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34th International Convention Resolutions

Resolutions

    1. Support for increased access to prescription drug coverage
    2. Protecting the rights of disabled workers
    3. Winning good contracts through member mobilization
    4. Labor's vital interest in organizing union retirees
    5. Organizing Head Start workers
    6. Support for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues
    7. Privatization of highways
    8. Welfare reform
    9. Increase federal housing and Community Development Block Grant funding
    10. School vouchers
    11. Paraprofessionals in the classroom
    12. Building union power within industries
    13. Universal health coverage
    14. Drug and alcohol testing
    15. Reducing medical errors
    16. Administrators making decisions about medical coverage to the harm and detriment of patients
    17. Creation of AFSCME veterans advisory committee
    18. Employment security and the workforce system
    19. Expanding communications capacities of AFSCME affiliates
    20. Reducing needlestick injuries
    21. Declining timber sales and county revenues
    22. Hospital/medical insurance coverage
    23. Initiation and reinstatement fees
    24. PEOPLE training and education
    25. Defending defined benefit pension plans
    26. Implementing quality services in government
    27. Joint training and workforce development programs
    28. Support for paid family leave
    29. Leadership development
    30. PEOPLE checkoff
    31. Strengthening the public health safety net
    32. AFSCME strategic plan for the future
    33. An organizing model of labor education
    34. Using health and safety to build the union
    35. Charter schools
    36. Non-physicians making medical determinations on claimants applying for Social Security disability
    37. Cesar Chavez holiday
    38. Quality care, quality jobs
    39. Removing symbols of the Confederacy
    40. Raising the minimum limits for filing the 990 and 990-EZ forms
    41. Defending the human rights of the people of Vieques, Puerto Rico
    42. Cancel the debt of developing countries
    43. The battle for an OSHA ergonomics standard
    44. Electronic commerce and the state sales and use tax
    45. The crisis in our criminal justice system
    46. Support for local treasurers
    47. Member only benefits
    48. Skyrocketing corporate executives' incomes
    49. Support of immigrants and refugees to join a union
    50. Truth in manufacturing
    51. Privacy rights for public employees
    52. Allow free exchange between trade unionists
    53. Maintain Social Security benefits
    54. Establish a national caucus for social service employees
    55. Bargaining to organize
    56. Support for AFSCME's organizing program
    57. Organizing convention
    58. Invest in America now
    59. Enforcing state employees' rights
    60. Coordinated effort to enhance the image of public service
    61. Collective bargaining rights and public employees
    62. Census 2000
    63. The AFSCME privatization campaign
    64. The 2000 elections
    65. Support for the Campaign for Global Fairness
    66. Opposing prison privatization
    67. Goals of the PEOPLE program
    68. Central collection of union dues
    69. Support international conventions on women's rights
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