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Title: Canadian Labour Congress, Montreal, 1984. CFU delegate Sarwan Boal at CFU info table.
Description: CFU delegates Raj Chouhan and Sarwan Boal attend the Canadian Labour Congress in Montreal, Quebec. Photos on table by Craig Berggold.
Date: 1984-05-28

Title: Bhangra dancers at the Canadian Farmworkers Union's 3rd Anniversary Celebration. A young boy from Paul Binning's dance troupe the Punjab Cultural Association.
Description: Bhangra dancers at CFU Anniversary Celebration. A young boy dancer from Paul Binning's dance troupe the Punjab Cultural Association based in Richmond. 550 attend CFU Anniversary Celebration. Speaker Cesar Chavez.
Date: 1983-04-09

Title: Bhangra Giddha dancers at Canadian Farmworkers Union's 3rd Anniversary Celebration.
Description: Giddha dancers at CFU Anniversary Celebration. 550 attend CFU Anniversary Celebration. Guest speaker UFW President Cesar Chavez.
Date: 1983-04-09

Title: Utah Phillips Benefit Concert for the Canadian Farmworkers Union and Vancouver film premiere of A Time to Rise. Utah Phillips performing.
Description: Utah Phillips Benefit Concert for the Canadian Farmworkers Union and the Vancouver film premiere of A Time to Rise (Uthan Da Vaila), co-directed by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro, and attended by 700 people at John Oliver High School, Vancouver.
Date: 1981-09-27

Title: Charan Gill (Surrey-White Rock's NDP candidate) and federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent. Circa 1988.
Description: Charan Gill, Surrey-White Rock's NDP candidate in the 1988 federal election, but lost to the Conservative canididate.
Date: 1988-01-01

Title: Charan Gill (Surrey-White Rock's NDP candidate) and federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent. Circa 1988.
Description: Charan Gill ran as Surrey-White Rock's NDP candidate in the 1988 federal election, but lost to the Conservative canididate.
Date: 1988-01-01

Title: A Time To Change Exhibition. Photo 04 by Craig Berggold. Field workers cut the Brussels sprouts off the stalks at the cutting tables during winter harvest. Aldergrove, BC, November 1983.
Description: Using kitchen paring knives, farmworkers cut the Brussels sprouts off the stalks at the cutting tables during winter harvest. Aldergrove, British Columbia. November 1983. Photo 4 of 30.
Date: 1983-11-01

Title: Pesticide Photo. Gramoxone. Fraser Valley, BC.
Description: See two 1990 CFU reports; 'Pesticide Use and Handling in the Fraser Valley Berry Industry', and 'Farmworkers Health Improvement Project'. Photo circa 1990.
Date: 1990-03-31

Title: Pesticide Photo. Tenoran. Fraser Valley, BC.
Description: See two 1990 CFU reports; 'Pesticide Use and Handling in the Fraser Valley Berry Industry', and 'Farmworkers Health Improvement Project'. Photo circa 1990.
Date: 1990-03-31

Title: Pesticide Photo. Malathion. Fraser Valley, BC.
Description: See two 1990 CFU reports; 'Pesticide Use and Handling in the Fraser Valley Berry Industry', and 'Farmworkers Health Improvement Project'. Photo circa 1990.
Date: 1990-03-31

Title: Pesticide Photo. Tenoran. Fraser Valley, BC.
Description: See two 1990 CFU reports; 'Pesticide Use and Handling in the Fraser Valley Berry Industry', and 'Farmworkers Health Improvement Project'. Photo circa 1990.
Date: 1990-03-31

Title: Pannu Berry Farm. CFU women workers take a break from picking strawberries in the Fraser Valley.
Description: Photo is circa summer of 1981 or 1982. In 1981, Pannu Farms is one of two small berry growers with voluntary CFU contracts for seasonal workers. At Pannu Farms, 50 CFU members were dispatched. A simple three page agreement was signed effective for one year. The rate was $2.75 per flat (for berries). The grower provided transportation. The contract
Show morePhoto is circa summer of 1981 or 1982. In 1981, Pannu Farms is one of two small berry growers with voluntary CFU contracts for seasonal workers. At Pannu Farms, 50 CFU members were dispatched. A simple three page agreement was signed effective for one year. The rate was $2.75 per flat (for berries). The grower provided transportation. The contract was renewed in 1982. Many complaints were directed. The grower did not honour the contract. He had agreed to top up wages to $29.20 per day and to pay gas money for coming direct to the farm and did not do either. Also, accusations that scales were not accurate. The farmworkers response was mixed, on one hand they walked out when he insisted that they pick in a poor field. On the other hand, they agreed that the Union had to show a commitment to fulfill a contract so they put up with some of the contract violations. At the end of the season CFU laid a complaint on behalf of all the workers with the Employment Standards Branch as Pannu refused to pay holiday pay. In 1983, no contract was signed.
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Date: 1981-05-01

