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It was a lot more interesting at the Shareholders Meeting than it was at the Bargaining Table today.

Trojan Horse and Activists March Against "Fast Track," TPP; T-Mobile US Law Breaking to Become Focus of German Government Investigation; CWA, AFSCME Meet with the Congressional Black Caucus on "Fast Track," TPP; Building a Movement for People, the Planet and Fair Trade; Bargaining Update - AT&T Midwest, Legacy T; NewsGuild Members Shine at 2015 Pulitzer Prizes Announcement; and more.

CWA President Larry Cohen and leaders of ver.di, the union representing workers at T-Mobile's parent company, Deutsche Telekom, talked with German media about the unprecedented legal decision that found T-Mobile US guilty of nationwide labor law violations.

More than a thousand activists rallied and marched - pulling a 15-foot papier-mache Trojan horse - on Monday past the U.S. Chamber of Commerce down to the U.S. Trade Representative office building in a full-throated protest against the trade agenda that the nation's corporations are trying to ram through Congress.

CWA President Larry Cohen, AFSCME President Lee Saunders and CWA District 6 Vice President Claude Cummings, held a productive conversation with members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) on Wednesday about "fast track" and the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.