Date: 1983-06-01
Name(s): Jhappan, Carol A.
Description: This thesis is of interest because it was written after the first three years of CFU organizing.
Date: 1984-11-27
Description: After the larger Bell Farms (CFU's first contract) was sold and broken up into several smaller farms the provincial BC LRB ruled that a new certification vote would be required. This vote the CFU lost.
Date: 1983-11-08
Name(s): Brun, Anne-Marie, Lanthier, Mario
Description: Recommendations to improve migrant Quebecois fruit pickers living and working conditions in the Okanagan, BC.
Date: 1986-11-22
Name(s): Boal, Sarwan
Description: A passionate summary of the living and working conditions farm workers experience. 600 people attended the annual 'Evening with Farmworkers Fund Raising Dinner and Dance', in Vancouver. Guest Speaker Canadian Labour Congress Pres. Shirley Carr spoke on the event theme 'Women's Contribution to the Labour Movement'.
Date: 2009-02-01
Description: A CFU punjabi-english brochure that lists the jury recommendations from the provincial BC coroner's inquest into the deaths of three farmworkers in an overcrowded farm labour contractors van. The accident at 6:30am on March 7, 2007 happened when 16 women were being transported in a 15-seat van on Highway 1 going to a nearby Chilliwack greenhouse.
Date: 1983-07-23
Description: Petition to the Legislative Assemby of the Province of BC to withdraw the budget and government bills that jeopardize the rights of all citizens. There are several full pages of signed petitions in the files.
Date: 1983-07-23
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: On July 23, 1983, at this Victoria rally a Petition to the Legislative Assemby of the Province of BC was submitted to withdraw the budget and government bills that jeopardize the rights of all citizens. CFU marched in BC wide demonstrations (on July 23, July 27, Aug 10, Oct 15, 1983) protesting the 'Restraint' budget of Social Credit Premier Bill Bennett. Amongst its many cuts the provincial government disbanded the BC Human Rights Commission. 'The massive fightback under the banner of…
Date: 1983-07-23
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: On July 23, 1983, at this Victoria rally a Petition to the Legislative Assemby of the Province of BC was submitted to withdraw the budget and government bills that jeopardize the rights of all citizens. CFU marched in BC wide demonstrations (on July 23, July 27, Aug 10, Oct 15, 1983) protesting the 'Restraint' budget of Social Credit Premier Bill Bennett. Amongst its many cuts the provincial government disbanded the BC Human Rights Commission. 'The massive fightback under the banner of…
Date: 1983-07-23
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: On July 23, 1983, at this Victoria rally a Petition to the Legislative Assemby of the Province of BC was submitted to withdraw the budget and government bills that jeopardize the rights of all citizens. CFU marched in BC wide demonstrations (on July 23, July 27, Aug 10, Oct 15, 1983) protesting the 'Restraint' budget of Social Credit Premier Bill Bennett. Amongst its many cuts the provincial government disbanded the BC Human Rights Commission. 'The massive fightback under the banner of…
Date: 1985-10-01
Name(s): Chouhan, Raj
Description: Since the founding of the CFU there has been fraternal relations with the IWA. Many Indo-Canadians have worked in BC forests and logging mills. IWA President Jack Munro spoke at one of the first FWOC meetings. CFU President Raj Chouhan worked as an IWA member in a Fraser Valley Mill before founding the FWOC. CFU co-founder Harinder Mahil worked on staff for the IWA during the early years of the FWOC and CFU.
Date: 1981-09-13
Name(s): Cavanaugh, Judy
Description: Farmworkers and domestic workers share a similar history of exclusion from provincial labour laws and this is a form of legislative (legal) discrimination and institutionalized racism.
Date: 1988-01-11
Name(s): Boal, Sarwan
Description: A general overview of BC farmworkers working conditions. Appeals to a common cause of family farmers and farmworkers against large scale Agri-Business.
Date: 1983-07-19
Name(s): Chouhan, Raj
Description: Union staff meeting minutes.
Date: 1986-01-10
Name(s): Chouhan, Raj
Description: Very important handwritten staff minutes when Sarwan Boal states his conditions for staying with the CFU and outlines his strategy to continue organizing farmworkers before supporting a boycott.
Date: 1984-03-01
Name(s): Gray, Herb
Description: Federal consultation on Affirmative Action programs. Public Service Census definition of visible minorities.
