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Welcome to the Worker Power Hour with Randy Corrigan, a
brand new show about labor and worker issues. The host
of the show is Randy Corrigan, Secretary Treasurer and Principal
Office and leader of Teamsters nineteen thirty two, one of
the largest public sector labor unions on the West Coast,
representing workers in government and non sworn law enforcement personnel.
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Randy Corgan is a thirty year Teamster who first became
involved in the labor movement by volunteering his time as
an organizer with the Teamsters Union at the age of
twenty one.
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Since then, he's.
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Helped thousands organize, mobilized, and achieve bargaining rights. He accomplished
this by spending countless hours with brave men and women
all over Southern California in their living rooms on the
picket line to bring workers towards victory. This is the
Worker Power Hour, and now here's the host of the show,
Randy Corrigan.
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Good afternoon, everybody. Randy Corgan Here, Worker Power Are CACAA
one six point five FM, ten fifty AM, longtime organizer,
first time radio host. First, I'd like to talk about
last week's show. I thought that we did a show
on right to work. For those of you that didn't listen,
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you might want to go back and listen to it.
I have gotten a ton of feedback regarding the discussion
that happened on that show from various spaces, retirees, non
union members, existing members, workers, friends, just It was a
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show that really exposed some truths that had been kind
of hanging out there for sixty seventy years a lot
of people were unaware of. And the exchange that's come
from it has been very, very good and very effective.
So if you hadn't haven't listened to it yet, feel free,
you know, go back and make a listen and understand
the real history of right to work in the oxymoron
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that it is. You know, they call it right to work.
Clearly it's an oxymoron of a statement. It's not right
to work. It's the opposite of it, and its origins
being of such a I would call it very disgusting
racial beginning. A racist beginning is quite appalling. I guess
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it's I guess it's why it's been hidden. Those facts
have been hidden for so long. Anybody who's part of
that organization, what they call the right to work organization,
should be embarrassed by its history with that. That ties
into a discussion that came off of, which is a
bill out of Kentucky, House Bill five hundred that has
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been proposed because right to work passed in Kentucky in
twenty seventeen, and just a few years later, there's a
House bill that they're trying to process right now that
would trip away lunches, breaks over time, the way overtime
is paid, the way people pay get paid for their
time to go between jobs, a lot of stripping, a
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lot of what is basic issues. That bill is actually
being ripped apart now. The backlash in Kentucky from elected
officials and a lot of obviously residents voters in the
state pushed back tremendously on it, and it probably is
going to get pulled back. But it's an example of
when right to work comes then there's all these other
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things that come right behind it. And so when you
get a chance to make sure you listen to that show,
it's very impactful. Had a ton of very very robust
discussions and good feedback in the way we handled that
show and the things that we talked about. So with that,
I always want to remind you Colin Tolfree eight eight
eight nine O nine ten fifty, I've got a really
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really cool Teams to Advantage partner. This goes all the
way back to my childhood, not just mine, but also
Mark's childhood. Sometimes he's in here. You guys get to
hear speak from Afar in the mic, but from Scott,
from Don's Bicycles, and for those of us that grew
up in the ie, there's there. They're a staple place
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for where all the kids went, not just then. There's
a couple others will get into that in a few minutes.
But I've also got a couple other guests on the
backside of the hour, which is a Nicole Fefferman. She's
a social studies teacher and the director of Young the
Young Workers Project. And I'm going to have our very
own Carlos Gonzalez on here, who helps me come up
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with our three teams to jobs every week. I hear
me talk about them every week. So guess what, You're
going to get to hear them on the show this week.
Because of the partnership we've built with the Young Workers
Project and some of the work that we're doing in
the community. You're going to get to hear about that
on the back side of the show. That'll be our
guest and I'm really looking forward to that exchange and
all of that. And so let's talk about our three
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teams to jobs. When you show up at a gas station,
it used to be back in the day, all the
gas station attendants for Teamsters of it as a union
service symbol there. It's another story. We'll get into that
another show, But even to this day, you're impacted by
Teamsters at a gas station when you see the sticker
there with the weights and measures sticker, at least in
Samardino County, and you recognize, Okay, well, how do I
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know that I'm actually if I'm paying for a gallon
of gas, that I'm actually getting a gallon? There are
actually individuals that work for the County of Samardino that
work in the Weights and Measures department, and they go
around and make sure all those things are accurate. And
those are Teamsters And so the next time you're looking
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at that and you're wondering, hey, how do I know
that I'm actually getting the full gallon? There's actually individuals
that work for the county, at least in this area
for the county and make sure that those are all,
that those numbers are accurate, that the amount is accurate.
So think a teamster. The next one is within Samardino
County and actually a lot of the cities within Sanmardino
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in Riverside County are teamsters code enforcement inspectors. They are
whether there's also for construction, but also restaurants, and so
when you see the label on the window, you know
a rating B rating, C rating. You may not be
happy that it's a B rating, but obviously if there's
a B rating, there's a reason for it, and the
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person that did the work to win in and make
sure that the food establishment was clean, that it was
stay safe, and that that rating was you know that
the that the restaurant was following all the proper protocols
to deliver safe food. Those are teamsters for the most
part in all of Samardino and a lot of Riverside
County that are actually performing that job. The last job
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is many of you may like El Pato Sauce for
your enchiladas. Did I say that right? Carlos el Pato
they do, okay, all right, good, good good. You know,
I get everybody kids me because I'm the white guy,
and i like all the Mexican food, and I've grown
up kind of in that environment, in that culture, and
you know, every now and then I sound really white,
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especially when I say chili verde. Anyway, el pato sauce
in your enchiladas, you know, and other Latin foods that
is produced by Teamster members at Local six thirty. And
I actually think that's produced right over here in Ontario. Correct.