Title: Canadian Farmworkers Union Founding Public Celebration April 26, 1980. President United Farm Workers of America Cesar Chavez speaks.
Description: Founding of Canadian Farmworkers Union, a public celebration with guest speaker UFW President Cesar Chavez on his first trip to Vancouver in solidarity with CFU. At David Thompson Secondary School, Vancouver.
Date: 1980-04-26

Title: Charan Gill, Vancouver East NDP Member of Parliament Margaret Mitchell and CFU President Sarwan Boal. Circa 1988-1993.
Date: 1988-01-01

Title: Grape Boycott : Cesar Chavez with CFU staff and supporters, Vancouver, BC, 1985.
Description: The CFU hosted UFW President Cesar Chavez promoting the UFW's second major table grape boycott. CFU held a press conference to announce the start of the Canadian grape boycott at the CFU Burnaby office. This photo is a private house meeting with CFU staff and supporters. (Left to right) Arturo Rodriguiez (current 2011 UFW President), Calvin
Show moreThe CFU hosted UFW President Cesar Chavez promoting the UFW's second major table grape boycott. CFU held a press conference to announce the start of the Canadian grape boycott at the CFU Burnaby office. This photo is a private house meeting with CFU staff and supporters. (Left to right) Arturo Rodriguiez (current 2011 UFW President), Calvin Sandborn (4th), Tom Sandborn (5th), Sarwan Boal, (6th center), Cesar Chavez (7th center top), Anju Hundal (7th center bottom), Sukhwant Hundal (8th top), Joanne Millard (8th bottom), Sadhu Binning & child (9th), Raj Chouhan (10th), Inder Chouhan (11th), Hari Sharma (12th back), Chinmoy Banerjee (far right).
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Date: 1985-09-01

Title: Pesticide Photo. Telone. Fraser Valley, BC.
Description: See two 1990 CFU reports; 'Pesticide Use and Handling in the Fraser Valley Berry Industry', and 'Farmworkers Health Improvement Project'. Photo circa 1990.
Date: 1990-03-31

Title: Canadian Labour Congress, Montreal, 1984. CFU delegates Sarwan Boal (left) and Raj Chouhan at the convention floor.
Description: CFU delegates Raj Chouhan and Sarwan Boal attend the Canadian Labour Congress in Montreal, Quebec.
Date: 1984-05-28

Title: Pesticide Photo. Mixing in the fields. Fraser Valley, BC.
Description: See two 1990 CFU reports; 'Pesticide Use and Handling in the Fraser Valley Berry Industry', and 'Farmworkers Health Improvement Project'. Photo circa 1990.
Date: 1990-03-31

Title: I would like to tell you a story… Health and Safety Regulations Now! Photo 12 credit panel.
Description: Credit panel 12 from the series 'I would like to tell you a story…Health and Safety Regulations Now!' a photo dramatization of true farmworker accidents and deaths. The exhibit was part of the CFU public campaign protesting the exclusion of farm workers from provincial health and safety regulations—a right all other workers take for granted. In
Show moreCredit panel 12 from the series 'I would like to tell you a story…Health and Safety Regulations Now!' a photo dramatization of true farmworker accidents and deaths. The exhibit was part of the CFU public campaign protesting the exclusion of farm workers from provincial health and safety regulations—a right all other workers take for granted. In 1993, and some 73 years after the workers’ compensation system was established, the Workers’ Compensation Board (now WorkSafeBC) implemented health and safety regulations for agricultural workers. These changes were driven by the Canadian Farmworkers’ Union and the broad social movement that rallied in support of justice for BC farmworkers. 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. More recently exhibited in 2010 at the Abbottsford Museum-the reach, Fraser Valley; and 2011 at W2 Community Media Arts Centre, Woodword Building, Vancouver.
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Date: 1985-11-01

Title: Farmworkers ESL Crusade 1984 : Language in Action - Be A Tutor
Description: A poster to recruit potential volunteer english tutors to the third year of the CFU's 'ESL Crusade'. Photo montage by Craig Berggold.
Date: 1984-11-01

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