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Komagata Maru: A Story in Picture
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Produced for the 75th anniversary of the Komagata Maru incident. Photos from the Vancouver Public Library collection.
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1989-05-23
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1981 Canadian Farmworkers Union Poster - Good Enough To Work Good Enough To Unionize
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Toronto artists Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge's poster portraying southern Ontario tobacco pickers announces the new CFU-National slogan 'Good Enough To Work...' that references the lack of workplace legal rights for farm workers across Canada, including the right to organize into a union - one of the many work rights taken for granted by most
Show moreToronto artists Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge's poster portraying southern Ontario tobacco pickers announces the new CFU-National slogan 'Good Enough To Work...' that references the lack of workplace legal rights for farm workers across Canada, including the right to organize into a union - one of the many work rights taken for granted by most other workers. In 2011, the slogan is still relevant as Ontario farmworkers still do not have the right to form unions. The colour off-set poster had a limited run of 200.
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1981-09-01
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Jensen Mushroom Farm signing a first contract, July 30, 1982.
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Mr. Jensen (left) and Raj Chouhan (center) sign a first contract. It took two years, since the CFU’s first certification and after a 15-month bitter strike, before the CFU Local No.1 and Jensen Mushroom Farm Ltd. signed a first contract.
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1982-07-30
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Hoss Farm Letter for Certification
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Advising employer that union has applied for certification. Mentions violation of the provincial labour code for firing new union members and complaint laid.
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1984-05-27
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Operation Solidarity Meeting Minutes
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Raj Chouhan's handwritten notes at Operation Solidarity meeting that reviews some of BC unions strategy to fight against Social Credit provincial government restraint budget; including attacks on BCGEU contract, and Bill 27 terminating the BC Human Rights; and create a broad coalition.
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1983-07-15
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Mushroom Boycott Meeting Minutes
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Handwritten minutes of an important internal union meeting of staff and key supporters to discuss the strategy and tactics of a future Mushroom Boycott that did not happen.
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1985-11-13
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Canadian Farmworkers Union Founding Convention April 6, 1980. Raj Chouhan speaks.
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Canadian Farmworkers Union was founded in New Westminster, British Columbia. "This is the first union in Canada's history formed by farmworkers to improve the working conditions in the agricultural industry. The Union's formation was the result of one year of intensive work by the Farmworkers Organizing Committee (FWOC) in the Fraser Valley."
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1980-04-06
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Union Activism Punjabi Theatre in BC
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Features Vancouver Sath theatre group and interviews two of the collectives principal founders Sadhu Binning and Sukhwant Hundal. Also, profiles Sadhu's brother, Paul Binning who created a Bhangra Dance Company and introduced political ideas into the traditional dance. In 1985-86, the Canadian arts magazine FUSE ran a series of articles about CFU
Show moreFeatures Vancouver Sath theatre group and interviews two of the collectives principal founders Sadhu Binning and Sukhwant Hundal. Also, profiles Sadhu's brother, Paul Binning who created a Bhangra Dance Company and introduced political ideas into the traditional dance. In 1985-86, the Canadian arts magazine FUSE ran a series of articles about CFU organizing and culture.
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1985-09-01
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