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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

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