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Bread and Roses Bread and Roses tells the story of a Mexican woman named Maya who moves to Los Angles to live with her sister named Rosa. She convinces her sister to get her a job at Angel cleaning services in downtown Los Angles as a janitor. Maya meets a union organizer named Sam, she ends up for falling for him. They organize events to embarrass top executives of the Angels cleaning services. They organize a strike called Justice for Janitors. They go on strike for better wages and better working conditions. But in the end of the movie Maya is deported back to Mexico with other illegal immigrants who were on strike. Bread and Roses was based on a real life Justice for Janitors campaign in Los Angles in the 1990s.Union workers were making more money and had health benefits. Whereas non-union workers made less and had no health insurance, or other benefits. The movies does not tell a different story, it shows one the inequities of those who worked in the city’s offices and those who cleaned them. The people build up a strike but it is stopped, and many of the illegal immigrants are sent back to their country’s. The roles of racial politics are depicted in the movie, through Maya illegally moving into the United States. I