Date: 1980-06-29
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: CFU demonstration to protest the grower's withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a 'Free Enterpriser' and doesn't believe in unions. CFU demands include Minimum of $4.00 per hour, and Minimum of $3.00 per flat (for a 16 lb. flat).
Date: 1980-06-29
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: CFU demonstration to protest the grower's withdrawal from negotiations. CFU President Raj Chouhan with bullhorn. CFU executive member Jawala Singh Grewal in turban far right. Cinematographer Kirk Tougas holds camera during filming A Time to Rise. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a '…
Date: 1980-06-29
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: CFU demonstration to protest the grower's withdrawal from negotiations. Harinder Mahil far right. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a 'Free Enterpriser' and doesn't believe in unions. CFU demands include Minimum of $4.00 per hour, and Minimum of $3.00 per flat (for a 16 lb. flat).
Date: 1980-06-29
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: CFU demonstration to protest the grower's withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a 'Free Enterpriser' and doesn't believe in unions. CFU demands include Minimum of $4.00 per hour, and Minimum of $3.00 per flat (for a 16 lb. flat).
Date: 1980-06-23
Description: The grower negotiated with the CFU for two months and backed out of signing a contract that had been jointly agreed upon. This picket line was featured in the NFB documentary 'A Time To Rise'.
Date: 1980-06-28
Description: Leaflet distributed at a demonstartion at Driediger Farms, Langley to protest the grower's withdrawal from negotiations. The grower negotiated with the CFU for two months and backed out of signing a contract that had been jointly agreed upon. Double-sided in english and punjabi.
Date: 1981-08-21
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: 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.
Date: 1981-08-21
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: 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.
Date: 1981-08-20
Name(s): Cavanaugh, Judy
Description: In Vancouver, Robson Square, over 400 people attend rally to demonstrate against farmworkers exclusions from Employment Standards and Workers' Compensation and end legislative discrimination.
Date: 1981-08-29
Name(s): Chouhan, Raj
Description: Speech addresses the exclusion of farmworkers from the new Social Credit BC provincial Emploment Standards Act.
Date: 1981-08-29
Name(s): Cavanaugh, Judy
Description: 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.
Date: 1981-08-29
Description: In Vancouver, Robson Square, over 400 people attend rally to demonstrate against farmworkers exclusions from Employment Standards and Workers Compnsation and end legislative discrimination.
Date: 1981-08-16
Description: In Abbotsford, 125 farmworkers attend a CFU public meeting focused on minimum wage provisions vs. piece rates.
Date: 1984-04-06
Name(s): Sandborn, Calvin
Description: Recommendation 18: Investigate Working, Housing and Safety Conditions for Immigrant and Itinerant Farmworkers. From the Equality Now!: Federal report of the Special Committee on Visible Minorities in Canadian Society.
Date: 1995-03-01
Name(s): Binning, Sadhu, Hundal, Sukhwant, Shannon, Esther
Description: This booklet of farm workers legal rights surveys municipal, provincial and federal standards for work, wages, health and safety, pesticide handling and more. Produced in both punjabi and english. Cover photo by Craig Berggold.
