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. 

Visit Special Collections and Rare Books Canadian Farmworkers Union Project for more information, including an extensive chronology that provides contextual access to items in the collection.

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

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Ontario CFU Staff Meeting Minutes

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Date: 1982-03-30
Description: Important hand-written notes discussing the future of CFU in Ontario.

Ontario Itinerary Raj Chouhan

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Date: 1983-04-29
Description: Ontario Itinerary Raj Chouhan

Ontario Labour: Farmworkers Ripe For Change

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Date: 1980-07-01
Name(s): Pryde, Alan
Description: Ontario Labour Magazine features Canadian Farmworkers Union President Raj Chouhan on their front cover. Plus a feature article on the founding of the CFU. Early photos of farmworkers direct action.

Ontario Media Release - The Right to Unionize for Ontario's Farmworkers

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Date: 1981-08-01
Name(s): Roy, Sandi
Description: Details the exclusion of Ontario farmworkers from the Ontario Labour Realtions Act.

Ontario Media Release: CFU-Ontario Public Meeting on 'Tobacco Poisoning' of Farm Workers

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Date: 1981-07-20
Name(s): Luce, Frank
Description: A CFU public meeting, July 27, 1981, in Delhi, Ontario, on health and safety of tobacco workers. This meeting is on the eve of the tobacco harvest in southern Ontario in the Simcoe, Delhi, Tillsonburg area the center of tobacco industry when many migrants are just arriving.

Ontario Public Meeting! Tobacco Workers

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Date: 1981-07-27
Description: Come and find out about the Canadian Farmworkers Union and share your concerns about working conditions on the Tobacco Farms in the Simcoe, Delhi, Tillsonburg area.

Ontario Region Canadian Farmworkers Union - Report March 1983

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Date: 1983-03-01
Description: A one year evaluation of organizing potential with regional description of farm work across Ontatrio. Includes, fundraising, staff and legal clinics.

Ontario Tolpuddle Farm Labour Information Committee: Pamphlet 1: Farmworkers - the invisible minority in Ontario: an introduction for the public

Date: 1983-02-01
Description: A general overview of number of farms and crops, like tobacco, vegetable, berries, fruits, mushrooms. Farmworker facts like population and geographic distribution in Ontario. 'The majority of full time workers are Portuguese.' Problems faced by farmworkers; low wages; health and safety; living conditions; child labour; discrimination; Isolation. One of a series of four booklets. Photography by Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge. Produced between Fall 1982 and March 1983.

Ontario Tolpuddle Farm Labour Information Committee: Pamphlet 2: Farmworkers Speak Out - our rights - our health and safety

Date: 1983-02-01
Description: Told in the voice of a farmworker who relates the miserable working conditions and poverty wages with very few labour law rights. Issues around pesticide exposure. Knowing your rights: What to do if hurt; employment standards; protecting your health and safety; what to do if you have been poisoned. One of a series of four booklets. Photography by Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge. Produced between Fall 1982 and March 1983.

Ontario Tolpuddle Farm Labour Information Committee: Pamphlet 3: Migrant workers and their families

Date: 1983-02-01
Description: Headlines: Off-shore workers; Housing and Living Conditions; Health and Safety; Racism and Discrimination; Social and Cultural Life. One of a series of four booklets. Photography by Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge. Produced between Fall 1982 and March 1983.

Ontario Tolpuddle Farm Labour Information Committee: Pamphlet 4: Family life, women and child labour

Date: 1983-02-01
Description: A 1973 provincial Ontario task force disclosed that child labour and other forms of exploitation are the norm. What is pregnancy leave and who is entitled to it? One of a series of four booklets. Photography by Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge. Produced between Fall 1982 and March 1983.

Ontario: Application Form - Feasibility Study on the Composition and Nature of Ontario's Ethnic Farmwork Force

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Date: 1983-02-15
Name(s): Chanda, Mutale
Description: Federal grant application form includes budget, but not proposal.

Ontario: Farmers Fear Violent Clash With New Union

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Date: 1981-05-27
Name(s): Luce, Frank
Description: The letter is a rebuttal to an inflammatory headline in the Toronto Star newspaper. An example of media manipulation in support of property interests at the expense of workers.

Ontario: How Contact was made... Pesticide Poisoning or Tobacco Poisoning

Date: 1981-08-10
Name(s): Berggold, Craig
Description: Craig Berggold's hand-written notes from summer of organizing tobacco workers in southern Ontario. Issues around farmworker tobacco poisoning, local doctors and workers compensation.

Ontario: Letter to Craig Berggold for summer organizing

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Date: 1981-06-16
Name(s): Roy, Sandi
Description: Offer to volunteer during summer organizing campaign.