Date: 1980-09-01
Description: One of the first internal CFU reports reviewing the FWOC and events leading up to the founding of the CFU organizing drives; certifications at Jensen Mushroom Farm, Country Farm Natural Foods Ltd and Bell Farms Ltd; Opposing forces, such as CPC (ML) and their front groups 'East Indian Defense Committee' and 'Farm Workers Defense Committee'; Government Lobby campaigns; Administration and Resources; Conclusions.
Date: 1982-05-21
Name(s): Sandborn, Calvin
Description: One of the most important briefs on BC provincial history of workers legal discrimination and legislative racism. The historical role of immigration laws, Fisheries Act, Liquour Control Act, Minimum Wage Act, etc; The Minimum Wage Today and Employment Standards Act; Workers' Compensation and Equality Before the Law; Housing and Coronor's Jury; Unemploment Insurance; Industrial Camp Regulations; Recommendations and Footnotes; Also, Report submitted to Workers' Compensation Board with the '…
Date: 1982-06-23
Name(s): Mossof, Judy
Description: A report or thesis concerning health and safety language in the first CFU collective agreement. Farm workers in the province of BC were excluded from coverage under the Workers' Compensation Act and Bell Farms and CFU contract language was the first time health and safety rights were gained by BC farm workers. This report evaluates the health and safety clauses of the collective agreement.
Date: 1983-02-16
Name(s): Jhappan, Carol A.
Description: Working draft for the June 6, 1983 completed master thesis titled 'Resistance to Exploitation: East Indians and the Rise of the Canadian Farmworkers Union''. The thesis is of interest because it was written after the first three years of CFU organizing.
Date: 1995-08-01
Name(s): Bakshi, Renu, Berggold, Craig, Vig, Minto
Description: MEHFIL 'The Magazine for Today's Indo-Canadian' publishes a cover photo and two feature articles about the CFU and farm workers in the Fraser Valley. All photos in the article attributed to 'CFU archive' are by photographer Craig Berggold.
Date: 1980-07-25
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: Three young boys, Sumandeep, Gurjeet, and Boota, aged seven to eleven drowned in a gravel pit in Langley, BC, while their parents were picking berries in a nearby field. The Crown charged the Municipality of Langley and the Motorcycle Association which leased the land with three counts of manslaughter." A CFU lawyer launched a civil suit on behalf of the family. The Motorcycle Association was found guilty, the family sued for damages and was awarded $30,000. Charges were dropped against the…
Date: 1986-09-27
Description: Rally attended by 1000 farmworkers and supporters in campaign to protect farmworkers Unemploment Insurance Benefits, and put pressure on federal government to overturn the Forget Report. Most seasonal workers would get little or no benefits .
Date: 1983-03-01
Description: Detailed review of how federal UI Act discriminates against seasonal farm workers.
Date: 1989-05-06
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: Pritam Kaur holds CFU banner. CFU President Sarwan Boal on right. 1500 CFU members and supporters (60% women farmworkers) protested the Mulroney Tory federal government's drastic UI benefit cutbacks in a rally at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Georgia Street Vancouver.
Date: 1989-05-06
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: CFU rally in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery on Georgia Street. 1500 CFU members and supporters (60% women farmworkers) protested the Mulroney Tory federal government's drastic UI benefit cutbacks in a rally at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Georgia Street Vancouver.
Date: 1989-05-06
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: CFU march along Georgia Street, Vancouver. 1500 CFU members and supporters (60% women farmworkers) protested the Mulroney Tory federal government's drastic UI benefit cutbacks in a rally at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Georgia Street Vancouver.
Date: 1989-05-06
Description: Describes new 1990 federal Unemployment Insurance changes that will hurt farm workers; provincial government raises minimum wage but excludes farm workers. Double-sided in english and punjabi.
Date: 1987-03-03
Description: Recommendations to change federal Unemployment Insurance Act, specifically elgibility requirements for seasonal workers.
Date: 1981-12-01
Description: Describes Section 16 of the federal Unemploment Insurance Act as discriminatory. Farmworkers who work less than 25 days, or earn less than $250, for any one employer, lose credit for insurable employment.
Date: 1989-08-25
Description: Historical overview of the federal Unemployment Insurance Act's discrimination of farmworkers and the inter-connection with the rise of farm labour contractors. Proposed amendments to the UI Act.
