PHOTOGRAPH BY CRAIG BERGGOLD, 1983

Farmworker Pritam Kaur and friends protest exclusion from health and safety regulations at a Vancouver rally.

"The effect on the daily lives of farmworkers could not be worse if the provincial Cabinet wore white robes and burned crosses when they met in Victoria. I am not saying the government is a bunch of racist thugs. I am saying that in weighing the political constituencies, the government knows that it can get away with depriving a small powerless minority of the hourly wage, a safe workplace and habitable and safe housing." - CFU lawyer Calvin Sandborn in a brief to the federal House of Commons, November, 1983