NDP MPP Paul Miller, the party’s Critic for the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), has a simple question: Why hasn’t WSIB Chair Steve Mahoney lost his job yet?

“This Liberal appointee spends so much time living the good life at taxpayers’ expense that the organization he is charged with guiding sits rife with mismanagement,” said Miller.

Hamilton Centre MPP Andrea Horwath has renewed her call for a provincial inquiry into last July’s fire at Biedermann Packaging after the long-awaited report released by Ontario’s Fire Marshall was short on answers.

New Democrat Andrea Horwath introduced a private members bill today to provide what she says is “overdue protection for workers” against workplace harassment and violence.

In the Ontario Legislature today, the Hamilton Centre MPP slammed the McGuinty government for failing to move on the growing and largely unchecked problem of violence and harassment in Ontario workplaces.

Hamilton East MPP Andrea Horwath says Monday’s explosive chemical fire in Thorold highlights the need for the McGuinty government to fast-track two NDP bills aimed at protecting fire fighters and the community.

NDP Leader Howard Hampton today called on local Liberal MPPs Michael Gravelle and Bill Mauro to take the “Transit Job Challenge.”

The Kenora-Rainy River MPP urged Gravelle and Mauro to show they′re on the side of Thunder Bay transit workers by signing an open letter to Dalton McGuinty. The letter calls on the premier to show leadership to make sure Bombardier′s Thunder Bay plant gets a $700-million-plus contract for Toronto subway cars.

Ontario should lead not trail others in the campaign to ensure fire fighters receive compensation for their occupational diseases, says New Democrat Andrea Horwath.

The Hamilton East MPP has the support of fire fighters and families for her private members bill that she will introduce today in the Ontario Legislature. The bill, named in memory of Hamilton Fire Fighter Bob Shaw, who died after developing cancer of the esophagus from fighting the deadly toxic Plastimet Fire, is ‘presumptive legislation′.