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27th International Convention - Chicago (1986)

Resolutions

    1. Financing the union
    2. Drug testing in the workplace
    3. Need for labor in school curricula
    4. AFL-CIO presidential endorsement process
    5. Community action committees
    6. Pay equity
    7. Regional women's conferences
    8. Child care
    9. Buy American (Union made)
    10. Comprehensive test ban treaty
    11. Equal Rights Amendment
    12. Unemployment insurance
    13. Grove City
    14. Local union training instructor program
    15. Strip searches
    16. Economic priorities and growth
    17. Internal organizing
    18. Public general hospitals
    19. Women in AFSCME
    20. Organizing the unorganized
    21. 1986 PEOPLE goal reminder
    22. Federal funding for education
    23. Affiliations
    24. Unemployment compensation and school employees
    25. Political education
    26. Training programs for AFSCME rank-and-file
    27. Pension and health benefits for retirees
    28. Participation on college and university labor advisory boards
    29. Pre-retirement planning and counseling
    30. Work incentive (WIN) program
    31. Workfare, welfare, and job opportunities
    32. Violence and correctional employees
    33. Support of corrections employees
    34. Staff development
    35. Preserving the deductibility of state and local taxes
    36. Support to PSI-affiliated unions
    37. Sewage treatment plant workers
    38. Benefits for members only
    39. Organizing and the media
    40. Career development
    41. PEOPLE goal for the 1988 elections
    42. Voluntary PEOPLE checkoff
    43. Contracting out correctional facilities
    44. State workers compensation programs
    45. Affirmative action
    46. For peace in Central America
    47. Self-congratulations
    48. Age discrimination
    49. Federal funding of public services
    50. Smoking policy
    51. Establishment of PEOPLE fund raising program
    52. Nursing homes
    53. Funding of social services
    54. PEOPLE Presidents Club/VIP
    55. Radio/TV advertisement
    56. Organizing school employees
    57. Voter registration
    58. Collective bargaining legislation
    59. Defense spending
    60. Nuclear power
    61. Common-sense budget priorities
    62. End the reign of terror in South Africa
    63. Health care cost containment
    64. Organizing women
    65. Occupational health and safety
    66. Rights of the disabled
    67. PEOPLE committees
    68. Sexual harassment
    69. Prohibiting discrimination by federal contractors
    70. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
    71. Lesbian and gay rights legislation
    72. Contract protections for gays and lesbians
    73. Membership communication
    74. Support for the states' use of the unitary method of taxation
    75. Parental leave
    76. AFL-CIO boycotts
    77. Federal tax reform
    78. State and local tax reform
    79. State and local tax and spending limitations
    80. Mental health and mental retardation services
    81. The homeless
    82. Value-added tax/consumption taxes
    83. Balanced budget amendment and constitutional convention
    84. Gramm-Rudman-Hollings
    85. Subminimum wage for youth
    86. Public pension plan reform
    87. Professional employees
    88. Restore democracy in Chile
    89. Human and trade union rights
    90. Support Hormel workers
    91. Olof Palme
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