No less than equal rights
Labor advocates, however, expressed little sympathy for agricultural producers, noting that previous legislation provided relief.
Agricultural workers were excluded from overtime in federal and state law, a policy many labor advocates say was overtly racist.
A 2020 Washington Supreme Court decision in a case involving workers — Jose Martinez-Cuevas and Patricia Aguilar — at DeRuyter Brothers, a dairy in Sunnyside in the Yakima Valley, found it was unconstitutional to deprive workers of overtime and rest breaks.
The ruling did not address several related issues, including back pay and whether workers involved with the production of other agricultural products would now also be entitled to overtime
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