All Episodes

May 1, 2025 • 60 mins
KCAA: The Worker Power Hour on Thu, 1 May, 2025
Mark as Played
Transcript

Episode Transcript

Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
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.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Non sworn law enforcement personnel.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
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.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Age of twenty one.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Since then, he's helped thousands organize, mobilize, 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.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Good afternoon, everybody.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Randy Corgan here, Worker Power Are CASEAA one or six
point five FM ten fifty A longtime organizer, first time
radio host.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
First, I'd like to talk about last week's show.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
I thought that we did a show on Right to Work.
For those of you that didn't listen, 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,

(01:36):
just It was a 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.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Very, very good and very effective.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
So if you hadn't haven't listened to it yet, feel free,
you know, go back and take a listen and understand
the real history of right to work in the oxymoron
that it is. You know they call 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

(02:12):
racial beginning, A racist beginning is quite appalling. I guess
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.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Should be embarrassed by its history.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
With that, that ties into a discussion that came off of,
which is a bill out of Kentucky, the House Bill
five hundred that has 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,

(02:53):
the way overtime is paid, the way people pay get
paid for their time to go between jobs, a lot
of stripping, a 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

(03:16):
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 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

(03:36):
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 really cool teamster advantage partner. This
goes all the way back to my childhood, not just mine,
but also Mark's childhood.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Sometimes he's in here.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
You guys get to hear him 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
they're a staple place 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

(04:16):
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 with our three teamster jobs
every week. I hearing 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

(04:40):
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 teamster jobs. When you show
up at a gas station, used to be back in
the day, all the gas station attendance were teamsters of
it was a union service sim there. It's another story.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
We'll get into that another show.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
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 know that
I'm actually if I'm paying.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
For a gallon of gas, that I'm actually getting a gallon?

Speaker 4 (05:19):
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 at that and you're wondering, hey, how do I
know that I'm actually getting the full gallon? There's actually

(05:40):
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 Samardino in
Riverside County are teamsters code enforcement inspectors. They are whether

(06:05):
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 person that did
the work to win in and make sure that the
food establishment was clean, that it was stay safe, and

(06:25):
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
sam Ardino, in a lot of Riverside County that are
actually performing that job. The last job is many of
you may like El Pato sauce for your enchiladas.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Did I say that right, Carlos El Pato? They do?

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (06:51):
All right, good, good good.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
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,
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.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
And I actually think that's produced right over here in Ontario. Correct.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
They produce it there and gets canned and manufactured and
sent out. So think a team start. Next time you're
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

(07:38):
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
into this exchange.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
I was like, man, we got to get that exchange
on the live on the.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
Air, because it's just really excited about having don's on here.
I've been looking forward 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, now you know, their likeness and all these

(08:12):
things that they for years as they go to college
and a college would be able to use their skill
and let's say football players or basketball and.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
They're extremely good at it. They didn't get paid for that.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
And you know, these colleges are making a ton of
money on these kids. 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.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
They actually have won the right. It was a few
years ago.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
I think it was Minnesota was what broke through that
for 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

(09:12):
the basketball players in college go down that path, and
you know a lot of times in professional sports people
don't last a long time. And 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.

(09:32):
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 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

(09:55):
owns them. It's great to see those workers occupy in
that space. See Microsoft as a very very wealthy company. Uh,
And I'm assuming that they're 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.

(10:18):
I don't know if anybody sitting here remembers in television Atari, Uh,
you know, uh, 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.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
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 personal excuse me, It's a it personally
affects me because I get so many text messages on
this subject, people on both.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Sides of the aisle politically that blow me up. And
that is Biden has seeks.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
The endoor of the Teamsters labor for the labor vote,
and he interviewed with the Teamsters last week, just as
Trump and others had interviewed 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,

(11:19):
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 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

(11:40):
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 liberal members are freaking out, and
I'm like, hey, guys, can you chill out, like that's surge.
Our job is to sit down and not take a

(12:02):
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 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

(12:23):
whatever it may be. And so then obviously the flip
side of it is, you know, then all the Republicans
getting that.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Oh, what's going on, not gonna got Biden there?

