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30th International Convention - Las Vegas (1992)

Resolutions

    1. Supporting the Phillips-Van Heusen campaign
    2. Civil rights caps on damages
    3. Drug and alcohol testing
    4. Women's health needs
    5. Prison labor programs
    6. Unemployment compensation for non-instructional school employees
    7. PEOPLE checkoff and electronic funds transfer (EFTS)
    8. Protecting nurse aides from abuse and neglect charges
    9. AFSCME Training-the-trainers programs
    10. Motor voter registration
    11. Transportation policy
    12. Protecting retirement systems
    13. Municipal bankruptcy
    14. Correctional employees' health and safety
    15. Occupational Safety and Health Act reform
    16. The contingent workforce
    17. Performance testing
    18. New challenges related to the Fair Labor Standards Act
    19. Restructuring jobs in the health care industry
    20. Term limits and voter rights
    21. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
    22. Workplace Fairness Act
    23. PEOPLE Presidents Club/VIP
    24. Eldercare
    25. 1992 voter frustration
    26. Participation in tax coalitions
    27. Family support system
    28. Women in AFSCME
    29. Local/council education committees
    30. Full funding for state job service center services
    31. PEOPLE goal for 1994 elections
    32. Wellness programs
    33. Local and council environmental initiatives
    34. Occupational health and safety
    35. Sexual harassment
    36. Social Security government pension offset
    37. PEOPLE committees
    38. Latch key children
    39. Child welfare services
    40. Contracting out
    41. Elimination of the Electoral College
    42. Health insurance buy-back plans
    43. Election day registration
    44. Overcrowding in prisons
    45. Employee assistance programs
    46. Taking Social Security Administration off-budget
    47. Consumer protection
    48. Fighting for the rights of AFSCME members with disabilities
    49. SSI modernization
    50. Tuberculosis
    51. Domestic violence
    52. Assaults by inmates against corrections employees
    53. Negotiating adequate health care
    54. No more Willie Hortons
    55. Election day voting holiday
    56. Collective bargaining legislation
    57. Workplace discrimination and the impact on retired women
    58. An end to Bush-league governing
    59. Substance abuse
    60. District of Columbia statehood
    61. Worthy Wage Day
    62. Hunger
    63. Affordable housing
    64. Eliminating racism
    65. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
    66. North American Free Trade Agreement
    67. National Labor Relations Board
    68. Middle East peace talks
    69. Right-to-work laws
    70. Abolish the "IMD rule"
    71. Work toward the appointment of para-professionals on the boards of national health care accrediting bodies
    72. Domestic partner benefits
    73. Labor History Week
    74. National monument honoring black Americans in the American Revolution
    75. Privatization of federal libraries and document depositories
    76. Public library appropriations
    77. Support of free speech for reporters
    78. Parity for non-profit workers
    79. The use of pesticides in South America
    80. Day care services by employers
    81. Recycling
    82. Organizing the unorganized
    83. Tribute to retiring members of the International Executive Board
    84. Code of conduct for investors in a democratic South Africa
    85. National health insurance
    86. Government and the economy in the 1990s
    87. Increased federal aid for state and local governments
    88. Using the peace dividend to rebuild America
    89. Resolving the urban crisis
    90. Opposition to a Constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget
    91. AFSCME and the environment
    92. Restructuring and delivering quality services
    93. Peace in the Balkans
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