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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; Phoney union trying to sabotage CFU organizing; Racist attack on union organizer; Government responsible for deaths of four children in Fraser…

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 Attack at Osoyoos; Okanagan Farmworkers Attend CFU Public Meeting.

A tri-lingual paper with English front side (4-pages), and only the CFU 'President Message' in French, and Punjabi front side (3-pages). Headlines: Farmworker Dies Of Pesticide Poisoning; Agreement Signed At Jensen Mushroom Farm; UIC Discrimination Against Farmworkers Ends; Ontario Summer Legal Clinics; A Time To Learn; Film 'A Time To Rise' Banned in India;

New magazine style newspaper (24-pages) English only. Front cover headline: Organizing Under Cover in the Fields. Articles: CFU's Fight For Fair Unemployment Insurance; Mushroom Workers Win Backwages; English Language Crusade; Poem by Surjeet Kalsey; Poem by Amarjit Chandan; Fraservalle back on track; Cover photo by Jorge Aguilar.

Focuses on discrimination and violence experienced by Quebecois farmworkers. Illustrates examples of conflict with Okanagan housing and eating establishments. Also, government discrimination with application of official language act and housing standards. Presented at a forum in Kelowna.

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.

An indictment of municipal, provincial and federal governments for the lack of agricultural regulations and discriminatory legislation that results in a 'bitter harvest for farmworkers'. Illustrated with examples of discrimination, poverty, sickness and death.

The article, by Vancouver Sath members, first gives a brief history of the Indo-Canadian community's struggles in BC. The role played by Darshan Singh in the IWA during the 1940s. A description of the contemporary situation and the formation of the CFU in early 1980. The changes in the legislature for the farmworkers and the effects of this struggle on the community and the literature and arts.

Headlines: Off-shore workers; Housing and Living Conditions; Health and Safety; Racism and Discrimination; Social and Cultural Life. One of a series of four booklets. Photography by Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge. Produced between Fall 1982 and March 1983.

A 1973 provincial Ontario task force disclosed that child labour and other forms of exploitation are the norm. What is pregnancy leave and who is entitled to it? One of a series of four booklets. Photography by Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge. Produced between Fall 1982 and March 1983.

A general overview of number of farms and crops, like tobacco, vegetable, berries, fruits, mushrooms. Farmworker facts like population and geographic distribution in Ontario. 'The majority of full time workers are Portuguese.' Problems faced by farmworkers; low wages; health and safety; living conditions; child labour; discrimination; Isolation. One of a series of four booklets. Photography by Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge. Produced between Fall 1982 and March 1983.

A 1980 summary of FWOC activities leading up to the CFU's founding convention. Also, staff hiring requirements.

An early historical overview of farm workers in BC province, including: from 1820's when First Nations worked farms at colonial outposts; late 1800s when Asian worked farms after the gold rush; up to early 1970s.

Federal consultation on Affirmative Action programs. Public Service Census definition of visible minorities.

Vancouver public hearing on the 'Discrimination Against Farmworkers'. CFU and 28 organizations and individuals present briefs asking the BC provincial government to stop all legislative discrimination against farmworkers. On February 17, 1983 the Commission released its report 'What this Country did to us it did to itself'. The Commission accepted the gist of the presentations which called for the equality of farm workers before the law.