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Members-Don't Forget!
The September General Membership Meeting is
Tuesday, September 26
441 4th St. NW (Old Council Chamber, 1st Floor)
6:30 Metro Red Line, Judiciary Square
To welcome back members from summer break, the 2401 Executive Board is sponsoring a CASH Giveaway!
1st Prize-$300 Visa Gift Card!
2nd Prize-$150 Visa Gift Card!
3rd Prize-$50 Visa Gift Card!
You must be present to win
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Stewards
The Shop Stewards retreat scheduled for the 23rd has been postponed. Please watch your email for a new date for this mandatory retreat, or check for updates at afscme2401.org
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AFSCME Local 2401 proudly adds its name to the long and growing list of endorsers for the People's Congress of Resistance (PCOR). This two day event, September 16-17 at Howard University, will bring together workers, grassroots activists, and revolutionaries from around the country to plan a new path for the working class, a plan that rejects and resists the Trump agenda and the U.S. Congress' continuous support for corporate power, racism, sexism and war. The Local 2401 Executive Board voted unanimously to endorse PCOR and encourages members to attend or support this historic effort to TAKE BACK power from the rich politicians who work against the interests of all U.S workers.
Click here for information on endorsers, feaured speakers, and updates
Click here to read the PCOR Manifesto, "Society for the Many"
Click here to add your name to the list of endorsers for the People's Congress of Resistance
Click here to register to attend or to donate so that our brothers and sisters from around the country can attend
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Members:
Click here for DPM information on Reductions in Force (RIF) involving District employees - see Chapter 24.
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Congratulations to the winners of Local 2401 election for Officers, Executive Board, and Trustees!
President: Wayne Enoch
Vice President: Paula Akinleye
Secretary Treasurer: Dionne Duren
Recording Secretary: Roger Scott
Executive Board
Sabrina Brown
Lashawna Lynch
Helen Shamwell
Trustees
Vernescher Brown
Moses Smith
Carolyn Roberts
Click here for a complete election report with vote counts for all the nominees
(requires member login)
Make sure you congratulate the winners!
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Members: Please get familiar with the District's Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with AFSCME Council 20 regarding the DPM Chapter 4 "Suitability Screenings". We must fight this intrusive violation of our rights!
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AFSCME Local 2401 election for officers:
DATE: June 30, 2017
LOCATION: Homewood Suites, 50 M St. SE
(Green Line Metro, Navy Yard/Ballpark)
TIME: Nominations at 11:30 am.
Voting will begin as soon as the nomination process ends and will be open until 6:30 PM.
Cast your ballots for:
President, Vice President, Secretary Treasurer, Recording Secretary, Executive Board, and Trustees.
Don't forget to bring your DC Government ID
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AFSCME Local 2401 President Sabrina Brown stopped by to give her support to protesters staging an all-day, all-night rally to protest the opening of the new Trump hotel on Pennsylvania Ave. The building, which used to be the federal offices for the United States Postal Service, was virtually handed over to Trump to develop and exploit for profits. In a sweetheart deal from federal and DC politicians, Trump was awarded a 60-year lease with an option for another 40 years after that.
The gentrification of DC continues, as residents struggle to find and keep affordable housing, yet the working class of this city are ignored. Right on Pennsylvania Avenue, "America's Main Street", yet another luxury for the rich and powerful makes it clear that the working class are less and less welcome in the U.S. capital. Unions are urging members to boycott the hotel and it's restaurants but, at rooms starting at around $1000 a night and inauguration day suites going for $500,000, patronizing this hotel probably won't be an issue for most of us!
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On Monday, September 12, Donald Trump will be opening his new luxury hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. The people will be there to protest and reject his non-stop bigotry and scapegoating, and to say “Donald Trump: You and your hotel are are not welcome in Washington, D.C., and on Pennsylvania Avenue!”
From the very beginning of his campaign, Trump has served as a lightning rod for bigotry against Mexicans, Muslims, the Black community, immigrants, refugees, women and people with disabilities. He has scapegoated the most vulnerable communities for the declining social and economic conditions facing working people in the United States and portrayed himself as some strongman billionaire savior for those who have been left behind. But just yesterday he gave a speech that showed he is just another servant of Wall Street, unveiling his economic agenda to reduce taxes and regulations for the Fortune 500 corporations.
Trump’s inflammatory language has won him the endorsement of former KKK leader David Duke, and led to a surge in far-right rhetoric and violence in different parts of the country — including at his own rallies. He has stripped the press credentials of reporters who criticize him. His security team has physically assaulted protesters standing in public spaces. He repeatedly pledged to legally defend anyone who attacked anti-Trump protesters, recalling the “old days” when “they would be carried out on a stretcher.”
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has filed two lawsuits regarding the “deals” reached by federal and District of Columbia officials with the Trump Organization that appear to have given Trump a “buffer zone” from protest around his hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, one of the country's most historically significant sites for free speech and public assembly — America’s “Main Street” and a vital space for free speech.
His new luxury hotel is set to open on Monday, September 12, after years of construction in the historic Old Post Office, a federal building on Pennsylvania Avenue. The hotel, which is offering $500,000 suite packages for the Presidential Inauguration in January, has already become an eyesore with its obscene, enormous “TRUMP” sign out front.
While Trump's campaign is based on division, his bigotry is also uniting many different communities — against him — and leading to a resurgence in protest activist. We will continue to protest him wherever and whenever he speaks.
Let’s stand together to defend Black Lives Matter!
Let's stand together with Mexican and immigrant workers, and all refugees!
Let's stand together with our Muslim and Arab American neighbors!
Let's stand together for women’s and LGBTQ rights!
Stop the scapegoating — the people united will never be defeated!
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72Days-Invite (3) (1).pdf