They produce it there and gets canned and manufactured and
sent out. So think a team stir next time you're
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in the grocery store and you want to get some
Spanish rice or some rice got a little bit of
spice to it. We're going to make some minchilladas, and
you know it's got that sauce in it. It was
a team sort of made it happen. With that, I'm
going to go into our current labor news and I'm
going to try to speed through this because I'm actually
want to spend a whole bunch of time with Scott here.
We were chatting before we started up, and we got
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into this exchange. I was like, man, we got to
get that exchange on the live on the air because
it's just really excited about having Don's on here. I've
been looking for to it for a while. Anyway, in
recent news, current labor news, the first thing I want
to talk about is the Darmouth college basketball team just
recently voted to become union. And so, yeah, these college kids,
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now you know, their likeness and all these things that
they for years as they go to college and the
college would be able to use their skill and let's
say football players or basketball and they're extremely good at it.
They didn't get paid for that. And you know, these
colleges are making a ton of money on these kids.
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They're not kids, obviously, they're adults. But I guess I'm
getting old, so I call them kids. But they those
colleges utilize that that skill that they have that they bring,
whether it be basketball or football, baseball. They actually have
won the right. It was a few years ago. I
think it was Minnesota was what broke through that for
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them to organize and collectively bargain for their work that
they're performing for the school because the school is financially
benefiting from it. Anyway, Darmouth Collegemen's basketball team voted in
favor of it, and congratulations to them. Hope all the
basketball players in college go down that path. And you
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know a lot of times in professional sports, people don't
last a long.
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Time, and.
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You know, it's very tough, it's very demanding, and you know,
hopefully they can be as rewarded as possible for the
hard work that they do. The next one is Activision,
the gaming software company. Six hundred workers, just about six
hundred workers have unionized at the Microsoft owned Activision. The
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vote came down three hundred and ninety out of three
hundred and ninety eight, so I'm assuming that went three
hundred and ninety to eight. That's pretty overwhelming. So congratulations
to those workers that Microsoft owns them. It's great to
see those workers occupying that space. Obviously, Microsoft is a
very very wealthy company, uh, and I'm assuming that they're
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going to sit down and do the right thing to
take care of those workers. I mean, think of the
gaming industry. You know how much it's changed. I remember
I remember Activision being different than what it is today.
You know, I remember in television. I don't know if
anybody sitting here remembers in television atari. Uh. You know, uh,
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the first game of Asteroids that came out. I remember
the cool kid in the neighborhood that had the had
the little free standing Asteroids game. Uh. And obviously this
is morphed into you know, quite an industry now. And uh,
it's good to see those workers organizing. The last point
of news I want to point out, UH is a
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personal excuse me, It's a it personally affects me because
I get so many text messages on this subject, people
on both sides of the aisle politically that blow me up.
And that is Bidens seeks the endorsement of the Teamsters
Labor for the Labor vote, and he interviewed with the
Teamsters last week, just as Trump and others had interviewed
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with the Teamsters General President, General Executive Board in Washington,
d C. In January. And so clearly the right thing
to do is to sit down, go through all of
the questions and policies in which elected official is engaging
in and making sure that they match up to working people.
We represent more than a million workers in America, more
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than a million families and households, and clearly it's important
to know what their policy decisions are going to be
in this space and how they're going to be affected.
And it's always ironic to see how everybody in today's
day kind of overreacts. When Trump was at the building
a couple months ago, obviously back in January, all our
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liberal members are freaking out, and I'm like, hey, guys,
can you chill out, like that's our job. Our job
is to sit down and not take a personal preference
and to understand where legitimate candidates are so that in
the end, a voting process can happen to decide who
is going to be better, who is believed the leadership
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is going to be better for the membership and to
represent the membership if they're President of the United States
or any other you know, US senator or whatever it
may be. And so then obviously the flip side of
it is, you know, then all the Republicans getting.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Oh, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Not gonna got Biden there? You know, it's like, hey, guys,
everybody chill out, like this is part of the process.
You know, it's not like the union votes for you.
They don't. No one takes your ballot. It's a recommendation,
and it's like, look, here's what the person's uh, here's
what the individual is running for a particular office as
policies are. Here's how they responded to the questions. Here's
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what their track record is. Here are the things that
they did when they held an office, or when they
voted on things that may have gone before Congress or
the Senate, or you know at the president's level, what
executive orders they had passed or refused to pass or
vetoed bills that may have gone through Congress at a
certain point. And so all of those things have to
be taken into effect or excuse me, taking into account
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so that you can make a good decision on what's
the best for one more than one million members workers
who are making sure this country moves every single day.
And sometimes that conflicts with individual issues. It conflicts with
what our divisive issues in some areas that everybody can
fight about forever. The idea is to get people into
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that space, whether it be President Biden or President Trump,
and find out where you can find compromise and in
areas to get things done. And then you tally it
up and you say, okay, well, there's nine out of
ten spaces that this candidate is supportive, and this one's
one out of five, one out of ten. You know,
clearly you got to go with the one that has
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a good track record of supporting working people based on facts,
not what Facebook says in thirteen seconds. So it's really
important to break all that stuff down. The reason I
thought it was interesting to bring it up. I like
to have fun with this conversation because you know, politics
always drives good arguments between people. I think that it's
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okay to disagree from time to time. It's let's agree
to disagree, let's be maybe be spirited about our position,
but in the at the end of the day, recognize
that we got to work together to make this country great.
