsoever, because it demeans our society and makes a mockery of the very word Democracy. Democracy should never on the simple basis of principle ever condone Discrimination and Abuse because you are disabled.
Not in my book anyways, and I would hope that is not the case in Rachel Notley's description of Democracy and how it should be governed. Democracy NOW!
Rachel Notley is acutely aware of these systemic abuses at the Workers Compensation Board, from her time spent supposedly supporting Seriously Injured Worker protests, so it truly does bewilder me at WHY she is NOW trying to FORCE a super corrupt organization like WCB onto Farmers.
Here is a link to a video she did in support of the Canadian Injured Workers.com site https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4onyY2xMO0w.
I guess when Rachel Notley finds herself now sitting amongst the privileged and the self-entitled Elite Club that runs Alberta, that now you are simply unable to see the forest for the trees, because you are sitting around with all of the Old Dead Timber of the legislature now.
I believe that the Farmers should DEMAND a complete review of the WCB of Alberta as an organization, and that the farmers should demand a Legislative Investigation into the systemic abusive practices and tactics employed systematically by WCB. Why would the Farmers want to enter into any agreement with the organization that is FAMOUS for abusing workers? Why would they want their best hands to get NO Medical Treatments? Why would they want their best Cattle ropers to get NO Medical Imaging? It makes no sense to any normal person.
The WCB of Alberta routinely DISCRIMINATES against specifically TARGETED workers who have been seriously injured on the job. This practice of targeted abuse needs to end, to many lives have been terminated early by this corrupt organization.
All of this corruption is completely led from the TOP DOWN is my opinion. All of this Medical Corruption begins at the HIGHEST LEVELS of the Alberta Government. This includes some of the top medical doctors in the College of Physicians and Surgeons that have been meddling in the layout of the Alberta Health Services and the WCB Alberta's scope of power for decades now. A Legislative Committee properly empowered would be able to uncover this system wide corruption, so that ALL Albertans can enter a new age with a Proper, timely and non-discriminatory medical treatment. We can help to create a WCB organization that does NOT TARGET individuals for abuse based solely on the fact they are not government employees.
There are No WINNERS when your government sanctions DISCRIMINATION based solely on a persons disability. None whatsoever, because it demeans our society and makes a mockery of the very word Democracy. Democracy should never on the simple basis of principle ever condone Discrimination and Abuse because you are disabled.
Not in my book anyways, and I would hope that is not the case in Rachel Notley's description of Democracy and how it should be governed. Democracy NOW!
WCB Government workers cannot Wipe their own Ass
The most egregious and disgusting character trait of the WCB Government Employees is that they are so damned lazy they cannot wipe their own asses. They are in constant need of somebody like their boss or some other outside mysterious force like the Workers Compensation Appeals Commission to TELL THEM it is time to wipe their own asses.
Yup, I know, it is hard to believe that their exists Government Employees that are so damned obtuse and useless that they NEED to be told what to do and when to do it. It is like they are ex-criminals that have just been released from prison and because of their extended incarceration they are completely unable to manage their own day to day actions and affairs.
I know, I know the WCB and the Government of Alberta both "CLAIM" that the WCB Employees are NOT Government Employees. However the Workers Compensation Board of Alberta Employees and their UNION representatives all SIGN the very same Union negotiated Collective Bargaining Agreement http://www.hsaa.ca/member-resources/collective-bargaining-agreements/wcb-alberta-millard-health-collective-agreement for their wages and benefits.
Yup, these supposedly "non-government employees" of the WCB AB are the lucky recipients of the very SAME PLUSH and Luxurious Alberta Government sick leave and disability benefits that are specifically reserved for AB Government Employees ONLY! Wow, how could this happen? (Sic) The WCB of Alberta Employees enjoy exactly the very SAME WAGE benefits package as the Alberta Government Employees.
Now I am no rocket scientist, but do you know what? If it looks like a duck and quacks like a
WCB AB duck and is completely unable to wipe its own ass, then I am only able to come to one single conclusion; It must be a Rachel Notley Government WCB employee duck!
It seems that she has forgotten all about Injured Workers since she reached the throne and is now looking down on her disciples.
This is why I have always said that the Workers Compensation Benefits for GOVERNMENT WORKERS are much more broad and the AB Govt. workers receive benefits that other Albertans are simply never going to be exposed to or receive benefit from. http://www.aupe.org/committees/ohs/workers-compensation-board/ Here the AUPE is telling it's members that they are capable of "Working WITH the WCB to unlock these mysterious benefits that Joe AB will never receive".
They are ALL part of the SAME TEAM right. Why? Because you are not a Cop, a Fireman, Border guard or other kind of Government Employee, you will not have UNION TRAINED WCB Specialists writing your APPEALS for you. You just ain't part of their exclusive and pampered lifestyle, it is not your fault, you wanted to work on the farm, you just never aspired to be a do-nothing Government Employee sucking the taxpayers pocketbook dry.
Here you can read through the WCB Employees Benefits and this is not the complete list of benefits either. http://www.wcb.ab.ca/pdfs/public/employee_handbook.pdf
The WCB Employees MUST invest in the Public Employees Pension Fund, it is compulsary to do so if you are employed by the WCB of Alberta. Here is the excerpt:
What Joe Average Albertan will never understand is that when these slacker WCB Government Employees or any other AB Government Employees exhaust their Short Term disability, and they end up going on Long Term disability they now get to relax on the beach in Puerto Vallarta while slurping up 70% of their government wages TAX FREE. The benefit that the Government does NOT want you to know about is that the government and the WCB almost NEVER check to validate the disability of these claimants. Why? Because they are Government Employees and YOU do not belong to their CLUB.
This is where the PTSD claims are becoming rampant is amongst Government Employees like Ambulance Drivers but NOT restricted to First Responders. The Ambulance EMT's are very upset at how their own Union and the Cities involved screwed them when the Provincial PC's amalgated them all under one roof. So how do you get back at your government employer that you despise? Simple, put in a PTSD claim and get ready to enjoy the perks of being part of the AB Govt. SPECIAL CLUB. Don't forget that these benefits are Tax Free because these people are claiming total disability. Understand now?
So there you have it, the useless, obtuse, ignorant and abusive WCB Caims Managers that love to abuse Seriously Injured Workers, are incapable of wiping their own asses without a specific set of instructions from the WCB Appeals Commission. These Claims Managers are SO OBTUSE they are unable to see the critical need for providing an Injured Worker who has fallen and broken his back with a BED to help him sleep at night. How in the hell can Guy Kerr pile on the BS so thick with all of his phony CLAIMS about how skilled his TEAM is? He cannot, because it is all a pile of lies.
His fantasy Team has NO PROBLEMS processing these medical needs for members of the Alberta SPECIAL CLUB (Govt. workers). Yup, Club Alberta Government sees NO NEED to change the operational functions of the AB WCB, because it treats AB Govt. Employees LIKE GOLD, with the Gold Plated medical treatment.
But for Joe Farmer, your workers are going to receive the LESS than WELFARE recipients treatment when you try to make a claim against the fund that you pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into each year, this is the magic of WCB AB and their Special Arrangement with the AB Government.
Disgruntled Government Employees including the WCB AB workers enjoy the ability to rake CASH IN while CASHING OUT, and enjoy the Benefits of being part of the Alberta Government Medical Benefits CASH COW that is responsible for such a large portion of the total WCB Costs in Alberta.
