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INJURED ON THE JOB AND NEED HELP? The Pennsylvania Federation of Injured Workers can help you understand your rights under the PA Worker's Compensation Act. If you need some information about PA's Worker's Compensation System or you need a little support to make it through tough times the PFIW is here for you. We help injured workers because "An Injury to One is an Injury to All"!
P.F.I.W. MISSIONTo offer education about the PA Worker’s Compensation System to workers and the families of workers who have been injured or made ill at the workplace; and otherwise to work to improve the living standard of injured workers and their families; to support research and other actions that will benefit injured workers and their families and reduce workplace injury and illness; to advance and safeguard the full employment and economic security of injured workers generally; to support, encourage, and engage in support of philanthropic projects or activities which sponsor the purposes of the PFIW, is the sole purpose of our organization.
INJURED WORKER DAY OF PROTEST & MEMORIAL DAY - APRIL 28, 2004 Expressed opinion by Michael A. Kerstetter, PFIW Dauphin County
Injured Workers May Die Because the Pennsylvania Legislature Fails to Make Them Whole AgainExpressed opinion by Michael A. Kerstetter, PFIW Dauphin County Many of us go to work, in Pennsylvania, with the assumption that if we get injured on the job that our injury and our finances will be taken care of by workers’ compensation. This may be true for a majority of injured workers but there is a group of injured workers that falls through the cracks of a broken system. This small group is there due to two reasons. First, the employer is denying the injury and second, the injured worker has chosen an attorney that is not quite up to par on workers compensation law. If an injury goes on for several years the employer, most of the time, fires the employee so that medical and other benefits package can be discontinued and their cost of business can be lowered. If the injured worker has been out of work due to his/her injury for more them two years and a Social Security Disability claim has not been filed for the injured worker, then all eligibility for Social Security Disability may be lost. Through no fault of their own the injured worker more...
WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR CHANGE? Many times we are asked; "What can I do? I am only one person". The answer to that is very simple. When a large number of people complain about something it tends to get attention. The real power to make change comes from injured workers and injured worker advocates who have registered to vote and do so. They vote for politicians who care about injured worker rights. If all injured workers and injured worker advocates would register to vote and get one other person or more to do the same, injured workers would then be able to say; "the abuse of injured workers stops now." That is all it would take for injured workers to be heard in Harrisburg.
CONTACT INFORMATIONContact the PA Federation of Injured Workers for any information not on the website. Write or call a representative at the following contact information.
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On April 28, 2004 the Pennsylvania Federation of Injured Workers in junction with other injured worker advocate organizations and advocates sponsored an injured worker rally at the Capitol Rotunda Gallery in Harrisburg for an Injured Worker Memorial Day event. This was a day to remember workers who were killed or injured on the job. We need to attract attention to the way Pennsylvania is allowing injured workers to be exploited by employers and the insurance industry. Injured workers are struggling 