It's not about an individual that makes it that way.
It's about us working together and coming together that makes
this country great. It's a worker power our CASEAA one
O six point five FM ten fifty am. Thanks for
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having us. That now transitions us into our teamster advantage partner.
And before I let him talk, I just got to
talk about how, you know, gig, I'm kidding thinking about
you know, all the old bikes that I had. I
hear that Don's actually has has has a bunch of
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bikes from our era that are that are at the
uh you know, at the shop you can go in
and they're on display and take a look at it.
We'll talk about that in a minute, but I really
appreciate the fact that that that Scott, you're here, We
appreciate what your father did. I, for one, remember, because
I grew up in Fontana, it was Rick's Bicycle City
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that I always went to because it was closer. Obviously
Don's was a bit further because I lived in Fontana,
in various parts of Fontana most of my life, and
Rialto was, you know, clearly a bit further away. And
I remember I went there a few times, but for
me it was once a week. Me and my brother
had to go to Ricks, right, We had to go
to the bicycle shop. We had to see what the
new hottest thing was. We had to you know, dream
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about some of those bikes that were coming off the line,
or what was new happening, or you know, the new tires,
the new brakes, you know, especially when brakes were the handling,
the handle brakes were just coming out and getting better
and better. It just brings back all kinds of great
memories of being a kid, being active, getting on my bike,
and we would just we would disappear for the for
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we would just disappear and be gone. We didn't have
a cell phone, we didn't there was no electronic leash.
We just we bolted, and you know, we would end
up in another city. We would. I know, one time
we rode our bikes all the way to Montclair from Fontana.
Tell me, I don't remember how the hell we got back,
but you know, at the end of the day, you know,
we'd go on the hills and we drive here. You know,
we ride here and ride there. And so with that,
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Scott tell us about Don's Bike bicycle shop.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I'm so excited to have you here.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Thanks well, thanks for having me on. So basically, my
dad opened it up in nineteen fifty nine. Excuse me,
April first. So we're coming up on our sixty fifth anniversary,
which is pretty coold and that everybody can say that
long history short, my dad opened it up. I kind
of grew up around bikes as a kid, so I
would help him out.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I would do a lot of.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
The purchasing for him, and I guess I just sort
of least learned the fundamentals of how small business works.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
And five days after my eighteenth.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Birthday, my father passed away. He was actually riding his
bicycle home and he.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Had a heart attack.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
So that was kind of a shock to myself and
my older brother and my mom. And I was like, wow, okay,
we have this little business. It was a little five
hundred square foot kind of hole in the wall business,
as I shared with you, off the air, I found
his ledger. His first day in business, he did eight
dollars and seventy eight cents, which you think back in
nineteen fifty nine, he coul put a deposit on a
house I think back then for.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
That kind of money.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
But we had to make a decision and we decided
to keep the business going. I was in college at
the time and it was not what I planned on
doing for a living. As a matter of fact, my
dad didn't even want me involved in the business. He
didn't think there was a future in it.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
So I ended up finishing my degree.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Her dad was a mechanic at Norton right.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
He was he worked two jobs. He was a workaholic.
I was gone worked crazy hour. So yes, he was
in the Air Force during World War Two and they
also worked as a mechanic at an Ordin Air Force
base when that was a thing in addition to running
the bike shop basically kind of a one man operation.
Occasionally'd have people come in and help, and I would
help around the.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Shop as well. But you know, we as a family
had to make a decision do we keep this thing.
We decided to keep it. It was generating an income.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
It was getting me through school, so we kept it,
and we expanded it over the years and hired our
first employee when I was at college, kind of to
help when I wasn't there, and then we moved it
in the early eighties down to our current location, did
several expansions there, and then again, long story short, I
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had to make a decision did I Was I going
to be a marriage and family therapist or was I
going to run a bike shop? And I just make
more money selling bikes.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
So that's kind of.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
But you can still get him to come in, sit
on the couch, yes, ask him some questions, right, and
then hey, do you want to buy a bike?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Right, I'll show you this electric mountain biking an exercise.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
You'll actually be a better person because you'll know all
those endorphins, all that good stuff'll right, You won't be
upset with each other, No, a hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
I mean there's a lot of there's a lot of
psychology and sales, a lot of psychology and business, and obviously,
you know, cycling is a great thing. It's physical and
it's social and it's fun. And as you're pointing out,
it brings back all those memories as kids.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
And you guys are beace you cyclers. Man, I see
you on the road. I live in you Kaipe and
I see all the time on Wildwood Canyon or Beaumont
Avenue seeing you guys go up that hill. You make
me tired of just watching you as a driving by you.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Well, I'm kind of a roady myself. There's obviously different
categories of bicycles.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I'm a roadie. I got into roadsycle. It's funny.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
One of my first employees raced bikes and he'd show
up to work with shave legs and the guy was
doing like three hundred miles a week, and I'm thinking, man,
this this guy's pretty impressive.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I mean, he's just a monster, and that maybe I'll
try that.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
And so, you know, I got into bike racing, and
I realized that if it came down to a sprint,
I was gonna lose really bad.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I was a horrible sprinter, but I was a good climber.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
I could do well in the mountains, in the hills,
and that kind of what I focused on and started
getting serious about my training and worked with a coach
for a while.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Started riding back and forth to work every day.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
It's training basically every day, and uh won two state
titles for California. In ninety two, I qualified to go
to the US Olympic Trials. So I competed in the
US Olympic Trials. I finished thirty eight to have a
three hundred. That was the last year that the Olympics
were open amateurs, so it's basically the last year.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
For some unknown, you know, schmuck like me to actually
go to.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Then you're no smuck and that everybody knows who dogs bicycle.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Right, but uh, but yeah, cycling has just been a
big part of my life. I ran a professional team
for five years. I got a corporate sponsorship from seven Up,
ran a men's team.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Also ran a women's professional cycling team which was sponsored
by Diary Cola.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Four of my athletes competed in the Olympics and one
of my female athletes won a silver medal in Reo
on the Villaina.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
So that's kind of it. And like this is rock
Star year. I mean, I love it. It's it's I
love my job. I have the best job in the world.
