The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. November 6, 2020 Court Rules Dairy Workers in Washington State Should Be Paid Overtime --------------------------------------------------------------------- In labor news, dairy workers in Washington state won a major victory Thursday when the state Supreme Court ruled they are entitled to overtime pay if they work more than 40 hours a week. For decades farmworkers have been exempted from state and federal overtime laws. .