National Asian Pacific American Workers' Rights Hearing
Overview
APALA is proud to convene the First National Asian Pacific American Workers' Rights Hearing and the first event focused on Asian Pacific American workers co-hosted by the new leadership of the AFL-CIO on Friday, November 13, 2009 from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm in Washington D.C.
Hear from Asian Pacific American workers about the challenges they face in exercising their right to organize - including employer abuse, immigrant exploitation, wage theft and union suppression - and strategies developed to continue the fight for worker solidarity and economic justice.
Panelists Include:
Organizational Co-Sponsors Include (in formation):
To RSVP, please contact Anna Stuart at 202-508-3733 or astuart@apalanet.org. To download the outreach flier, please click here.
APALA is proud to convene the First National Asian Pacific American Workers' Rights Hearing and the first event focused on Asian Pacific American workers co-hosted by the new leadership of the AFL-CIO on Friday, November 13, 2009 from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm in Washington D.C.
Hear from Asian Pacific American workers about the challenges they face in exercising their right to organize - including employer abuse, immigrant exploitation, wage theft and union suppression - and strategies developed to continue the fight for worker solidarity and economic justice.
Panelists Include:
- Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-32)
- Liz Shuler, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
- Mary Beth
Maxwell, Special Assistant to the Secretary of
Labor
- John Delloro, President, APALA
- Sarita Gupta, Executive Director, Jobs with Justice
- Kent Wong, Director,
UCLA Labor Center
- Larry Shinagawa,
Director, University of Maryland - Asian
American Studies Department
- Greg Cendana, President, United States Student Association
Organizational Co-Sponsors Include (in formation):
- Asian
American Action Fund (AAAF)
- Asian American Justice Center (AAJC)
- Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center (APALRC)
- Asian Pacific Americans for
Progress (APAP)
- Asian Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote)
- Coalition of Asian Pacific
Americans of Virginia
(CAPAVA)
- Hmong National Development
(HND)
- Japanese American Citizens
League (JACL)
- Jobs with Justice
- Kaya - Filipino Americans for
Progress
- Legal Aid Justice Center
- National Asian Pacific American
Bar Association (NAPABA)
- National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF)
- National Coalition of Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD)
- National Federation
of Filipino American Associations
(NaFFAA)
- National Korean American
Service & Education Consortium
(NAKASEC)
- OCA
- South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT)
- South East Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)
- United States Student Association (USSA)
- University of
Maryland, Asian American Studies
Department
To RSVP, please contact Anna Stuart at 202-508-3733 or astuart@apalanet.org. To download the outreach flier, please click here.