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34th International Convention Amendments and Resolutions

Amendments

• An amendment to authorize the International Union to delegate the authority to conduct audits of local unions to councils
  
• An amendment to require central collection of dues for seriously delinquent local unions and to authorize the International Union to require the establishment of cooperative dues trust accounts for subordinate bodies in appropriate cases
  
• An amendment to delay implementation of a reduction in the number of international vice presidents to be elected by a district under certain circumstances
  
• An amendment to modify the right of retiring incumbent officers to serve out their terms of office
  
• An amendment to update the parliamentary authority adopted by AFSCME
  
• An amendment to expand the Judicial Panel
  

Resolutions

1. Support for increased access to prescription drug coverage
2. Protecting the rights of disabled workers
4. Winning good contracts through member mobilization
5. Labor's vital interest in organizing union retirees
6. Organizing Head Start workers
7. Support for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues
8. Privatization of highways
9. Welfare reform
10. Increase federal housing and Community Development Block Grant funding
11. School vouchers
12. Paraprofessionals in the classroom
13. Building union power within industries
14. Universal health coverage
15. Drug and alcohol testing
16. Reducing medical errors
18. Administrators making decisions about medical coverage to the harm and detriment of patients
19. Creation of AFSCME veterans advisory committee
21. Employment security and the workforce system
22. Expanding communications capacities of AFSCME affiliates
23. Reducing needlestick injuries
25. Declining timber sales and county revenues
27. Hospital/medical insurance coverage
28. Initiation and reinstatement fees
32. PEOPLE training and education
34. Defending defined benefit pension plans
35. AFSCME International Scholarship for the National Labor College
36. Implementing quality services in government
37. Joint training and workforce development programs
40. Support for paid family leave
41. Leadership development
42. PEOPLE checkoff
43. Strengthening the public health safety net
44. AFSCME strategic plan for the future
45. An organizing model of labor education
46. Using health and safety to build the union
47. Charter schools
49. Non-physicians making medical determinations on claimants applying for Social Security disability
50. Cesar Chavez holiday
51. Quality care, quality jobs
52. Create 15 year incentive for PEOPLE Program 
54. Removing symbols of the Confederacy
56. Raising the minimum limits for filing the 990 and 990-EZ forms
57. Defending the human rights of the people of Vieques, Puerto Rico
58. Cancel the debt of developing countries
59. The battle for an OSHA ergonomics standard
60. Electronic commerce and the state sales and use tax
61. The crisis in our criminal justice system
62. Support for local treasurers
63. Member only benefits
64. Skyrocketing corporate executives' incomes
66. Support of immigrants and refugees to join a union
68. Truth in manufacturing
70. Privacy rights for public employees
72. Allow free exchange between trade unionists
74. Maintain Social Security benefits
75. Establish a national caucus for social service employees
78. Bargaining to organize
79. Support for AFSCME's organizing program
80. Organizing convention
81. Invest in America now
82. Enforcing state employees' rights
83. Coordinated effort to enhance the image of public service
84. Collective bargaining rights and public employees
85. Census 2000
86. The AFSCME privatization campaign
87. The 2000 elections
88. Support for the Campaign for Global Fairness
89. Opposing prison privatization
90. Goals of the PEOPLE program
91. Central collection of union dues
92. Support international conventions on women's rights

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