I am so dissappointed that Rachel Notley has decided to FORCE farmers into an agreement with a super corrupt Insurance Scam that treats this provinces NON-government contributors so poorly.
Rachel Notley was part of the WCB protests recently and she is aware of the systemic corruption that permeates this organization, so it bewilders me why she would try to FORCE this corrupt entity upon innocent Farm families. I just don't get it. Now she is in power and she has completely FORGOTTEN how she got there.
Here is a video of Anthony Hughes talking about the willful of destruction of Information by WCB Claims Managers and other WCB AB Employees. As Anthony has so skillfully stated, "Once you understand that they (WCB AB) have the lawful authority to withhold and destroy YOUR information, the Game is Over!"
Anthony just stated in a nutshell the Abuse of Process that Seriously Injured Workers face everyday when appealing decisions to the Workers Compensation Board of Alberta.
Rachel Notley is a lawyer, a Labour Lawyer by trade and she KNOWS this practice severely taints the Quasi-judicial procedures of the WCB of Alberta.
She KNOWS this to be true, so until she comes out and publicly states that she is going to make big changes to the WCB, the farmers of Alberta need to be afraid of this corrupt organization. The WCB of Alberta exists to insulate employers it has NOTHING to do with rehabilitation of seriously injured workers, that needs to be understood first and foremost by farmers.
If people of Canada are upset that Trudeau has nannies, Guy Kerr that runs WCB AB is paid almost $1 Million/YR, he makes MORE money than the Prime Minister of Canada for APPROVING of over 160 dead workers EVERY YEAR in Alberta for 10 YEARS!
When will Rachel the lawyer put an end to this routine practice of killing workers in Alberta? I repeat, WHEN?
Yup, I know, it is hard to believe that their exists Government Employees that are so damned obtuse and useless that they NEED to be told what to do and when to do it. It is like they are ex-criminals that have just been released from prison and because of their extended incarceration they are completely unable to manage their own day to day actions and affairs.
I know, I know the WCB and the Government of Alberta both "CLAIM" that the WCB Employees are NOT Government Employees. However the Workers Compensation Board of Alberta Employees and their UNION representatives all SIGN the very same Union negotiated Collective Bargaining Agreement http://www.hsaa.ca/member-resources/collective-bargaining-agreements/wcb-alberta-millard-health-collective-agreement for their wages and benefits.
Yup, these supposedly "non-government employees" of the WCB AB are the lucky recipients of the very SAME PLUSH and Luxurious Alberta Government sick leave and disability benefits that are specifically reserved for AB Government Employees ONLY! Wow, how could this happen? (Sic) The WCB of Alberta Employees enjoy exactly the very SAME WAGE benefits package as the Alberta Government Employees.
Now I am no rocket scientist, but do you know what? If it looks like a duck and quacks like a
WCB AB duck and is completely unable to wipe its own ass, then I am only able to come to one single conclusion; It must be a Rachel Notley Government WCB employee duck!
It seems that she has forgotten all about Injured Workers since she reached the throne and is now looking down on her disciples.
This is why I have always said that the Workers Compensation Benefits for GOVERNMENT WORKERS are much more broad and the AB Govt. workers receive benefits that other Albertans are simply never going to be exposed to or receive benefit from. http://www.aupe.org/committees/ohs/workers-compensation-board/ Here the AUPE is telling it's members that they are capable of "Working WITH the WCB to unlock these mysterious benefits that Joe AB will never receive".
They are ALL part of the SAME TEAM right. Why? Because you are not a Cop, a Fireman, Border guard or other kind of Government Employee, you will not have UNION TRAINED WCB Specialists writing your APPEALS for you. You just ain't part of their exclusive and pampered lifestyle, it is not your fault, you wanted to work on the farm, you just never aspired to be a do-nothing Government Employee sucking the taxpayers pocketbook dry.
Here you can read through the WCB Employees Benefits and this is not the complete list of benefits either. http://www.wcb.ab.ca/pdfs/public/employee_handbook.pdf
The WCB Employees MUST invest in the Public Employees Pension Fund, it is compulsary to do so if you are employed by the WCB of Alberta. Here is the excerpt:
Public Service and Management Employees
Pension Plans
All permanent employees and long-term employees, who will be
working more than one year, must participate in either the Public
Service Pension Plan or the Management Employees Pension Plan,
depending on the position held. Details of eligibility and benefits are
available in the participant handbooks published by the plans and
available through Alberta Pensions Services Corporation.
What Joe Average Albertan will never understand is that when these slacker WCB Government Employees or any other AB Government Employees exhaust their Short Term disability, and they end up going on Long Term disability they now get to relax on the beach in Puerto Vallarta while slurping up 70% of their government wages TAX FREE. The benefit that the Government does NOT want you to know about is that the government and the WCB almost NEVER check to validate the disability of these claimants. Why? Because they are Government Employees and YOU do not belong to their CLUB.
This is where the PTSD claims are becoming rampant is amongst Government Employees like Ambulance Drivers but NOT restricted to First Responders. The Ambulance EMT's are very upset at how their own Union and the Cities involved screwed them when the Provincial PC's amalgated them all under one roof. So how do you get back at your government employer that you despise? Simple, put in a PTSD claim and get ready to enjoy the perks of being part of the AB Govt. SPECIAL CLUB. Don't forget that these benefits are Tax Free because these people are claiming total disability. Understand now?
So there you have it, the useless, obtuse, ignorant and abusive WCB Caims Managers that love to abuse Seriously Injured Workers, are incapable of wiping their own asses without a specific set of instructions from the WCB Appeals Commission. These Claims Managers are SO OBTUSE they are unable to see the critical need for providing an Injured Worker who has fallen and broken his back with a BED to help him sleep at night. How in the hell can Guy Kerr pile on the BS so thick with all of his phony CLAIMS about how skilled his TEAM is? He cannot, because it is all a pile of lies.
His fantasy Team has NO PROBLEMS processing these medical needs for members of the Alberta SPECIAL CLUB (Govt. workers). Yup, Club Alberta Government sees NO NEED to change the operational functions of the AB WCB, because it treats AB Govt. Employees LIKE GOLD, with the Gold Plated medical treatment.
But for Joe Farmer, your workers are going to receive the LESS than WELFARE recipients treatment when you try to make a claim against the fund that you pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into each year, this is the magic of WCB AB and their Special Arrangement with the AB Government.
Disgruntled Government Employees including the WCB AB workers enjoy the ability to rake CASH IN while CASHING OUT, and enjoy the Benefits of being part of the Alberta Government Medical Benefits CASH COW that is responsible for such a large portion of the total WCB Costs in Alberta.
I am so dissappointed that Rachel Notley has decided to FORCE farmers into an agreement with a super corrupt Insurance Scam that treats this provinces NON-government contributors so poorly.
Rachel Notley was part of the WCB protests recently and she is aware of the systemic corruption that permeates this organization, so it bewilders me why she would try to FORCE this corrupt entity upon innocent Farm families. I just don't get it. Now she is in power and she has completely FORGOTTEN how she got there.
Anthony just stated in a nutshell the Abuse of Process that Seriously Injured Workers face everyday when appealing decisions to the Workers Compensation Board of Alberta.
