So I'm going to do everything to make sure that farmworkers are taken care of and that they're respected, especially for the hard work that they do. When we talked about farm worker overtime, you know, it was real simple. It's like, you know, the kid at McDonald's in an air conditioned building is getting, you know, paid overtime where farm workers who are working in 110 degree weather out in the sun were not, they were excluded since the new deal, since FDR, since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Right. And so, you know, when this issue came up, it's like, why is this group of workers, why are farm workers excluded from having overtime for decades and decades? (09:40–10:01)
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