Speaker 4 (12:30):
You know, it's like, hey, guys, everybody chill out, like
this is part of the process.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
You know.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
It's not like the union votes for you. They don't
st 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 what
their track record is. Here are the things that they
did when they held an office before or when they
voted on things that may have gone before Congress or

(12:59):
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
so that you can make a good decision on what's
the best for one more than one million members workers

(13:22):
who are making sure this country moves every single day.
And sometimes that conflicts with individual issues. It conflicts with
what are divisive issues in some areas that everybody can
fight about forever. The idea is to get people into
that space, whether it be President Biden or President Trump,
and find out where you can find compromise and in

(13:44):
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, or you know, one out of ten.
You know, clearly you got to go with the one
that has a good track rightd of supporting working people
based on facts, not what Facebook says in thirteen seconds.

(14:08):
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 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

(14:29):
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 CACAA one O six point five FM ten
fifty am thanks for having us. That now transitions us
into our teamster advantage partner. And before I let him talk,

(14:51):
I just got to talk about how, you know, Giggly,
I'm getting thinking about, you know, all the.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
Old bikes that I had.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
I hear that Don's actually has has has a bunch
of 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

(15:24):
I grew up in Fontana, it was Rick's Bicycle City
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

(15:44):
to the bicycle shop. We had to see what the
new hottest thing was. We had to you know, dream
about some of those bikes that were coming off the line,
or what was new happening, or you know, the new tires,
the new breaks, you know, especially when breaks were handling,
the handle brakes were just coming out and getting better
and better. It just brings back all kinds of great

(16:04):
memories of being a kid, being active, getting on my
bike and we would just we would disappear for the
for 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.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
We would.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
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.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
You know, we ride here and ride there.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
And so with that, Scott tell us about Don's Bike
bicycle shop.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
I'm so excited to have you here.

Speaker 5 (16:40):
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. I would do a lot of
the for him, and I guess I just sort of

(17:02):
least learned the fundamentals of how small business works.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
And five days after my eighteenth.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
Birthday, my father passed away. He was actually riding his
bicycle home and he.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Had a heart attack.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
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 I think back in
nineteen fifty nine, he cold put a deposit on a
house I think back then for.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
That kind of money.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
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. So I
ended up finishing my degree.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Her dad was a mechanic at Norton right he was.

Speaker 5 (17:50):
He worked two jobs. He was a workaholic. I was gone,
worked crazy hours.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
So yes, he was in the.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
Air Force during World War Two and then he also
worked as a mechanic at Noordin Air Force Base when
that was a thing. In addition to running the bike shop,
basically kind of a one man operation. Occasionally have people
come in and help, and I would help around the
shop as well. But you know, we as a family
had to make a decision do we keep this thing.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
We decided to keep it.

Speaker 5 (18:13):
It was generating an income, 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

(18:36):
story short, I 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 2 (18:45):
So that's kind of.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
But you can still get them to come in, sit
on the couch, yes, ask them some questions, right, and
then hey, do you want to buy a bike?

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Right, I'll show you this electric mountain biking exercise.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
You'll actually be a better person because you'll know I
th was and doorphins, all that good stuff.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
You'll right, you won't be upset with each other all.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
A hundred percent.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
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 2 (19:13):
And you guys are beast you cyclers.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Man, I see you on the road.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
I live in you Kaipe and I see all the
time on Wildwood Canyon or Beaumont Avenue seeing you.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Guys go up that hill.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
You make me tired of just watching you as a
driving by you.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
Well, I'm kind of a roady myself. There's obviously different
categories of bicycles.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
I'm a roadie. I got into roadsycle.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
It's funny.