Rachel Notley is a lawyer, a Labour Lawyer by trade and she KNOWS this practice severely taints the Quasi-judicial procedures of the WCB of Alberta.
She KNOWS this to be true, so until she comes out and publicly states that she is going to make big changes to the WCB, the farmers of Alberta need to be afraid of this corrupt organization. The WCB of Alberta exists to insulate employers it has NOTHING to do with rehabilitation of seriously injured workers, that needs to be understood first and foremost by farmers.
If people of Canada are upset that Trudeau has nannies, Guy Kerr that runs WCB AB is paid almost $1 Million/YR, he makes MORE money than the Prime Minister of Canada for APPROVING of over 160 dead workers EVERY YEAR in Alberta for 10 YEARS!
When will Rachel the lawyer put an end to this routine practice of killing workers in Alberta? I repeat, WHEN?
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Our President and Chief BullShitter Guy Kerr
I was reading the bio of WCB of Alberta Chief Executive Officer Guy Kerr and every single word on that page is total BS, 100% Corporately Processed and delivered high quality Bovine Excrement!
The Guy Kerr bio page is nothing but pure FANTASY, and BS!
The part about his family is probably true, I mean if you are dragging down a Million dollars per year for the privilege of killing hundreds of workers and putting a big giant APPROVED rubber stamp on the body bags of dead workers. So you can give yourself a great big pat on your own back Guy Kerr.
Reading his bio would be hilarious if it were not so damned deadly for workers in Alberta. Even though we have a new government it is still 1959 in Alberta when it comes to Worker Safety and to progressive policies that penalize companies that routinely kill their workers on the job.
Nothing ever changes in 1959 Alberta. The New Boss Rachel is the SAME as the Old Boss Jim is the saying.
I was injured 10 years ago falling off of a steel rafter. NO INVESTIGATION into the accident was ever ordered, how do I know? Because NO WCB Investigator EVER interviewed me about what happened that day. I suffered a career ending injury and there was NO investigation into how this happened and how to ensure that this type of accident does not reoccur in the future. How is this possible?
How is it possible that I was left laying facedown in the snow moaning in agony, while my Boss and the Site superintendant were standing right there and both did not even bother to call an amubulance?
The WCB of Alberta is a CROOK organization that rotates around making sure Injured Workers KILL THEMSELVES to absolve the employers of any responsibility! WCB AB is run by CROOKS, that is a fact.
All of the Bullshit that Guy Kerr has on his own bio page of the WCB is absolute garbage and a total line of Bullshit. The only people who believe the PC Party government Bullshitters are the PC Party loyalists, nobody else. This guy drives around in a Porche while seriously injured workers suffer through yet another hopeless Christmas.
The Bullshit about the Appeals Process is precisely that: Bullshit, pure Bullshit nothing else.
The WCB of Alberta took my first Appeal and fed it through their paper shredders, this is what is known as an Abuse of Process. Had it been properly accepted and properly dealt with through a legitimate Appeals Process then we would not be having this discussion on the TENTH CHRISTMAS I have had without a proper BED. I used to ask my HomeCare workers that WCB would send every day about my BED that I so desperately needed, they would ASSURE me every day that somebody would be sent out to ASSESS this need. Nobody ever showed up, and no bed.
This is NO SURPRISE for the WCB crook organization, because the Royal Alexandra Hospital kicked me out and sent me home with NO HOMECARE in place, despite a meeting we had convened with the Nurses on Ward when I told them how I feared arriving home with NO Homecare!
The Royal Alexandra Hospital is going to need MORE than Bricks and Mortar to fix the Chronic CORRUPTION that permeates this hospital. That is for goddammed sure!
The WCB lied, the Royal Alexandra Staff Nurses lied in a meeting! The nurses at the Alex lied to me by NOT telling me that I was being kicked out of the hospital on specific INSTRUCTIONS from the WCB Doctor, Dr. Leslie DeLima! The AHS Staff KNEW that the WCB was kicking me out and WITHHELD this information from me, because the Royal Alex is the designated WCB Hacks and Quacks Hospital.
Everybody knows that and avoids this hospital, under clear threat of death or serious mortal injury!
I trusted the WCB crooks and cronies, and this is the end product, they deliberately DENY a Seriously Inured Worker a bed, over and over again. How is this possible in Guy Kerr's FANTASY WCB?
Simple it is all a great big LIE, a concocted fantasy to feed his OWN GIANT EGO!
Guy Kerr you and your shitty organization produce a SHIT PRODUCT, day in and day out. You sir are a complete Bullshitter, if Fantasy Bullshit was a saleable product then you would be a Trillionaire.
The WCB of Alberta website is saturated with advertising for WCB and how they can help YOU to reduce INJURY COSTS!
These ads prove that the WCB could care less about the health of Injured Workers, their PRIMARY focus is to DENY ACCESS to medical treatments, medications, diagnostic imaging and ACCESS to proper, timely and relevant treatments!
If you (Claims Managers) have to be TOLD that a injured worker with a broken back NEEDS a NEW BED on a regular basis, then you are a complete idiot and should be fired. The person who hired you should be fired as well.
Both of these morons lack the necessary judgement skills to drive a car. And it just keeps happening, again and again. Such systemic failure would not be possible within a well run company or organization. The WCB of Alberta is not a well run company and all of this systematic corruption and the reoccuring systemic failure is by captain Bullshitter himself.
If you (CM) need to have a request for a BED be sent to an APPEAL BOARD for approval then this is clear evidence that you have ZERO knowledge about medical issues and the question remains; Which idiot WCB staffer HIRED YOU? Guy? Was it Guy, what a corporate crook and a maroon.
These abusive Claims Managers are Guy Kerr designed WCB Alberta WORKING POLICY.
All the Bullshit from Guy Kerr about his fantastic Team is just that, pure 100% unadultrated Bullshit!
If Bullshit was a commodity then Guy Kerr would be Canada's best BULLSHIT saleman, hell he would the Bullshit Saleman of the Year and would be properly awarded at the Bullshitters Annual Convention.
This guy is so high on himself that he needs to be taken down a notch, and he will discover that guess what? There is NO Company and nobody else on this earth that is willing to pay you $1 Million dollars per year for being a government do-nothing. Only CORRUPT Governments will PAY you this outragious paycheque for being a Medical Industry CRONY! Standing around giving really BAD ADVICE Guy, it is NOT the same thing as real help.
Maybe all of your crony pals over at the College of Physicians will be able to match your Bullshitters WAGE huh, what do you think Guy. Why don't you call the richest doctor in Alberta, Dr. Olhauser and see if he will pay you a Million bucks a year?
The Guy Kerr bio page is nothing but pure FANTASY, and BS!
The part about his family is probably true, I mean if you are dragging down a Million dollars per year for the privilege of killing hundreds of workers and putting a big giant APPROVED rubber stamp on the body bags of dead workers. So you can give yourself a great big pat on your own back Guy Kerr.
Reading his bio would be hilarious if it were not so damned deadly for workers in Alberta. Even though we have a new government it is still 1959 in Alberta when it comes to Worker Safety and to progressive policies that penalize companies that routinely kill their workers on the job.
Nothing ever changes in 1959 Alberta. The New Boss Rachel is the SAME as the Old Boss Jim is the saying.
