Editing Bracero Program (section)

===Notable strikes===
* January–February (exact dates aren't noted) 1943: In Burlington, Washington, braceros strike because farmers were paying higher wages to whites than to the braceros doing similar work<ref>Northwest Farm News, February 3, 1944. Cited in Gamboa, "Mexican Labor and World War II", p. 80.</ref>
* 1943: In Medford, Oregon, one of the first notable strikes was by a group of braceros that<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Gonzales-Berry |first1 = Erlinda |author-link = Erlinda Gonzáles-Berry |title = Mexicanos in Oregon: Their Stories, Their Lives. |date = 2012 |publisher = Oregon State University Press |location = Corvallis |page = 46 }}</ref> staged a work stoppage to protest their pay based on per box versus per hour. The growers agreed to pay them 75 cents an hour versus the 8 or 10 cents per box.
* May 1944: Braceros in Preston, Idaho, struck over wages<ref>Narrative, June 1944, Preston, Idaho, Box 52, File: Idaho, GCRG224, NA. Cited in Gamboa, "Mexican Labor and World War II", p. 81.</ref>
* July and September 1944: Braceros near Rupert and Wilder, Idaho, strike over wages<ref>Narrative, July 1944, Rupert, Idaho, Box 52, File: Idaho; Narrative, October 1944, Lincoln, Idaho; all in GCRG224, NA. Cited in Gamboa, "Mexican Labor and World War II", pp. 81–82.</ref>
* October 1944: Braceros in Sugar City and Lincoln, Idaho refused to harvest beets after earning higher wages picking potatoes<ref>Narrative, October 1944, Sugar City, Idaho, Box 52, File: Idaho; Narrative, October 1944, Lincoln, Idaho; all in GCRG224, NA. Cited in Gamboa, "Mexican Labor and World War II", p. 82.</ref>
* May–June 1945: Bracero asparagus cutters in Walla Walla, Washington, struck for twelve days complaining they grossed only between $4.16 and $8.33 in that time period<ref>Visitation Reports, Walter E. Zuger, Walla Walla County, June 12, 1945, EFLR, WSUA. Cited in Gamboa, "Mexican Labor and World War II", p. 84.</ref>
* June 1945: Braceros from Caldwell-Boise sugar beet farms struck when hourly wages were 20 cents less than the established rate set by the County Extension Service. They won a wage increase.<ref>Idaho Daily Statesman, June 8, 1945. Cited in Gamboa, "Mexican Labor and World War II", p. 84.</ref>
* June 1945: In Twin Falls, Idaho, 285 braceros went on strike against the [[Amalgamated Sugar Company]] for two days which resulted in them effectively receiving a 50 cent raise which put them 20 cents over the prevailing wage of the contracted labor<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Jimenez Sifuentez |first1 = Mario |title = Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest. |date = 2016 |publisher = Rutgers University Press |location = New Brunswick |page = 26 }}</ref>
* June 1945: Three weeks later braceros at Emmett struck for higher wages<ref>Idaho Daily Statesman, June 29, 1945. Cited in Gamboa, "Mexican Labor and World War II", p.  84.</ref>
* July 1945: In Idaho Falls, 170 braceros organized a sit-down strike that lasted nine days after fifty cherry pickers refused to work at the prevailing rate.<ref>Idaho Daily Statesman, July 11, 14, 1945. Cited in Gamboa, "Mexican Labor and World War II", p. 84.</ref>
* October 1945: In Klamath Falls, Oregon, braceros and transient workers from California refuse to pick potatoes due to insufficient wages<ref>Daily Statesman, October 5, 1945. Cited in Gamboa, "Mexican Labor and World War II", p. 82.</ref>
* A majority of Oregon's Mexican labor camps were affected by labor unrest and stoppages in 1945<ref>Annual Report of State Supervisor of Emergency Farm Labor Program 1945, Extension Service, p. 56, OSU. Cited in Gamboa, "Mexican Labor and World War II", p. 82.</ref>
* November 1946: In Wenatchee, Washington, 100 braceros refused to be transported to Idaho to harvest beets and demanded a train back to Mexico.<ref>Marshall, Maureen E. ''Wenatchee's Dark Past''. Wenatchee, Wash: The Wenatchee World, 2008.</ref>

The number of strikes in the Pacific Northwest is much longer than this list. Two strikes, in particular, should be highlighted for their character and scope: the Japanese-Mexican strike of 1943 in Dayton, Washington<ref>{{cite book |author1=Jerry Garcia |author2=Gilberto Garcia |title=Memory, Community, and Activism: Mexican Migration and Labor in the Pacific Northwest |chapter=Chapter 3: Japanese and Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest, 1900–1945 |pages=85–128}}</ref> and the June 1946 strike of 1000 plus braceros that refused to harvest lettuce and peas in Idaho.