PERSONAL OPINION PIECE:
Workcover Victims Victoria has been operating since 2008 and
fighting Worksafe Vic since 1999.
We have experience in making changes to the Vic legislation
which has provided more protections for injured workers during
the investigation mode of a workplace injury.
We have also developed a guide for our injured workers so
they are fully informed of their rights to compensation and
rehabilitation. We are at present attempting to obtain a gov
grant for its publication so we may provide our readers with
it completely free of charge and as Workcover Victims Victoria
has always been a free service to our readers we will always
remain just that.. free!
We were also deeply involved with the Hanks Report submissions
working side by side with a prominent Melbourne law firm and
we fully supported changes in the ACA that would restore workers
full rights to claiming Workcover payments and compensations and
we are very proud of what we have already accomplished but we
also know we have a lot further to go.
Recently a new blog has been developed called aworkcovervictimsdiary
and up until today I thought we were working for the same things
but that now doesn't seem to be the case.
It seems they find us to be some sort of competition and they
have become abusive and we don't know why or what it is they
think they are accusing us of because we certainly have had very
little to do with them since their commencement and up to date
they certainly havent provided injured workers with any formal
changes as WCV's has so they are not even competing on the
same playing field although they obviously think that they are.
It also seems that even only after a matter of months in
operation they have also managed to find themselves being
sued for defamation by allianz insurances and are now abusing
fellow workplace injury victims and bloggers as well so it really
shows them for who they are and what their not!
Over the last few weeks WCV's has suspected that they have
been also making negative comments on this blog too specifically
in an attempt to undermine it which has been to no avail, but as
they have now made definite threats against this blog which
I find totally unacceptable, unethical and unprofessional I will
be boycotting them permanently considering we were working
towards the same outcome which is a better life for injured
workers of Australia or at least some of us were.
Therefore this blog will have no contact or interact with that
blog in any way shape or form and we would also suggest to
our readers to be careful if dealing with them in the future
and check all info they are providing as we have already had
a few concerns about their interpretation of some very simple
information.
aworkcovervictimsdiary is reckless and inexperienced in blogging
and they have accomplished nothing for injured workers within
the ACA or OHS Legislation nor made any attempt too since their commencement and in their operating time of about 8 months
they have already found themselves involved in a defamation
case with insurers whom I would say have a lot more funds to
obtain a conviction against them than aworkcovervictimsdiary
does funds to fight them, so let the fight begin!
We here a WCV's do fully understand how hard it is for injured
workers and their families during the course of a workcover claim
and we do need other bloggers who are willing to make changes
to this insipid act but we do not need those that choose to abuse
others and act negatively towards them when in actual fact they
should be asking to work with them not against them.
This sort of inexperience is reckless and does nothing to help
those its supposed to have been created for.
So after deliberating deeply we have decided we will not be
providing any links or stories published by aworkcovervictimsdiary
and we will be notifying the appropriate agencies and law firms
of this outcome.
All we can do is to battle on and hope that all of our hard work
will one day pay off so we can have a Workcover system that is
fair to both workers and employers but until then blogs like
Workcover Victims Victoria will be here for those folk that need
us to help them fight one of the biggest battles of their lives.
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