I was injured 10 years ago falling off of a steel rafter. NO INVESTIGATION into the accident was ever ordered, how do I know? Because NO WCB Investigator EVER interviewed me about what happened that day. I suffered a career ending injury and there was NO investigation into how this happened and how to ensure that this type of accident does not reoccur in the future. How is this possible?
How is it possible that I was left laying facedown in the snow moaning in agony, while my Boss and the Site superintendant were standing right there and both did not even bother to call an amubulance?
The WCB of Alberta is a CROOK organization that rotates around making sure Injured Workers KILL THEMSELVES to absolve the employers of any responsibility! WCB AB is run by CROOKS, that is a fact.
All of the Bullshit that Guy Kerr has on his own bio page of the WCB is absolute garbage and a total line of Bullshit. The only people who believe the PC Party government Bullshitters are the PC Party loyalists, nobody else. This guy drives around in a Porche while seriously injured workers suffer through yet another hopeless Christmas.
The Bullshit about the Appeals Process is precisely that: Bullshit, pure Bullshit nothing else.
The WCB of Alberta took my first Appeal and fed it through their paper shredders, this is what is known as an Abuse of Process. Had it been properly accepted and properly dealt with through a legitimate Appeals Process then we would not be having this discussion on the TENTH CHRISTMAS I have had without a proper BED. I used to ask my HomeCare workers that WCB would send every day about my BED that I so desperately needed, they would ASSURE me every day that somebody would be sent out to ASSESS this need. Nobody ever showed up, and no bed.
This is NO SURPRISE for the WCB crook organization, because the Royal Alexandra Hospital kicked me out and sent me home with NO HOMECARE in place, despite a meeting we had convened with the Nurses on Ward when I told them how I feared arriving home with NO Homecare!
The Royal Alexandra Hospital is going to need MORE than Bricks and Mortar to fix the Chronic CORRUPTION that permeates this hospital. That is for goddammed sure!
The WCB lied, the Royal Alexandra Staff Nurses lied in a meeting! The nurses at the Alex lied to me by NOT telling me that I was being kicked out of the hospital on specific INSTRUCTIONS from the WCB Doctor, Dr. Leslie DeLima! The AHS Staff KNEW that the WCB was kicking me out and WITHHELD this information from me, because the Royal Alex is the designated WCB Hacks and Quacks Hospital.
Everybody knows that and avoids this hospital, under clear threat of death or serious mortal injury!
I trusted the WCB crooks and cronies, and this is the end product, they deliberately DENY a Seriously Inured Worker a bed, over and over again. How is this possible in Guy Kerr's FANTASY WCB?
Simple it is all a great big LIE, a concocted fantasy to feed his OWN GIANT EGO!
Guy Kerr you and your shitty organization produce a SHIT PRODUCT, day in and day out. You sir are a complete Bullshitter, if Fantasy Bullshit was a saleable product then you would be a Trillionaire.
The WCB of Alberta website is saturated with advertising for WCB and how they can help YOU to reduce INJURY COSTS!
These ads prove that the WCB could care less about the health of Injured Workers, their PRIMARY focus is to DENY ACCESS to medical treatments, medications, diagnostic imaging and ACCESS to proper, timely and relevant treatments!
If you (Claims Managers) have to be TOLD that a injured worker with a broken back NEEDS a NEW BED on a regular basis, then you are a complete idiot and should be fired. The person who hired you should be fired as well.
Both of these morons lack the necessary judgement skills to drive a car. And it just keeps happening, again and again. Such systemic failure would not be possible within a well run company or organization. The WCB of Alberta is not a well run company and all of this systematic corruption and the reoccuring systemic failure is by captain Bullshitter himself.
If you (CM) need to have a request for a BED be sent to an APPEAL BOARD for approval then this is clear evidence that you have ZERO knowledge about medical issues and the question remains; Which idiot WCB staffer HIRED YOU? Guy? Was it Guy, what a corporate crook and a maroon.
These abusive Claims Managers are Guy Kerr designed WCB Alberta WORKING POLICY.
All the Bullshit from Guy Kerr about his fantastic Team is just that, pure 100% unadultrated Bullshit!
If Bullshit was a commodity then Guy Kerr would be Canada's best BULLSHIT saleman, hell he would the Bullshit Saleman of the Year and would be properly awarded at the Bullshitters Annual Convention.
This guy is so high on himself that he needs to be taken down a notch, and he will discover that guess what? There is NO Company and nobody else on this earth that is willing to pay you $1 Million dollars per year for being a government do-nothing. Only CORRUPT Governments will PAY you this outragious paycheque for being a Medical Industry CRONY! Standing around giving really BAD ADVICE Guy, it is NOT the same thing as real help.
Maybe all of your crony pals over at the College of Physicians will be able to match your Bullshitters WAGE huh, what do you think Guy. Why don't you call the richest doctor in Alberta, Dr. Olhauser and see if he will pay you a Million bucks a year?
Ms Notley "Tear down these WALLS"
I am calling on the government of Rachel Notley to "Tear Down these WALLS" of discrimination that the medical cronies of the past PC Governments have erected to specifically DISCRIMINATE against seriously Injured Workers!
Tear Down these Walls that have successfully managed to DENY me access to ALL Spinal Orthopaedic Specialists in Alberta! Tear down these WALLS that continue to deny me even the most BASIC medical devices like a BED!
Tear Down these Walls that have ER Doctors DENYING ALL DIAGNOSTIC Imaging to me, and telling me that because my condition is chronic, that I will NEVER qualify for any Imaging!
Tear Down these WAlls that continue to funnel me into the waiting arms of Corruption that makes up the Hacks and Quacks Network
I have to rest, my back is killing me. Chronic Fatique is a natural affliction for persons suffering from Chronic Pain. Thanks for your patience.
This is the 10th YEAR that I have to live through Christmas without ACCESS to a proper BED, because of the WALLS that have been erected by the WCB Corruption Machine.
Merry Christmas folks, and I hope the WCB people and their cronies sleep well snuggled up in their self-entitled expensive bed sheets.
Tear Down these Walls that have successfully managed to DENY me access to ALL Spinal Orthopaedic Specialists in Alberta! Tear down these WALLS that continue to deny me even the most BASIC medical devices like a BED!
Tear Down these Walls that have ER Doctors DENYING ALL DIAGNOSTIC Imaging to me, and telling me that because my condition is chronic, that I will NEVER qualify for any Imaging!
Tear Down these WAlls that continue to funnel me into the waiting arms of Corruption that makes up the Hacks and Quacks Network
I have to rest, my back is killing me. Chronic Fatique is a natural affliction for persons suffering from Chronic Pain. Thanks for your patience.
This is the 10th YEAR that I have to live through Christmas without ACCESS to a proper BED, because of the WALLS that have been erected by the WCB Corruption Machine.
Merry Christmas folks, and I hope the WCB people and their cronies sleep well snuggled up in their self-entitled expensive bed sheets.
PC Government Corruption SPAWNED KEY Govt. crony officials for the ABUSE of Seriously Injured Workers in Alberta
Key in any discussion about the actual on the ground workings of the WCB Alberta communist constructed phony Workers Compensation system is that the entire contruct of this organization has been done through the often skewed and Corporate Corruption that blurred the government policies of the Progressive Conservative Party, this was TRADEMARK PC Politics in action.
