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The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) is rejecting criticism of CWA President Larry Cohen leveled by an unnamed "U.S. trade official."

There is good reason some have called the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal "NAFTA on steroids."

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) warned U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman that the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal will make it harder to stop shaky Wall Street dealings in the future, the kind that caused the economy to tank during the Great Recession in 2008.

January 2015 marks the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court's disastrous Citizens United decision. That ruling, along with the McCutcheon decision of 2014, opened the flood gates and now allows millions of dollars to be spent by just a handful of wealthy individuals to influence our elections.

In 40 years of making laws in the nation's capital - 10 in the U.S. House of Representatives and 30 in the U.S. Senate, Tom Harkin (D-IA) has fought to give the little guy "a leg up on the economic ladder of success," with some failures but many, many successes, including leading the fight for the Americans with Disabilities Act. Harkin, chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP), spoke movingly about what drove him all these years.