I get to go to work every day and love
what I do.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Everybody in the bicycle bicycling community, that's what they call it.
They they everybody knows you. Everybody knows your your establishment.
Uh because of all this activity that you do in
the community.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Sure, sure, well, I mean it's it's it's weird because, uh,
you know, I got an award from the City of
rialto is the bridge Builders Award. Talked about giving back
to your community, and you know, they asked, well, what
what makes you give back to your community? And it's
simple because my community gives so much to me. And
the thing about a bike shop, as you know from
your childhood, is that it's kind of like like a
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barber shop to an extent. It's a special kind of
business where you really get.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
To know people.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yeah, and and the what I always loved about when
I went into ricks kind of like what Mark said
about your dad is knowing your dad. You guys always
remember the kids coming in, right, because we're dreaming about
that next bike. And then you build that relationship with
us at that age, right. And then and then as
soon as we got the money, we're like, hey, man,
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I need to get those tires, or I need to
get this, you know, this brake set or whatever it
may be. And that's very valuable, especially in today's day
when everybody's connected to these electronic devices, Like you provide
something for the community that gets people moving, that gets
you know, it gets the active. You know. Obviously it's
very hard to be on your phone texting while you're
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riding a bike. I'm sure people do it. I would
try it.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Well, well, you're right.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
I mean it's it's kind of to an extent in
old fashion activity, but it's physical, it's social, and.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
It kind of goes against some of the exercise. Oh yeah, yeah,
it's great. Cardio doesn't beat you up, and there's and
it's weird.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
The part of the fun of this is that we
have such a diverse group of people that we deal with.
It's the kids, it's older people that maybe want electric
bike that's a new booming category.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Give me that. I want the bike that's going to
drive me around, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
You you think that, and people.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Like, well, that electric bike it rides itself, doesn't know
it doesn't You still have to pedal, You're still.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Getting to work out. It just kind of extends the
range of what you can do.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
So you're talking about you, kaype, Well now you can
ride up that hill, You're still gonna go to work out.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
At the electric part of it, take me up the
hill right coming down?
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Sure.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Sure. But it's a very diverse group of people, and
just the experiences that we have crazy. I could write
books about this stuff, just the crazy experiences we've had
with people, and again getting to know people on a
personal level, getting to know their struggles.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I had a guy just two weeks ago.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Came in and he was looking for a mountain bike,
and I could tell there was something just a little
off about him. I couldn't put my finger on what
it was, but I'm having to try some bikes and
he just didn't have the balance for it.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
And I'm like, you know, and then he says, let
me tell you what happened to me.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
And apparently he was on his motorcycle heading north on
the fifteen and somebody hid him from behind, knocked him
off his motorcycle.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
He goes skidding.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
He said, I had all my protective armors, so I
knew how to fall. And I'm rolling on the freeway.
He goes, I'm doing okay, and then I got run
over by a truck. A semi ran this guy over.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
And basically it survived.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Though, I mean, I guess we're Chuca surved.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
He survived, yeah, but he's he's lying on the side
of the freeway. And again, not to talk to you
about the dark side of human nature, but the people
that hit him, according to him, they stole his wallet.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
They came up to him, stole.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
As wall, and then left and they went on a
spending spree in Vegas. So the guy that was driving
the truck helped him get you know, they airlifted him out.
He was in a coma for seven months and he
finally came to and he's on the road to recovery. Now,
I mean, I'm just like my jaws is hitting the
floor going, oh my god. I mean, these are the
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kind of stories that I get to hear and to
be part of this guy's journey back from Hell.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
You know, it's just it's an.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Honor and a privilege to have those sorts of experiences.
And I, like I said, I could write a book
full of those kinds of stories.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
But it's so cool.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
So let's talk about some of the bikes that you have.
