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Making Every Vote Count: NY Legislature Passes National Popular Vote Bill; Verizon Wireless Retail Workers Fight for A Union Voice in Brooklyn; Building Our Movement; Activists Fight Back Online Against Big PhRMA Support for Fast Track?TPP; Bargaining Update; Political Action Update; CWA Keeps Virginia Relay Center Open; '9 Out of 10 Americans Are Completely Wrong About This Mind-Blowing Fact'; and more.

By overwhelming majorities in both chambers, the New York State Assembly and Senate adopted National Popular Vote legislation, a vote that moves the nation closer to adopting a popular vote standard for our presidential election. If the governor signs the bill, New York will become the 11th state/jurisdiction to adopt the measure.

An overwhelming majority of Verizon Wireless retail workers in Brooklyn have signed cards saying they want to join CWA.

Rallying Against Attacks on Workers? Rights, Supporting the Needy, Fighting For Better Banks.

An online love-fest organized by Big PhRMA to support fast track and the Trans-Pacific Partnership last Friday quickly became an online "no fast track-no TPP" rally, as CWA activists and allies took over the Twitter chat and expressed broad opposition to the trade deal.