🔄 From Pattern to Policy

How the Collective Action Flywheel turns evidence into change

One member's win is a story. Thousands of members' wins are a pattern. And a pattern, once it's visible, is something we can act on together. That's the Collective Action Flywheel.

(a) Members share wins & patterns

It starts with the Member Wins hub. When a member wins a WSIB appeal, secures an accommodation through HRTO, or gets an ODSP approval, they can share how — anonymized, no names or figures required. Every shared story is one more data point about what works and where the system breaks.

(b) 3mpwrApp identifies systemic patterns

Shared stories are not opinion — they sit on top of the largest open analysis of Ontario tribunal decisions we’ve built. The patterns members report in their wins are checked against the patterns already visible in the data:

• Research hub — 230,000+ tribunal decisions analyzed
• Research data sources: WSIAT, HRTO, ONSBT, WSIB & CanLII
• How to use this data
• Tribunal data visualizations

The site’s own research has already surfaced recurring, documentable patterns — for example:

• WSIAT outcomes over time — WSIAT outcome timeline 2020–2026
• HRTO outcomes over time — HRTO outcome timeline 2020–2026
• Cross-tribunal comparison — who wins, and where
• How denial tactics evolve — WSIB appeal funnel and the WSIB denial network
• Keyword patterns in the case law — CanLII keyword network and WSIAT keyword network
• Which issues generate the most volume — tribunal navigator

When members’ lived experience lines up with what the data shows, a pattern — not a anecdote — is what we act on.

(c) Patterns become campaigns

Once a pattern is documented and repeated across members, it gets named and organized. A campaign takes a systemic problem the evidence has exposed and turns it into something a community can rally behind — with the receipts attached. This is the step where the Campaigns space lives: grassroots, member-led, and built on the research above rather than slogans.

(d) Campaigns drive policy change

Evidence-backed, collective campaigns are harder to dismiss than individual complaints. When the pattern is clear, the data is open, and the people affected are organized, the ask to decision-makers is concrete: here is the problem, here is the proof, here is the fix. That is how member evidence becomes policy pressure.

The evidence base — and its limits

Everything on this page traces back to research the site has already published. We cite our own work rather than assert outcomes we can’t show:

We do not claim a campaign has changed a specific law unless that change is documented. Accuracy is the point — a movement built on shaky numbers loses the one thing that makes it powerful: proof.

🤝 Join the movement

You don’t have to organize a campaign to move the flywheel. Pick the step that fits you today:

1. Share your story — your win or your pattern is the raw material. 👉 Member Wins
2. Use the templates & guides — they’re free, evidence-based, and built from the decision data above. 👉 Guides by community & tribunal
3. Follow the campaigns — see what’s being organized and where pressure is building. 👉 Campaigns
4. Stay in the loop — updates on patterns, campaigns and policy moves. 👉 Community updates

The next pattern starts with one person deciding to share. If you’ve won, been denied, or just noticed the same wall everyone else hits — tell us.