Canadian Farmworkers Union Collection

: Equality for Farmworkers Demonstration - Canadian Farmworkers Union. Socreds unfair to farmworkers.; At the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery, 400 demonstrators attend a CFU rally 'Equality for Farmworkers', protesting an end to legislative discrimination and farmworkers exclusions from provincial BC Employment Standards and Workers' Compensation Act.

: Ontario : Organizing Evaluation Summary - Minutes; Hand-written minutes from CFU-Ontario's organizing team; the evaluation meeting between Sandy Roy, Mutale Chanda, Craig Berggold and Frank Luce.

: Ontario : Organizing Tobacco Workers Notes; Craig Berggold's hand-written notes reflecting on working as a tobacco picker (age 16-17) during the 1975-76 harvests in southern Ontario. These notes are written in late August 1981, after volunteering as an organizer for the CFU during the harvest campaign launching the union in Ontario.

: Equality for Farmworkers Demonstration Rally Agenda; Labour Songs by Tom Hawkins and Speaker Jack Nichols, President United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union. In Vancouver, Robson Square, over 400 people attend rally to demonstrate against farmworkers exclusions from Employment Standards and Workers Compnsation and end legislative discrimination.

: Equality for Farmworkers Demonstration : End Legislative Discrimination Against Farmworkers Leaflet; In Vancouver, Robson Square, over 400 people attend rally to demonstrate against farmworkers exclusions from Employment Standards and Workers Compnsation and end legislative discrimination.

: Equality for Farmworkers Demonstration - Raj Chouhan's Speech; Speech addresses the exclusion of farmworkers from the new Social Credit BC provincial Emploment Standards Act.

: Grootendorst Flowerland Nursery Farm Workers - Important Meeting; To discuss the company's wage and benefits offer. And, Why Join a Union?

: Grootendorst Flowerland Nurseries Ltd - Important Meeting To All Workers; CFU meeting call to discuss the company's wage and benefit offer.

: 1981 Canadian Farmworkers Union Poster - Good Enough To Work Good Enough To Unionize; Toronto artists Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge's poster portraying southern Ontario tobacco pickers announces the new CFU-National slogan 'Good Enough To Work...' that references the lack of workplace legal rights for farm workers across Canada, including the right to organize into a union - one of the many work rights taken for granted by most other workers. In 2011, the slogan is still relevant as Ontario farmworkers still do not have the right to form unions. The colour off-set poster had a limited run of 200.

: United Farmworkers of America, California. UFW President Cesar Chavez with UFW staff and CFU Sarwan Boal and Raj Chouhan.; CFU President Raj Chouhan and CFU Secretary Treasurer Sarwan Boal travel to California to visit with the United Farmworkers of America for meetings with UFW President Cesar Chavez.

: United Farmworkers of America, California. CFU Secretary Treasurer Sarwan Boal listens to UFW musicians in the fileds of southern California.; CFU President Raj Chouhan and CFU Secretary Treasurer Sarwan Boal travel to California to visit with the United Farmworkers of America for meetings with UFW President Cesar Chavez.

: United Farmworkers of America, California. CFU President Raj Chouhan extends solidarity greetings from Canada's new farmworkers union to UFW workers.; CFU President Raj Chouhan and CFU Secretary Treasurer Sarwan Boal travel to California to visit with the United Farmworkers of America for meetings with UFW President Cesar Chavez.

: United Farmworkers of America, California. CFU President Raj Chouhan welcomed to the podium during the UFW convention.; CFU President Raj Chouhan and CFU Secretary Treasurer Sarwan Boal travel to California to visit with the United Farmworkers of America for meetings with UFW President Cesar Chavez.

: United Farmworkers of America, California. CFU President Raj Chouhan welcomed to the podium during the UFW convention.; CFU President Raj Chouhan and CFU Secretary Treasurer Sarwan Boal travel to California to visit with the United Farmworkers of America for meetings with UFW President Cesar Chavez.

: Grootendorst Flowerland Nursery Ltd - Letter; CFU letter in regards to the July 17, 1981 agreement to re-instate a worker with payment of back pay.

: Grootendorst Flowerland Nursery Ltd to pay a workers back pay - Letter; CFU letter to pay workers back pay. Also, a response from the solicitor on October 8, 1981 agreeing with the CFU position.

: Solidarity Greetings to the Committee for the Advancement of the Rights of Domestic Workers; Farmworkers and domestic workers share a similar history of exclusion from provincial labour laws and this is a form of legislative (legal) discrimination and institutionalized racism.

: A Time to Rise - Press Release; A press release for the National Film Board film A 'Time to Rise' screening in Toronto.

: A Time to Rise - One Sheet for the 1981 NFB film by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro.; National Film Board one sheet for the 16mm film 'A Time to Rise' by Anand Patwarhden & Jim Munro. The film 'documents the formation of the union as well as the opposition - sometimes violent, sometimes racist - from the growers and labour contractors.' Circa 1981.

: A Time to Rise - Poster for the 1981 NFB film by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro.; Produced and directed by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro, with assistance from the National Film Board, this documentary tells the story of the birth of the CFU.

: A Time to Rise - Leaflet for the 1981 NFB film by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro.; Produced and directed by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro, with assistance from the National Film Board, this documentary tells the story of the birth of the CFU. This leaflet announces the screening at Toronto's Festival of Festivals.

: Utah Phillips Benefit Concert for the Canadian Farmworkers Union. CFU organizer Sarwan Boal auctions new poster 'Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to Unionize' by Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge.; Utah Phillips Benefit Concert for the Canadian Farmworkers Union and the Vancouver film premiere of A Time to Rise (Uthan Da Vaila) attended by 700 people at John Oliver High School, Vancouver. Toronto artists Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge's poster portraying southern Ontario tobacco pickers announces the new CFU-National slogan 'Good Enough To Work...' that references the lack of workplace legal rights for farm workers across Canada, including the right to organize into a union - one of the many work rights taken for granted by most other workers. In 2011, the slogan is still relevant as Alberta and Ontario farmworkers still do not have the right to organize unions. The colour off-set poster had a limited run of 200.

: Utah Phillips Benefit Concert for the Canadian Farmworkers Union and the Vancouver film premiere of A Time to Rise.; Utah Phillips Benefit Concert for the Canadian Farmworkers Union and the Vancouver film premiere of A Time to Rise (Uthan Da Vaila), co-directed by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro, and attended by 700 people at John Oliver High School, Vancouver.

: Utah Phillips Benefit Concert for the Canadian Farmworkers Union and Vancouver film premiere of A Time to Rise. CFU executive member Pritam Kaur.; CFU executive member Pritam Kaur at the Utah Phillips Benefit Concert for the Canadian Farmworkers Union and the Vancouver film premiere of A Time to Rise (Uthan Da Vaila), co-directed by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro, and attended by 700 people at John Oliver High School, Vancouver.

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