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This section includes resolutions that are referred to in various areas of the AFT Web site.
2009
Highly Skilled Worker Migration
Safe Transportation for America's Students
2008
A Living Wage and Access to Affordable Healthcare for SRPs
Faculty and College Excellence Campaign
Fundamental Support Services in Education
Government and the Common Good
Union Learning Representatives
Zimbabwe: Political, Trade Union and Human Rights
2007
Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Hard-to-Staff Schools
Federal Aid Requirements and Military Recruitment in the Schools
2006
Addressing the Academic Staffing Crisis
Aid to Locals with Members in Sick Buildings
Defend Affirmative Action Against Ward Connerly's Attack
Defend Public School Integration Plans at the U.S. Supreme Court
Defending Defined-Benefit Pensions
Election Day as a National Holiday
Elections as Public Sector Work
Ending Dating Relationship Violence
Fulfilling our Nation's Promise
Healthcare: A System in Crisis
Improving the Medicare Part D Drug Benefit
In Support of the Faculty's Right to Collective Bargaining at Quinnipiac University
Increasing AFT Members' Awareness of HIV/AIDS in the United States
Job Protection and Seniority Provisions for Contingent Faculty
Opposition to the 65 Percent Solution Initiative
Opposition to the Expansion of GATS
Opposition to the Genocide in Darfur
Position on Magnet Recognition
Renewal of National Voting Rights Act of 1965
Resist Narrowing of the Curriculum Due to Standardized Tests
Restoring Respect and Appreciation for the Role of Government in our Democracy
The Rights of Immigrant Workers
Special Order of Business on State-Sponsored Terrorist and the Crisis in the Middle East
State and Federal Legislation of Healthcare Staffing
Strengthening Pandemic Flu Planning and Response
Striking Nurses of Englewood Hospital: 'Their Fight is our Fight'
Support for Reproductive Rights
Support of Striking Teachers Attacked by Police in Oaxaca, Mexico
Supporting the Protection of Those Needed to Protect America in Times of Crisis
Take Back the Public Debate for Educational Reform
2005
Support of S.1545 (Dream Act) and H.R. 1648 (Student Adjustment Act)
Workers' Rights are Human Rights
Rebuilding After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
On the Passing of AFT President Emeritus Sandra Feldman
The Association of University Teachers (AUT) and Boycotts of Israeli Universities
2004
Establish No-Lifting Policies in All Hospitals and Healthcare Settings
Opposition to the Federal Marriage Amendment
Bush Administration Threats to Science and Scientific Integrity
Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Resolution
The Care of Children with Diabetes
Moving Every Child Forward (NCLB)
Nursing Education Mandatory Regulation for RNs to Acquire a BSN
Oppose Privatization of Public Higher Education
Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification
Protecting the Right to Overtime Pay
Reform of the Patriot Act: Protecting America and the Rights of its Citizens
Reviewing Institutional Accreditation and Standards Regarding Contingent-Academic Faculty
Special Order of Business: Tribute to Sandra Feldman
Support of H.R. 603, on the Status of Citizens of Montserrat Residing in the United States
2003
AFT's Administrative Procedures for Assuring Fiduciary Accountability on Behalf of AFT Members
AFT Resolution on Iraq
To Support the Affirmative Action Policy at the University of Michigan before the U.S. Supreme Court
AFT Resolution on Democracy and Trade Union Rights in China and Hong Kong
2002
Adequate Federal Funding to Protect Quality Government Services
Building an Accessible, Affordable, High-Quality Health System in America
Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century
Certified Professional Teachers and Confidential Student Information
Condemning the Use of Torture
Crisis in Affordable Housing
Diversity Recruitment and Faculty Development in Public Higher Education in the Reauthorization of Title II and II of the Higher Education Act (2003-2004)
Early Childhood Education
Every Child Needs a School Nurse
Fair Collection of Sales Taxes on Electronic Commerce
Federal Loan Forgiveness for Teachers in Schools
Filipino Veterans Equity Act
Health Insurance and Mental Illness
Helping Our African Colleagues in their Heroic Struggle Against the AIDS Plague
In Support of the Federacion de Maestros de Puerto Rico
Include Public Institutions Serving Recent Immigrants in Title III in the Renewal of the Higher Education Act
Inclusion of Paraprofessionals and School-Related Personnel in the Development and Implementation of School/Campus Emergency Plans
Indoor Air Quality
K-12 Labor Education
Monitoring and Controlling the Misassignment of Paraprofessionals as Substitute Teachers
On the Events of September 11, 2001, and the U.S. War Against Terror
On U.S. Re-Entrance to UNESCO
Opposition to the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Plan to Privatize BIA Schools
Prescription Drugs through Medicare
Professional Compensation for Teachers
Protecting Workers' Retirement Security and Preventing Future Enrons
Public Schools and Boy Scouts of America Teaching Citizenship for All
Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment
Reform Labor Law
Set Limits, Save Lives: The Need for Staffing Ratios and/or Workload Limitations
Shared Governance in Colleges and Universities
Social Security
Social Security Offset and Public Employees Social Security Benefit Reductions
Standards-Based Assessment and Accountability
Standards of Good Practice in the Employment of Part-Time/Adjunct Faculty
Standing Against Discrimination Based on Genetic Information
Strengthen Social Security
Support for the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Support of Immigrant Rights
Support of Public Employees Salary Equity
Transforming and Modernizing Family Leave into Leave with Pay
Tribute to Rollie William Hopgood, A Man of Action
Union-Sponsored Professional Development
2001
Events of September 11, 2001 and the War Against Terror
Promoting Quality Healthcare Through Error Reduction
2000
AIDS Plague in Africa
Charter Schools
Ensuring High Quality in Distance Education for College Credit
Fair Funding for Federal Special Education Mandates
Fair Health Care Benefits for All Public Employees
Human Rights for Women in Afghanistan
Human Rights in China
Increased Access to Prescription Drugs
Living Wage
Nursing Shortage
Opposing the Abuse of Non-Permanent Temporary and Part-time Employees in K-12 School Districts and Higher Education
Paraprofessionals and Title I
Paraprofessionals and School-related Personnel's Role in Preventing School Violence and Maintaining Safe and Orderly Schools
Part-time Faculty Compensation and Benefits
Political Action
Protecting Patients and Promoting Quality Health Services
Public Health Care Institutions
Public School Funding
Quality Government Services
Reducing Sharps and Needlesticks Injuries
Regulating the Sale of Competitive Foods in Schools
Restoration of Appropriate Reimbursement Rates for Hospitals
State Employees Fair Labor Rights
Strengthening AFT Organizing
Support for Ergonomics Standard
Teacher Education and Teacher Quality
United Students Against Sweatshops Movement
Vieques
Vocational Education at the Crossroads
Worker Rights and Democracy in the Global Economy
1998
Teacher Quality
Redesigning Low-Performing Schools
1996
Federal Funding for Alternative Schools
1994
Alternative Programs and Violence Prevention
Inclusion of Students with Disabilities
1992
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