First CFU President Raj Chouhan (left) and United Farm Workers of America President Cesar Chavez at a farmworkers' rally in Vancouver. Pacific Tribune Photo
"We talked alot about the farmworkers and around (1978) I read a book on union leader Cesar Chavez and the United Farmworkers in California. I talked to labour leaders here about the farmworkers and while they all supported the struggle in California, they didn’t seem to think the approach would work here because of the transient, seasonal nature of the work in B.C. But I thought it would work, and I still do." - Raj Chouhan, 1995