29th International Convention - Miami (1990)

Resolutions

    1. AFSCME Housing Advisory Committee
    2. Organize non-profit community organizations and community development corporations
    3. Raiding enforcement bargaining units
    4. Peace dividend
    5. Employee assistance programs
    6. Voter registration
    7. Prison overcrowding
    8. Solid waste crisis
    9. Medicaid ICF/MR reform
    10. National employment and training policy
    11. International worker rights
    12. Hospital mergers and consolidations
    13. Child care workers
    14. Labor law reform
    15. Occupational safety and health
    16. PEOPLE Presidents Club/VIP
    17. Recapture of out-of-state sales tax revenues on catalog sales
    18. Sexual harassment
    19. Membership communication
    20. Mandatory Medicare assignment for physicians
    21. AFSCME and the environment
    22. Pay equity
    23. The importance of PEOPLE checkoff
    24. Preventing decertification
    25. PEOPLE committees
    26. Needs of the changing workforce
    27. Reasonable caseloads
    28. Internal organizing
    29. Parity for non-profit workers
    30. Substance abuse
    31. State and local tax and spending limitations
    32. Drug testing
    33. Contracting out
    34. AFSCME in the community
    35. Caregivers for the aging
    36. Family and medical leave
    37. Collective bargaining legislation
    38. Absentee ballot program
    39. American labor history in public schools
    40. Benefits for the changing family
    41. Support for the Americans with Disabilities Act
    42. 1991 reapportionment
    43. Support for the Civil Rights Act of 1990
    44. Right-to-Know laws
    45. Asbestos
    46. Contracting out correctional facilities
    47. Coalition building
    48. Federal prosecution of hate crimes
    49. Recreation a vital community service
    50. Freedom of choice
    51. Equal opportunity for advancement of women in the military
    52. PEOPLE candidate support for family issues platform
    53. Public access to government information in electronic format
    54. Organizing the unorganized
    55. PEOPLE goal for 1992 elections
    56. Long-term care
    57. Welfare reform, not workfare
    58. Jobs With Justice coalition
    59. Solidarity in the labor movement
    60. Tribute to Jerry Clark
    61. Government and the economy of the 1990s
    62. Organizing and the future of the labor movement
    63. Child care
    64. Preserving federal tax reform
    65. "Business climate" vs. economic development
    66. State and local tax reform
    67. Social Security, the federal deficit and tax equity
    68. Negotiations on health care
    69. National health care
    70. Replacement workers
    71. Pension investment
    72. Convention scheduling
    73. Tribute to John Dowling
    74. South Africa
    75. Visit of Nelson Mandela
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    Sen. Barack Obama

    Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) addressed AFSCME's 38th International Convention on Thursday, July 31, 2008.