38th International Convention – San Francisco, CA (2008)

Amendments

  • An Amendment to Modernize the Obligation of an Officer

  • The Judicial Panel, Article XI, Section 6

  • An Amendment to Create the United Domestic Workers Legislative District

  • An Amendment to Add New Grounds for Administratorships

Resolutions

  • Terminate Schwarzenegger’s Minimum Wage Order

  • Supporting the Construction of a Permanent Memorial for Fallen Emergency Medical Service Personnel in our Nation’s Capital

  • Cesar Chavez National Holiday

  • The Mortgage Crisis

  • Public Safety and the Mentally Ill

  • Combating Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Infections

  • Re-Solidifying a Partnership within Combined Charitable Campaigns

  • Fighting the Use of Invasive Technology in the Workplace

  • Congress Must Provide States with Fiscal Relief

  • Building the Power to Win in the 21st Century

  • Banking and Housing Crisis

  • AFSCME’S Unity Agenda for 2009

  • The Iraq War, Soldiers and Veterans

  • Trade Act

  • Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the AFSCME National Women’s Advisory Committee (NWAC)

  • Health Care for America Now!

  • PEOPLE Fundraising

  • Promoting Public Service Workers and the Public Services that Keep our Families Safe and Make our Communities Strong

  • Organizing Public Sector Retirees

  • Increase Food Stamps for Seniors and the Disabled

  • Secure the Nation’s Head Start Program

  • Scholarships for AFSCME Adult Members

  • Supporting Quality, Affordable and Safe Child Care

  • Trade

  • AFSCME Support in the Fight Against Women’s Cancers

  • Leveling the Field: Collective Bargaining for Doctors

  • Build Member Activism and Enhance Political Capacity

  • Direct Care Workers Need Sustained Wage Increases and Training

  • A National Anti-Workplace Violence Strategy for Public Service and Not-For-Profit Employees

  • Overtime and Minimum Wage Protection for Home Health Care Workers

  • Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS Act)

  • Fix the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program

  • Oppose Restrictive Change to the Family and Medical Leave Act and Support Federal and Local Legislation Providing Paid Family Leave

  • Pandemic Influenza Preparedness

  • Women’s Right to Vote

  • Next Wave Caucus

  • Employment Law Commentaries

  • Social Service, Public Assistance and Child Support Caseload Standards

  • Get Involved to Win

  • Funding and Delivery of Federal Benefits

  • Protecting Public Housing

  • Global Warming and Green Jobs

  • Feasibility Study of Electronic Ratifications and Elections

  • National Health Coverage

  • Alternative Work Schedules and Telecommuting

  • Fighting Privatization of Government Services

  • In Support Of Protecting Trade Unionists And Opposing The Free Trade Agreement Between The United States And Colombia

  • Fair Share Social Security

  • Defending and Strengthening Social Security

  • Hospital Staffing

  • AFSCME Leadership Academy

  • Protect State and Local Revenue from Federal Pre-Emption

  • America’s Public Safety Employees

  • Require Minimum Standards of Labor Councils/Federations for AFSCME Local Membership

  • Promoting Health Care Quality Improvement

  • Infrastructure

  • Repeal of the 2005 Federal Budget Reconciliation Act

  • Enhancing Member Communications and Activism Through the Use of New Media

  • Minimum Wage – Index for Inflation

  • AFSCME International as Source of Shared Union Software

  • Adopt “Working Family Values” Principles

  • Child Care is a Need and a Right

  • Fight for Public Universal National Health Care and Increased Access to Care

  • Fair Pay Restoration Act

  • Employer Neutrality Agreements

  • Opposing Medicare Privatization

  • Fair Taxes and Economic Policy

  • State Legislative Agenda

  • Strategic Planning

  • Hatch Act Reform

  • Occupational Health and Safety

  • Fight for Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act

  • Emergency Preparedness in the Workplace

  • Corporate Greed

  • Preserving Retirement Security

  • Oppose the Collapse of AES/PHEAA Student Loan Programs