Farm workers are vital to your country. They are the ones who allow food to reach our tables across America. Oregon is a farm worker state that annually millions of migrants migrate year-round to Oregon to harvest and plant crops. Such as strawberry and mushroom cultivations, among others. PCUN is an Oregon organization that strives to empower farm workers to understand and take action against employers' systematic exploitation of farm workers. PCUN stands for "Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (Tree Planters and Agricultural Workers of the Northwest United)"[1]. PCUN “founded in 1985 by 80 agricultural workers”[1]. Since its founding, the PCUN has worked to empower the migrant worker and has since “registered more than 5,000 members, 98% of whom are Mexican and Central American immigrants”[1]. The need for an organization like PCUN began "in the late 1950s, [when] sizable Mexican communities began to emerge in Willamette Valley cities such as Woodburn, St. Paul, Independence, and Gervais"[2]. But what led these migrants of Mexican and Central American origin to emigrate to Oregon? The “growth of the Mexican population in Oregon was stimulated in the 1940s by three interrelated factors: the continued growth of agriculture, the onset of World War II, and the existence of the Bracero Program”[2]. The Bracero Program was designed to recruit Mexican workers to work for all those who left to fight in World War II. Or to replace those who have left agricultural work in this period to work in industry. Mexican workers were seen to have cheap labor. This encouraged employers to hire Mexican farm workers. But after some time many employers did not follow the rules of the Bracero Program and started using… half the paper… worked hard for me and my sisters even before we were born. And like my father there are many parents who struggle and struggle to give their children a better life and education. PCUN enables these parents to do the best for their children so that they can have a better life and education. So they don't have to have the same bad luck as their parents. PCUN has greatly contributed to the well-being of many Hispanic families throughout Oregon. Works Cited[1]" PCUN ". Oregon Farmworkers Union Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del NoroesteNorthwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United. Network. 8 December 2013.www.pcun.org/about-pcun/history-pcun>.>.[2] Stephen, Lynn. "The History of the PCUN and the Farm Worker Movement in Oregon." University of Oregon Web. December 8, 2013.PCUN_story_WEB.pdf>.