Flashback to 1996 when then Premier of Alberta Ralph Klein decided to implant one of his own cronies as the head of the WCB in Alberta. Who was this KEY figure you ask? Well it was none other than DOCTOR John F. Cowell.
Dr. John F. Cowell would go on to become the WCB Chief Executive Officer that SLASH the WCB of Alberta in HALF, for the WCB of Alberta's budget expenditures for ONE YEAR.
Enter Premier Redford and Jim Prentice and they went back to their Old Cronies phone book to dig up Dr. John F. Cowell from the graveyard of corrupt PC Cronies to run the AHS.
Dr. Cowell's experience as CEO of WCB of Alberta was where he honed his skills of
Simply STOP treating people and your agency will save money!
The average tax paying citizen that is fully competent and in full control of their own facilties would look at this one line entry in the composition of a massive Compensation Fund that is intended to pay for the injuries and resulting disabilities of Seriously Injured Workers who are forced to be reliant on the integrity of the aforementioned disability fund, and the would say wait a minute; How in the hell can ANY institution manage to slash their medical expenditures in HALF in ONE YEAR?
This would seem to be an impossibility correct? No, oh contraire Joe Albertan, this is no accident scene, this is PC Party of Alberta Corporate CORRUPTION at work on an INDUSTRIAL SCALE!
And thus was born the Industrial Corruption era of Alberta politics, because only corruption on an Industrial Scale that permeates ALL levels of Medical Care delivered in the province of Alberta would be sufficient to deliver such collosal abuses to Seriously Injured Workers.
The single largest BARRIER to recovery for Injured Workers in Alberta is LACK of ACCESS to proper, timely and Relevant Medical Treatments and Referrals to Specialists here in Alberta.
This single barrier is in reality a series of Multiple Medical Barriers that have been erected over decades of procedures that the WCB Hacks and Quacks CRONIES have toiled scurilessly to ensure that Injured Workers that THEY TARGET for abuse are DENIED ACCESS at every turn in their quest to find some relief for the pain they suffer. I believe that Dr. Cowell gave the instructions to DENY me care at the Calgary Foothills Spinal Treatment center, that is my opinion.
We are the sufferers of Chronic Pain that makes us unable to function at a normal level, and thus these roadblocks created by the Ralph Klein gang of Medical Gangsters continues to be a massive BARRIER and Roadblock to recovery for Seriously Injured Workers.
Corruption within the Workers Compensation Board and the Alberta Health Services RUNS DEEP! We need our Premier Rachel Notly to move with forcefull resolve to dismantle this SYTEM of ABUSE and to reorganize the Alberta Health Services to erase DISCRIMINATION within AHS and the
WCB of Alberta. These two organizations work hand in hand and they work in tandem to abuse Seriously Injured Workers. Doctors who seek to treat these disabled workers are unaware of the background mechanisms that are working within the AHS scurilessly to deny ACCESS to medical treatment for a extremely vulnerable portion of our population here in Alberta.
To do nothing for the Notley government, is to fully support DISCRIMINATION based on my medial disabilites, this will be the new governments BADGE of failure to wear for eternity.
Flashback to 1996 when then Premier of Alberta Ralph Klein decided to implant one of his own cronies as the head of the WCB in Alberta. Who was this KEY figure you ask? Well it was none other than DOCTOR John F. Cowell.
Dr. John F. Cowell would go on to become the WCB Chief Executive Officer that SLASH the WCB of Alberta in HALF, for the WCB of Alberta's budget expenditures for ONE YEAR.
Enter Premier Redford and Jim Prentice and they went back to their Old Cronies phone book to dig up Dr. John F. Cowell from the graveyard of corrupt PC Cronies to run the AHS.
Dr. Cowell's experience as CEO of WCB of Alberta was where he honed his skills of
Simply STOP treating people and your agency will save money!
The average tax paying citizen that is fully competent and in full control of their own facilties would look at this one line entry in the composition of a massive Compensation Fund that is intended to pay for the injuries and resulting disabilities of Seriously Injured Workers who are forced to be reliant on the integrity of the aforementioned disability fund, and the would say wait a minute; How in the hell can ANY institution manage to slash their medical expenditures in HALF in ONE YEAR?
This would seem to be an impossibility correct? No, oh contraire Joe Albertan, this is no accident scene, this is PC Party of Alberta Corporate CORRUPTION at work on an INDUSTRIAL SCALE!
And thus was born the Industrial Corruption era of Alberta politics, because only corruption on an Industrial Scale that permeates ALL levels of Medical Care delivered in the province of Alberta would be sufficient to deliver such collosal abuses to Seriously Injured Workers.
The single largest BARRIER to recovery for Injured Workers in Alberta is LACK of ACCESS to proper, timely and Relevant Medical Treatments and Referrals to Specialists here in Alberta.
This single barrier is in reality a series of Multiple Medical Barriers that have been erected over decades of procedures that the WCB Hacks and Quacks CRONIES have toiled scurilessly to ensure that Injured Workers that THEY TARGET for abuse are DENIED ACCESS at every turn in their quest to find some relief for the pain they suffer. I believe that Dr. Cowell gave the instructions to DENY me care at the Calgary Foothills Spinal Treatment center, that is my opinion.
We are the sufferers of Chronic Pain that makes us unable to function at a normal level, and thus these roadblocks created by the Ralph Klein gang of Medical Gangsters continues to be a massive BARRIER and Roadblock to recovery for Seriously Injured Workers.
Corruption within the Workers Compensation Board and the Alberta Health Services RUNS DEEP! We need our Premier Rachel Notly to move with forcefull resolve to dismantle this SYTEM of ABUSE and to reorganize the Alberta Health Services to erase DISCRIMINATION within AHS and the
WCB of Alberta. These two organizations work hand in hand and they work in tandem to abuse Seriously Injured Workers. Doctors who seek to treat these disabled workers are unaware of the background mechanisms that are working within the AHS scurilessly to deny ACCESS to medical treatment for a extremely vulnerable portion of our population here in Alberta.
To do nothing for the Notley government, is to fully support DISCRIMINATION based on my medial disabilites, this will be the new governments BADGE of failure to wear for eternity.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Small Farmers are Big Losers in the WCB Scheme that downloads Transnational Workers Comp costs directly onto small business
Small farmers really have NO inclination of what is coming down the pipe in the new arena of Farmers and Ranchers being brought into the scope of the WCB Alberta scheme that puts them under the arm of this super corrupt organization. They do not realize that small business operators are the BIG LOSERS in the WCB Ponzi scheme that masquerades itself as a legitimate Worker Compensation scheme. The farmers will believe what they are told on the television, what other source of information do they have, right? The Transnational Corporations and the Govt. are counting on it! The farmers will naturally believe that the WCB of AB is a legitimate Injured Worker scheme, when othing could be further from the truth.
The costs to workers and their families are staggering and the reality of what the financial and human costs are of NOT treating seriously injured workers in Alberta are massive in scope.
For the first 2 years after my injury I had to beg my family and friends for money to buy my medications. I became homeless because I could no longer work, and WCB refused to help. I now live on AISH and the taxpayers of AB are saddled with my care and money to live on.
