Cesar Chavez Day will be celebrated in Los Angeles and Los Angeles County on Monday, with the Board of Supervisors encouraging the public to actively participate in “serving our communities in honor of his memory.” To do.
Hilda L. Solis of Los Angeles County said Tuesday after the board voted 5 to 0 to approve her motion, saying, “Today, in declaring Cesar Chavez Day, the word ‘service’ will be used. I keep in mind the special weight it carries,” he said, declaring Monday Caesar Chavez Day.
“Cesar Chavez understood more than anyone what it means to serve one another. He fought, organized and empowered. That spirit has guided my civil service career.
“We ask the Angelenos to continue serving one another and to join us in volunteering to commemorate the legacy of Cesar Chavez. , may you continue to inspire us to drive change. ”
City and county offices and libraries will be closed on Monday, but schools will be open. Friday will be closed to celebrate Chavez’s birth anniversary, Cesar’s Chavez Day. Cities and counties observe Cesar Chavez Day because they customarily make his three-day weekend the Friday or Monday before his birthday.
Chavez co-founded the National Farm Workers Association with Dolores Huerta in 1962. The union he merged with the Farm Workers Organizing Committee in 1965 to form the UFW.
An advocate of non-violence, Chavez is best known for leading the grape boycott in 1965. This boycott spread nationwide in his 1968 and lasted until 1978. The result was increased wages for farm workers and a national focus on their plight.
Chavez and the UFW played a key role in the passage of the California Farm Labor Relations Act of 1975. This made California the first state to give farm workers the right to seek union representation and bargain collectively within an established legal framework.
Born March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona, Chavez dropped out of school in the eighth grade and went to work as a migrant farm worker to support his family, witnessing the many adversities workers face every day. Did.
Chavez died in 1993 at the age of 66.
