Governor Newsom proclaims Farmworker Day
PROCLAMATION
The story of farmworkers in California is one of perseverance and resilience, one where families continuously work hard toward a better future. That story stretches across generations, starting from the Bracero era and encompassing the many diverse communities whose labor, heritage, and sacrifice helped shape California’s fields and paved the way for generations that followed. They endured grueling conditions, discrimination, and exploitation while building lives and creating opportunities for their families and communities.
From those struggles grew a movement that changed California. Leaders like Larry Itliong, Dolores Huerta, Philip Vera Cruz, and countless farmworkers organized across communities for fair wages, safer working conditions, and dignity on the job. Their courage helped transform the labor movement and secure protections that continue to benefit workers today.
That legacy of courage and sacrifice lives on. Farmworkers work through extreme heat and difficult conditions, making sacrifices every day to provide for their families. Today, they are forced to endure even more, as the federal government targets and terrorizes farmworkers and farmworker communities with aggressive federal immigration actions.
But even in the face of intimidation and fear, California’s farmworkers continue to show the resilience that generations before them carried into our fields, our communities, and our labor movements. We owe farmworkers a profound debt of gratitude — but their courage deserves more. It demands a commitment to stand with them, to support them as they have always supported us.
California continues to stand alongside farmworkers and their families, protecting workers regardless of immigration status, strengthening workplace protections, connecting communities with critical resources and legal assistance, and defending the fundamental dignity of those whose labor has given so much to our state. We will continue to push the federal government to provide farmworkers the ability to work lawfully and stay with their families, including a pathway to citizenship for longstanding Californians.
Today, we honor more than the labor that puts food on our tables. We honor the people behind it — their heritage, their sacrifices, the movement they built, the families they have sustained, and the generations carrying that legacy forward. We recommit ourselves to ensuring that the people who help feed our state are afforded the dignity, security, and opportunity they have earned.
NOW THEREFORE I, GAVIN NEWSOM, Governor of the State of California, do hereby proclaim August 26, 2026 as “Farmworker Day.”
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of California to be affixed this 26th day of August 2026.
GAVIN NEWSOM
Governor of California
ATTEST:
SHIRLEY N. WEBER, Ph.D.
Secretary of State
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