State moves to rename holiday Farmworkers Day as Chávez fallout continues | News

California lawmakers are moving quickly to rename César Chávez Day before the March 31 state holiday following publication of allegations the late United Farm Workers labor leader sexually abused minors and union co-founder Dolores Huerta.

“This moment calls for honesty. It calls for reflection, and it calls for a renewed commitment to the values that the farmworker movement was built on,” Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, D-Hollister, said Thursday. “So today, we stand with survivors. And let us recommit ourselves to justice, to dignity and to the people who built the farmworker movement.”

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