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Title: Get Wise and Organize
Description: Appeals to farm workers about their working conditions and suggests that only with collective strength can the CFU fight to change them. Date to be determined.
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Title: Farmworkers' Legal Rights
Description: An english-punjabi bi-lingual booklet with farmworkers basic employment related rights, including: minimum wages, piece rates vs. hourly rates, holiday and vacation pay, labour contractor, housing and transport deductions, health and safety, pesticide exposure, injuries on the job, women's issues relating to pregnancy, unemploment, income
Show moreAn english-punjabi bi-lingual booklet with farmworkers basic employment related rights, including: minimum wages, piece rates vs. hourly rates, holiday and vacation pay, labour contractor, housing and transport deductions, health and safety, pesticide exposure, injuries on the job, women's issues relating to pregnancy, unemploment, income assistance, rights to unionization.
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Date: 1982-07-24

Title: BC Farmworkers Organize - leftwords Vol.1 No.6
Description: A front page photo and center-spread feature article and about the FWOC's first year of activity. Describes a May 1977 Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union certification at a Peace River corporate farm.
Date: 1979-11-01

Title: Their Season of Struggle - Farmworkers in the '90s
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: 1995-08-01

Title: Get Wise and Organize !!
Description: Leaflet is a general summary of unjust working and living conditions. Double-sided in english and punjabi. Circa 1985.
Date: 1985-01-01

Title: Fair Working Conditions in Punjabi including Information on Farmworkers
Description: This booklet of farm workers legal rights surveys municipal, provincial and federal standards for work, wages, health and safety, pesticide handling and more. Produced in both punjabi and english. Cover photo by Craig Berggold.
Date: 1995-03-01

Title: Farm Workers Organizing Committee : Concerning Legislative Recommendations on Matters that Affect BC Farm Workers
Description: FWOC's first summary brief outlining farmworkers unjust working and living conditions and their exclusion from employment standards legislation. Highlights proposed changes to federal, provincial and municipal laws affecting farm workers. Includes footnote citations and bibliography. Appendix; California Pesticide law; and, a brief on BC's wrongful
Show moreFWOC's first summary brief outlining farmworkers unjust working and living conditions and their exclusion from employment standards legislation. Highlights proposed changes to federal, provincial and municipal laws affecting farm workers. Includes footnote citations and bibliography. Appendix; California Pesticide law; and, a brief on BC's wrongful dismissal law of unorganized workers. Also includes the April 10, 1975 final Report of the Standing Committee of BC Legislative Assembly on Labour and Justice.
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Date: 1980-02-22

Title: 1983 CFU Report - Draft 2
Description: The most important internal report on CFU activities, including organizing history at each farm and self-evaluation. Plus a BC wide overview of farm work both seasonal and year round operations. A survey of CFU-Ontario; an official CFU history; an important report by David Lane called 'An Overview of Organizing Potential 1983', documenting mushroom
Show moreThe most important internal report on CFU activities, including organizing history at each farm and self-evaluation. Plus a BC wide overview of farm work both seasonal and year round operations. A survey of CFU-Ontario; an official CFU history; an important report by David Lane called 'An Overview of Organizing Potential 1983', documenting mushroom, nurseries, diary and berry operations; also, Draft Report 01; Financial Statements 1980, 1981, 1982; Plan of Action 1981-1983 Draft 01 Update.
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Date: 1983-10-20

Title: Farmworker 1981 Vol. 04
Description: A tri-lingual newspaper with English front side (5-pages), two-page centerfold in French, and Punjabi front side (5-pages). CFU's new logo is presented on the front page. Headlines: CFU National Convention A Success; CFU Signs First Agreement; Ontario's Farmworkers Now Have A Union; Use And Misuse of Pesticides; Immigrant Women Exploited; The
Show moreA tri-lingual newspaper with English front side (5-pages), two-page centerfold in French, and Punjabi front side (5-pages). CFU's new logo is presented on the front page. Headlines: CFU National Convention A Success; CFU Signs First Agreement; Ontario's Farmworkers Now Have A Union; Use And Misuse of Pesticides; Immigrant Women Exploited; The Attack at Osoyoos; Okanagan Farmworkers Attend CFU Public Meeting.
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Date: 1981-04-01

Title: Farmworker 1980 Vol. 03
Description: CFU's first tri-lingual paper with English front side (5-pages) and one French page and Punjabi front side (6-pages); Headlines: CFU on the move - 2 certifications won; Chavez attends Vancouver Rally; Jury raps living conditions; 250 attend meeting on health and safety; CUPE contributes $10,000 to CFU Delegates at NDP convention support farmworkers
Show moreCFU's first tri-lingual paper with English front side (5-pages) and one French page and Punjabi front side (6-pages); Headlines: CFU on the move - 2 certifications won; Chavez attends Vancouver Rally; Jury raps living conditions; 250 attend meeting on health and safety; CUPE contributes $10,000 to CFU Delegates at NDP convention support farmworkers; Phoney union trying to sabotage CFU organizing; Racist attack on union organizer; Government responsible for deaths of four children in Fraser Valley; Letter to the Fruit Pickers of the Okanagan; Editorial - Pesticides a threat to the farmworker.
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Date: 1980-09-01

Title: Canadian Farmworkers Union 1983 Plan of Action Review Draft #1
Description: An important draft survey of CFU activities during the past eighteen months comparing Plan of Action vs. Actual Results.
Date: 1983-06-01

Title: Farmworker 1992 Vol. 04 No.01
Description: Bi-lingual broadsheet style newsletter. Headline: Farmworkers Smash Unfair UI Ruling in Tax Court; NDP comes through with WCB H&S for Farmworkers.
Date: 1992-09-01

