News

For New Jersey state workers and for people with developmentally disabled family members, the election of a new governor has made a world of difference.

Victories Elsewhere:

• The Patriot Ledger Newsroom Associates voted 45-2 to affiliate their formerly independent union with The Newspaper Guild-CWA, reported Eric Geist, administrative assistant to TNG-CWA President Linda Foley.

CWA started the new year by welcoming more than 2,000 new members, with the largest gains coming at Cingular Wireless in Districts 1 and 3, Advanced Solutions Inc. in District 4, and AT&T Broadband in Districts 6 and 13.

Cingular Achievement

Teddy Roosevelt: The People’s President

As a little boy, Teddy Roosevelt was a sickly and frail child. No one expected that he would grow up to be a strong, energetic man who would become one of America’s most popular presidents.

Albert Stanley Bowles, a CWA veteran whose union career began more than 50 years ago, died Jan. 3 in an Austin, Texas, hospital after suffering complications from heart surgery. He was 79.