I know I have a few of them hanging in
my garage from our boys. Yeah, and you know, two
of them now are driving, so the last thing they
want to do is touch a bicycle. But you know,
it's it's it's I've personally purchased bikes from your shop,
and obviously I know a lot of listeners probably have,
(25:10):
and if they haven't, let's let's let's talk about what
you have there. I know you have mountain bikes, you
have you know, regular BMX bikes. You know you have
your basic you know, I'm sure you have beach cruisers.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Yes, So again that's another cool We are a very
diverse shop, and not every bike shop is diverse.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
We are not only.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Diverse in terms of the brands that we offer, but
in terms of the types of bikes, because some shops
will just we just sell electric bikes, or we just
sell road bikes or.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
We're pretty much a mountain bike store.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
For me, it's like I want to get everybody, so
I try and cater to kids.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Whether it's a two year old who's.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Gonna hop on a push bike, but that kid's gonna
grow up and buy it, buy an electric bike, that's right.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Well, we want to get them hooked on the sport, right,
we want to get them excited about it. So it's
everybody from the little child that's getting their first bike
to you know somebody who's like, you know what, I
want to get back on a bike, but I've got
some kind of an issue with ballance, so we'll put
them on maybe like a like a recumbent strike. So
there's that category. Electric bikes again, huge, huge, huge. It's
(26:14):
becoming a bigger piece of the pie as far as
what we sell.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
And there's all kinds of different electric bikes as well.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Yeah, And the funny thing is, you know, when somebody's
even talking about electric bikes, I'll say, look, let me
just stick you on one, tell me what you think,
And in every single time, the expression on their face
when they come back is like, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
You know, it's like wow, I know I want one.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
It's so much fun, And for me it's it's exciting
because it's a fairly new category, but it's getting a
lot of people on bikes that maybe couldn't otherwise. You know,
maybe they want to keep up with their friends and
they just can't. Sold an electric road bike to a
lady and her husband's like, yeah, I want I want
to keep up with my husband here, but he's just
faster than I am.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Well, now he's going to have our time keeping up
with her.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
So now that we hear that you got you got
basically every bike that there is to have. You know
what's I know that you've been part of the Teamster
Advantage partnership since almost the beginning of us. Yeah, you
were one of the first. We have more than a
thousand small businesses connected that network. Now, I don't know
(27:17):
if you know it's that large. It's it's huge, and man,
we have so much I have so much fun with
this because obviously it's for us. It's we're providing a
free service to the small businesses, and that partnership has
got a discount. I forget what the discount is. It's
ten percent on parts in labor and and so you know,
for us you know, I always, I always when I
(27:40):
see this push notification that comes through that says, you know,
don't forget Dawn's bicycles, and we always have some cute
saying that goes with it. For me, it's always a
blast in the past of being a kid. And so
we appreciate the partnership. We actually really appreciate the work
that you do. I got to wrap up and go
to break here in a few minutes, but maybe we
close on and what that partnership has meant for you
(28:02):
in partnering up with us as an organization literally I
think since twenty sixteen or seventeen.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Yeah, it's no, it's great, and we love having members
come in. I mean it's always we try and treat
everybody special. That's why I've been around for like sixty
five years. But certainly when you guys, when your folks
come in, it's great to have them as part of
We're always there for them whatever their cycling needs are.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
So, no, it's been a wonderful arrangement. People are great.
So we hope this this continues for a long time.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
But yeah, it will as long as we're going to
be around, We're going to have this program, and you're
more than welcome to protect I mean we don't obviously
we don't. How much do we charge you, oh for
the radio show?
Speaker 6 (28:35):
No?
Speaker 4 (28:35):
No, how much do we charge you for the team
ser advantaged partnership?
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Boy? You know it's actually it's free. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
No, everybody he believes, like when you first have a conversation,
they're like, how much is it? There's got to be
a backside gimmick in it? Right, No, not at all. No,
It's like our goal was to build it out like
it is today where it is so large and we're
in we're in over twenty chambers throughout the Inland Empire,
and just bring in a message of shop local. Don't
don't go to Walmart to buy the bike, don't go
(29:01):
to Target, don't go to all these other places. Go
to the local shop and try to figure out how
to make sure that you keep your tax dollars in
the local economy, keep those small businesses, you know, connected
in a way that we do. This is case AA
one O six point five FM, ten fifty am. It's
the Worker Power Hour. Scott. We really want to thank
you for coming on. We appreciate you being here. Any
(29:22):
last couple of words before we go to break.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Boy, Uh, check out the new electric bikes, I mean
really cool, yeah combined.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
See our BMX museum. It is it the yes.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
So if you had a BMX bike as a kid,
you were going to freak out when you walk in
the store and see all these bikes. It took us
about a year to collect them from all over the country.
It's gonna blow you away if you had like a
GT or a Dino. Some of these classic vintage BMX
bikes we put together an amazing museum.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Or was the other one kp ripperk Ripper?
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Yeah, you got a pk Ripper two? We got them all.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Oh yeah, all right, this is the worker power hour.
We're gonna go to break. Let's see you on the
other side. Thanks Frank.
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This is Randy Corgan with the worker Power our CASEAA
one oh six point five FM ten fifty A and
are calling numbers eight eight eight nine oh nine ten fifty. Hey,
if you're right around the corner, you can dial nine
O nine seven ninety two five two two two. You
know this whole thing about toll freeline, is there anything
you know? Do we really need toll free lines anymore?
(32:48):
I'm just I know it's good marketing gimmick, but like
everything now, the way phones work, do you chart to
get charged? So maybe we'll have another show on that
in the future. I'm really excited about our next couple guests.
Number one, Carlos Gonzalez, he's a trade unionist, works with me.
(33:09):
I've been working with him for pretty close to two
decades now and one form or another bouncing around the
labor movement. He works at nineteen thirty two. And then
we also have Nicole Fefferman on and we just saw
her zoom in. She is a social studies teacher for
la USD and she is also the director of Young
(33:31):
the Young Workers Project. And one of the things that
we've been doing as a union is we've really been
engaging with the public and one of my favorite parts
of our organization is our engagement with the schools because
because labor has been forgotten at the school level when
it comes to education, high school, junior high And I
(33:54):
remember as a kid seeing when I was I was
in high school, we were going through the decades for
history and I remember in the Roaring twenties seeing the
Roaring twenties flipping the page over on the other side,
it was all about woman and child labor and those things.
I remember all the way back to my teens flipping
that page back and forth, going, this is a contradiction.
(34:16):
What is so roaring about that? Ironically, all these years later,
guess look what I do. But I had a funny
situation happen. I guess it's not funny. I gotta, I gotta.
