On Monday, I met up with Super Asian American Lawyer Jennifer Lai, a former Union organizer, to ask her about the Employee Free Choice Act. Her responses are below:

[FTW: She was super nice! and is an amazing person, so please check this out!]

Hi Friends, The other day, I caught up with UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education Director Kent Wong to ask him a couple questions about the Employee Free Choice Act.  He was super nice and we conducted a quick Q/A over the phone.  I have it all transcribed and ready for your viewing and listening pleasure below.  (Except for my badly mangled photoshop attempt) [audio:http://www.apaforprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/kent-wong.mp3]

Quick reminder: The Employee Free Choice Act is the reason us Progressives were ready to fight the all-in good fight for this person below. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="150" caption="Secretary of Labor Solis!"][/caption] The Employee Free Choice Act was introduced in Congress today and members of the Corportocracy Elite are deathly upset.  This includes virtually all conservative members of Congress on both sides of the aisle. Bernard Marcus, former CEO of Home Depot, is so upset about the Employee Free Choice act that in a conference call with other Corportocracy Royalists called this legislation the "demise of civilization!"  Don't believe me?  I even have the audio below. Bernie Marcus claims the Employee Free Choice Act will be the demise of civilization as we know it

When I found out that Gary Locke was nominated to be Secretary of Commerce, I felt a weird sensation wash over me. With every APA blog post, every APIAA organization press release, and every APA podcast singing praises upon the Governor, my heart sunk. The reality is that I may be the only one in this small APA blogosphere who hesitates to happily welcome a third Asian American to President Obama's cabinet--I'm so torn. It's a dilemma because in truth, I am actually happy that Governor Locke may become the nation's second APA Secretary of Commerce. He was a solid Governor of the State of Washington and a committed social progressive. Governor Locke is also committed to his APA roots--from his 1997 speech to the AAJA:

"And we have to remember that America belongs to all of us - not just to those whose families have been here longest, or to those who have connections, or to those who never suffered the indignity of slavery, exclusion, or defeat."