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Title: A True Story... Farmworkers Demand Health and Safety Regulations Now! - Photos by Craig Berggold
Description: Four photos from the series 'I would like to tell you a story…Health and Safety Regulations Now!' dramatizing farmworkers' accidents and deaths. Published in New Directions magazine as a 4-page center spread.
Date: 1987-01-01

Title: Farmworkers demand equal rights
Description: A survey of berry pickers showed that pickers averaged $1.48 per hour.
Date: 1981-06-23

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: 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: Pesticide Organo-phosphate poisoning of seasonal farm workers
Description: The CFU demands that the WCB immediately adopt California's safety regulations to prevent this type of accident.
Date: 1982-08-28

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: At The Vancouver Public Library - Canadian Farmworkers Union - Photo Story by Craig Berggold
Description: An invitation card for the exhibit of 'I would like to tell you a story…Health and Safety Regulations Now!' a photo dramatization of true farmworker accidents and deaths. 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
Show moreAn invitation card for the exhibit of 'I would like to tell you a story…Health and Safety Regulations Now!' a photo dramatization of true farmworker accidents and deaths. 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.
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Date: 1986-07-02

Title: The First Four Months, April to August 1980: A Summary of the Activities of the Canadian Farmworkers Union
Description: One of the first internal CFU reports reviewing the FWOC and events leading up to the founding of the CFU organizing drives; certifications at Jensen Mushroom Farm, Country Farm Natural Foods Ltd and Bell Farms Ltd; Opposing forces, such as CPC (ML) and their front groups 'East Indian Defense Committee' and 'Farm Workers Defense Committee';
Show moreOne of the first internal CFU reports reviewing the FWOC and events leading up to the founding of the CFU organizing drives; certifications at Jensen Mushroom Farm, Country Farm Natural Foods Ltd and Bell Farms Ltd; Opposing forces, such as CPC (ML) and their front groups 'East Indian Defense Committee' and 'Farm Workers Defense Committee'; Government Lobby campaigns; Administration and Resources; Conclusions.
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Date: 1980-09-01

Title: BC Human Rights Council Ruled the Provincial Government Right to Discriminate
Description: CFU responds to the new provincial BC Human Rights Council decision to reject the CFU's complaint that the provincial government is discriminating against ethnic farmworkers by not implementing safety regulations to protect workers. This new provincial Human Rights Council reverses tenor of former Human Rights Commision report 'What this country
Show moreCFU responds to the new provincial BC Human Rights Council decision to reject the CFU's complaint that the provincial government is discriminating against ethnic farmworkers by not implementing safety regulations to protect workers. This new provincial Human Rights Council reverses tenor of former Human Rights Commision report 'What this country did to us it did to it's self'.
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Date: 1985-05-10

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: Equality for Farmworkers Demonstration - Media Announcement
Description: In Vancouver, Robson Square, over 400 people attend rally to demonstrate against farmworkers exclusions from Employment Standards and Workers' Compensation and end legislative discrimination.
Date: 1981-08-20

Title: Health and Safety Regulations : For Immediate Release
Description: CFU annouces betrayal and protests the provincial government's cabinet decision to suspend WCB helalth and safety regulations for farmworkers which were to be implemented April 4, 1983.
Date: 1983-03-10

Title: Ontario Media Release: CFU-Ontario Public Meeting on 'Tobacco Poisoning' of Farm Workers
Description: A CFU public meeting, July 27, 1981, in Delhi, Ontario, on health and safety of tobacco workers. This meeting is on the eve of the tobacco harvest in southern Ontario in the Simcoe, Delhi, Tillsonburg area the center of tobacco industry when many migrants are just arriving.
Date: 1981-07-20

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: Workers' Compensation Board Petition
Description: Unsigned petition for a royal commission on the provincial BC Workers Compensation system. Circa 1985.
Date: 1985-01-01

Title: Regulations Not Deaths: Farmworkers' Health and Safety
Description: Headlines: A dangerous industry; Bad working conditions lead to serious injury; A poisoned workplace; Wanted water, toilets and daycare; Craig Berggold's photo text series 'I would like to tell you a story...' on farm workers health and safety. This brochure is one in a series of four.
Date: 1986-01-07

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: A Time To Change Exhibition. Photo 27 by Craig Berggold. Raj Chouhan, CFU president, and Cesar Chavez, UFW president, relax after speeches. Vancouver, BC, April 10, 1983.
Description: Raj Chouhan, CFU president (left) and Cesar Chavez, UFW president, (right) relax after speeches. Cesar Chavez was renowned for leading non-violent protest in the farmworkers’ struggle for equality and justice. Cesar provided regular counsel and advice to the members and staff of the Canadian Farmworkers’ Union. Robson Square, Vancouver, British
Show moreRaj Chouhan, CFU president (left) and Cesar Chavez, UFW president, (right) relax after speeches. Cesar Chavez was renowned for leading non-violent protest in the farmworkers’ struggle for equality and justice. Cesar provided regular counsel and advice to the members and staff of the Canadian Farmworkers’ Union. Robson Square, Vancouver, British Columbia. April 10, 1983. Photo 27 of 30.
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Date: 1983-04-10

Title: 1982 Leaflet - Canadian Farmworkers Union Victories
Description: CFU's short summary of activities for six months in 1982. Leaflet headlines include: Workers Compensation Coverage, Cabin Access, First Arbitration at Reimers' Nurseries Ltd, Jensen Mushroom Contract, Unemployment Insurance Section 16.
Date: 1982-08-01

Title: Vancouver Sath Picket Line Tour, Fraser Valley, BC, 1988. Actor Makhan Tut as a seasonal berry picker listens to actress Anju Hundal about the dangers of pesticides in Vancouver Sath's play 'A Crop of Posion' .
Description: March 6 to April 10, 1988, Vancouver Sath Theatre collective performs two plays ‘A Crop of Poison’ and ‘Picket Line’ (both written by Sadhu Binning and Sukhwant Hundal) for the Fraser Valley CFU cultural programme called Picket Line Tour. Over 1,000 people attended four venues. Funded by Canada Council Explorations Grant. 'A Crop of Poison' (Jahar
Show moreMarch 6 to April 10, 1988, Vancouver Sath Theatre collective performs two plays ‘A Crop of Poison’ and ‘Picket Line’ (both written by Sadhu Binning and Sukhwant Hundal) for the Fraser Valley CFU cultural programme called Picket Line Tour. Over 1,000 people attended four venues. Funded by Canada Council Explorations Grant. 'A Crop of Poison' (Jahar di Fasal) is about farmworkers and the health and safety of pesticide use. Vancouver Sath, formed in 1983, is a collective of Punjabi writers from the Lower Mainland, BC.
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Date: 1988-03-06

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