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As expected, on Wednesday, the Senate approved Fast Track trade authority by a 60-38 vote. Separately, the House passed a bill extending Trade Adjustment Assistance for workers who lose their jobs because of trade; those bills were expected to get to the President's desk before Congress left town for its July 4 recess.

In the run-up to the U.S. Senate's vote this week on cloture for Fast Track authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, CWA activists and grassroots partners across the country rallied in the districts and outside the offices of Democratic Senators, some of whom turned their back on working families.

Today, House leadership used another gimmick to resurrect Fast Track.

In his last keynote address as CWA President, Larry Cohen told delegates that "we can't keep playing by their rules - the deck is stacked, the dice are loaded, the game is fixed." To change that stacked deck, "we need allies and deeper coalitions because the obstacles are that much tougher.

On Wednesday, Wikileaks released 17 secret documents from the ongoing Trade In Services Agreement (TISA) negotiations, which have been going on behind closed doors for the past two years.