Finance and Budget Resources -- Finding and Showing the Money
CREATE A CAMPAIGN
Present the AFSCME Plan to Policy Makers and Taxpayers through Coalitions and the Media
EVALUATE THE SITUATION
Understanding the budget, including revenue and expenditure projections, is the first step in evaluating a jurisdiction’s claims of a budget deficit or budget “crisis.”
Create an Action Plan
- Identify additional revenue sources
- Review expenditures and spending priorities
- Question privatization contracts – identify work to bring back in-house
- Review workers' compensation costs – Improvements in workplace health and safety programs can reduce these costs
- Review public bonds and borrowing
- Protect health benefits and pensions from the budget ax
- Review alternatives to layoffs
- Develop bargaining strategies
- Identify new ways of working
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Target and challenge business tax breaks, low interest loans and other forms of corporate welfare