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File consists of notes for the planning of a website about the Canadian Farmworkers Union. The notes may be related to A History of the Canadian Farmworkers Union, a digital book written in 1994-1995 by Murray Bush with the Canadian Farmworkers Union. The book is available at http://www.vcn.bc.ca/cfu/.
Item is a brief on farmworker health and safety.
Briefing book – Pesticide Registration Review
Briefs
Scope and content: File consists of the briefs Submission to the Workers’ Compensation Board: The Necessity for Fieldworker Shower Facilities (198-); The Racist History of Present Laws that Discriminate Against Farmworkers (1982?); Brief to Matsqui Municipal Council re: The Proposed Seasonal Full-time Farm Help Accommodation By-law No. 2261 (February, 1982); The Bitter Harvest: Pesticides and Farmworkers (February, 1982); Brief Presented to the Human Rights Commission of British Columbia (May 21, 1982); and an untitled brief on pesticide poisoning for Workers’ Compensation Board (September, 1982).
Briefs and presentations – CFU [Canadian Farmworkers Union]
File consists of the briefs Brief to the Federal Human Rights Commission – Raj Chouhan: Justice for Farmworkers – Time to End the Bitter Harvest (ca. 1981); Farmworkers are Workers Too! Submission presented to the B.C. Human Rights Commission concerning the problems related to fruit pickers and transients in the Okanagan (April 23, 1981); Brief presented to the Workers’ Compensation Board and the Minister of Labour, the Honourable Jack Heinrich, concerning recommendations for legislative and regulatory change to provide workers’ compensation coverage to B.C. farmworkers (June 29, 1981); Justice for Farmworkers: Mandatory Workers Compensation Coverage. A brief to the NDP Caucus by Raj Chouhan, President, Canadian Farmworkers Union (November 16, 1981); Women in the Agricultural Industry, for ‘Resources for Feminist Research.’ Comment by Judy Cavanagh, Staff Representative, Canadian Farmworkers Union (December 2, 1981); Submission #1: Coverage, Assessment & Claims Adjudication. Submitted to Workers’ Compensation Board (July 30, 1982); Canadian Farmworkers Union presentation to the Workers’ Compensation Board public hearings regarding second draft amendments to health and safety regulations (1984); a brief to WCB public hearings (January 16, 1984); Presentation to the B.C. Federation of Labour’s inquiry into the Workers’ Compensation Board (April 11, 1985); and A History of Discrimination (January 1986).
[Briefs pertaining to Bill C-21 and pesticides]
File includes the brief Submission to the Legislative Committee on Bill C-21 and The Honorable Barbara McDougall Minister of Employment and Immigration, submitted by the Canadian Farmworkers Union, Vancouver, BC, August 25, 1989.
[Briefs pertaining to organizing workers, unemployment insurance, and pesticides]
Cabin access (Internal S-1 LO-B)
File consists of reports and correspondence relating to complaints about living conditions for farmworkers.
Cabin access (Internal S-1 LO-B)
File consists of reports and correspondence relating to complaints about living conditions for farmworkers.
Cabin Access Kit [Labour Relations Board ruling]
File consists of records relating to a BC Labour Relations Board ruling granting the Canadian Farmworkers Union access to farmworkers’ housing in the Fraser Valley to assess living conditions.
Canadian Farmworker’s Union Synoptic [book]
Canadian Farmworkers Union : Unite & Fight [lapel pin]
Item is a lapel pin with the slogan “Unite & Fight.”
[Canadian Farmworkers Union] “National Constitution” – draft
Canadian Farmworkers Union – resources, Jan. 1982-June 1983
Canadian Farmworkers Union – strikes
[Canadian Farmworkers Union account book – donations]
[Canadian Farmworkers Union account book – dues and initiation fees]
[Canadian Farmworkers Union account book – dues and initiation fees]
[Canadian Farmworkers Union account book – farmworkers’ justice fund]
[Canadian Farmworkers Union account book – general]
[Canadian Farmworkers Union account book – general]
[Canadian Farmworkers Union account book – general]
[Canadian Farmworkers Union account book – health and safety campaign]
[Canadian Farmworkers Union activities and working conditions newspaper clippings]