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36th International Convention Amendments and Resolutions

Amendments

Resolutions

    1. Building community and consumer support for AFSCME organizing campaigns
    2. PEOPLE training and education
    3. PEOPLE checkoff
    4. Making nursing homes safe for patients and for workers
    5. Privatization - Government for sale
    6. Winning first contracts
    7. Retaining veterans job services in the U.S. Department of Labor
    8. Supporting redistricting integrity
    9. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
    10. Electronic commerce and the state sales and use tax
    11. Creation of high quality manufacturing jobs
    12. Correctional officer and employee federal legislative agenda
    13. Support the "American Parity Act" to protect vital public services and invest in America
    14. Restore fundamental civil and employment rights
    15. Developing a union agenda for shaping change in government
    16. Civil service reform
    17. Management rights
    18. Employment security and the workforce system
    19. The nurse staffing crisis
    20. The crisis in public schools
    21. Overcoming barriers to women in organizing and leadership
    22. Goals of the PEOPLE program
    23. Fight the Bush assault on workplace safety
    24. Permanent partner immigration resolution
    25. Making best use of expanded voting options
    26. Opposing block grants
    27. Fully fund highway and transit programs
    28. Workforce Investment Act and job training
    29. Affordable prescription drugs
    30. Preserving worker access to the courts
    31. Raising contribution limits for political action committees
    32. Organizer training for AFSCME staff
    33. Building council and local organizing programs by increasing the involvement of members
    34. Take back state courts
    35. Child care is a need and a right
    36. Joint training and workforce development program
    37. Protecting the rights of federal employees
    38. Putting politics over science
    39. Equal rights for gay and lesbian citizens
    40. Feasibility study researching International's ability to administer membership healthcare services
    41. Direct care worker organizing
    42. Ensuring universal access to the ballot box
    43. Strengthening AFSCME and its affiliates' organizing efforts
    44. Commitment of AFSCME to organize court interpreters
    45. Preserving Section 8 housing vouchers
    46. Repeal sections of the USA Patriot Act
    47. Preserving and expanding Head Start
    48. Increasing representation on public pension plan investment boards
    49. Unemployment insurance benefits
    50. Organize to improve quality jobs: Revive civil rights unionism
    51. Crisis in Haiti
    52. Organizing pension power to fight corporate abuse and preserve secure retirements for members
    53. Increase funding for first responders
    54. Reparations
    55. Accountability of non-profit organizations that rely on public funds
    56. The health care crisis
    57. Preserving Social Security for future generations of workers
    58. Preserving retirement security
    59. Support for AFSCME Local 1224 and access to higher education for AFSCME members and their families
    60. Support the March for Our Lives
    61. Use 9/11 funds to build low-income housing, create jobs, and provide healthcare coverage for New Yorkers
    62. Global warming
    63. Oppose pre-emptive war
    64. Support the right to fully-funded, fully-empowered school boards
    65. Email communications
    66. Defend affirmative action; call for Ward Connerly to resign as University of California regent
    67. Preventing harassment
    68. Preserving the integrity of the judicial nominations process
    69. Opposing efforts to restrict political speech
    70. Oppose the Bush plan to strip overtime protections from workers
    71. Keep public service jobs at home
    72. Fully funding voter registration and mobilization programs
    73. Federal budget and tax policies
    74. Extending fiscal relief for burdened state and local governments
    75. AARP & Medicare
    76. A fair and balanced media in America
    77. 2004 council and local political action programs
    78. State legislative agenda for protecting public services
    79. Employee Free Choice Act
    80. Twenty-First Century Committee
    81. Opposing private prisons and budget cuts
    82. César E. Chavez National Holiday campaign
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