I CANNOT ACCESS specialists or clinics to treat my broken back, this is 3rd World abuse, this is NOT Healthcare by any Metric of measure. Because WCB controls Healthcare in AB, I am denied even the most basic level of care, for me there exists no Mininum Level of Care that I can access.
The AB Govt. has the best clinics all reserved for THEIR care and the Oil Execs who live in Calgary.
Refugees and Temporary Foreign Workers have MORE Rights and Priveleges than I do for accessing medical care for a Trauma injury to my Spine. WCB Mandates my abuse, and AHS enforces this abuse.
In my opinion the province and WCB Alberta are so desperate to bring new SUCKERS into their Ponzi Scheme is because the Transnational Oil Corporations do not want to bear ANY of the costs of injured workers or dead workers in the Oil fields of Alberta. Transnational Corporations like CNRL and CNOOC from across the globe now dominate the business landscape in Alberta and they have NO interest in paying for injured workers and the costs associated with caring for disabled Albertans.
CASE IN POINT: Chinese Corporation fined $1.5Million for 2 workers killed and 2 disabled 3 hurt
When the Sinopec Eng. Corp was fined for killing the 2 steel workers and seriously injuring 2 other workers and 3 others were injured. The naturally CORRUPT Alberta Justice Dept. to put their best crony Judge on the job to ensure that Giant Transnational Oil Companies will get all of their MONEY BACK.
The corrupt Justice Dept. of AB kicked in to dismiss 29 of the charges against CNRHell saying CNRL charges were stayed because the prosecutor’s office judged that holding the actual employer to account was enough[5 Yrs later?]. Like WTH?? 10 of the other charges against SSEC China were dropped as well. You see in Hellberta it is 10x more important to protect the employer than the dead worker.
Now for the bizarre world of WCB and OHS sentencing kicks in, in Hellberta the WCB employs a "Creative Sentencing" approach to fining companies that KILL their employees. Yeah, the gave the SSEC company a $1.5 Million CDN fine, and then gave them $1.2 Million of the money BACK to them to create a Information Center to educate TFW's about their rights. The bogus center was to be run by yet Another Bogus Organization called the Alberta Workers Health Centre which will run the program.
I went to the AB Workers Health Ctr. back when I originally was cut off from WCB, these guys are PC Cronies sitting around getting paid to be PARROTS for the PC Government = fake Worker organization.
This is the reality of what happens to the largest companies in AB when they kill workers, a $200,000 fine for companies that are valued in the hundreds of Billions!
Big Corporations have NO PROBLEM paying for, or integrating these bogus WCB Consultants into their corporate costs because to them it is just a simple expense item in their multi-billion dollar expense columns that are managed by giant accounting firms from NYC and Toronto. For them this is simply the cost of dead workers and the cost of doing business in Alberta, screw the workers.
Small farming operations will be the Biggest Losers for farmers as the small operators of farms in Alberta. This maybe the final nail in the financial costs coffin for small farmers in Alberta.
Giant American corporate farming WINS and the family owned farm will die forever.
Harper + big U.S. giants like Monsanto WIN. Small AB farmers = Lose.
Why you ask, because the little guys are the ones that pay for the bulk of the WCB Alberta costs in the clever money shuffling of the corrupt business practices at the WCB Alberta. The bogus KICK-BACK schemes that ends up rotating almost ALL of the WCB costs directly BACK to employers in these BOGUS Safety schemes rewards companies who complete safety programs that the WCB of Alberta designates as being part of their Injury Reduction schemes. The only problem is that companies that do not reach any of their safety goals are STILL REWARDED with Huge cash kick-back schemes. This is the magic of the Ponzi-Scheme aspect of the WCB Alberta.
There is no validity for bogus Corporate sponsored safety programs that
A.) Do not REDUCE injuries B.) Kill workers
But that does not matter because these programs are fake and are only designed to make the smaller companies feel as though their programs really matter, the WCB does not CARE because this is all about the kick-back and NOT about safety.
If the bogus WCB Safety BONUSES that are rewarded BACK to the corporations in their Kick-Back schemes are really working, we would naturally as a side effect of these successful programs see an natural progression DOWNWARDS in overall injuries in Alberta. But no such Downward trend is evident, the number of Seriously Injured Workers and workers who are killed on the job remains on a constant level. I know from working for the Unions and from working on these large industrial sites that the safety programs that these massive construction companies promote are bogus because they actually promote the NON-reporting of injuries. As a reward for NON-reporting of injuries the workers are rewarded with a whole bevy of "Trinkets and Beads". Yup the big corporations hand out Swiss Army knives engraved with the project name, jackets, winter coats, tools etc. for NOT reporting injuries so that they can enter "No reported injuries" on the piece of plywood at the front gate of the project.
For small farmers and ranchers how would they know these kinds of phony safety practices are now commonplace and have been for many years now, or that this is HOW these large multi-national corporations are able to get almost ALL of the cash that is earmarked for WCB Claimants BACK AGAIN!
#1.) The first reason these Transnational Contractors and Oil Co's are able to pay less than a dollar per hour worked is because they get these huge CASH BACK schemes even if they KILL workers!
#2.) Small business operators are not even aware of why THEIR costs are so high, it is because the WCB of Alberta shoulders most of the costs directly onto their backs, not big corporations.
#3.) Small business operators are denied the ability to retain top level workers because the WCB Alberta scheme is so phony that is does not properly rehabilitate Seriously Injured workers, thus costing small business because they have lost a top employee who was already skilled and trained.
#4) The Alberta Government is the largest single employer that employs Government workers who know damned well they can break a nail at work or sprain their thumb get time off and claim disability.
We all know that the Government workers like Cops and Firemen and office workers have the best benefits of all any workers in Alberta. Studies in the U.S. have shown that Govt. worker are largely responsible for a large chunk of the WCB short term and long term disability costs to Workers Comp. systems.
#5.) With Multinational companies taking over the farming landscape with Corporate behemoths like Monsanto and other mega-corporations now with vested interests in the farming and the mega ranching operations in Southern Alberta. Now that huge farming corporations have been fully enabled by the Harper regime, they have their BRASS chips in the game now, and they want to ensure that they keep "Control of their costs". WCB Alberta fulfills their corporate agenda by giving kickbacks and the corporations feel safe that they invested their money in yet ANOTHER CORRUPT STATE, that is easily manipulated to ensure that they will NEVER shoulder the costs of Seriously Injured Workers.
There you have it, and therein lies the danger to workers and to their families when their loved ones do not return home from work, the giant American and Transnational Corporations CANNOT be SUED for negligence or unsafe work environments that are encouraged and fostered here in Alberta.
Graham Thomson may be a great writer, but he did not bust his balls for 40 years with over 20 years in construction and steel erection. He does NOT know what the reality of working in Alberta is and the reality of what happens when you suffer a career ending injury and are permanently disabled for life.
I do, and the picture is not pretty. I would have much preferred a legitimate Injured Worker scheme like the farmers had because the farm carries insurance and is legally culpable for your injuries and compensation in the event of a serious accident. Having the ability and the RIGHT to sue your employer is key to being properly compensated for a serious injury at work, that is the TRUTH.
I was hurt at work, and it was an ACCIDENT and that was all it was, period! There was NO INVESTIGATION, no WCB employee EVER interviewed me about what happened on March 01,2006. 99% of employers have told me that they would prefer a private insurance company over the bogus WCB org. because WCB threatens the small business operators as well if they do not FORCE workers back to work early the WCB threatens to jack their rates through the ceiling.
