42nd International Convention – Las Vegas, NV (2016)

Amendments

  • An Amendment To Require The Executive Board Of Any Subordinate Body That Suspends An Officer Or Staff Employee To Notify The Person In Writing Of Its Action

  • An Amendment Confirming That The Constitution Of Every Subordinate Body Must Include A Provision Stating That It Is Subject To The International Union Constitution

  • An Amendment To Clarify The Elections Code

  • An Amendment Concerning Designation Of More Than One Member Of Convention Related Committees As Chairperson

  • An Amendment To Update The United Domestic Workers Legislative District

  • An Amendment To Permit The International President And Secretary-Treasurer To Transfer Funds Electronically

  • An Amendment To Address The Central Collection Of Dues

  • An Amendment Concerning The Use Of A Mail Ballot Referendum To Amend A Local Union Constitution

  • An Amendment To Define Council To Include Organizing Committee, And Once Established In A Jurisdiction With An Existing Council, Allow Such Council To Be Dissolved Only When Practicable

  • An Amendment Clarifying That The International President, With International Executive Board Approval, Names And Determines The Jurisdiction Of Retired Employee Chapters

Resolutions

  • Elimination of the Unfair GPO and the WEP Provisions of the Social Security Act

  • Resolution to Condemn the Attack on Los Angeles Civil Service Workers

  • Using AFSCME Interpreters for International Union Events

  • Senate Must End Obstruction and Vote on Judicial Nominees

  • Support for a Comprehensive Approach to End Mass Shootings

  • Building Our Union by Sharing Stories of How AFSCME Members Never Quit

  • AFSCME Strong

  • Racial Justice and Public Safety

  • Resolution to Encourage Support of Constituency Group Participation by AFSCME Members by Sending Members to the Constituency Group National Conventions

  • Doctors are Workers, Too

  • Gun Violence Needs to be Treated as a Public Health Problem

  • Convention Follow-up

  • In Defense of Public Higher Education

  • In Support of Affordable Housing

  • National Health Service Corps Student Loan Repayment

  • Improving Access to Rural Health Care

  • Standing in Solidarity with AFSCME Members in Illinois

  • The Risks of Climate Change

  • Support for the LGBTQ Community

  • Support for Fallen Heroes

  • Resolution Recognizing the Opiate Epidemic in the United States

  • Strengthening Social Security

  • Pay Equity

  • Supporting Public and Affordable Housing

  • Paid Parental and Sick Leave

  • Statehood for the District of Columbia

  • AFSCME Data Infrastructure

  • On-Demand Economy

  • Immigration Reform

  • Repeal the ACA’s Excise Tax on High Cost Health Plans

  • Preventing Workplace Violence

  • Stop Corporate Tax Inversions

  • Divest from Private Prisons, Reinvest in the People

  • Urge Corporate Withdrawal from ALEC

  • Divest from Carbon, Reinvest in People

  • Pension Transparency for AFSCME

  • Affiliation of Independent Unions and Associations

  • Creating Jobs and Tax Revenue for Public Services with Cannabis Regulation and Legalization

  • Strengthening Long Term Services and Supports

  • Fiscal Relief, Debt Restructuring and Puerto Rico Workers’ Pensions and Labor Rights Protection

  • Flint Water Crisis

  • Resolution to Create a Convention Committee for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Resolutions

  • Protecting and Expanding the Right to Vote

  • Political Candidate Accountability

  • Increasing Lost-Timer Participation in Political Programs

  • The Role of Unions in Building the Middle Class

  • Infrastructure

  • Increase the Minimum Wage

  • Addressing the Crisis in Higher Education