Date: 1980-08-17
Description: The first CFU election lost and a very close certification vote. Issues for the CFU in the lost vote included the inclusion of non-farmworkers like long distance drivers voting. Also, Dec.1, 1980 letter from CFU staff to CFU members at Forssell announcing a 'cooling-off' period after CFU lost certification vote.
Date: 1980-09-09
Name(s): Boal, Sarwan, Cavanaugh, Judy
Description: Outlines briefly why and how to join the CFU. Submitted to Worker's Meeting at Forsell's Greenhouses Ltd. Double-sided leaflet with provincial BC Labour Code rights to form a union.
Date: 1985-01-01
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: Forum for Communal Harmony, South Vancouver Meeting. Audience. (first row right to left) Sarwan Boal, Charan Gill and Ujjal Dosanjh.
Date: 1985-01-01
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: Forum for Communal Harmony, South Vancouver Meeting. Lawyer Ujjal Dosanjh and Vancouver Sath writer Sukhwant Hundal.
Date: 1985-01-01
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: Forum for Communal Harmony, South Vancouver Meeting. Sukhwant Hundal speaks. (first row left to right) Ujjal Dosanjh, Raj Chouhan, Charan Gill, Sarwan Boal, (last man unknown). Also, Harinder Mahil, behind Ujjal.
Date: 1989-01-01
Description: An excerpt from the two-year labour contract: classification and wage rates.
Date: 1981-11-09
Description: CFU Local No. 1 and Fraser Valley Frosted Foods Ltd (Fraservale), Chilliwack sign first collective agreement and CFUs third collective agreement.
Date: 1983-06-28
Description: CFU and Fraser Valley Frosted Foods renew a two year collective agreement ending Dec 31, 1984. Wage rates increase 16% over two years, from 1/1/84 $6.24 - $10.21, average rate $7.58.
Date: 1985-04-25
Description: Discussion amongst FraserVale workers during the renewal contract negotiations.
Date: 1984-05-31
Description: Notice of Motion in the provincial court to suspend CFU Hoss Farm Mushroom workers and supporters from secondary picketing at the Fraser Valley Mushroom Growers Co-operative Association.
Date: 1984-05-31
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: After three days of picketing at the remote Hoss Farm, the fired women farmworkers set up a secondary picket line at the Fraser Valley Mushroom Growers' Co-operative--which packaged mushrooms under the brand name Money's Mushrooms. The Co-op warehouse workers who processed the mushrooms, members of the Retail & Wholesale Union, refused to cross the picket line. The plant shut down and the distribution and sale of mushrooms in retail stores came to a standstill. The pressure exerted by the…
Date: 1984-05-31
Name(s): Charlton, Alexandra
Description: After three days of picketing at the remote Hoss Farm, the fired women farmworkers set up a secondary picket line at the Fraser Valley Mushroom Growers' Co-operative--which packaged mushrooms under the brand name Money's Mushrooms. The Co-op warehouse workers who processed the mushrooms, members of the Retail & Wholesale Union, refused to cross the picket line. The plant shut down and the distribution and sale of mushrooms in retail stores came to a standstill. The pressure exerted by the…
Date: 1984-05-31
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: Retail Wholesale Workers Union members honouring the CFU picket line in front of the wharehouses they work in. Sarwan Boal (far left), David Jackson ( 2nd left), Craig Berggold (far right).
Date: 1984-05-31
Name(s): Berggold, Craig
Description: After three days of picketing at the remote Hoss Farm, the fired women farmworkers set up a secondary picket line at the Fraser Valley Mushroom Growers' Co-operative--which packaged mushrooms under the brand name Money's Mushrooms. The Co-op warehouse workers who processed the mushrooms, members of the Retail & Wholesale Union, refused to cross the picket line. The plant shut down and the distribution and sale of mushrooms in retail stores came to a standstill. The pressure exerted by the…
Date: 1984-05-31
Name(s): Binning, Sadhu
Description: CFU organizers Sarwan Boal (left) and Sukhwant Hundal.