Speaker 5 (19:32):
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 guy's pretty impressive.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
I mean, he's just a monster, and that maybe I'll
try that.

Speaker 5 (19:44):
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 2 (19:50):
I was a horrible sprinter, but I was a good climber.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
I could do well in the mountains, in the hills,
and that's kind of what I focused on and started
getting serious about my training and worked with a co
for a while.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Started riding back and forth to work every day.

Speaker 5 (20:03):
It's training basically every day, and UH won two state
titles for California.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
UH.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
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 for some unknown, you know,
schmuck like me to actually go to Then.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
You're no smuck and that everybody knows who dogs bicycle.
I appreciate that, right.

Speaker 5 (20:28):
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, also ran a women's professional cycling
team which was sponsored by Diary Cola. Four of my
athletes competed in the Olympics, and one of my female athletes.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Won a silver medal in Rio on the villa, So
that's kind of it.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
And like this is rock Star.

Speaker 5 (20:50):
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 (20:56):
Everybody in the bicycle bicycling community, that's what they call it.
They everybody knows you. Everybody knows your your establishment. Uh
because of all this activity that you do in the community.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
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 Builder's Award, talked about giving back
your community, and you know, they asked, 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 barber shop

(21:30):
to an extent. It's a special kind of business where
you really get to know people.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
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.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
You guys always.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
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,
I need to get those tires, or I need to
get this, you know, this brake set or whatever it
may be.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
And that's very valuable, especially.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
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 some active. You know,
obviously it's very hard to be on your phone texting
while you're riding a bike. I'm sure people do it.
I would try it.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Well, well, you're right.

Speaker 5 (22:21):
I mean it's it's kind of to an extent in
old fashion activity, but it's physical, it's social, and it
kind of.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Goes against some of the exercise. Oh yeah, yeah, it's great.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
Cardio doesn't beat you up, and there's and it's weird.
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.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
That's a new booming category.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Give me that.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
I want the bike that's going to drive me around, you.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Know, you you think that and people like, well that
electric bike.

Speaker 5 (22:49):
It rides itself, doesn't know it doesn't You still have
to pedal, You're still.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Getting to work out. It just kind of extends the
range of what you can do.

Speaker 5 (22:56):
So you're talking about you, kaype, Well now you can
write up that hill, You're still going to go to
work out.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Get the electric part of it, take me up the hill.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Coming down. Sure.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
Sure.

Speaker 5 (23:06):
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 (23:20):
I had a guy just two weeks.

Speaker 5 (23:21):
Ago, 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. And I'm like,
you know, and then he says, let me tell you
what happened to me. And apparently he was on his
motorcycle heading north on the fifteen and.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Somebody hid him from behind, knocked him.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Off his motorcycle.

Speaker 5 (23:45):
He goes skidding, 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 and basically he survived, though I guess we're survived. Yeah,
but 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,

(24:07):
they stole his wallet.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
They came up to him, stole as wall.

Speaker 5 (24:10):
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

(24:30):
kind of stories that I get to hear and to
be part of this guy's journey back from hell.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
You know, it's just it's an.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
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 2 (24:44):
But it's so cool.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
So let's talk about some of the bikes that you have.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
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.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
But you know, it's it's it's.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
I've personally purchased bikes from your shop, and obviously I
know a lot of listeners probably have, 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 (25:16):
Yes, So again that's another cool We are a very
diverse shop, and not every bike shop is diverse. We
are not only 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 we're pretty.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
Much a mountain bike store.

Speaker 5 (25:35):
For me, it's like I want to get everybody, so
I try and cater to kids, whether it's a two
year old who's.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Gonna hop on a push bike.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
But that kid's gonna grow up and buy it, buy
an electric bike.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (25:46):
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.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
So there's that category.

Speaker 5 (26:06):
Electric bikes again, huge, huge, huge, It's becoming a bigger
piece of the pie as far as what we sell.
And there's all kinds of different electric bikes as well. 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.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Like, oh my god.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
You know, it's like wow, I know, I want one.
I do. It's so much fun.

