Low-paid squeezed between home and the faraway city
Sunanda Creagh; 1/5/08
It’s sometimes as late as 10pm by the time Ana Zueieta slips off the gloves and finishes her shift as a cleaner at an inner-city hotel, but her working day is far from over. Her workplace is a 1½-hour train trip from home, a commute that eats 15 hours out of her week and $45 from her $490 weekly pay packet. “It is a dream for me to live close to work but I live at Quakers Hill because the house is cheap and I can’t afford to live in the city,” she said yesterday.