Date: 1983-04-10
Name(s): Berggold, Craig
Description: Farmworker Pritam Kaur and her friends rally at a Canadian Farmworkers' Union demonstration protesting the exclusion of farmworkers from health and safety regulations. Robson Square, Vancouver, British Columbia. April 10, 1983. Ten years later, in 1993, and some 73 years after the workers' compensation system was established, the Workers' Compensation Board (now WorkSafeBC) implemented health and safety regulations for agricultural workers. These were introduced into law by BC Minister of…
Date: 2009-05-07
Name(s): Berggold, Craig
Description: Exhibition notes for Craig Berggold's photo exhibit 'A Time to Change' at the Abbotsford Gallery Museum. The photos show the early years of the CFU organizing in the Fraser Valley, BC, including images of CFU President Raj Chouhan and UFW President Cesar Chavez; also the Hoss Farm women mushroom workers strike; and farmworkers harvesting cold crops - cauliflower and brussel sprouts. The 30 photos were purchased for the Museums permanent collection.
Date: 1981-09-20
Description: Produced and directed by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro, with assistance from the National Film Board, this documentary tells the story of the birth of the CFU. This leaflet announces the screening at Toronto's Festival of Festivals.
Date: 1981-09-15
Name(s): Monro, Jim, Patwardhan, Anand
Description: National Film Board one sheet for the 16mm film 'A Time to Rise' by Anand Patwarhden & Jim Munro. The film 'documents the formation of the union as well as the opposition - sometimes violent, sometimes racist - from the growers and labour contractors.' Circa 1981.
Date: 1981-09-20
Name(s): Monro, Jim, Patwardhan, Anand
Description: Produced and directed by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro, with assistance from the National Film Board, this documentary tells the story of the birth of the CFU.
Date: 1981-09-15
Description: A press release for the National Film Board film A 'Time to Rise' screening in Toronto.
Date: 1981-12-20
Description: CFU cultural program for the Abbotsford, Fraser Valley premiere of the film A Time to Rise, attended by 75 people. Includes a one-sheet description of the film directed by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro.
Date: 1983-07-21
Name(s): Cavanaugh, Judy, Chouhan, Raj
Description: CFU responds to statement by John Savage, Vice-President of BC Federation of Agriculture that the BC Human Rights Commission's public report on farmworkers triggered the abolition of the Commission. The report exposed a history of legislative racism in BC's own laws against farmworkers.
Date: 1983-08-05
Name(s): Gates, Jon
Description: A letter of protest from BC Human Rights Coalition to the provincial government for the firing of the Human Rights Branch director and staff.
Date: 1985-10-20
Name(s): Daliwal, Amar Singh
Description: Four witnesses sign affidavit that Charan Gill is assaulted by members of the International Sikh Youth Federation at the New Westminster Sikh Temple.
Date: 1987-07-01
Description: One of the best summaries of the 1980s farmworker injuries and documentation of provincial BC government unwillingness to implement agricultural health and safety regulations. Includes statistics on the number of BC farms (20,000+) and health inspections (500+). Exact date of report to be determined but after June 1987.
Date: 1997-03-15
Name(s): Basran, Satvinder, Mann, Ajaib Singh
Description: Important report by the Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society on the lack of enforcement by federal, provincial and municipal governments; rights for agricultural workers; farm labour contracting; record keeping. Recommendations: Un- Emploment Insurance (EI); Weight & Measures on farm scales; Employment Standards; Workers Compensation Board Agriculture Regulations; Pesticide Control; Human Rights; Wome's Equality; Ministry of Health; Housing Farm Cabins; Farm Labour…
Date: 1981-11-04
Description: A CFU campaign to have the public send resolutions in support of farm workers to the provincial BC MLA's and the BC Minister of Labour. Resolutions are printed on last page. The campaign mainly focused on the exclusion of farmworkers from health and safety regulations.
Date: 1987-04-06
Description: CFU benefit sponsored by Isadora's Restaurant, Granville Island. Entertainment 'Picket Line' theatre by Vancouver Sath, Bob Bossin, Tom Hawken and the Euphoniously Feminist Non-performing Quintet. Drawing based on Hoss Farm Mushroom workers' photos by Craig Berggold.
Date: 1981-04-11
Description: 400 supporters attended the CFU's First Anniversary 'Fund Raising Dinner and Dance' with guest speaker UFW President Cesar Chavez. The poster photo is 1980, June 29 at Driediger Farms, Langley and shows Raj Chouhan speaking to farmworkers at demonstration to protest the grower's withdrawal from negotiations.
