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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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