UNITED KINGDOM · 2000
Bread and Roses
British Kitchen Sink
labor organizing
immigrant experience
workplace exploitation
union activism
undocumented workers
Synopsis
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
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