Date: 1987-01-01
Description: Appeals to farm workers to join the CFU to fight for improved working standards. Exact date unknown but after 1986.
Date: 1979-04-08
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: FWOC membership fee was $2 and in one year achieved 700 members. "The main objective for the FWOC was to expose the conditions of farmwork for seasonal workers in the Fraser Valley. The approach was to work with farmworkers, to lobby the government and to undertake public education." Membership fee was $2 and in one year achieved 700 members.
Date: 1979-04-01
Description: Founding of the FWOC. Wangar is IPANA's punjabi newspaper published in Vancouver. IPANA also published an english newspaper internationally for the diaspora.
Date: 1979-07-17
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: FWOC's mobilizes its first direct action picket line with nearly 200 farmworkers at Mukhtiar Growers Ltd in Clearbrook, BC. Raj Chouhan, President FWOC, on far right. The workers had not been paid their back wages for six weeks. Mukhtiar paid $80,000 in wages on the spot, after two hours of negotiations. Workers went back to work after they received their cheques. The FWOC's first major victory was reported in the local mainstream press and TV.
Date: 1980-02-22
Description: FWOC presented the the provincial BC Minister of Labour with a detailed legal brief 'Concerning Legislative Recommendations on Matters that Affect BC Farm Workers'. FWOC calls for the abolition of the labour contracting system and legal discrimination against farmworkers. The 4-page press release reads like an executive summary.
Date: 1979-03-08
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: A FWOC public meeting during the first year of organizing. Circa 1979. FWOC President Raj Chouhan with clinched fist. "The main objective for the FWOC was to expose the conditions of farmwork for seasonal workers in the Fraser Valley. The approach was to work with farmworkers, to lobby the government and to undertake public education." Membership fee was $2 and in one year achieved 700 members.
Date: 1979-03-08
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: A FWOC public meeting during the first year of organizing. Circa 1979. "The main objective for the FWOC was to expose the conditions of farmwork for seasonal workers in the Fraser Valley. The approach was to work with farmworkers, to lobby the government and to undertake public education." Membership fee was $2 and in one year achieved 700 members.
Date: 1979-02-26
Description: Farmworkers Organizing Committee (FWOC) Membership Card. FWOC was established in a room in the New Westminster library on Feb 26, 1979. The main objective was to expose the unjust working conditions for seasonal farmworkers in the Fraser Valley. FWOC's approach was to work with farmworkers, to lobby the government and to undertake public education.
Date: 1980-04-01
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: This photo appeared in the Pacific Tribune newspaper dated April 25, 1980.
Date: 1979-05-13
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: FWOC's second public meeting in Mission, BC.
Date: 1979-05-13
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: FWOC's second public meeting in Mission, BC.
Date: 1980-02-22
Name(s): Gabelmann, Colin
Description: FWOC's first summary brief outlining farmworkers unjust working and living conditions and their exclusion from employment standards legislation. Highlights proposed changes to federal, provincial and municipal laws affecting farm workers. Includes footnote citations and bibliography. Appendix; California Pesticide law; and, a brief on BC's wrongful dismissal law of unorganized workers. Also includes the April 10, 1975 final Report of the Standing Committee of BC Legislative Assembly on Labour…
Date: 1979-06-01
Name(s): Chouhan, Raj, Gill, Charan, Rai, Major
Description: Announcing the third public meeting of the Farm Workers Organizing Committee, and the first meeting in Vancouver at David Thompson Secondary School. Speakers included: Raj Chouhan President FWOC; Jack Munro, President IWA Regional Council No 1; Ujjal Dosanjh, Chairperson of Labour Advocacy and Research Association. This double-sided leaflet has a print thru on the english side from the punjabi text.
Date: 1980-03-06
Name(s): Fryer, John
Description: A letter of support for the new Farm Workers Organizing Committee (FWOC)
Date: 1980-01-01
Description: A 1980 summary of FWOC activities leading up to the CFU's founding convention. Also, staff hiring requirements.
