Sarah Gonzalez
speaker
1,669 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 4d ago
Sarah Gonzalez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
No, I said no.
A button-up shirt?
Oh, the worst.
The buttons, the buttons take a while.
You have to trim all the loose thread.
You don't make much money when there's buttons involved.
Leftover button thread just really slows you down.
You get paid by the quantity you produce, right?
The number of garments you get through.
And the pay?
Well, when Maria started out as a trimmer in 1994...
The pay was... Three cents to five cents.
Three to five cents per piece.
That's the pay she started at.
Maria would do a hundred pieces a day, make five dollars, and she'd walk out happy, she says, feeling great about her five dollars a day.
Today?
Today Maria makes 15 to 16 cents per piece.
That can be okay pay if she gets a nice, easy sports bra.
But if she gets, I don't know, a jacket, a jacket with buttons, working as fast as you possibly can, sometimes you do not get close to making minimum wage.
Many times in her career, Maria has taken bundles of garments home, stayed up till 2, 3 in the morning, just trimming, trimming, trimming more and more pieces, trying to earn enough money to pay her bills.
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