CWA Local 1040 Hosts 40th Annual Convention

CWA President Claude Cummings Jr. joined CWA Local 1040 for their 40th Annual Convention earlier this month in Atlantic City, N.J. Hosted by CWA Local 1040 President Michele Long-Vickers, the event focused on resiliency and building a strong, unified local. CWA District 1 Vice President Dennis Trainor hosted the evening banquet.

Members of Local 1040 fill roles in several government agencies for the state of New Jersey and are also private sector group home workers, nurses and nursing home staff, bus drivers, crossing guards, and municipal contractors.

While at the convention, President Cummings met with Local 1040 members at the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority in Atlantic City, N.J., the Ancora Psychiatric Hospital in Hammonton, N.J., and the Vineland Memorial Home in Vineland, N.J.

 
CWA President Claude Cummings Jr. attended CWA Local 1040’s 40th Annual Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. CWA Local 1040 President Michele Long-Vickers (left of Claude) hosted the event. President Long-Vickers and CWA District 1 Vice President Dennis Trainor presented the award for Shop Steward of the Year (non-state) to Lashawn Peterson (center), a worker at the Children’s Home Society of N.J. 

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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.