Fair Pay

Andrade brings in about $350 a week when the hotel is busy, but her paycheck is often tied to the occupancy rate. When things are slow, she gets a call not to come in. If a guest stays in his room, not letting Andrade in to clean, she gets docked a half-hour‘s pay. For a while, she had a once-a-week job cleaning a family’s home, but lost that after her hotel schedule was changed.

When she gets home at night, she says, after an hour-and-a-half drive each way, “I‘m too tired to play with my little boy.”

What would she do with the extra money if JJ passes?

“More things for the children,” Andrade says without hesitation. “More food. Mas huevitos. More eggs.”