File #: 24-3702    Version: 1 Name: HONORING THE FARMWORKERS & LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT (FLAP) ON THEIR 25TH ANNIVERSARY
Type: Consent Calendar Resolution Status: Approved
File created: 6/12/2024 In control: Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 6/13/2024 Final action: 6/13/2024
Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION HONORING THE FARMWORKER & LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT (FLAP) ON THEIR 25TH ANNIVERSARY WHEREAS, the Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project (FLAP) - Ayuda para Trabajadores del Campo y Jardineros - was incorporated on February 8, 1999; and WHEREAS, FLAP was created in response to a 1996 Congressional ruling that prohibited federally funded legal services programs from filing class actions for and representing many low-income workers; and WHEREAS, this prohibition includes H-2A agricultural workers, H-2B forestry workers, and victims of battery, extreme cruelty, sexual assault, or human trafficking; and WHEREAS, the justice and legal representation that for decades inspired millions of oppressed people to come to America were denied to hundreds of thousands of low-income workers, most of them Latinos. While FLAP serves all classifications of workers, it focuses on very low-income laborers and their households; and WHEREAS, FLAP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organ...
Sponsors: ALMA E. ANAYA, FRANK J. AGUILAR, SCOTT R. BRITTON, JOHN P. DALEY, BRIDGET DEGNEN, MONICA GORDON, BILL LOWRY, DONNA MILLER, STANLEY MOORE, JOSINA MORITA, KEVIN B. MORRISON, SEAN M. MORRISON, ANTHONY J. QUEZADA, TARA S. STAMPS, MAGGIE TREVOR
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PROPOSED RESOLUTION

HONORING THE FARMWORKER & LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT (FLAP) ON THEIR 25TH ANNIVERSARY

WHEREAS, the Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project (FLAP) - Ayuda para Trabajadores del Campo y Jardineros - was incorporated on February 8, 1999; and

WHEREAS, FLAP was created in response to a 1996 Congressional ruling that prohibited federally funded legal services programs from filing class actions for and representing many low-income workers; and

WHEREAS, this prohibition includes H-2A agricultural workers, H-2B forestry workers, and victims of battery, extreme cruelty, sexual assault, or human trafficking; and

WHEREAS, the justice and legal representation that for decades inspired millions of oppressed people to come to America were denied to hundreds of thousands of low-income workers, most of them Latinos. While FLAP serves all classifications of workers, it focuses on very low-income laborers and their households; and

WHEREAS, FLAP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that covers the State of Illinois, where they have recovered almost 5 million dollars in back wages and illegal deductions; and

WHEREAS, FLAP continues the tireless effort to improve the working conditions for thousands of low-income workers in Illinois; and

WHEREAS, FLAP relies on more than 400 networks of organizations and qualified attorneys to handle legal cases in Illinois; and

WHEREAS, FLAP has educated more than 2.0 million low-income Latine workers on their legal rights, partnered with more than 450 organizations, including Consulates, law firms, churches, foundations, and other non-profit organizations, to improve working conditions for the low-income community in Illinois; and

WHEREAS, FLAP has endorsed and sent more than 315 petitions and letters advocating for low-income workers, distributed almost 4.5 million of community outreach and education material with resources and legal information available to low-income workers regardless of their immigration ...

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