Resolutions & Amendments

28th International Convention - Los Angeles (1988)

Resolutions

  1. Employment services
  2. Quality care for abused and neglected children
  3. Career mobility
  4. Retiree health care coverage
  5. Private non-profit employees
  6. Organizing opportunities under immigration amnesty
  7. Corrections employees
  8. Drug testing in the workplace
  9. AIDS education
  10. National policy on employment
  11. Free universal education
  12. Health insurance for all workers
  13. Increase the minimum wage
  14. Medicaid ICF/MR reform
  15. Health care plan cost containment
  16. AIDS and insurance companies
  17. The importance of PEOPLE checkoff
  18. Sex equity in insurance
  19. Employee participation in eliminating stigma of mental disabilities
  20. The national housing crisis
  21. PEOPLE goal for 1990 elections
  22. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
  23. Social Security and the federal deficit
  24. PEOPLE Presidents Club/VIP
  25. Caseload standards for public services
  26. Medicare mandatory assignment for participating physicians
  27. Support for the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America (BSA/GSA)
  28. Pay equity
  29. Anti-substance abuse program
  30. A new policy for peace in Central America
  31. Union counselor training
  32. Election Day registration
  33. Asbestos in the workplace
  34. Sexual harassment
  35. National Clean Air Coalition
  36. Occupational health and safety
  37. School lunch/school breakfast program
  38. Support for the National Council of Senior Citizens
  39. Public general hospitals and uncompensated care
  40. Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  41. Election of AFSCME leadership to AFL-CIO state and local central body leadership positions
  42. Public employee OSHA plans
  43. Star Wars
  44. Indoor air pollution
  45. Justice in South Africa
  46. Child care
  47. Collective bargaining legislation
  48. Care of persons who are homeless and mentally ill
  49. Professional employees
  50. Develop training in video techniques and materials
  51. Internal organizing
  52. Unemployment compensation for school employees
  53. Support for the learning impaired
  54. Rights of the disabled and the chronically ill
  55. Support for the family
  56. "Business climate" vs. economic development
  57. Expanded training for stewards
  58. Federal aid to education
  59. Restoring the social safety net
  60. WIC program and legislation
  61. New technology in the public sector
  62. Save patient care technical bargaining unit at the University of California
  63. Eliminating patient violence in health care settings
  64. Membership communication
  65. Develop media training for AFSCME leadership
  66. Retiree health benefits
  67. Sick leave banks
  68. Union retirees and the AFL-CIO
  69. Parity for non-profit workers
  70. Shorter work week
  71. Infectious diseases
  72. Participation in AFL-CIO organizing cooperatives
  73. Organizing health care workers
  74. Oil spills and environmental protection
  75. State workers compensation programs
  76. PEOPLE committees
  77. Organizing in traditionally non-union states
  78. Contracting out correctional facilities
  79. Desert Protection Act
  80. University of California organizing drive — Organizing public and private colleges and universities
  81. Contract protections for gays and lesbians
  82. Lesbian and gay rights legislation
  83. Situation in Chile
  84. Israel and the Palestine problem
  85. Teenage suicide
  86. Equality training in our school systems
  87. Organizing Spanish-speaking workers
  88. Support for the Korean labor movement
  89. The Caribbean
  90. American labor history in public schools
  91. Minorities in AFSCME
  92. Recreation unit employees support for Local 901 Los Angeles city
  93. Government and the economy of the 1990s
  94. Preserving federal tax reform
  95. State and local tax reform
  96. State and local tax and spending limitations
  97. Welfare reform, not workfare
  98. Long-term care
  99. Health care for all Americans
  100. Ending segregation in the workplace
  101. Contracting out and privatization
  102. Family and medical leave
  103. Opposing taxation of state and local government and non-profit workers' benefits
  104. Recapture of out-of-state sales tax revenues
  105. Public Service International
  106. Advisory Committee on Young and New Workers
  107. Support for United Farm Workers
  108. Tribute to Michael Harrington
  109. White House Conference on Library and Information Services
  110. Private contractors
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1968 AFSCME Memphis Strike

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