Resolutions & Amendments

32nd International Convention - Chicago (1996)

Resolutions

  1. AFSCME and the Internet
  2. Negotiating managed health care plans
  3. Pay equity
  4. Professional employees
  5. Getting AFSCME involved in talk radio
  6. Increase federal housing and Community Development Block Grant funding
  7. PEOPLE committees
  8. Voter registration
  9. Collective bargaining legislation
  10. Redesigning government, high performance-high quality workplaces
  11. Understaffing, overcrowding and violence in prisons and jails
  12. President's Club incentive program
  13. Preserving the nation's safety net
  14. Community action
  15. Quality and corporatization of health care
  16. Health security for all Americans
  17. Fighting contracting out and privatization
  18. Privatization of prisons
  19. Social Security cost-of-living adjustments
  20. Ergonomics
  21. The contingent workforce
  22. Organizing group homes
  23. Sweatshops
  24. Gangs in prisons and jails
  25. Stress management
  26. Community support for collective bargaining
  27. The environment and AFSCME
  28. Sale of body armor
  29. "Cop killer" bullets
  30. Fireman's Rule
  31. Protecting the environment and the jobs of AFSCME's environmental wrokers
  32. Private security
  33. Execution of resolutions
  34. Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights
  35. Affirmative action under attack by the 104th Congress
  36. Hazardous materials transportation
  37. Counseling for disabled police officers
  38. Clarification of the tax treatment of certain disability benefits received by former Connecticut law enforcement officers and firefighters
  39. Supporting America's working families
  40. United Way
  41. Reaffirming AFSCME's commitment to members with disabilities
  42. Retirees: A resource for AFSCME political action
  43. PEOPLE goal for 1998 elections
  44. Flow control of municipal solid waste
  45. Support for the Martinez-McDermott jobs bill - H.R. 1591
  46. Protecting workplace health and safety
  47. PEOPLE checkoff and electronic funds transfer (EFTS)
  48. Organizing school support employees
  49. AFSCME Advantage
  50. Workplace violence
  51. Tuberculosis
  52. Steward recognition
  53. Privatizing public hospitals
  54. Violence against women
  55. Using strategic planning to build a strong union
  56. Advisory Council on Social Security
  57. Childcare
  58. Providing greater educational opportunities for all Americans
  59. Fight the Oregon right-to-work ballot measure
  60. Halt federal funds for labor lawbreakers
  61. Increase minimum wage
  62. Protecting the rights of health care and child care workers
  63. Civil rights for gay men and lesbians
  64. Budget autonomy for the District of Columbia
  65. AIDS resolution
  66. The Million Man March
  67. Juvenile Rehabilitation Workers
  68. AFSCME, the media and working women and men
  69. Supporting public infrastructure investment
  70. Protecting pension assets and increasing portability
  71. Defending Medicare/Medicaid
  72. The new voice for the AFL-CIO
  73. Volunteer organizing committees
  74. Corporate welfare and job security
  75. America needs a raise and a living wage
  76. Prison labor
  77. Confronting "workfare"
  78. Fighting tax cuts for the wealthy
  79. United Farm Workers
  80. In support of striking workers at Detroit newspapers
  81. Arson attacks on black churches
  82. Support for "Project Open Mind"
  83. Members only benefit
  84. Labor solidarity
  85. Investing in stocks of worker-friendly companies
  86. Task force for AFSCME's future

Special Resolutions

Convention Materials

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1968 AFSCME Memphis Strike

Author Michael Honey's video about MLK's last campaign.