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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: 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: Agricultural Health and Safety Regulations: Background information and suggested questions for the Minister of Labour
Description: One of the best summaries of the 1980s farmworker injuries and documentation of provincial BC government unwillingness to implement agricultural health and safety regulations. Includes statistics on the number of BC farms (20,000+) and health inspections (500+). Exact date of report to be determined but after June 1987.
Date: 1987-07-01

Title: The Bitter Harvest: Pesticides and Farmworkers
Description: Very important brief, with many footnoted facts, presented at the March 10, 1982, Toronto public hearings, on the effects of farmworkers pesticide poisoning, including sickness, death and birth defects, in the province of BC. Survey of the pesticide CAPTAN. Proposed safeguards for pesticide handling and use; re-entry periods; protective clothing;
Show moreVery important brief, with many footnoted facts, presented at the March 10, 1982, Toronto public hearings, on the effects of farmworkers pesticide poisoning, including sickness, death and birth defects, in the province of BC. Survey of the pesticide CAPTAN. Proposed safeguards for pesticide handling and use; re-entry periods; protective clothing; youth; training of doctors; limitations on exposure.
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Date: 1982-02-01

Title: Farmworkers and Pesticides
Description: Two CFU reps traveled to Toronto hearings March 10, 1982 to present at the federal task force reviewing Captan and IBT pesticides. An excellent summary of farmworkers and pesticide exposure, including lack of regulations for protective clothing, posting signs in the fields; lack of knowledge on pesticide poisoning; training for pesticide storage
Show moreTwo CFU reps traveled to Toronto hearings March 10, 1982 to present at the federal task force reviewing Captan and IBT pesticides. An excellent summary of farmworkers and pesticide exposure, including lack of regulations for protective clothing, posting signs in the fields; lack of knowledge on pesticide poisoning; training for pesticide storage and handling; and dangers of pesticides, etc.
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Date: 1982-02-01

Title: Farmworkers Health Improvement Project - Final Report
Description: A summary of the video production and distribution for 'Caught in a World of Pesticides'.
Date: 1990-03-31

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: Unemployment Insurance and Farmworkers
Description: Detailed review of how federal UI Act discriminates against seasonal farm workers.
Date: 1983-03-01

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: An Unending Story of Sexual Harassment of Farmworkers
Description: Specific to Indo-Canadian women and their difficulties reporting harassment due to isolation and male chauvinism that blames the victim. Gives examples of harassment of women farmworkers and recommends a women's support group be formed and a conscious men's group. Circa early 1980s.
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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: Unemployment Insurance : Submission to the Legislative Committee on Bill C-21 of the Unemployment Insurance Act
Description: Historical overview of the federal Unemployment Insurance Act's discrimination of farmworkers and the inter-connection with the rise of farm labour contractors. Proposed amendments to the UI Act.
Date: 1989-08-25

Title: Discussion Paper on New Strategies for Organizing New Canadians
Description: An historical outline of racism, manifested in Canadian federal and provincial laws, preventing new immigrants from working and organizing in various industries. Also, the CFU presents 'community unionism' as a new labour organizing strategy.
Date: 1987-09-20

Title: Workers' Compensation Board Submission: on the Proposed Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System Regulations
Description: Summarizes the exclusion of farmworkers from provincial BC Health and Safety Regulations; also, the exclusion of pesticides from Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) federal legisaltion. Draws attention to deaths in the fields due to pesticide handling.
Date: 1988-04-29

Title: Health and Safety Regulations - Part 5 and 6 - Pesticides and Agriculture - Draft
Description: These notes refer to the joint employer and union committee set up to draft new Provincial BC Workers' Compensation Board Occupational Safety and Health Regulations Part 5 & 6.
Date: 1985-11-15

Title: Unemployment Insurance : Submission to Standing Committee on Labour, Employment and Immigration
Description: Recommendations to change federal Unemployment Insurance Act, specifically elgibility requirements for seasonal workers.
Date: 1987-03-03

Title: Pesticide Regulatory Process
Description: Presents why CFU should be represented on the new federal regulatory process for pesticides. Overview of pesticide exposure to farmworkers.
Date: 1989-03-06

Title: Labour Canada letter concerning draft report
Description: A critique of CFU Draft Report: Technical Impact of Pesticide Use in the Fraser Valley Berry Picking Industry in British Columbia. See Final Report: Pesticide Use and Handling in the Fraser Valley Berry Industry.
Date: 1990-03-27

Title: Pesticide Use in the Fraser Valley Berry Picking Industry in British Columbia - Draft Report
Description: An important CFU survey of pesticide use by growers and farmworkers. Eighty-nine farmers and 167 farmworkers were interviewed on aspects of pesticide use on farms. Including descriptive accounts of chemical applications. Captan was found to be the most widely used chemical in the industry. Another issue is pesticide exposure to children in the
Show moreAn important CFU survey of pesticide use by growers and farmworkers. Eighty-nine farmers and 167 farmworkers were interviewed on aspects of pesticide use on farms. Including descriptive accounts of chemical applications. Captan was found to be the most widely used chemical in the industry. Another issue is pesticide exposure to children in the fields. See Final Report: Pesticide Use and Handling in the Fraser Valley Berry Industry.
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Date: 1990-03-27

Title: Pesticide Use and Handling in the Fraser Valley Berry Industry
Description: A very important CFU survey of pesticide use by growers and farmworkers. Eighty-nine farmers and 167 farmworkers were interviewed on various aspects of pesticide use on berry farms. Including descriptive accounts of chemical applications. The pesticide Captan was found to be the most widely used chemical in the industry. Another issue is pesticide
Show moreA very important CFU survey of pesticide use by growers and farmworkers. Eighty-nine farmers and 167 farmworkers were interviewed on various aspects of pesticide use on berry farms. Including descriptive accounts of chemical applications. The pesticide Captan was found to be the most widely used chemical in the industry. Another issue is pesticide exposure to children in the fields.
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Date: 1990-06-13

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