PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Amelia Garcia, Hotel Worker
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Amelia Garcia, a hotel worker in Manhattan, testifies against the proposed hotel licensing law, expressing concern about potential job loss and financial impact on her family. She emphasizes the importance of her current employment through an agency and pleads for the ability to continue working.
- Garcia is the head of her family and relies on her current job for financial stability
- She praises her current employment agency for providing work hours and being supportive
- Garcia urges the committee to listen to workers' needs and allow them to continue working
Amelia Garcia (via Spanish Interpreter)
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Momentico.
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My name is Amelia Garcia.
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I'm working in a hotel in Manhattan for several years.
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I'm writing this letter with intention to raise my voice that what is going to happen is going to affect me and affect my family financially.
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Okay.
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It is law is approved.
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What will happen to me is that we'll lose my job and this will hurt my family financially.
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And the reason of this is because I'm the head of my family.
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Okay.
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Thanks to the agency, done work in the employment agency, unable to have a safe place for me to live and to have food in my home as well.
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Okay.
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The employment agency that working currently is helping me financially is giving me that hours of works, and they are very human people, they are very kind people.
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Consult women's and gentlemen's Please listen to our knees, and please let us work well.
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We we we only need to work.
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Okay.
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This is everything for now.
