Two years after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed legislation that would have given California farm workers the same overtime benefits most other wage earners receive, the United Farm Workers union is preparing to try again with Schwarzenegger's successor, Gov. Jerry Brown. "Farm workers and domestic workers are not second-class citizens," Arturo Rodriguez, the union president, told more than 200 supporters in a basement dining room at the Capitol today. "They do not belong to a lower class of workers in California or in the United States. They are men and women who take some of the hardest jobs in America, often for pay and under conditions other American workers would not tolerate." Assembly Bill 1313, by Assemblyman Michael Allen, D-Santa Rosa, would remove an exemption for agricultural workers from the Fair Labor Standards Act, requiring overtime be paid after eight hours a day or 40 hours a week. (more) June 25, 2012 Sacramento Bee