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Across the country, CWA activists joined with Sierra Club, Green Peace, Food and Water Watch, Common Cause and dozens of other allies in an unprecedented ten days of action aimed at stopping "fast track" legislation for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other trade agreements.

No question about it, minimum wage workers need a raise.

Naomi Bolden, Vice President of CWA Local 2204, tells Democratic Senators that the economy isn?t working for working families.

When ordinary Americans learn more about ?fast track? authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, they recognize it as a bad deal for workers? jobs and wages, small business, food safety and the environment. This trade deal has been negotiated in secret for nearly four years. Now, as the multinational corporations and trade negotiators are closing in on the final round, they?re pushing for ?fast track? authority, which would block Congress from amending or improving the deal in any way. The House and Senate would be limited to an up-or-down vote on the entire package.

The global economy doesn?t have to mean stagnant real wages, no bargaining rights and no voice on the job. In fact, in most other democracies, collective bargaining rights are expanding.