Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers’ union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its “justice for janitors” campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she’s also attracted to him

. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.

Title: Bread and Roses

Release Date: 2000

Genres: Drama

Directors: Loach, Ken

Actors:
• Padilla, Pilar as Maya
• Brody, Adrien as Sam Shapiro
• Carrillo, Elpidia as Rosa
• McGee, Jack as Bert
• Rivas, Monica as Simona
• Davila, Frankie as Luis
• Hurst, Lillian as Anna
• Payes, Mayron as Ben
• Orellana, Maria as Berta
• Garrett, Melody as Cynthia
• Jackman, Gigi as Dolores
• Reynolds, Beverly as Ella
• Méndez, Eloy as Juan
• Antonenko, Elena as Maria
• Gorelik, Olga as Olga

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