Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, Seattle Chapter (APALA)

APALA is a national organization of Asian Pacific American union members. It organizes and works with Asian Pacific American workers, many of them immigrants, to build the labor movement and address exploitative conditions in the garment, electronics, hotel and restaurant, food processing, and health care industries. Backed by the AFL-CIO, APALA has thirteen chapters and a national office in Washington, D.C., and provides information on organizing in local areas.