Manitoba’s Workers Compensation Board opened the doors of its Brandon office with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 1:00 p.m. on February 13, 2012. The Brandon WCB Regional Office is located in the Renaissance Station building, Unit #1, 457 – 9^th Street and will provide full service to workers in Brandon and Western Manitoba.

Opening a WCB Office in Brandon is something that the Manitoba Federation of Labour, and in particular MFL Vice-President Jan Chaboyer, President of the Brandon and District Labour Council, has urged the WCB to do for a number of years.

MFL President Kevin Rebeck said, “This is good news for workers in Western Manitoba. Their constant point of contact with Workers Compensation is now located in their own community, or closer to it than was the case before today. It is good news for the community as well, since it demonstrates an important commitment by the Workers Compensation Board that it is part of the community fabric and dedicated to the future interests of Western Manitoba workers.”

The office will create high-skilled, well paid unionized jobs that will be filled, for the most part, by western Manitoba workers.