Date: 1981-06-13
Description: 250 supporters attend the CFU's 'Strikers Cabaret' to raise money for the first CFU farm workers on a picket line from Jensen Mushroom Farm and Country Farm Natural Foods.
Date: 1983-10-31
Description: A pointed historical review of federal and provincial laws that exclude visible minorities (people of colour). Racism and prejudice effecting farmworkers enshrined in discriminatory laws.
Date: 1982-01-01
Description: Addresses shortcoming in the provincial BC Employment Standards Act for farm workers around unpaid wages, written contracts, inspection of farm labour contractors vehicles, lawyer access to farmworkers. Exact date to be determined.
Date: 1979-10-01
Description: The first booklet produced by a Canadian farmworkers organization about their working and living conditions in BC's Fraser Valley. Also an overview of Farm Workers Organizing Committee (FWOC) activities, including direct action and the fight for farm workers equality. Highlights one of the first FWOC picket lines at Mukhtiar Growers Ltd in Abbotsford that resulted in $80,000 in back wages paid to farmworkers. Exact date of publication to be determined but between Sept 1979 - April 1980. Early…
Date: 1980-09-14
Description: Port Alberni Farmworkers Support Committee presents evening event with speaker CFU President Raj Chouhan and 'Taken for Granted' slide/tape show.
Date: 1980-10-12
Description: One of CFU's first French language leaflets distributed during late summer investigative organizing in Okanagan. Public meeting Oct. 12, 1981 attended by 120 fruit pickers. Double-sided in english and french.
Date: 1980-10-12
Description: One of CFU's first French language leaflets distributed during late summer investigative organizing in Okanagan. Public meeting Oct. 12, 1981 attended by 120 fruit pickers. Double-sided in english and french.
Date: 1983-04-10
Description: CFU and BC Federation of Labour sponsor Health and Safety March and Rally with guest speaker UFW President Cesar Chavez. Hundreds of farm workers attend taking buses from 3 Lower Mainland Sikh temples.
Date: 1986-01-07
Description: Services offered by the CFU: Community support include activists and artists for educational and cultural projects like the film 'A Time to Rise'; photo display 'I would like to tell you a story' on health and safety issues; Union services include English as a Second Language classes in farmworkers homes; a weekly legal services clinic for problems ie. unpaid wages and UIC claims. This brochure is one of four in a series produced for public education. Cover image documents a large wall size…
Date: 1987-12-04
Description: The music tape features 20 songs by musicians including Pete Seeger, Phil Vernon, Ginger Group. Some of the songs are written especially for the farmworkers struggle. Illustration by Claire Kujundzic.
Date: 1987-12-04
Name(s): Kujundzic, Claire
Description: Illustration by BC visual artist Claire Kujundzic. The music tape is a fundraiser for the CFU, and features 20 songs by musicians including Pete Seeger, Phil Vernon, Ginger Group. Some of the songs are written especially for the farmworkers struggle. The project was organized and produced by Vancouver's Julius Fisher of Slim Evans Records and Tapes.
Date: 1985-11-27
Name(s): Aleman, Victor
Description: Fax letter of thanks after UFW Canadian tour. Notes that eleven 8x10 photos by UFW photographer Victor Aleman sent to CFU office.
Date: 1982-02-01
Name(s): Dean, Karen, Sandborn, Calvin
Description: Very important brief, with many footnoted facts, presented at the March 10, 1982, Toronto public hearings, on the effects of farmworkers pesticide poisoning, including sickness, death and birth defects, in the province of BC. Survey of the pesticide CAPTAN. Proposed safeguards for pesticide handling and use; re-entry periods; protective clothing; youth; training of doctors; limitations on exposure.
Date: 1986-08-26
Name(s): Binning, Sadhu
Description: Sadhu Binning's Master thesis. Sadhu Binning is the co-founder of the Indo-Canadian theatre group Vancouver Sath. The cultural and literary collective that performed plays about the farmworkers struggle in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley . Sadhu is also an editor of 'Watno Dur' an Indo-Canadian punjabi cultural magazine.
Date: 1979 to 1995
Description: The Farmworker was first published in 1979 by the Farmworkers Organizing Committee, which later became the Canadian Farmworkers' Union (CFU). This newspaper had Punjabi content on one side and English on the other, and documented early victories and struggles of farmworkers in British Columbia, including the Fraser Valley and areas near Burnaby.
