Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO

815 16th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20006
202-974-8051 phone
202-974-8056 fax
apala@apalanet.org email
http://www.apalanet.org website

Area of Inerest:
Organization - Labor union

Primary Ethnic Community Served:
Pan Asian

Description:
The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO, is the first and only national organization of Asian Pacific American union members.

It continues a tradition dating from the mid-1800s of workers fighting for justice in the sugar plantations of Hawaii, the factories of Alaska, and the railroad and agricultural camps of the western United States.

This struggle continues today, as Asian Pacific American workers, many of them immigrants, strive to achieve the American dream in the face of unsafe and exploitative workplace conditions.

Staff:
Gloria Caoile, AFSCME, Executive Director
Quynh T. N. Nguyen, UFCW, Organizing Director
Ana Stuart, Executive Assistant

Submitted by:
AIA Staff

New - 07/03/03