Date: 1983-06-27
Name(s): Cavanaugh, Judy
Description: CFU research into the commercial aspects of the mushroom industry in BC, ie marketing and management. Also, a list of the largest and medium size growers.
Date: 1982-08-16
Description: Sarwan Boal going to a mushroom farm with Harsimon Dhillon, a CFU organizer, to tyr and get her a job in the mushroom farm to organize workers.
Date: 1986-05-09
Description: Wages for Mushroom workers in 1986
Date: 1981-02-07
Description: CFU sponsored benefit with 'proceeds to Nicaragua's National Reconstruction'. Guest speaker Francisco Campbell, Institute of Agrarian Reform in Nicaragua. Music by The Victor Jara Chilean Folkloric Group from Seattle.
Date: 1981-02-07
Description: CFU sponsored benefit with 'proceeds to Nicaragua's National Reconstruction'. Guest speaker Francisco Campbell, Institute of Agrarian Reform in Nicaragua. Music by The Victor Jara Chilean Folkloric Group from Seattle.
Date: 1983-10-13
Description: Overview of Canadian race relations and multiculturalism.
Date: 1985-11-01
Description: Distributed at the BC Federation of Labour convention the article surveys unacceptable 'anti-worker' changes to the provincial BC Health and Safety Regulations.
Date: 1981-04-23
Name(s): Brun, Anne-Marie, Lanthier, Mario
Description: CFU recommendations to improve migrant Quebecois fruit pickers in the Okanagan, BC. One of the first public documents about migrant farm workers working and living conditions during Okanagan harvest. Presented in Kelowna.
Date: 1980-10-12
Description: After late summer investigation on organizing in the Okanagan, the first CFU Okanagan public meeting is attended by 120 fruit pickers.
Date: 1983-08-11
Name(s): Chouhan, Raj
Description: Handwritten notes reporting a physical assault and knife attack on a family of pickers camped in Keremeos at Similkameen River bank.
Date: 1982-11-24
Description: The CFU responds to former BC Agricultural Minister Jim Hewitt's speech at the BC Federation of Agriculture.
Date: 1981-01-15
Description: First proposal and budget to OFL to fund CFU organizers. Background to CFU organizing campaign in Ontario with a review of Ontario provincial labour laws that exclude famworkers. Appendix includes: OFL 1974 Statement on Farm Labour; excerpts from Ontario Labour Relations Act; Ontario Health and Safety Act 1978; Letter to Ontario MPP Robert MacKenzie about farmworkers exclusion from Labour Relations Act; OFL union resolutions; 1980 Media Release for first collective agreement between CFU and…
Date: 1982-03-01
Name(s): Beveridge, Karl, Conde, Carole
Description: Toronto artists Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge's documentary photos and text about working conditions on tobacco farms in southern Ontario, including discrimination of Quebecois migrant workers and the introduction of off-shore workers. The photos are reprints from the artists larger colour photo display produced in the summer of 1981. This booklet is a CFU reprint of an article originally published in the Canadian arts magazine FUSE.
Date: 1981-07-01
Name(s): Berggold, Craig, Chanda, Mutale, Roy, Sandi
Description: Distributed to migrant farmworkers during the CFU's first summer organizing drive in in southern Ontario. A CFU trailer traveled from park to park where migrants congregated, volunteer doctors and lawyers from Toronto provided free medical and legal assistance. Sandi Roy, Mutale Chanda and Craig Berggold lived in the trailer for the summer.
Date: 1983-05-03
Name(s): Chouhan, Raj
Description: Raj Chouhan's handwritten notes during his 1983 Ontario trip that summarize his meetings to suspend organizing in Ontario.
