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Hotel worker Auro Rodriguez: ‘Mayor Taveras, we are just like your mother’
Renaissance Hotel room cleaner Auro Rodriguez says she once sat down across from Mayor Taveras and that he told her the story of his hard-working mother, who put him through school and college with her...
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Providence to Seattle: a roundup of municipal minimum wage proposals
As the Providence City Council considers implementing a $15 minimum wage ordinance for local hotel workers, it’s important to remember the Capital City would be by no means the first municipality to...
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Housekeeper Santa Brito: ‘House leadership is moving to jail us in poverty’
Santa Brito and child “House leadership is moving to jail us in poverty,” said Santa Brito, a housekeeper at the Renaissance Hotel. “We are hard working mothers and the backbone of the Providence...
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Taveras: prefers state-based minimum wage but open to hotel proposal
Providence Mayor Angel Taveras at Netroots Nation. (Photo by Bob Plain) Providence Mayor Angel Taveras “believes it is better to raise the wage at the state level but is open to the proposed ordinance...
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