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2. Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital - Wikipedia

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   MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital, [1] formerly, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital, [2] Virginia Mason Memorial Hospital is a general hospital in Yakima, Washington with 238 licensed beds. [3] It is a level III adult and pediatric trauma center , [ 4 ] with a 34-bed emergency department and a 27-bed critical care unit .

3. Brown Berets - Wikipedia

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   In 1970, the Seattle chapter supported the United Farm Workers movement with a Harvest for Peace, gathering food, clothing, and money for Christmas baskets for Yakima Valley's Chicano farm workers. [28] The group also organized a grape boycott. [28] In 1970, the Yakima Brown Berets chapter brought Cesar Chavez to the lower Yakima Valley. [28]

4. United Farm Workers - Wikipedia

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   The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers (UFW), is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States. It originated from the merger of two workers' rights organizations, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) led by César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and Gilbert Padilla and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) led by organizer Larry Itliong.

5. 1933 Yakima Valley strike - Wikipedia

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   The Yakima Valley was an important hops and apple district; many men would travel to the valley during the summer seeking work. After the men were laid off due to being transient workers, they became provoked to strike in regards to the lack of work offered, in which farmers responded by creating vigilante bands around the orchards.

6. Farmworkers in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Farmworkers in Fort Valley, Georgia in 2019. Farmworkers in the United States have unique demographics, wages, working conditions, organizing, and environmental aspects. . According to The National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health in Agricultural Safety, approximately 2,112,626 full-time workers were employed in production agriculture in the US in 2019 and approximately 1.4 to 2.1 ...

7. Yakima, Washington - Wikipedia

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   Yakima (/ ˈ j æ k ɪ m ɑː / or / ˈ j æ k ɪ m ə /) is a city in, and the county seat of, Yakima County, Washington, United States, and the state's 11th most populous city.As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 96,968 and a metropolitan population of 256,728. [4]