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33rd International Convention - Honolulu (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
    14. AFSCME Gay and Lesbian Advisory Committee Activities
    15. PEOPLE Checkoff and Electronic Funds Transfer (EFTS)
    16. Sweat Shops, Slave Wages and Child Labor Law Violations
    17. Library Support
    18. Fighting Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
    19. Defend Affirmative Action and Defeat Washington State Initiative 200
    20. Changing to Organize
    21. The National Labor College
    22. Child Care
    23. The Member Action Team
    24. Keeping State and Local Tax Systems Up-to-Date With the New Internet Economy
    25. Steward/Worker Educator Program
    26. Using Effective Communications in Support of Organizing
    27. PEOPLE Committees
    28. Labor Law Reform - A Tale of Two Countries, the United Kingdom and the United States
    29. Domestic Violence
    30. School Vouchers
    31. Energizing Our Membership for Political and Legislative Action
    32. Tobacco
    33. United Nurses of America
    34. Privatizing Health and Human Services
    35. Elimination/Privatization of Veterans Employment Services
    36. Implementing Quality Services in Government
    37. Opposing Prison Privatization
    38. Disability Process Redesign
    39. Education/Leadership Development
    40. Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services
    41. Workplace Violence
    42. Managed Care
    43. Public Employee Pensions
    44. PEOPLE Goal for 2000 Elections
    45. Budgeting Responsibly in Good Times
    46. Fighting for Living Wages and Labor Rights
    47. Retirees: Raising the Food Stamp Allotment
    48. Defending Defined Benefit Plans
    49. Preserving the Safety Net and Protecting Jobs in the States
    50. Building Union Strength in Pre-Collective Bargaining Law States
    51. AFSCME Corrections United
    52. Joint Training and Workforce Development Programs
    53. AFSCME Scholarship Programs
    54. Inmates With Mental Illness and With Developmental Disabilities in Prisons and Jails
    55. HMO Reform
    56. Devolution of Unemployment Insurance Programs to the States
    57. The 1998 Political Agenda: Issues of Children
    58. Federal Legislation for Corrections Employees
    59. Corporate Welfare and Tax Breaks for Economic Development
    60. Census 2000
    61. Cooperative Strategic Organizing Program
    62. Leveraging Health Care Purchasing Power
    63. Bargaining Assistance to Newly-Organized Units
    64. Support of AFL-CIO Constituent Organizations
    65. AFSCME Supports Affordable College Education for All, Especially Low Income Americans
    66. Welfare To Work: Doing the Right Thing
    67. Equitable Campaign Contribution Reforms
    68. Provide Labor TV Programming to Bring Information/Education to Workers in America
    69. Proposed Anti-Privatization Fund Dues Increase
    70. Pay Equity
    71. Common Sense Economics for AFSCME Members
    72. Social Security Privatization
    73. Countering the Right-Wing Assault on American Workers
    74. Pension Fund Activism
    75. Paycheck Protection
    76. Minimum Wage
    77. The Future of Medicare
    78. AFSCME Leadership Academy
    79. Internal Organizing
    80. Fostering Collaboration in States Among All AFSCME Affiliates
    81. Fighting Contracting Out

    Convention Materials

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    Digging Out

    Public employees are digging us out of the snow — and out of the economic storm the country has been weathering.