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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: March Against the Labour Contract System - Support BC Farmworkers
Description: Headlines: Contractors Live off the Labour of Farmworkers; Contractors Take 25-40% of Farmworkers wages; Contractors Grow fat by posing as Farmworkers benefactors; Eliminate the Labour Contract System.
Date: 1980-07-12

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: 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: A Time To Change Exhibition. Photo 09 by Craig Berggold. Field worker has her daily ‘piece-rate’ card punched by labour contractor during Brussels spout harvest. Aldergrove, BC, November 1983.
Description: Farmworker has her daily ‘piece-work’ card punched by labour contractor during Brussels spout harvest. Fieldwork harvesting is usually paid at piece rates, and not hourly wages. This often results in many field workers receiving less than a minimum wage. Aldergrove, British Columbia. November 1983. Photo 9 of 30.
Date: 1983-11-01

Title: Farm Workers Organizing Committee rally, Mission, BC, May 13, 1979. Down with the Contract System.
Description: FWOC’s second public meeting in Mission, BC.
Date: 1979-05-13

Title: Driediger Farms, Langley, CFU demonstration. We want $3 per flat.
Description: CFU demonstration to protest the grower’s withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a ‘Free Enterpriser’ and doesn't
Show moreCFU demonstration to protest the grower’s withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a ‘Free Enterpriser’ and doesn't believe in unions. CFU demands include Minimum of $4.00 per hour, and Minimum of $3.00 per flat (for a 16 lb. flat).
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Date: 1980-06-29

Title: Driediger Farms, Langley, CFU demonstration. CFU Secretary Treasurer Charan Gill with bulhorn. We want $3 per flat.
Description: CFU demonstration to protest the grower’s withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a ‘Free Enterpriser’ and doesn't
Show moreCFU demonstration to protest the grower’s withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a ‘Free Enterpriser’ and doesn't believe in unions. CFU demands include Minimum of $4.00 per hour, and Minimum of $3.00 per flat (for a 16 lb. flat).
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Date: 1980-06-29

Title: Driediger Farms, Langley, CFU demonstration. Farmworkers Struggle Zindabad.
Description: CFU demonstration to protest the grower’s withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a ‘Free Enterpriser’ and doesn't
Show moreCFU demonstration to protest the grower’s withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a ‘Free Enterpriser’ and doesn't believe in unions. CFU demands include Minimum of $4.00 per hour, and Minimum of $3.00 per flat (for a 16 lb. flat).
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Date: 1980-06-29

Title: Labour Contractor's van transports Indo-Canadian women farmworker to Fraser Valley, BC. Circa late 1970s.
Description: Every year, thousands of Indo-Canadians are transported daily from South Vancouver to harvest berries and vegetables on Fraser Valley farms.
Date: 1979-06-01

Title: Driediger Farms, Langley, CFU demonstration.
Description: CFU demonstration to protest the grower’s withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a ‘Free Enterpriser’ and doesn't
Show moreCFU demonstration to protest the grower’s withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a ‘Free Enterpriser’ and doesn't believe in unions. CFU demands include Minimum of $4.00 per hour, and Minimum of $3.00 per flat (for a 16 lb. flat).
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Date: 1980-06-29

Title: Driediger Farms, Langley, CFU demonstration. Charan Gill, Musician, Jawala Singh Grewal and Raj Chouhan.
Description: CFU demonstration to protest the grower’s withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a ‘Free Enterpriser’ and doesn't
Show moreCFU demonstration to protest the grower’s withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a ‘Free Enterpriser’ and doesn't believe in unions. CFU demands include Minimum of $4.00 per hour, and Minimum of $3.00 per flat (for a 16 lb. flat).
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Date: 1980-06-29

Title: Driediger Farms, Langley, CFU demonstration. CFU President Raj Chouhan addresses farmworkers who joined the rally.
Description: CFU demonstration to protest the grower’s withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a ‘Free Enterpriser’ and doesn't
Show moreCFU demonstration to protest the grower’s withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a ‘Free Enterpriser’ and doesn't believe in unions. CFU demands include Minimum of $4.00 per hour, and Minimum of $3.00 per flat (for a 16 lb. flat).
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Date: 1980-06-29

Title: Driediger Farms, Langley, CFU demonstration. CFU organizer Sarwan Boal.
Description: CFU demonstration to protest the grower’s withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a ‘Free Enterpriser’ and doesn't
Show moreCFU demonstration to protest the grower’s withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a ‘Free Enterpriser’ and doesn't believe in unions. CFU demands include Minimum of $4.00 per hour, and Minimum of $3.00 per flat (for a 16 lb. flat).
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Date: 1980-06-29

Title: Driediger Farms, Langley, CFU demonstration. Down with the Contract System.
Description: CFU demonstration to protest the grower’s withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a ‘Free Enterpriser’ and doesn't
Show moreCFU demonstration to protest the grower’s withdrawal from negotiations. Driediger Farms negotiated with the Canadian Farmworkers Union for well over two months. Terms of the collective agreement between the Union and the employer were finalized on April 13, 1980. The grower backed out at the last minute saying he is a ‘Free Enterpriser’ and doesn't believe in unions. CFU demands include Minimum of $4.00 per hour, and Minimum of $3.00 per flat (for a 16 lb. flat).
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Date: 1980-06-29

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: Save Lives of Farmworkers: Implement the Jury's Recommendations before others suffer the sama fate
Description: A CFU punjabi-english brochure that lists the jury recommendations from the provincial BC coroner's inquest into the deaths of three farmworkers in an overcrowded farm labour contractors van. The accident at 6:30am on March 7, 2007 happened when 16 women were being transported in a 15-seat van on Highway 1 going to a nearby Chilliwack greenhouse.
Date: 2009-02-01

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: Support Canadian Farmworkers Union
Description: One of CFU's first French language leaflets distributed during late summer investigative organizing in Okanagan. Public meeting Oct. 12, 1981 attended by 120 fruit pickers. Double-sided in english and french.
Date: 1980-10-12

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