Date: 1989-01-01
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Date: 1980-07-12
Description: Headlines: Contractors Live off the Labour of Farmworkers. Contractors Take 25-40% of Farmworkers wages. Contractors Grow fat by posing as Farmworkers benefactors. Eliminate the Labour Contract System.
Date: 1980-07-04
Description: On Saturday, July 12, 1980, the CFU marches against the labour contract system. Buses left from New Westminster IWA Hall early. The Clearbrook, BC march began in the morning and rallied at noon. Many workers came out of the fields to join the 200 demonstrators.
Date: 1980-07-04
Name(s): Gill, Charan
Description: Farmworkers are not usually hired directly by the grower, rather they are hired by a middle-man who contracts with the growers to supply them with labour. The July 12, 1980 Clearbrook, BC march began in the morning and rallied at noon. Many workers came out of the fields to join the 200 demonstrators.
Date: 1982-02-02
Name(s): Boal, Sarwan
Description: The CFU takes exception to each municipality regulating farm cabins when BC provincial Industrial Work Camp Regulations, part of the Health Act, already exist and are not applied to the agricultural industry.
Date: 1979-10-01
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: In 1978, the Sidhu family worked a full season at a farm owned by Doug McKim in Richmond. However, Mr. McKim did not pay the full wages he owed to the family. He owed the family approximately $25,000.00. The FWOC represented the Sidhu family. The FWOC lawyers, represented the Sidhu family, and took this case all the way to the BC Supreme Court. Although the FWOC won the case, the Court ordered Mr. McKim to pay only $14,000.00 to the workers.
Date: 1980-01-01
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: From left to right: Raj Chouhan, Baldev S. Poonia, Carolyn McCool (lawyers assistant) and BC Law Union lawyer Stuart Rush and members of the Sidhu Family. In 1978, the Sidhu family worked a full season at a farm owned by Doug McKim in Richmond. However, Mr. McKim did not pay the full wages he owed to the family. He owed the family approximately $25,000. The FWOC represented the Sidhu family and took this case all the way to the BC Supreme Court. Although the FWOC won the case, the Court ordered…
Date: 1980-12-07
Description: Presenting slideshow 'Taken for Granted' about Farm and Domestic workers
Date: 1985-10-19
Description: As part of the Womens's Liberation Movement in Canada
Date: 1985-09-01
Description: This is a proposed working budget for one year.
Date: 1979-07-17
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: Farm Workers Organizing Committee mobilizes its first direct action picket line with nearly 200 farmworkers at Mukhtiar Growers Ltd, Clearbrook, BC. The workers had not been paid their back wages for six weeks. "Contacted by some farmworkers who convinced others to stay out and with the support of FWOC members, 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…
Date: 1985-11-13
Description: CFU internal document outlining steps to begin a Mushroom boycott. Created after the internal CFU meetings to evaluate if CFU should launch campaign. The boycott was never launched.
Date: 1985-10-07
Name(s): Chouhan, Raj
Description: A call to discuss a consumers mushroom boycott after union members at Hoss Farm union members are fired.
Date: 1985-11-13
Description: Handwritten minutes of an important internal union meeting of staff and key supporters to discuss the strategy and tactics of a future Mushroom Boycott that did not happen.
Date: 1984-07-26
Name(s): Chouhan, Raj
Description: Raj Chouhan's handwritten letter, article or speech about challenges in organizing after the Hoss Farm workers fired and changes to BC provincial labour laws .
