Project criteria (Internal S-2 F)
- MSC-102-0-1-3-0-14
- File
- 1981, 1984
Project criteria (Internal S-2 F)
Project 5768BX0 [Canadian Farmworkers Union finances – Canada Works]
File consists of financial records relating to a Canada Works grant project.
File consists of records relating to a Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society study of worker legislation, workers’ rights, and farm labour contracting.
[Progress report and information package, possibly for potential donors]
[Press release regarding assessing daycare needs of farmworkers]
Press coverage of [Canadian Farmworkers Union ESL] Crusade
File consists of newspaper clippings and one photographic print.
[Press conference photographs]
File consists of 4 photographic prints of a press conference which included Sukhwant Hundal, Hari Sharma, and Art Kube.
[Poster for public meeting with viewing of A Time to Rise, Abbotsford, 20 December 1981]
[Poster for public meeting with viewing of A Time to Rise, Abbotsford, 20 December 1981]
File consists of 16 photographic negatives of a Canadian Farmworkers Union organizing trip to Port Alberni, BC.
File consists of handwritten notes on organizing workers.
Plan of Action : Canadian Farmworkers Union, January 1982 – June 1983
File consists of 34 photographic negatives of a graduating ESL class.
File consists of 29 photographic negatives of a Canadian Farmworkers Union event featuring a performance by bhangra dancers.
[Photographs of solidarity meeting with other organizations]
File consists of 7 photographic prints of a meeting possibly relating to Operation Solidarity or the Solidarity Coalition.
File consists of 10 photographic negatives and 6 prints of signage at the Canadian Farmworkers Union office, as well as an unknown event with Judy Cavanagh, George Heyman (later head of BC Government and Service Employees’ Union [BCGEU]), and Hannah Jensen (a reporter), and the CFU bus.
[Photographs of Sarwan Boal talking to farmworkers]
File consists of 21 photographic negatives of Canadian Farmworkers Union president Sarwan Boal talking to farmworkers.
[Photographs of raspberry pickers at work]
File consists of 4 photographic prints of farmworkers working on a raspberry farm.
[Photographs of rally at UIC (Unemployment Insurance Commission) office]
File consists of 31 photographic prints of an Unemployment Insurance rally in Vancouver on May 22, 1986.
[Photographs of rally against Bills 19 and 20]
File consists of 52 photographic prints of a rally against proposed legislation to restrict union rights.
[Photographs of public rally in fields, Fraser Valley]
File consists of 3 photographic negatives of a farmworkers’ rally.
[Photographs of protest at Driediger Farms, June 29, 1980]
File consists of 101 photographic negatives and 7 prints of a protest at Driediger Farms.
[Photographs of press conference and workers in field]
File consists of 13 photographic negatives depicting a press conference as well as farmworkers at work.
[Photographs of Hoss Farming Company strike]
File consists of 15 photographic negatives and 9 prints of the Fraser Valley Mushroom Growers picket during the Hoss Farming Company strike, as well as Hoss Farming Company farmworkers at the Labour Relations Board.
[Photographs of employment rights equality for farmworkers rally]
File consists of 126 photographic negatives and 33 prints of an employment rights rally held on August 29, 1981, at Vancouver Art Gallery.
[Photographs of damage to Jawala Singh Grewal’s home and van]
File consists of 21 photographic negatives of vandalism done after Grewal was elected Vice President of the Canadian Farmworkers Union.
[Photographs of Cesar Chavez visit to Vancouver]
File consists of 11 photographic prints of Cesar Chavez, president of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), on a visit to Vancouver during the UFW’s Grape Boycott campaign, which the Canadian Farmworkers Union supported.
File consists of 60 photographic prints and 57 negatives of a benefit event which took place on September 27, 1981, at John Oliver High School in Vancouver.
Arrangement: Includes photographs 102.2550 through 102.2666.