Date: 1983-05-05
Description: Joint meeting of CFU, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) and United Farm Workers of America (UFW) to support the Ohio FLOC strike and boycott against Campbell and Libby products.
Date: 1980-08-21
Description: CFU draft press release: On July 16, 1980, in a Matsqui, BC, a seven month old baby girl, Sukhdeep Madhar, drowned in a bucket of water in a horse stall for a cabin. An inquest took place over this tragic incident. The coroner's jury recommended that "the living conditions of farmworkers be investigated and upgraded so an incident of this nature is less likely to happen in the future".
Date: 1989-04-01
Description: Brochure highlighting the fight of the CFU to win provincial BC Workers Compensation Board (WCB) Safety Regulations in the agriculture industry for farmworkers. Outlines ten year history of CFU demands and provincial government inaction. Campaign to send letters of support for farmworkers to the BC Premier and MLAs. Photo by Judy Cavanagh.
Date: 1981-10-29
Name(s): Chouhan, Raj
Description: An indictment of municipal, provincial and federal governments for the lack of agricultural regulations and discriminatory legislation that results in a 'bitter harvest for farmworkers'. Illustrated with examples of discrimination, poverty, sickness and death.
Date: 1981-11-16
Name(s): Chouhan, Raj
Description: A summary of unjust federal and provincial Health and Safety laws; and a pointed accounting of accidents, deaths and posioning of BC farmworkers.
Date: 1986-07-01
Name(s): Deakin, Barbara, McCardle, Judi
Description: A handbook for farmworkers employment rights in Ontario, including: health and safety, cholinesterase test, green tobacco poisoning, machinery, worker's compensation, discrimination, sexual harrassment, equal pay for equal work, employment standards, wages, housing, unemployment insurance, community group contacts. Published in French, Spanish and Portuguese. Photos by Craig Berggold. Drawings by Carole Conde and Craig Berggold. Cover art by Fred Harrison.
Date: 1989-05-23
Name(s): Binning, Sadhu, Hundal, Sukhwant
Description: Produced for the 75th anniversary of the Komagata Maru incident. Photos from the Vancouver Public Library collection.
Date: 1979
Name(s): Forsythe, Linda
Description: An early historical overview of farm workers in BC province, including: from 1820's when First Nations worked farms at colonial outposts; late 1800s when Asian worked farms after the gold rush; up to early 1970s.
Date: 1990-03-27
Name(s): Cornell, Ellen
Description: A critique of CFU Draft Report: Technical Impact of Pesticide Use in the Fraser Valley Berry Picking Industry in British Columbia. See Final Report: Pesticide Use and Handling in the Fraser Valley Berry Industry.
Date: 1982-07-05
Description: An unlicensed farm labour contractor's van, unsafe and overloaded with 30 people, including children, overturned on highway 401 resulting in many injuries. Accident on July 3, 1982
Date: 1979-06-01
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: Every year, thousands of Indo-Canadians are transported daily from South Vancouver to harvest berries and vegetables on Fraser Valley farms.
Date: 1980 (year approximate)
Description: Labour History: A Selected Bibliography. Circa 1980s.
Date: 1988-07-26
Description: A bulletin that updates law cases before the provincial BC Labour Relations Board and the Industrial Relations Council.
Date: 1984-05-01
Description: To provide legal services related to individual problems in farm work. This proposal is the template for CFU Legal Clinic that came about after the Fraser Valley Farmworkers Legal Services Project closed down in Spring 1985.
Date: 1982-11-25
Name(s): Chouhan, Raj
Description: Provincial BC Cabinet Minister James Hewitt alleged comments at the BC Federation of Agriculture meeting to intervene on behalf of farmers in matters concerning Workers Compensation Board coverage to farmworkers.
