City, county and local offices will be closed on Monday for César Chávez Day along with courts, public health clinics, family resource centers, libraries and animal shelters.
The Miramar Landfill, Greenery, Recycling Center and Mattress Collection Site will be open on Monday. Container sales at 8353 Miramar Place will be closed.There will be mail delivery because Cesar Chavez Day is a federal commemorative holiday, first proclaimed by then-President Barack Obama in 2014, and not a federal holiday.
Chávez is credited with improving work and quality of life conditions for immigrant farm workers in Central California. Alongside Dolores Hureta he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers Union. The strike was called by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, a predominantly Filipino and AFL-CIO-sponsored labor organization, on Sept. 8, 1965. The predominantly Mexican National Farmworkers Association joined the strike eight days later. The two groups merged in August 1966 to create the United Farm Workers.