I can only laugh at it. When my oldest son
graduated from before he graduated from high school, he was
going to school at Carlsbat High in Carlsbad, he sends
(34:36):
me a picture of his history book describing unions as
a cartel, literally describing unions as a cartel, and like,
you know, my son is like, you know, obviously my son,
he's my son. He comes from a labor family. Not
only is his mother's side complete labor family. Like he's
(34:59):
looking at this going, oh my god. Now obviously most
kids growing up look at that and they just look
at the word cartel, and you know, they think we've
got guns running around chasing people, shooting them. And it's
just incredible how the negative environment around unions have spilled
into that being allowed to be a textbook in a school.
(35:23):
And so clearly we have the opposite on today. And
what I want to talk about is I want to
talk about the activities in which Carlos, you and some
of our staff members are doing through the Team Stars
of Spanic Caucus, the nineteen thirty two Teamsters of Spanic Caucus,
and the engagement that we are having with the schools
to number one, dispel the fact that we're not Cartel's
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number one, and two that you know we are are
trying to bring a better message about labor and teach
the youth about labor in a much better way. And first, Nicole,
I have to say I get to say thank you
all the time to Carlos sitting here to my left.
I don't always say thank you to him because we
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work together, so he has to deal with me on
bad days. Anyway, thank you, Nicole for what you're doing
in this space like this is. My team is so
complimentary of you and how you have helped kind of
create this space. And what I'd like for you to
do is talk about this relationship and talk about this
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partnership and talk about how the kids have engaged in
and understanding what unions are and understanding labor. And you know,
I got a bunch of questions for you, But Nicole,
why don't you start off by kind of introducing yourself
and quickly talking about like what this is all about?
In a nutshell, some of the things I just described.
(36:54):
I can't hear her, just so you know, are you
on mute? I guess we should have tried an audio
piece first. All right, for all my listeners, I'm sorry
while we figure out this piece, Carlos, seeing that you're
here right now, let's switch over until we get that fixed. Carlos,
(37:15):
what is your.
Speaker 7 (37:17):
Like?
Speaker 4 (37:19):
How do you see this engagement? Obviously in front of me,
I got a bunch of stuff that the kids wrote
about the last time you guys were together. And from
your perspective, what do you how do you see this
partnership with the cole working out?
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Well, we've been looking up to part with with Nicole
since last year and I fin the first time was
one of the high schools in San Pedro. She reached
out for volunteers and we're more than happy to help.
And what's exciting is the amount of kids that participate
in this mock bargaining, mock negotiations.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
It's so you're setting up a situation like it's bargaining,
like actually arguing a contract with them.
Speaker 6 (37:57):
It's crazy because because a lot of them. It's economic classes,
social studies class depending on the teacher and the amount
of kids. And you're talking not a classroom, you're talking
a lunch room.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
You're talking a conference.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
Room type setting. You're talking about these kids walking in
and understanding contract bargaining and it seems like complex, But
what you're really teaching them is that they have a
voice in the workplace, that unions matter, and that unions
are the only thing through your working career that will
give the opportunity to voice your opinion for you and
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your family.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Nicole, can we do it quick test to see if
you're life?
Speaker 8 (38:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Now, yes, we can hear you. Awesome, We're live.
Speaker 8 (38:42):
Hey, that's amazing.
Speaker 9 (38:43):
Well, Carlos just did a great job. And let me
also say I'm I'm so excited and so grateful to
be on here with you all today and to really
be developing this beautiful partnership with Teamsters locals. Carlos and
his crew started with me It's Pedro last year and
now we just did two in the last about month
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to other collective bargaining simulations. So it's just the energy
that Carlos and his team bring into the room to
engage with students is just a beautiful.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Thing to show what are these kids getting out of
that nicol, how they how are they reacting to this space.
Speaker 9 (39:22):
Well, I mean, look, I'm a twenty almost twenty year teacher.
I was an SEIU organizer before I became a teacher,
and I worked with the hospital workers and nursing homeworkers,
and so you know, like we're union thugs sort of
like what you were describing right like twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
I don't see you as a union thug, but hey, okay,
I'll buy it.
Speaker 9 (39:48):
I have I have an underlying similar anger that likes
to be displayed at certain points. But we are not
thugs in fact. And what's been so wonderful over my
career is that I've I've been integrating labor history, so
students learn about the Homestead strike, right, when thousands of
steel workers went on strike against you know, the bill
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gates of the builded era, right, and they joined together
across ethnic lines, you know, new immigrants and more established
American families, right, native born American families. And so you know,
my whole career, I have been working to dispel that
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very idea that you're side experienced in his textbook. I
will say that what is especially gratifying as a labor
person is that, you know, while we can say lots
of bad things about social media, it actually has I think,
in like the last maybe five years really sort of
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turned young people's perception of.
Speaker 8 (40:57):
The labor movement.
Speaker 9 (41:00):
And so what I really feel like we're doing at
this point is helping students make sense, right, what is
why did the UAW go on strike? Why did SAG
go on strike? Why did our teachers go on strike?
Speaker 4 (41:15):
We came down there on your picket line, by the way, Hey.
Speaker 8 (41:18):
Thank you, We appreciate you.
Speaker 9 (41:21):
And this summer was like a beautiful, like solidarity summer
right in Los Angeles. And so all of these students
are you know, they are seeing the picket lines when
they drive around town. They have family and they have
friends who have you know, in the past couple of years,
there's been like a real amazing shift of energy right
in labor activism.
