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About 10,000 CWAers and allies joined the kickoff of CWA’s national campaign, Take on Wall Street. On a telephone town hall call in February, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and CWA President Chris Shelton talked about how we will stop Wall Street abuses and the “too big to fail” banks.

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.”