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  1. Bread and Roses is a 2000 film directed by Ken Loach, starring Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody and Elpidia Carrillo. The plot deals with the struggle of poorly paid janitorial workers in Los Angeles and their fight for better working conditions and the right to unionize. It is based on the "Justice for Janitors" campaign of the Service Employees ...

  2. Oct 25, 2000 · Bread and Roses: Directed by Ken Loach. With Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo, Jack McGee. Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.

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  3. Sep 14, 2000 · In Los Angeles, illegal Mexican immigrant Maya (Pilar Padilla) finds work as a janitor through her sister, Rosa (Elpidia Carrillo). However, since both work for a non-union company, conditions are ...

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  4. How to watch online, stream, rent or buy Bread and Roses (2000) in the UK + release dates, reviews and trailers. 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.

  5. Jun 1, 2001 · Ken Loach 's "Bread and Roses," a drama about a janitorial strike in Los Angeles, made me think. It suggests that the people who manage your building pay the janitors as little as they possibly can, and pass the savings on to your employers. Here is a statistic: In 1982, union janitors in Los Angeles were paid $8.50 an hour.

  6. Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize. 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 ...

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  8. Jun 6, 2012 · Bread and Roses can't be called one of Ken Loach's greatest works, but the fact is that virtually no other director would think of attempting a film about the plight of non-unionised janitors in Los Angeles. While this may not sound like a terrific inducement for popcorn junkies, the keen sense of moral responsibility informing the production makes most current cinema look fatuously self ...

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