asian americans
APALA fights wage theft
July 29, 2011"It will take all of us to change things in corporate America," APALA President Luisa Blue said.
Read moreYouth spirit sparks Asian American labor meet
July 26, 2011APALA's largest convention ever celebrated outstanding achievements in the fight to stop wage theft and to uphold the rights of immigrant and low-wage workers, and looked ahead to the continuing struggle for good jobs and labor...
Read moreAsian Americans tackle job discrimination
May 31, 2011Job discrimination is on the rise for Asian Americans, one of the fastest-growing minority group in the U.S., and now number 15 million nationwide.
Read moreWorkers, supporters cheer cheating contractor’s downfall
May 27, 2011A huge wage-theft case against a San Francisco Bay Area contractor almost reached the finish line May 26. One last chapter must still be written.
Read more“Chinese Massacre” dramatizes little-known history
May 16, 2011Playwright Tom Jacobson takes a Howard Zinn-like "people's history" look at Los Angeles, revealing a little-known pogrom against L. A.'s then-200 inhabitants of Chinese ancestry.
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