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With a focus on good jobs, fair taxes and other policies to rebuild America's middle class, CWA and other unions are helping the Occupy Wall Street movement grow, from Boston to Austin and cities up and down the West Coast.

An overflow crowd of teachers, firefighters, police officers and union activists, including CWAers, joined Vice President Joe Biden for a rally inside the Russell Senate Building on Wednesday to call for passage of the Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act (S. 1723).

Ohio union activists campaigning tirelessly to repeal the state law stripping collective bargaining rights from public workers got a new volunteer last week when CWA President Larry Cohen turned out for an AFL-CIO precinct walk in Columbus.

Following House passage of the Colombia Free Trade Agreement on Wednesday night, CWA expressed deep disappointment that Congress choose to ignore the country's gross abuses of workers' rights and the deadly violence against people who fight for unionization.

After voting the wrong way on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, the House of Representatives did the right thing by joining the Senate in extending trade adjustment assistance to workers hurt by foreign trade.