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Title: Komagata Maru: A Story in Picture
Description: Produced for the 75th anniversary of the Komagata Maru incident. Photos from the Vancouver Public Library collection.
Date: 1989-05-23

Title: A Time to Change: 30 Photographs of Indo-Canadian Farmworkers in the Fraser Valley
Description: Exhibition notes for Craig Berggold's photo exhibit 'A Time to Change' at the Abbotsford Gallery Museum. The photos show the early years of the CFU organizing in the Fraser Valley, BC, including images of CFU President Raj Chouhan and UFW President Cesar Chavez; also the Hoss Farm women mushroom workers strike; and farmworkers harvesting cold crops
Show moreExhibition notes for Craig Berggold's photo exhibit 'A Time to Change' at the Abbotsford Gallery Museum. The photos show the early years of the CFU organizing in the Fraser Valley, BC, including images of CFU President Raj Chouhan and UFW President Cesar Chavez; also the Hoss Farm women mushroom workers strike; and farmworkers harvesting cold crops - cauliflower and brussel sprouts. The 30 photos were purchased for the Museums permanent collection.
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Date: 2009-05-07

Title: Letter to Suspend CFU Organizing in Ontario - Confidential
Description: Discussion about financial assistance from Canadian Labour Congress.
Date: 1983-04-27

Title: Women in the Agriculture Industry - Speech by Judy Cavanagh, CFU National Representative
Description: This article looks at the historical role of women in the agriculture industry. That women make up the majority of farmworkers and receive less pay than male farmworkers
Date: 1982-12-02

Title: 1981 Canadian Farmworkers Union Poster - Good Enough To Work Good Enough To Unionize
Description: 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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Date: 1981-09-01

Title: A True Story... Farmworkers Demand Health and Safety Regulations Now! - Photos by Craig Berggold
Description: Four photos from the series 'I would like to tell you a story…Health and Safety Regulations Now!' dramatizing farmworkers' accidents and deaths. Published in New Directions magazine as a 4-page center spread.
Date: 1987-01-01

Title: Correspondence on Canadian Farmworkers Union Art Projects
Description: Series of letters regarding photography and video projects produced by Canadian Farmworkers Union artist-in-resident Craig Berggold. Oxfam report is early 1986.
Date: 1985-04-03

Title: Jensen Mushroom Farm signing a first contract, July 30, 1982.
Description: 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.
Date: 1982-07-30

Title: Farmworkers demand equal rights
Description: A survey of berry pickers showed that pickers averaged $1.48 per hour.
Date: 1981-06-23

Title: Hoss Farm Letter for Certification
Description: Advising employer that union has applied for certification. Mentions violation of the provincial labour code for firing new union members and complaint laid.
Date: 1984-05-27

Title: Workers' Compensation Board Submission: The Necessity for Fieldworker Shower Facilities
Description: The lack of both federal and provincial laws for farmworker's handling of pesticides suggests need for provision of shower facilities. Accompanied paper 'Farmworkers and Pesticides' submitted to federal 'Consultative Committee on IBT Pesticides'. Exact date and creator to be determined.
Date: 1982-02-01

Title: Canadian Farmworkers Union President Raj Chouhan speaks to farm workers in the Fraser Valley fields.
Description: Canadian Farmworkers Union President Raj Chouhan speaks to Indo-Canadian farm workers in the berry fields of Fraser Valley, BC. Circa early 1980s.
Date: 1981-01-01

Title: Operation Solidarity Meeting Minutes
Description: 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.
Date: 1983-07-15

Title: Pesticide Organo-phosphate poisoning of seasonal farm workers
Description: The CFU demands that the WCB immediately adopt California's safety regulations to prevent this type of accident.
Date: 1982-08-28

Title: Ontario Region Canadian Farmworkers Union - Report March 1983
Description: A one year evaluation of organizing potential with regional description of farm work across Ontatrio. Includes, fundraising, staff and legal clinics.
Date: 1983-03-01

Title: Farmworkers ESL Crusade 1983 : Photo Book by Craig Berggold
Description: A large format hand-made photo book documenting the first year of the CFU 'ESL Crusade' in South Vancouver student homes. Twelve photos by Craig Berggold.
Date: 1983-04-01

Title: Canadian Farmworkers Union Letter to Supporters
Description: The letter has an overview of CFU's political history in BC's provincial legislative area.
Date: 1985-05-27

Title: Mushroom Boycott Meeting Minutes
Description: 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.
Date: 1985-11-13

Title: Pesticide Regulations Brief : Submitted to WCB
Description: An important pointed brief about the lack of provincial agricultural pesticide regulations. Documents the pesticide death of Hamir Grewal after spraying Parathion in Abbotsford, BC. Details California pesticide laws and sites shortcomings of current BC industrial health and safety regulations. Extensive footnotes. Includes document for new
Show moreAn important pointed brief about the lack of provincial agricultural pesticide regulations. Documents the pesticide death of Hamir Grewal after spraying Parathion in Abbotsford, BC. Details California pesticide laws and sites shortcomings of current BC industrial health and safety regulations. Extensive footnotes. Includes document for new 'Proposed Agricultural Pesticide Regulation'.
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Date: 1982-09-15

Title: At The Vancouver Public Library - Canadian Farmworkers Union - Photo Story by Craig Berggold
Description: An invitation card for the exhibit of 'I would like to tell you a story…Health and Safety Regulations Now!' a photo dramatization of true farmworker accidents and deaths. The eleven 20" x 24" photos (combining staged actors and documentary images) with large text panels traveled and exhibited across Canada. The premiere exhibit was at the November
Show moreAn invitation card for the exhibit of 'I would like to tell you a story…Health and Safety Regulations Now!' a photo dramatization of true farmworker accidents and deaths. The eleven 20" x 24" photos (combining staged actors and documentary images) with large text panels traveled and exhibited across Canada. The premiere exhibit was at the November 1985 29th BC Federation of Labour Convention in Vancouver. Also shown at the Canadian Labour Congress Convention in Ottawa, A Space Galley, Toronto and Vancouver Public Library.
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Date: 1986-07-02

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