The presumptions that Graham Thomson has made are false, he has been reading far too many WCB Alberta propaganda handouts for reporters and his vision of reality is skewed from his perspective as an "Injured Worker ARMCHAIR critic"! If he or any other reporter wants to find out what it is really like to be homeless while permanently disabled and without any medications, medical devices or financial compensation for your injuries then they can call me at 780-965-9196 and I will be happy to answer any questions. Text works best for a person with Chronic Pain, as I may be sleeping from the Chronic fatigue that is a natural byproduct of Chronic Pain.
The costs to workers and their families are staggering and the reality of what the financial and human costs are of NOT treating seriously injured workers in Alberta are massive in scope.
For the first 2 years after my injury I had to beg my family and friends for money to buy my medications. I became homeless because I could no longer work, and WCB refused to help. I now live on AISH and the taxpayers of AB are saddled with my care and money to live on.
I CANNOT ACCESS specialists or clinics to treat my broken back, this is 3rd World abuse, this is NOT Healthcare by any Metric of measure. Because WCB controls Healthcare in AB, I am denied even the most basic level of care, for me there exists no Mininum Level of Care that I can access.
The AB Govt. has the best clinics all reserved for THEIR care and the Oil Execs who live in Calgary.
Refugees and Temporary Foreign Workers have MORE Rights and Priveleges than I do for accessing medical care for a Trauma injury to my Spine. WCB Mandates my abuse, and AHS enforces this abuse.
In my opinion the province and WCB Alberta are so desperate to bring new SUCKERS into their Ponzi Scheme is because the Transnational Oil Corporations do not want to bear ANY of the costs of injured workers or dead workers in the Oil fields of Alberta. Transnational Corporations like CNRL and CNOOC from across the globe now dominate the business landscape in Alberta and they have NO interest in paying for injured workers and the costs associated with caring for disabled Albertans.
CASE IN POINT: Chinese Corporation fined $1.5Million for 2 workers killed and 2 disabled 3 hurt
When the Sinopec Eng. Corp was fined for killing the 2 steel workers and seriously injuring 2 other workers and 3 others were injured. The naturally CORRUPT Alberta Justice Dept. to put their best crony Judge on the job to ensure that Giant Transnational Oil Companies will get all of their MONEY BACK.
The corrupt Justice Dept. of AB kicked in to dismiss 29 of the charges against CNRHell saying CNRL charges were stayed because the prosecutor’s office judged that holding the actual employer to account was enough[5 Yrs later?]. Like WTH?? 10 of the other charges against SSEC China were dropped as well. You see in Hellberta it is 10x more important to protect the employer than the dead worker.
Now for the bizarre world of WCB and OHS sentencing kicks in, in Hellberta the WCB employs a "Creative Sentencing" approach to fining companies that KILL their employees. Yeah, the gave the SSEC company a $1.5 Million CDN fine, and then gave them $1.2 Million of the money BACK to them to create a Information Center to educate TFW's about their rights. The bogus center was to be run by yet Another Bogus Organization called the Alberta Workers Health Centre which will run the program.
I went to the AB Workers Health Ctr. back when I originally was cut off from WCB, these guys are PC Cronies sitting around getting paid to be PARROTS for the PC Government = fake Worker organization.
This is the reality of what happens to the largest companies in AB when they kill workers, a $200,000 fine for companies that are valued in the hundreds of Billions!
Big Corporations have NO PROBLEM paying for, or integrating these bogus WCB Consultants into their corporate costs because to them it is just a simple expense item in their multi-billion dollar expense columns that are managed by giant accounting firms from NYC and Toronto. For them this is simply the cost of dead workers and the cost of doing business in Alberta, screw the workers.
Small farming operations will be the Biggest Losers for farmers as the small operators of farms in Alberta. This maybe the final nail in the financial costs coffin for small farmers in Alberta.
Giant American corporate farming WINS and the family owned farm will die forever.
Harper + big U.S. giants like Monsanto WIN. Small AB farmers = Lose.
Why you ask, because the little guys are the ones that pay for the bulk of the WCB Alberta costs in the clever money shuffling of the corrupt business practices at the WCB Alberta. The bogus KICK-BACK schemes that ends up rotating almost ALL of the WCB costs directly BACK to employers in these BOGUS Safety schemes rewards companies who complete safety programs that the WCB of Alberta designates as being part of their Injury Reduction schemes. The only problem is that companies that do not reach any of their safety goals are STILL REWARDED with Huge cash kick-back schemes. This is the magic of the Ponzi-Scheme aspect of the WCB Alberta.
There is no validity for bogus Corporate sponsored safety programs that
A.) Do not REDUCE injuries B.) Kill workers
But that does not matter because these programs are fake and are only designed to make the smaller companies feel as though their programs really matter, the WCB does not CARE because this is all about the kick-back and NOT about safety.
If the bogus WCB Safety BONUSES that are rewarded BACK to the corporations in their Kick-Back schemes are really working, we would naturally as a side effect of these successful programs see an natural progression DOWNWARDS in overall injuries in Alberta. But no such Downward trend is evident, the number of Seriously Injured Workers and workers who are killed on the job remains on a constant level. I know from working for the Unions and from working on these large industrial sites that the safety programs that these massive construction companies promote are bogus because they actually promote the NON-reporting of injuries. As a reward for NON-reporting of injuries the workers are rewarded with a whole bevy of "Trinkets and Beads". Yup the big corporations hand out Swiss Army knives engraved with the project name, jackets, winter coats, tools etc. for NOT reporting injuries so that they can enter "No reported injuries" on the piece of plywood at the front gate of the project.
For small farmers and ranchers how would they know these kinds of phony safety practices are now commonplace and have been for many years now, or that this is HOW these large multi-national corporations are able to get almost ALL of the cash that is earmarked for WCB Claimants BACK AGAIN!
#1.) The first reason these Transnational Contractors and Oil Co's are able to pay less than a dollar per hour worked is because they get these huge CASH BACK schemes even if they KILL workers!
#2.) Small business operators are not even aware of why THEIR costs are so high, it is because the WCB of Alberta shoulders most of the costs directly onto their backs, not big corporations.
#3.) Small business operators are denied the ability to retain top level workers because the WCB Alberta scheme is so phony that is does not properly rehabilitate Seriously Injured workers, thus costing small business because they have lost a top employee who was already skilled and trained.
#4) The Alberta Government is the largest single employer that employs Government workers who know damned well they can break a nail at work or sprain their thumb get time off and claim disability.
We all know that the Government workers like Cops and Firemen and office workers have the best benefits of all any workers in Alberta. Studies in the U.S. have shown that Govt. worker are largely responsible for a large chunk of the WCB short term and long term disability costs to Workers Comp. systems.
#5.) With Multinational companies taking over the farming landscape with Corporate behemoths like Monsanto and other mega-corporations now with vested interests in the farming and the mega ranching operations in Southern Alberta. Now that huge farming corporations have been fully enabled by the Harper regime, they have their BRASS chips in the game now, and they want to ensure that they keep "Control of their costs". WCB Alberta fulfills their corporate agenda by giving kickbacks and the corporations feel safe that they invested their money in yet ANOTHER CORRUPT STATE, that is easily manipulated to ensure that they will NEVER shoulder the costs of Seriously Injured Workers.
