By Doug Cunningham

California workers have legally mandated lunch and rest breaks - but Gov. Schwarzenegger has tried to take them away. The California Labor Federation's Caitlin Vega says those rights are being threatened again in a series of forums conducted by the state's labor commissioner. Vega says organized labor wants to be sure that workers without unions can continue take lunch and rest breaks without fear in California.

[Vega]: "Our members get lunch breaks, it's in their contracts. What we're concerned about is workers who don't have unions, who don't have the ability to demand their rights at work, who fear getting fired - and who often are fired - when they assert themselves and when they say that they feel they have rights and their rights have to be respected. And so we really are trying to protect the most vulnerable workers in California."