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California’s governor doesn’t think working 12 hour days in the farm fields or 60 hours a week is a burden, but in his mind allowing those farm workers regular overtime after 8 hours I na day or 40 in a week is somehow too heavy a burden for agribusiness to bear. Jesse Russell reports.

Legislation that would have given farm workers equal overtime rights as most other California workers was vetoed by the governor on Wednesday. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger preserved a wage law exemption that only allows overtime for farmworkers in the state after a 12 hour day or a 60-hour week. If the law had passed it would have lifted the 70-year-old exemption and allowed workers to claim overtime after an eight hour day. Schwarzenegger said of his decision to kill the legislation that it would have resulted in additional burdens for business owners. The state of California has more than 370,000 agricultural workers that would have benefited from the change in overtime laws.