There you have it, and therein lies the danger to workers and to their families when their loved ones do not return home from work, the giant American and Transnational Corporations CANNOT be SUED for negligence or unsafe work environments that are encouraged and fostered here in Alberta.
Graham Thomson may be a great writer, but he did not bust his balls for 40 years with over 20 years in construction and steel erection. He does NOT know what the reality of working in Alberta is and the reality of what happens when you suffer a career ending injury and are permanently disabled for life.
I do, and the picture is not pretty. I would have much preferred a legitimate Injured Worker scheme like the farmers had because the farm carries insurance and is legally culpable for your injuries and compensation in the event of a serious accident. Having the ability and the RIGHT to sue your employer is key to being properly compensated for a serious injury at work, that is the TRUTH.
I was hurt at work, and it was an ACCIDENT and that was all it was, period! There was NO INVESTIGATION, no WCB employee EVER interviewed me about what happened on March 01,2006. 99% of employers have told me that they would prefer a private insurance company over the bogus WCB org. because WCB threatens the small business operators as well if they do not FORCE workers back to work early the WCB threatens to jack their rates through the ceiling.
The presumptions that Graham Thomson has made are false, he has been reading far too many WCB Alberta propaganda handouts for reporters and his vision of reality is skewed from his perspective as an "Injured Worker ARMCHAIR critic"! If he or any other reporter wants to find out what it is really like to be homeless while permanently disabled and without any medications, medical devices or financial compensation for your injuries then they can call me at 780-965-9196 and I will be happy to answer any questions. Text works best for a person with Chronic Pain, as I may be sleeping from the Chronic fatigue that is a natural byproduct of Chronic Pain.
Dysfunctional CONSTRUCT to WCB Alberta Corporately controlled abuse mechanism
I am in terrible amount of pain in my legs today as another major storm drops heavy snow on Edmonton. I have to leave this place of die soon, I cannot take these super cold winters in Hellberta.
It has always been my belief that the central design fault of the WCB Alberta system of abuse, is that the contributions to the WCB AB corruption machine are billed to the Companies and they lay claim to contributing to this ultra corrupt system of medical abuse. As such this is not the WORKERS compensation system, it is the EMPLOYERS bogus Compensation scheme, and we all know that the corporations that supposedly pay into the bogus system have absolutely NO INTEREST in helping seriously injured workers either recover or do they have ANY intention of paying compensation to workers who have been seriously injured at work.
The whole phony premise that Seriously Injured Workers have complete coverage for serious injuries at work is a nothing more than a grotesquely exxaggerated lie. The Edmonton Journal and Graham Thomson love to publish articles saying that injured workers are totally covered and that is a pile of rubbish and he knows it. He has corporate masters to serve and he is doing his corporate bidding for his employer. Graham needs a job like anybody else, he should feel lucky that he has never had to deal with such a horribly corrupt phony insurer.
The amount deducted from the employee pay is exactly the same if in practice the deductions for WCB were to come off of the workers pay. The current system is nothing but a fancy Government Sponsored Insurance PONZIE SCHEME that pays the largest employers back the majority of their contributions to WCB even if they are convicted of recklessly KILLING workers.
The current WCB Ponzie scheme reinjects the same old interest on the fund that it always earns as a result of the massive size of the fund, so it is in reality not actually injecting any NEW funds to the investment pool and the fund does not grow at an annualized rate adjusted for inflation. We all know that Health Care costs have been steadily rising for decades now, but by some kind of accounting MAGIC the WCB Costs arre shrinking and they never have to adjust for inflation in their contributions to this fund.
Structurally there are other problems with the phony Employers Contributions schemes that the WCB of Alberta has constantly toyed with in recent years that include bogus programs that give financial rewards to companies that regularly KILL workers. Yes, this program has employers attend WCB run and sponsored programs that TEACH Corporations how to CHEAT their workers out of benefits, treatments and Medical Specialists. The WCB promotes these bogus cheating modules as "Cost Control Sessions". The WCB promotes these programs that they sponsor and administer that teach employers how SCAM the unsuspecting injured worker out of ANY benefits and it works!
Look in the phone book and you will find WCB Consulting Firms that also teach mid-level corporate managers how to screw workers out of benefits and these companies promote programs for these corporate Human Resource managers where they can learn how to screw workers just like the Consulting Firms. Or you can simply hire these corporate sleezeballs, and let THEM screw your workers out of any WCB benefits that they are legally entitled to.
That is how a professional PONZI SCHEME works and that is how the WCB of Alberta is managed because it is 100% dedicated to screwing seriously injured workers out of ANY benefits.
It has always been my belief that the central design fault of the WCB Alberta system of abuse, is that the contributions to the WCB AB corruption machine are billed to the Companies and they lay claim to contributing to this ultra corrupt system of medical abuse. As such this is not the WORKERS compensation system, it is the EMPLOYERS bogus Compensation scheme, and we all know that the corporations that supposedly pay into the bogus system have absolutely NO INTEREST in helping seriously injured workers either recover or do they have ANY intention of paying compensation to workers who have been seriously injured at work.
The whole phony premise that Seriously Injured Workers have complete coverage for serious injuries at work is a nothing more than a grotesquely exxaggerated lie. The Edmonton Journal and Graham Thomson love to publish articles saying that injured workers are totally covered and that is a pile of rubbish and he knows it. He has corporate masters to serve and he is doing his corporate bidding for his employer. Graham needs a job like anybody else, he should feel lucky that he has never had to deal with such a horribly corrupt phony insurer.
The amount deducted from the employee pay is exactly the same if in practice the deductions for WCB were to come off of the workers pay. The current system is nothing but a fancy Government Sponsored Insurance PONZIE SCHEME that pays the largest employers back the majority of their contributions to WCB even if they are convicted of recklessly KILLING workers.
The current WCB Ponzie scheme reinjects the same old interest on the fund that it always earns as a result of the massive size of the fund, so it is in reality not actually injecting any NEW funds to the investment pool and the fund does not grow at an annualized rate adjusted for inflation. We all know that Health Care costs have been steadily rising for decades now, but by some kind of accounting MAGIC the WCB Costs arre shrinking and they never have to adjust for inflation in their contributions to this fund.
Structurally there are other problems with the phony Employers Contributions schemes that the WCB of Alberta has constantly toyed with in recent years that include bogus programs that give financial rewards to companies that regularly KILL workers. Yes, this program has employers attend WCB run and sponsored programs that TEACH Corporations how to CHEAT their workers out of benefits, treatments and Medical Specialists. The WCB promotes these bogus cheating modules as "Cost Control Sessions". The WCB promotes these programs that they sponsor and administer that teach employers how SCAM the unsuspecting injured worker out of ANY benefits and it works!
Look in the phone book and you will find WCB Consulting Firms that also teach mid-level corporate managers how to screw workers out of benefits and these companies promote programs for these corporate Human Resource managers where they can learn how to screw workers just like the Consulting Firms. Or you can simply hire these corporate sleezeballs, and let THEM screw your workers out of any WCB benefits that they are legally entitled to.
That is how a professional PONZI SCHEME works and that is how the WCB of Alberta is managed because it is 100% dedicated to screwing seriously injured workers out of ANY benefits.
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