Date: 1983-07-01
Description: This is only a projected budget for CFU plan of action. See convention report for actual budget.
Date: 1987-05-01
Name(s): Boal, Sarwan
Description: A review of the 1986-1987 CFU activities. Including: Overview of economic climate; federal Tory government refusal to implement recommendations of Unemeployment Insurance Forget Report; Organizing difficulties with provincial Bill 19; Review of CFU demonstrations and benefits; ESL Crusade; CFU membership services, ie. Legal clinic; Campaigns for WCB Health and Safety and Pesticide regulations, and farmworkers exclusion from minimum wages; CFU organizing activities;
Date: 1991-06-03
Name(s): Gill, Charan
Description: Letter includes monthly budget for staff, organizers and office.
Date: 1991-12-06
Name(s): Gill, Charan
Description: Describes meeting August 22, 1991 when the CLC informed the CFU that they would no longer be receiving CLC funds. Also attached is a summary of 1991 CFU summer activities.
Date: 1990-12-01
Name(s): Boal, Sarwan
Description: CLC takes issue with the final report of Federal government's Federal Pesticide Registration Review Team, including: NAFTA and the weakening of the pesticide registration system; CLC supports WHMIS for pesticides and provisions for Crop sheets.
Date: 1984-05-28
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: CFU delegates Raj Chouhan and Sarwan Boal attend the Canadian Labour Congress in Montreal, Quebec. Photos on table by Craig Berggold.
Date: 1984-05-28
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: CFU delegates Raj Chouhan and Sarwan Boal attend the Canadian Labour Congress in Montreal, Quebec.
Date: 1982-01-01
Description: The plan was submitted to the CLC and BC Federation of Labour to request core funding for the operations of the CFU for eighteen months. Budget and timeline of action included.
Date: 1984-09-06
Name(s): Chouhan, Raj
Description: CFU assessment of 1984 activities and objectives. CFU requests the CLC to continue monthly donations of $4000.
Date: 1981-03-29
Description: CFU's First National Convention closed with a rally at Moberly School, Vancouver with guest speaker Vancouver and District Labour Council Secretary Treasurer Paddy Neale
Date: 1981-03-27
Name(s): Chavez, Cesar, Chouhan, Raj, Gill, Charan, Lanthier, Mario
Description: Important CFU Executive Report with summary of 1980 - 1981 activities. Including organizing, certifications, and negotiations; reports on recent deaths in the fields; federal and provincial govt lobbying. Folder also includes: Original letters with fraternal greetings from Cesar Chavez, Pres. UFW, and Jim Kinnaird, Pres. BCFL; Original signed list of elected delegates and observers; Hand written convention minutes including debate to affiliate to the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). BC…
Date: 1982-03-26
Description: Important CFU Executive Report with summary of 1981 - 1982 activities. Includes a realistic appraisal of organizing challenges. Lists CFU first certifications, first strikes and first collective agreements by unionized farmworkers in Canada. Updates federal and provincial govt lobbying. Convention passes resolution to launch a Farmworkers Literacy Crusade and establish a Farmworkers Educational Society. Financial report outlines CLC arrangement to pay staff wages. MISSING pages with Resolution…
Date: 1983-03-25
Description: Important CFU Executive Report with summary of 1982 - 1983 activities. Including organizing, certifications, collective agreements, strikes, ESL Crusade, cabin access, Legal Clinic, federal UI regulations, provincial Workers Compensation. Two delegates from Jensen Mushroom Farm, who had crossed the picket line are not allowed to sit at the convention. Guest Speaker from Manitoba Farmworkers Assoc are welcomed. Resolution to discuss merger with UFCW. Resolution of support to CST Nicaragua and to…
Date: 1984-04-15
Description: Important CFU Executive Report with summary of 1983 - 1984 activities. Including accomplishments on collective agreement negotiations, ESL Crusade, Cabin Access, Operation Solidaity, Legal Clinic; changes to federal UI Act; and setbacks at Jensen Mushroom Farm and Bell Farms, provincial Workers Compensation Coverage, and union's financial situation.
Date: 1985-03-23
Description: Important CFU Executive Report with summary of 1984 - 1985 activities, including: seasonal and year round organizing; phone campaign; certifications; collective agreements; strikes; ESL Crusade; Legal Clinic; federal UI Act; provincial Workers' Compensation; staff changes; and financial situation.