Title: CFU 1st National Convention Documents; including, The First Year - National Executive Report on the Activities of the CFU April 1980 - April 1981; Agenda; List of Delegates; Financial Report; Resolutions; CFU National Constitution as presented at the Founding Convention April 6, 1980; Convention Minutes;
Description: Important CFU Executive Report with summary of 1980 - 1981 activities. Including organizing, certifications, and negotiations; reports on recent deaths in the fields; federal and provincial govt lobbying. Folder also includes: Original letters with fraternal greetings from Cesar Chavez, Pres. UFW, and Jim Kinnaird, Pres. BCFL; Original signed list
Show moreImportant CFU Executive Report with summary of 1980 - 1981 activities. Including organizing, certifications, and negotiations; reports on recent deaths in the fields; federal and provincial govt lobbying. Folder also includes: Original letters with fraternal greetings from Cesar Chavez, Pres. UFW, and Jim Kinnaird, Pres. BCFL; Original signed list of elected delegates and observers; Hand written convention minutes including debate to affiliate to the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). BC Organization to Fight Racism (BCOFR) brochure 'Join Hands For Human Rights and Dignity - Ban the Klan'; Petition to oppose US intervention in El Salvador;
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Date: 1981-03-27

Title: Farmworkers Rights On the Job: Where you can find help if you are not treated fairly
Description: This bi-lingual booklet of farm workers legal rights surveys municipal, provincial and federal standards for work, wages, health and safety, pesticide handling and more. Produced in both punjabi and english. Cover illustration by Debra Rooney.
Date: 1992-04-01

Title: Ontario Labour: Farmworkers Ripe For Change
Description: Ontario Labour Magazine features Canadian Farmworkers Union President Raj Chouhan on their front cover. Plus a feature article on the founding of the CFU. Early photos of farmworkers direct action.
Date: 1980-07-01

Title: Canada's Forgotten People Farmworkers: Facts you may not know about the people who feed you
Description: Booklet reviews farmworkers exploitative living and working conditions. Headlines: 'Minimum Wage Farmworkers Treated Like Slaves' with a list of provincial facts; 'Farmworkers face Hungry Winters' about federal UIC dicrimination; 'A Time To Learn' summary of ESL program; 'Pesticides BC's Hidden Health Hazard' and the exclusion of farmworkers from
Show moreBooklet reviews farmworkers exploitative living and working conditions. Headlines: 'Minimum Wage Farmworkers Treated Like Slaves' with a list of provincial facts; 'Farmworkers face Hungry Winters' about federal UIC dicrimination; 'A Time To Learn' summary of ESL program; 'Pesticides BC's Hidden Health Hazard' and the exclusion of farmworkers from Health and Safety regulations; 'Sexual Harassment The Problem No One Wants To Talk About'; Cover photo is incorrectly credited, actual cover photo is by Steve Bosch. Some inside photos by Craig Berggold. Exact publication to be determined, but photo inside shows UIC demo in May 1986.
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Date: 1986-05-22

Title: Support BC farm workers
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
Show moreThe 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 photos of women farmworkers in direct action. Cover photo features Raj Chouhan President of FWOC.
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Date: 1979-10-01

Title: What This Country Did To Us, It Did To Itself - A Report of the BC Human Rights Commission on the Farmworkers & Domestic Workers - February 1983
Description: This 1983 report, based on May 21, 1982 public hearings, was, at the time, an historic recognition by one agency of the BC provincial government of systemic legislative racism in government policies. The CFU brief outlined stopping all legislative discrimination against farmworkers and was supported by 28 organizations. The Commission accepted the
Show moreThis 1983 report, based on May 21, 1982 public hearings, was, at the time, an historic recognition by one agency of the BC provincial government of systemic legislative racism in government policies. The CFU brief outlined stopping all legislative discrimination against farmworkers and was supported by 28 organizations. The Commission accepted the gist of the presentations which called for the equality of farm workers before the law. Recommendations included; all exclusions of farmworkers be removed under provincial Employment Standards Act; Industrial Camp Regulations implemented; protection from pesticides, including showers; also extended to Domestic Workers. Six months later, the Human Rights Commission of British Columbia was closed and its staff fired during the Social Credit BC Premier Bill Bennett's 'Restaint Budget' that soon led to the province-wide 'Operation Solidarity' labour strikes and 'Solidarity Coaltion' community fightback.
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Date: 1983-02-17

Title: Labour Advocay and Research Association : Conditions of Farm Work
Description: The narrative is based on a women farm worker's oral account as a new immigrant to BC province. During the mid-1970s, she describes working for four years as a farm worker in the Fraser Valley. The wages are low, the working conditions are difficult and there is a lack of government regulations. Part 4 of 4.
Date: 1979-01-01

Title: CFU 4th National Convention Documents; including National Executive Report; Agenda; List of Delegates; Financial Report; Resolutions;
Description: Important CFU Executive Report with summary of 1983 - 1984 activities. Including accomplishments on collective agreement negotiations, ESL Crusade, Cabin Access, Operation Solidaity, Legal Clinic; changes to federal UI Act; and setbacks at Jensen Mushroom Farm and Bell Farms, provincial Workers Compensation Coverage, and union's financial situation
Show moreImportant CFU Executive Report with summary of 1983 - 1984 activities. Including accomplishments on collective agreement negotiations, ESL Crusade, Cabin Access, Operation Solidaity, Legal Clinic; changes to federal UI Act; and setbacks at Jensen Mushroom Farm and Bell Farms, provincial Workers Compensation Coverage, and union's financial situation.
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Date: 1984-04-15

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