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CWA Vice President Responds to Tragedy in Ferguson, MO; Cohen Brings Message of Solidarity to Bakery Workers Union; Opposition to TPP Grows Among Republicans; CWA Remembers Joe Beirne, Our Founding President, Who Died on Labor Day 40 Years Ago; Flash Protest In Support of T-Mobile US Workers; Move Over Shark Week, It's Shirk Week; New York Times Reporter James Risen Wins the Guild's Freedom Award; Students' Stories on Homelessness Win 2014 Barr Awards; Bargaining Update; Nominate Young Women Workers for Berger Marks Award

CWA members live and work in every part of Missouri, including Ferguson. Our members will be there in the long struggle for social and economic justice and democracy.

CWA President Larry Cohen joined the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union at their 39th Constitutional Convention this week, addressing delegates on fighting to secure our standard of living.

Even as an overwhelming majority of the Democratic Caucus has left no doubt they staunchly oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal currently under negotiation, Congressional Republicans are also saying there are parts of the proposed deal that don't work for them, either.

Today, 40 years after CWA President Joe Beirne's death on Labor Day in 1974, we remember his lasting contribution to building CWA.