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Working people are angry. Wall Street and the big banks are devouring this country’s wealth – feasting on our jobs, our benefits and our pensions. We see it at the bargaining table, in bad trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, in attacks on workers’ rights and in the corrupt campaign finance system that ensures that only the voices of the billionaire class are heard in our democracy.

Over the past year, there were several CWA members who were killed on the job. CWA safety and health activists in every CWA district and sector “work to prevent such tragedies by eliminating or at least minimizing members’ exposure to hazardous working conditions and potentially related injuries, illnesses, and fatalities,” said CWA Occupational Safety and Health Director Dave LeGrande.

“We’ll lose hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs to the TPP; we can’t let that happen,” said President Shelton. “We can’t compete with countries where almost slavery is allowed.”

“As president, I will not sign this disastrous trade agreement if passed by Congress.” That’s the word from Senator Bernie Sanders, who says “trade has got to be fair. And the TPP is anything but fair.”

Activists warned members of Congress that voting to “Fast Track” the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would have consequences in election year 2016. Now, because of their votes, Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and Ami Bera (D-CA), for starters are feeling the sting of being denied endorsements this election cycle.