Save Lives of Farmworkers: Implement the Jury's Recommendations before others suffer the sama fate

Date
2009-02-01
Creator: Canadian Farmworkers' Union
Description

A CFU punjabi-english brochure that lists the jury recommendations from the provincial BC coroner's inquest into the deaths of three farmworkers in an overcrowded farm labour contractors van. The accident at 6:30am on March 7, 2007 happened when 16 women were being transported in a 15-seat van on Highway 1 going to a nearby Chilliwack greenhouse.

Nationality
Indo-Canadians
South Asians
East Indians
Subject (Geographic)
British Columbia
Lower Mainland
Fraser Valley (B.C.)
Keywords
Campaign Materials - Public
farm workers
farmworkers
Labour Laws
Labour Contractors
Transportation
Housing
BC Labour Relations Board
Accidents and Deaths
Health and safety
Workers' Compensation
Women's issues
Genre
Records (Documents)
Type of resource
Text
Language
English
Punjabi
Part of
Canadian Farmworkers Union Collection
Identifier
CRA0070
Copyright
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Terms of use
You may use this work as permitted by applicable licenses, fair dealing and other exceptions under copyright legislation in your jurisdiction. For guidance on seeking further permissions, contact SFU Special Collections and Rare Books (scrb@sfu.ca).
Copyright owner(s)

Multiple and various copyright owners.