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As part of a day of high-stakes lobbying of their members of Congress on Capitol Hill yesterday, CWA members attended a press conference where Congressional and labor leaders announced their opposition to Fast Track for labor deals, especially the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

The entire labor movement -- every AFL-CIO union plus the National Education Association, the Service Employees International Union, the Teamsters and the Carpenters -- have all signed a letter to the House and Senate making it clear that: "If you stand for higher wages, more jobs and greater opportunities for America's hard working families, you must oppose fast track."

In his Huffington Post column, CWA President Larry Cohen shows why Senator Elizabeth Warren is exactly right: TPP and the investor state provisions "tilt the playing field" in favor of multinational corporations.

Over 600 activists gathered at a town hall during the AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting in Atlanta to hear Robert Reich, the former Clinton Administration Labor Secretary and a strong supporter of NAFTA, talk about the evils of Fast Track and trade deals like TPP.

On Wednesday, Rick Engler, the director of the NJ Work and Environmental Center was sworn in for a five year term as a member of the Chemical Safety Board by Senators Booker and Menendez. Larry was the MC in the historic Senate Foreign Relations room of the Capitol. The Chemical Safety Board serves to protect the most dangerous work in our nation and the communities surrounded by those facilities.