LAMONT, Calif. (KGET) — For 25 years, March 31, honored the farmworkers movement that began in Kern County decades ago, referred to simply as Cesar Chavez Day.
Now that statewide holiday bears a new name: Farmworkers Day.
In reaction to sexual assault allegations on the late labor leader, the renaming is to separate the man from the movement. It’s an effort to acknowledge the progress made for farmworkers across the nation, without the stain of allegations…