Exposing conditions give workers hope

Re Toxic workplace, May 18 It was with great pleasure that I was blessed with the chance to meet Sara Mojtehedzadeh and Melissa Renwick, and just recently Laurie Monsebraaten. Your writers and journalists are bold, brave and courageous for telling the world of our plight with the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB). Their writings and pictures have shown the world of our lonely struggle to get recognition and justice for all GE workers and their families.

Your paper has given me and my group of people the chance to expose General Electric as to the working conditions that we faced every day. Without your reporters writing about us, I know that we would still be just a group of people trying to deal with the problems of denials at WSIB. Your paper should be so proud as to have given us the voice of the lonely workers with no place to turn. The Minister of Labour has now publicly acknowledged our plight with the problems of trying to get WSIB to treat us with respect and fairness as cancer survivors, widows, widowers; and the illnesses that have wrought havoc amongst those families from GE workers. I have had the chance to be on your front page as to my own health issues. Each new day your exposure has brought new hope that we can finally go to sleep at night knowing somebody cares.

The paper you represent has created an environment of hope to us!

It is now the government’s turn to act responsibly and not take forever to bring us the closure we need

Roger L. M. Fowler and fellow coalition members along with the late Gary Lane and his family