Speaker 4 (41:41):
Here's a comment. Here's a quote from from one of them.
I learned that we have to keep fighting for what
we want. We have strong arguments. Teamwork is the core
of getting an agreement.
Speaker 9 (41:53):
Yes, this is so, this is sort of what's really
nice and elegant as a teacher. About this collective bargaining
simulation that Carlos has been supporting is that working with seniors,
mostly right, students who are on the verge of graduating
from high school, and we are asking them to take
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all of those communication skills that they've developed over their
years in school, take all of their analytical skills that
they have developed through their years in school, and say
to them, great, now here's a set.
Speaker 8 (42:26):
Of issues that workers are.
Speaker 9 (42:31):
Fighting for, and half of you are going to be
management and half of you are going to be those
union folks, and you all have to figure out how
to make this work at the bargaining table. And so
you know, they are discussing, they are analyzing, they are strategizing,
and Carlos can speak to this like it's usually about
a four hour simulation. It starts off real quiet, really.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
Quiet, and like bargaining does that at a certain.
Speaker 8 (42:59):
Plate and they're an hour into it.
Speaker 6 (43:02):
It's so noisy.
Speaker 9 (43:06):
Because because they snap into it right, like they get
it with the help of those coaches like Carlos, like
Elroy and s CiU ninety nine bus driver who was
on the bargaining team that led the ULP strike last spring.
Speaker 4 (43:21):
Right, Another student said, up, I learned the power of
a union, the power of a union, what it has,
how powerful a strike is, and the process of a negotiations.
Speaker 9 (43:32):
Yes, we bring it to them and yes, and they
feel it.
Speaker 10 (43:37):
Right.
Speaker 8 (43:37):
You think that four hours is not enough, it is.
It really is.
Speaker 9 (43:42):
Right, like they instinctively get it because they are they
are you know, they are eighteen years old.
Speaker 8 (43:49):
Seventeen years old.
Speaker 4 (43:50):
This is my favorite one. This is my favorite. The
world collective bargaining again, these are these are quotes from
the kids that were in the class. To be able
to bargain, you must think about everyone. Uh, it has
an us, It's an US situation. In other words, the collective.
(44:13):
Getting people to understand the collective is where we get
things done, not the individual situation that Carlos, what's your
seeing that dynamic unfold with these kids? Obviously we didn't
have this when when we were growing up, and and
so probably would have probably would have really enjoyed it
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right a couple of years earlier anyway, But you know, like,
what's your what do you what's your feel for that?
Speaker 6 (44:39):
There's a lot of different emotions that I go through
when we do these and you know, shout out to
Annabel Abe and wand that.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
Helped with this project.
Speaker 6 (44:48):
Yes, the range of emotions is to see these kids,
as Nicole was saying, where they start off very quiet
and they're just kind of understanding we're walking through the similation,
and to see them kind of get out of their
shell and speak up and get emotional talking about these
certain issues because we give them each an item that
they're going to discuss and they own it. Whichever side
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of the table they're on, they own it. And the
interactions that we have in between these breaks about what
it means to be when you get into the world
and you look at an application that says you're at will,
what does that mean? Explaining those types of things to
them and why there's power in a union, and then
to see them get it at the end of the
(45:31):
four hours, it's amazing. It's inspirational for me the kids
that I've met, Like I take these pictures with these
kids and they just share about their lives instantly because
there's I think they open up more so because you're
teaching them real life scenarios, things that they're going to
deal with in the real world and there's a lot
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they don't know. And if you explain it as a
scenario plays out, this is what a union does. This
is how you react act. Is this the hill to
die on? They instantly get it right off the bat,
And I haven't had like I love all my teams,
and I'm gonna get a shout out to the ladies.
The ones that the chair are the ladies, older ones
that are always like they're just putting it down, like
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we're not we're not budget. This is what we're gonna get.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
To that point. Here's another quote. I learned that providing
good working conditions for workers is important. It's significant to
prioritize safety and efficiency. So all this villainization we get.
I don't see corporations going into the school and talking
about this right like we're this isn't a one way
street where we want workers to only benefit and collapse organizations. No,
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we want safety, we want efficiency. We want it to
be a win win. You want people to be able
to have a good middle class job, provide for their family,
and it not to be this turnover environment where you're
having to jump from job to job to job to
job and seeing seeing young adults, kids, at this age
catch on to it and be able to connect to it.
(47:02):
For us. The reason why we've built out this program
is we want to build that familiarity with them as
young as possible so that when they get to eighteen
and they get into the workforce, that they're looking for
what's going to be good because there's a lot of
companies we all know that just aren't providing good jobs,
and we need them to understand, hey, look, if you
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end up landing there, there's something you could do to organize.
Number One, we'll have a whole show on this at
some point in the future. And then and what the
first thing you should do is look for the one
that is a union job because clearly a lot of
the work's already been done. It's not all done, but
a lot of the work has been done, and it's
a good starting point for you at eighteen years old
if you're going to be in the workforce and some say, oh,
I'm gonna go to college, do you know how many
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people that have high degrees, Like you just heard Scott
on earlier. He's got all these degrees and he's running
a bike shop like right, Like sometimes even though we
may want to do that, and we go to college
and we do all. We may end up still in
the workforce in another space and it still should be
good jobs. So teaching people at a young age that
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this is what you look for is we believe it's
just good for our community and it's good for our
social environment. And Nicole, you know you what you guys
are doing. There is this phenomenal seeing the pictures, seeing
everything that's going on. By the way, this is casey
AA ten fifty AM one oh six point five FM.
