33rd International Convention – Honolulu, HI (1998)

Resolutions

  • 1. Electricity Deregulation

  • 2. Civil Rights

  • 3. Inmate Labor

  • 4. Strategic Assistance and Input for AFSCME Communicators

  • 5. PEOPLE Training and Education

  • 6. Support for Model Public Employee Retirement System Act

  • 7. Worker Rights and the Global Economy

  • 8. Occupational Safety and Health

  • 9. United States Relations with Cuba and Humanitarian Relief

  • 10. Preserving a Continuum of Quality Services for the Elderly and Disabled

  • 11. Corporatization of Health Care and the Danger to Quality

  • 12. Universal Health Insurance Must Be a Priority

  • 13. Establishment Of “Buy-Union” Program For Unionized Purchasers Of Health Care

  • 15. AFSCME Gay and Lesbian Advisory Committee Activities

  • 16. PEOPLE Checkoff and Electronic Funds Transfer (EFTS)

  • 17. Sweat Shops, Slave Wages and Child Labor Law Violations

  • 20. Library Support

  • 21. Fighting Tax Cuts for the Wealthy

  • 22. Defend Affirmative Action and Defeat Washington State Initiative 200

  • 23. Changing to Organize

  • 24. The National Labor College

  • 25. Child Care

  • 26. The Member Action Team

  • 28. Keeping State and Local Tax Systems Up-to-Date With the New Internet Economy

  • 30. Steward/Worker Educator Program

  • 31. Using Effective Communications in Support of Organizing

  • 32. PEOPLE Committees

  • 33. Labor Law Reform – A Tale of Two Countries, the United Kingdom and the United States

  • 35. Domestic Violence

  • 37. School Vouchers

  • 38. Energizing Our Membership for Political and Legislative Action

  • 39. Tobacco

  • 40. United Nurses of America

  • 41. Privatizing Health and Human Services

  • 42. Elimination/Privatization of Veterans Employment Services

  • 43. Implementing Quality Services in Government

  • 44. Opposing Prison Privatization

  • 45. Disability Process Redesign

  • 47. Education/Leadership Development

  • 48. Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services

  • 50. Workplace Violence

  • 51. Managed Care

  • 52. Public Employee Pensions

  • 53. PEOPLE Goal for 2000 Elections

  • 54. Budgeting Responsibly in Good Times

  • 55. Fighting for Living Wages and Labor Rights

  • 57. Retirees: Raising the Food Stamp Allotment

  • 58. Defending Defined Benefit Plans

  • 59. Preserving the Safety Net and Protecting Jobs in the States

  • 60. Building Union Strength in Pre-Collective Bargaining Law States

  • 61. AFSCME Corrections United

  • 62. Joint Training and Workforce Development Programs

  • 67. AFSCME Scholarship Programs

  • 68. Inmates With Mental Illness and With Developmental Disabilities in Prisons and Jails

  • 69. HMO Reform

  • 70. Devolution of Unemployment Insurance Programs to the States

  • 71. The 1998 Political Agenda: Issues of Children

  • 72. Federal Legislation for Corrections Employees

  • 74. Corporate Welfare and Tax Breaks for Economic Development

  • 75. Census 2000

  • 76. Cooperative Strategic Organizing Program

  • 78. Leveraging Health Care Purchasing Power

  • 80. Bargaining Assistance to Newly-Organized Units

  • 81. Support of AFL-CIO Constituent Organizations

  • 83. AFSCME Supports Affordable College Education for All, Especially Low Income Americans

  • 86. Welfare To Work: Doing the Right Thing

  • 88. Equitable Campaign Contribution Reforms

  • 89. Provide Labor TV Programming to Bring Information/Education to Workers in America

  • 93. Proposed Anti-Privatization Fund Dues Increase

  • 94. Pay Equity

  • 96. Common Sense Economics for AFSCME Members

  • 97. Social Security Privatization

  • 98. Countering the Right-Wing Assault on American Workers

  • 99. Pension Fund Activism

  • 100. Paycheck Protection

  • 101. Minimum Wage

  • 102. The Future of Medicare

  • 103. AFSCME Leadership Academy

  • 104. Internal Organizing

  • 105. Fostering Collaboration in States Among All AFSCME Affiliates

  • 106. Fighting Contracting Out