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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: Farmworkers ESL Crusade 1985 : 'A Time to Grow' - A Set of Ten Problem Posing Drawings for the Farmworkers ESL Crusade - Tutor's Guide First Draft
Description: The drawings depict stories in the daily lives of Indo-Canadian farmworkers. Each drawing tries to encode problems that farmworkers face. The text provides teaching lessons for English applied to political analysis. The drawings that tutor's actually use are 11"x 17" mounted on cardboard and laminated. Drawings by Shirley McGrew and text by ESL
Show moreThe drawings depict stories in the daily lives of Indo-Canadian farmworkers. Each drawing tries to encode problems that farmworkers face. The text provides teaching lessons for English applied to political analysis. The drawings that tutor's actually use are 11"x 17" mounted on cardboard and laminated. Drawings by Shirley McGrew and text by ESL coordinator David Jackson. See file 'A Set of Ten Problem Posing Drawings for the Farmworkers ESL Crusade' to view original scanned drawings.
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Date: 1985-02-01

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: Farmworkers ESL Crusade 1983 : 'A Time to Learn' - Draft. A report on the needs assessment survey for the ESL Crusade of the CFU
Description: CFU staff take an interview questionnaire around to the homes of 62 farmworkers (52 women). The report, with farmworker comments, is a snapshot of recent Indo-Canadian immigrants in south Vancouver. Length in Canada; Education; Work History; Funded by the federal Secretary of State-Multiculturalism;
Date: 1983-07-01

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: 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: 1974 - Concluding Submission of the BC Federation of Labour to the Standing Committee on Labour and Justice
Description: At the provincial BC government public hearings tour this submission called for the inclusion of domestic and farm workers under provincial labour laws and employment standard legislations. Mentions an Ontario group called the Migrant Farm Workers Association. Details United Farm Workers of America Union (UFWU) collective bargaining benefits in
Show moreAt the provincial BC government public hearings tour this submission called for the inclusion of domestic and farm workers under provincial labour laws and employment standard legislations. Mentions an Ontario group called the Migrant Farm Workers Association. Details United Farm Workers of America Union (UFWU) collective bargaining benefits in California. Recounts the May 30, 1974 Chilliwack migrant hopyards farmworker death in a transport van accident in Chilliwack, BC. At hearings growers admit to child labour during harvest. Also notes that labour rights are extended to Portuguese and Caribbean migrant off-shore labour but not to BC resident workers. See the BC governments April 10, 1975 final report attached to the FWOC's first brief titled 'Concerning Legislative Recommendations on Matters that Affect BC Farm Workers' and presented to the BC Minister of Labour on Feb. 22, 1980.
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Date: 1974-10-31

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: Farmworkers ESL Crusade 1985 : 'A Time to Grow' - A Set of Ten Problem Posing Drawings
Description: The drawings depict a story of the daily lives of Indo-Canadian farmworkers. Each drawing tries to encode problems that farmworkers face. They are used as teaching aides by tutors in the ESL classes. Photocopied drawings (mounted on cardboard 11' x 17") by Shirley McGrew. The sixth drawing is missing and the last drawing was edited out of the
Show moreThe drawings depict a story of the daily lives of Indo-Canadian farmworkers. Each drawing tries to encode problems that farmworkers face. They are used as teaching aides by tutors in the ESL classes. Photocopied drawings (mounted on cardboard 11' x 17") by Shirley McGrew. The sixth drawing is missing and the last drawing was edited out of the series. See A Time To Grow file for curriculum text used by tutors with each drawing.
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Date: 1985-02-01

Title: Resistance to Exploitation: East Indians and the Rise of the Canadian Farmworkers Union
Description: This thesis is of interest because it was written after the first three years of CFU organizing.
Date: 1983-06-01

Title: Canadian Farmworkers Union Fundraising Dinner and Dance - Speech April 11, 1981
Description: Excellent speech at CFU’s First Anniversary Fund Raising Dinner and Dance at the Grandview Legion Hall, Vancouver attended by 400 supporters. Includes an extensive update of CFU activity.
Date: 1981-04-11

Title: The Struggle for Recognition: A Minority Organizes - A Case Study of the Canadian Farmworkers Union
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: 1983-02-16

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