Canadian Farmworkers Union Collection

Selected publications, documents, and other significant items from the complete Canadian Farmworkers Union collection. 500+ publications, documents, and other significant items from the complete CFU archival collection held by the SFU Library's Special Collections. 

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Contributed by Craig Berggold and Special Collections and Rare Books, Simon Fraser University Library.

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I would like to tell you a story... Health and Safety Regulations Now! Photo 09 by Craig Berggold.

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Date: 1985-11-01
Name(s): Berggold, Craig
Description: Photo 09 and text panel 09 from the series 'I would like to tell you a story...Health and Safety Regulations Now!' a photo dramatization of true farmworker accidents and deaths. The exhibit was part of the CFU public campaign protesting the exclusion of farm workers from provincial health and safety regulations--a right all other workers take for granted. In 1993, and some 73 years after the workers' compensation system was established, the Workers' Compensation Board (now WorkSafeBC)…

I would like to tell you a story... Health and Safety Regulations Now! Photo 10 by Craig Berggold.

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Date: 1985-11-01
Name(s): Berggold, Craig
Description: Photo 10 and text panel 10 from the series 'I would like to tell you a story...Health and Safety Regulations Now!' a photo dramatization of true farmworker accidents and deaths. The exhibit was part of the CFU public campaign protesting the exclusion of farm workers from provincial health and safety regulations--a right all other workers take for granted. In 1993, and some 73 years after the workers' compensation system was established, the Workers' Compensation Board (now WorkSafeBC)…

I would like to tell you a story... Health and Safety Regulations Now! Photo 11 by Craig Berggold.

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Date: 1985-11-01
Name(s): Berggold, Craig
Description: Photo 11 and text panel 11 from the series 'I would like to tell you a story...Health and Safety Regulations Now!' a photo dramatization of true farmworker accidents and deaths. The exhibit was part of the CFU public campaign protesting the exclusion of farm workers from provincial health and safety regulations--a right all other workers take for granted. In 1993, and some 73 years after the workers' compensation system was established, the Workers' Compensation Board (now WorkSafeBC)…

I would like to tell you a story... Health and Safety Regulations Now! Photo 12 credit panel.

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Date: 1985-11-01
Name(s): Berggold, Craig
Description: Credit panel 12 from the series 'I would like to tell you a story...Health and Safety Regulations Now!' a photo dramatization of true farmworker accidents and deaths. The exhibit was part of the CFU public campaign protesting the exclusion of farm workers from provincial health and safety regulations--a right all other workers take for granted. In 1993, and some 73 years after the workers' compensation system was established, the Workers' Compensation Board (now WorkSafeBC) implemented health…

I Would Like To Tell You A Story... Health and Safety Regulations Now! Photo Exhibit CFU Press Release

Date: 1985-11-20
Name(s): Berggold, Craig
Description: Craig Berggold's photo exhibit dramatizes farmworker accidents and deaths. Each photo is a visual story of an actual event where farmworkers and their children have either been poisoned, injured or killed at work. The eleven 20" x 24" photos (combining staged actors and documentary images) with large text panels traveled and exhibited across Canada. The premiere exhibit was at the November 1985 29th BC Federation of Labour Convention in Vancouver. Also shown at the Canadian Labour Congress…

I Would Like To Tell You A Story... Health and Safety Regulations Now!: Letter to Lucy Lippard

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Date: 1986-04-22
Description: Craig Berggold's letter to Lucy Lippard, internationally recognized New York City based writer and art critic, about issues of visual representation and farm workers while working with the CFU. References the photo narrative series 'I Would Like To Tell You A Story... Health and Safety Regulations Now!'.

Immigrant Women: Jaswant Kaur Dhaliwal

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Date: 1987-03-17
Name(s): Dhaliwal, Jaswant Kaur
Description: A straight forward honest first person testimony to the difficult life for a new immigrant women farmworker working in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia.

Incident report recorded by Raj Chouhan (president of Canadian Farmworkers Union) describing an indecent and inappropriate incident outside Kmart in Surrey, B.C., on April 4, 1984, in which a group of white men harassed a group of women

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Date: 1980-04-04
Name(s): Chouhan, Raj

India Now

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Date: 1979-06-01 to 1980-05-01
Description: Monthly newspaper of Indian People's Association in North America (IPANA).

Inspection of Farm Labour Contractors' Vehicles

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Date: 1982-07-08
Name(s): Chouhan, Raj
Description: Describes an unlicensed farm labour contractors van with 30 people overturned on highway resulting in many injuries. Details that in 1982 no inspections of vans took place by the provincial BC WCB and demands spot checks from WCB and RCMP.

International Human Rights Day Speech

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Date: 1983-12-10
Name(s): Chouhan, Raj
Description: A pointed speech for equality against discrimination.

Interview with Sarwan Boal

Date: 1990-12-01
Name(s): Boal, Sarwan
Description: Focuses on CFU President Sarwan Boal, as the Canadian Labour Congress representative on the federal governments Federal Pesticide Registration Review Team. Issues include NAFTA and the weakening of the registration system; Proposal for a Revised Federal Pest Management Regulatory System; WHMIS for pesticides and provisions for Crop sheets; federal Dept of Agriculture vs. Dept of Labour;

Invitation from Canadian Farmworkers Union for workers who live in Surrey to a gathering on April 30, 1989; agenda includes discussion of poisonous pesticides and unemployment insurance

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Date: 1989-01-01

Invitation from the Canadian Farmworkers Union to a public meeting on health and safety on August 24, 1980, Royal Canadian Legion Hall, 33640 South Fraser Way, Abbotsford, B.C.; agenda includes music and dancing, discussion on compensation, workers rights, pesticides

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Date: 1980-01-01
Description: Leaflet.

Invitation from the Canadian Farmworkers Union to Sehaj path (Sikh religious ceremony) at gurdwara (temple), including langara (free food), at 10:00 am on February 5, 198?, at Khalsa Diwan Society, New Westminster, B.C.

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Description: Letter in Punjabi