August 26, 2025 - Sacramento, California – Governor Gavin Newsom today issued a proclamation declaring August 26, 2025, as “California Farmworker Day” in the State of California.
The text of the proclamation can be found below:
A celery field in the Salinas Valley is harvested. Credit: Ag Alert
PROCLAMATION
Farmworkers represent the best of California, embodying resilience, drive, and a deep love for their families and communities. The backbone of our state, farmworkers also strengthen our communities through wide-ranging contributions to society and the diverse heritage of our state. From landmark social movements to food, music, and art, this community is foundational to the prosperity and vitality of California as we know it.
From Siskiyou County to the Imperial Valley, the hard work of these dedicated men and women helps make California the largest agricultural state, providing a stable and secure food supply year-round. They ensure that our grocery stores, food banks, and tables across the nation are supplied with fresh and nutritious food. Despite this vital role, farmworker communities are being targeted by a hostile federal administration, indiscriminately terrorizing hard-working people.
California will not stand by while this happens – we are committed to supporting and uplifting our agricultural communities. The state in recent years has expanded opportunities for farmworker homeownership, created new farmworker resource centers, advanced protections in the workplace and worker outreach, opened new labor rights enforcement offices in the Central Valley, expanded immigrant legal assistance and job training, and has made significant progress in extending health care access to low-income Californians of all ages, regardless of immigration status. These and other efforts continue in partnership with the Legislature, community-based organizations, and stakeholders to better support our farmworkers.
Today, we also reflect on the hard-won progress achieved by farmworkers and leaders like César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and Larry Itliong, who fought tirelessly for workers’ rights. Their efforts to secure better working and living conditions, the right to organize for fair pay, and other protections contributed to the broader civil rights and labor movements, inspiring a lasting legacy of advocacy that continues to this day.
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to the farmworkers at the heart and soul of California, who sacrifice and contribute so much to our state. Today and every day, let us celebrate and acknowledge the lives and contributions of California’s farmworkers and rededicate ourselves to extending the dream of prosperity and progress to all.
NOW THEREFORE I, GAVIN NEWSOM, Governor of the State of California, do hereby proclaim August 26, 2025 as “California 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 25th day of August 2025.
GAVIN NEWSOM
Governor of California
ATTEST:
SHIRLEY N. WEBER, Ph.D.
Secretary of State
Source: Office of the Governor
