One week after CFU's first strike began at Country Farm Natural Foods in Richmond, the CFU’s second strike started at Jensen Mushroom Farms Ltd. in the Fraser Valley. Nine months earlier, the CFU had been certified to represent the workers on July 18, 1980. Most of the workers had not had a wage increase since October 1978. After many months of maintaining a 24 hour picket line, Jensen completely stopped production and put his farm for sale. "Initially Jensen maintained production as 10 workers scabbed. The line was subjected to various forms of violence from name calling, to car pounding, to a physical scuffle, to telephone wires being cut, to trucks being chased at high speeds, to an attempt to burn down the trailer while a picketer was sleeping inside."