(48:28):
Don't forget we are live on the radio show and
call in if you have any questions, Nicole, any thoughts
on that?
Speaker 8 (48:34):
Yeah, I mean I think that interestingly enough.
Speaker 9 (48:37):
You know, when I ask students how many of you
are already working, there's always a collection of young people
who had who had raised their.
Speaker 8 (48:43):
Hands, right. I mean, I know myself when I was
in high school, I worked at Hotlin on a Stick
and Maria's Italian Kitchen and so and so.
Speaker 9 (48:52):
For them to understand the power of having a say
in your wages and benefits and working conditions, they can
directly compare, you know, what they're experiencing at their workplaces
today with what workers who are organized and who are
at the table together and who have are using their
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collective power.
Speaker 8 (49:15):
Right to fight for their fair share.
Speaker 9 (49:19):
I think that that's a really powerful, you know, moment
for these students.
Speaker 4 (49:27):
Nicole last Nicole, how do you deal with pushback? Pushback
administratively internally, because you know, I've got I had a
son that looked at his book and said we were
a cartel. Right, that's the opposite side of, you know,
a school district, on the opposite side of wanting to
teach what you're doing. So I'm assuming you run into
some pushback from some people that may not necessarily agree
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that these things should be taught. And how do you
deal with that? Briefly because we are running to the
end of the show and we only got five minutes,
but I'd like to I think it's important to know
that d like you are doing a great job of
making sure this important subject is at the forefront, and
that doesn't necessarily mean people are just saying, yeah, I
go right ahead and do it. How do you deal
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with the pushback?
Speaker 9 (50:13):
So I want to say, first off, that Los Angeles
is a union town, so I haven't heard.
Speaker 8 (50:17):
That point pushback.
Speaker 9 (50:19):
But I will say that something that I am I
am is that is that the essence of collective bargaining
is conflict resolution, like what you were talking about earlier, Right,
this is about.
Speaker 8 (50:34):
Creating a win win.
Speaker 9 (50:36):
And companies, organizations want workers who are going to stay
with them, who are going to continue developing their.
Speaker 8 (50:44):
Expertise, who are going to you know.
Speaker 9 (50:47):
Develop loyalty. Right, That's what makes a company strongest. And
I think that for folks who are skeptical of this work,
you know, the first thing I would do is to
invite them to come and observe, right, And Carlos can
speak to this, because those management teams kind of come
sort of hard.
Speaker 4 (51:06):
Yeah, those kids do a great job of playing the
other side, right, because that's.
Speaker 9 (51:11):
The side that they know about, Right, that's the side
that they're familiar with. That's sort of like hut throat
management perspective the highway.
Speaker 6 (51:18):
But the good thing about that. Then I was having
this conversation with Nicole and we're out there and you know,
she she put me on the management side, which I
wasn't happy with in the beginning, but you know, I
rolled through it.
Speaker 4 (51:28):
But what was interesting sudden you started to become tough,
you know.
Speaker 6 (51:31):
What's It was interesting to talk to them about how
that side is about building a relationship. It's about building
trust and about how you need to take care of
your workforce at the same time and within your budgets
and not be you know, there's no sense in taking
pennies back just to try to show the boss. Yeah,
I took pennies back. You got to take care of
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the people that take care of you. And I think
that was actually it was helpful for me to understand
that aspect of it, and.
Speaker 4 (52:01):
You know, helps create better managers exactly them understanding it's
not that's right. It's not all adversarials, not all everybody's
you know, fighting each other. Yeah, you get some disagreements.
At the end of the day, the objective is to
resolve issues. In ninety nine point nine percent of the time,
that's what the sides do, is they resolve the issues.
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There maybe some spirited discussion as you're getting there, but
it's the collective goal is supposed to be to help
those workers get to a better place and if both
sides have that in mind, will always be there. And
I think that you're you make a very good point
that you know, we jokingly say, oh, the management side,
we hate them those We're all literally joking about that,
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because at the end of the day, teaching those kids
the management side, some of them are going to become
managers and like a couple of my children are that
are in positions they absolutely respect the workers because we've
taught them to do that, and they're going to be
better managers, and they're going to have better relationships with
their employees, and they're going to actually be able to
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argue to their superiors in a much more effective manner
if they understand that. We got two minutes left. Any
closing remarks, Carlos and Nicole. Let's start with Carlos.
Speaker 6 (53:13):
I just want to say, you know, thanks to Nicole
and you Randy, because you've actually, you know, been the
forefront here, especially in an empire, bringing labor conversations to
the schools, and it as much as it helps the kids,
it helps us too. So when I get negative or
I have my negative thoughts about the labor movement and
where it's at, coming to these schools and working with
the cole and the other labor activists in there bringing
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me back to the place of happiness and why I
originally got involved because every now and then I need
that kick from the butt. You know why you get
involved in.
Speaker 4 (53:44):
I appreciate that. And Nicole, isn't this cool? We got
our own labor show and the IE it's the only
labor show. The four point five million people in the
IE a labor show. We are talking about labor. We
are having great guests on. We got so many guests
lined up, it's crazy. Glad we were able to sneak
you in any closing remarks. We got only about a
minute left.
Speaker 9 (54:04):
I welcome you all to come and do a little
taping of one of these simulations that we've done so
that your listeners can hear just how amazing these conversations are.
And I'm so again, I'm just so thankful that Carlos,
you Randy brought me on here today. Love to get
the word out, and you know, ie, ie high school folks,
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bring me, let's go.
Speaker 8 (54:26):
Let's do this.
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