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CWA District 6 Vice President Claude Cummings and former CWA President Larry Cohen joined NAACP President Cornell Brooks and the Rev. William Barber at a huge National Voting Rights rally today in North Carolina, the latest leg in the history-making America's Journey for Justice to Washington, D.C. as part of efforts to persuade the nation's leaders to adopt policies that protect lives, jobs and the right to vote.

At a meeting with Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellin, CWA President Chris Shelton and a delegation of AFL-CIO leaders said working families were not sharing in the economic recovery and profits of employers, and that good jobs continued to be at risk.

In an op-ed, CWA President Chris Shelton talked about how the partnership between the labor movement and the civil rights movements is how we will gain economic and social justice.

In comments to the FCC this week, CWA called for specific measures to modernize and expand the Lifeline program to make broadband service more affordable and accessible to lower-income families.

Next Gen activists are expanding on the six student debt clinics they've already organized this month, and are fighting to get big money out of politics.