Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
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The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) is a
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a number of AFL–CIO affiliates became concerned with
The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance was founded on May 1, 1992, when 500 Asian-Pacific American labor activists met to found a new national labor organization to give Asian and Pacific Islander workers a more effective voice within the AFL–CIO and on labor issues nationally. APALA's first president was Kent Wong. Its first executive director was Matthew Finucane. Katie Quan chaired the founding convention.
APALA is the official voice of the 500,000 Asian and Pacific Islander labor union members in the AFL–CIO, and has 13 chapters in the U.S. APALA has been credited with shifting the AFL–CIO toward more actively organizing Asian Pacific workers. It has a biennial membership convention, which meets in even-numbered years.
APALA has two main goals. First, it works with the AFL–CIO Organizing Institute to train Asian and Pacific Islander workers in organizing techniques, and assists member unions of the AFL–CIO in organizing these workers of similar ethnic and racial background. APALA also works to build awareness of the labor movement among Asian-Pacific American workers. Second, APALA works to build awareness of and address exploitative conditions in industries with large numbers of Asian-Pacific American workers, such as the garment, electronics, hotel and restaurant, food processing, and health care industries.
Most recently, APALA has been working with the
APALA is also active in voter registration, education and mobilization, and is active in federal and state legislative efforts on immigration reform and the access of immigrants (legal and illegal) to social services.
APALA's president is Ligaya Domingo, Racial Justice and Education Director for SEIU Healthcare 1199NW. Executive director Gloria Caoile stepped down in March 2008. Malcolm Amado Uno, APALA's Deputy Director since August 2007,[2] was tapped to replace her. Uno was previously the National Organizing Director of Asian Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote) and Policy and Outreach Coordinator for Preschool California.[3] The current executive director is Sandra Engle.
APALA is a member of the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans.[4]
Notes
- ISBN 9781452281896.
- ^ "Labor on the Move." Union City News. August 20, 2007. Archived July 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Labor on the Move: Uno New APALA Executive Director." Union City News. March 21, 2008.
- ^ "Coalition Members". National Council of Asian Pacific Americans. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
References
- ISBN 0-85345-937-1
- Ejera, Bert. "Organized Labor Wants You: After Decades of Overt Exclusion, Big Labor Opens Its Doors to Asian Americans." AsianWeek August 30, 1996.
- Hing, Alex. "Organizing Asian Pacific American Workers in the AFL-CIO: New Opportunities." Amerasia Journal. 18:1 (1992).
- HoSang, Daniel. "Union Activists Launch APALA." Third Force. 2:1 (March 1994).
- Lee, Pam. "Asian Workers in U.S.: A Challenge to Labor." Labor Notes July 1993.
- Lee, Pam Tau. "Asian Workers in the U.S.: A Challenge for Labor." Amerasia Journal. 18:1 (1992).
- Li, David K. "Asian-American Labor Caucus Organized; Some Activists Fear Domination by AFL-CIO Leadership." Labor Notes. July 1992.
- ISBN 0-8014-3874-8
- Mogado, Linelle. "From the Bottom Up: The New Asian Pacific Islander Labor Activism." ColorLines Summer 1999.
- Nishijima, Dan. "The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance." CrossRoads. September 1992.
- Smucker, Sam. "Training Union Organizers in the Middle of a Fight: The AFL-CIO’s Organizing Institute." Labor Notes. November 2002.
- Wong, Kent. "Building An Asian Pacific Labor Movement." In Legacy to Liberation: Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America. Fred Ho, ed. Oakland, Calif.: AK Press, 2000. ISBN 1-902593-24-3
- Wong, Kent. "Building Unions in Asian Pacific Communities." Amerasia Journal. 18:1 (1992).
- Wong, Kent; Monroe, Julie; and Yasuda, Kathleen, eds. Voices for Justice: Asian Pacific American Organizers and the New Labor Movement. Los Angeles: Center for Labor Research & Education, University of California, Los Angeles, 2001. ISBN 0-89215-190-0
- ISBN 978-0-472-09913-9
- Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance Endorses Congressman Keith Ellison for DNC Chair
- Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance Responds to Tragic Shooting in Olathe, Kansas
- Fil-Am is US trade unions’ highest-ranking Asian official
External links
- APALA Web site
- National Council of Asian Pacific Americans
- Voices of Asian Pacific American Labor in Los Angeles (includes profiles of many APALA leaders)