Bread and Roses

2000 · ⭐ 6.2 · Votes: 90

“The Balance of Power Is About to Change”

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.