Salt of the Earth

The issues the miners strike for include equity in wages with Anglo workers, and health and safety issues. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but at home he treats his wife, Esperanza Quintero, as a second class citizen. Esperanza, who is pregnant with their third child, is usually passive, but she changes her attitude when the men are forced to end their picketing by a Taft-Hartley Act injuction.Salt of the Earth featuring Rosaura Revueltas and Juan Chacón is streaming with subscription on Prime Video, streaming via tv everywhere with EPIX, free on SnagFilms, and 3 others. It's a drama and history movie with a very high Rotten Tomatoes (critics) score of 100% and a better than average IMDb audience rating of 7.4 (2,694 votes).