Speaker 5 (26:32):
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 to. I want to keep
up with my my husband here, but he's just faster
than I am. Well, now he's gonna have our time
keeping up with her.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
So now that we hear that you got you got
basically every bike that there is to have.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
You know what's uh?

Speaker 4 (27:00):
I know that you've been part of the Teamster Advantage
partnership since almost the beginning of us.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah, you were one of the first. We have more
than a thousand small businesses connected to that network.

Speaker 6 (27:12):
Now.

Speaker 4 (27:12):
I don't know 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,

(27:34):
I always when I 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 what that partnership

(27:56):
has meant for you in partnering up with us as
an organization literally I think since twenty sixteen or seventeen.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
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 2 (28:16):
So, no, it's been a wonderful arrangement.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
People are great. So we hope this this continues for
a long time.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
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? No, No, how much do we charge
you for the team servedvantaged partnership.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Boy, you know it's actually it's free. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:35):
No, everybody he believes, like when you first have a conversation,
they're like, how much is it?

Speaker 3 (28:40):
There's got to be a backside gimmick in it, right, No,
not at all.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
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
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

(29:03):
the local economy, keep those small businesses, you know, connected
in a way that we do. This is case AA
one oh 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
last couple of words before we go to break.

Speaker 5 (29:20):
Boy, Uh, check out the new electric bikes, I mean
really cool, yeah, combined see our BMX museum. It isn't
the real Yes, 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 3 (29:42):
Or was the other one kp ripperk Ripper?

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah, you got a pk Ripper two? We got them all?

Speaker 4 (29:47):
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.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Was your car involved in an accident or just need
help with dents? All Magic Paint and Body Collision Centers
in business for over thirty years. They're highly trained staff
and certified technicians and friendly staff are the best in
the business and treat each car as if it was
their own. All Magic Paint and Body Collision Centers are
family owned and offer state of the art equipment and

(30:34):
tools to ensure optimum results. They use the latest technology
in computerized color matching and specialize in frame repairs with
their modern laser measuring systems. They're OEM certified and they
have four locations to serve you. All Magic Paint and
Body Collision Centers offer rental car assistance with free drop
off and pickup services too, and their work has a

(30:54):
lifetime guarantee. All Magic Paint and Body Collision Centers are
in Narco, East Vale, Marino Valley and in Fontana. Call
them at one eight hundred sixty one Magic. That's one
eight hundred sixty to one Magic. All Magic Paint and
Body Collision Centers one eight hundred sixty one Magic, All
Magic Paint and all the Bodies says, drive carefully.

Speaker 7 (31:20):
Redlands Ranch Market is a unique, full surface international grocery
store that specializes in authentic food items from Mexico, India,
and from many Mediterranean and Asian countries, including popular items
from the US. They offer fresh baked items from their
in house bakery, housemade tortillas from their tortill area, a
delicious array of prepared Mexican foods, a terrific fresh food

(31:41):
and juice bar, and a large selection of meats, seafoods
and deli sandwiches, salads and halal meats. Their produce department
is stocked full with fresh, local and hard to find
international fruits and vegetables that you cannot find anywhere else.
Don't forget to step into the massive Beer Cave and
experience the largest selection of domestic, artisan and imported beers

(32:02):
in the ie. They can also cater your next event
with one of the delicious takeout catering trades of food.
Visit them at Redlands ranch Market dot com. That's Redlands
ranch Market dot com. Redlands Ranch Market a unique and
fun shopping destination.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Wow, we're back.

Speaker 4 (32:23):
This is Randy Corgan with the Worker Power Hour CACAA
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
oh nine seven ninety two five two two two. You
know this whole thing about toll freeline, is there anything
you know?

Speaker 3 (32:41):
Do we really need toll free lines anymore?

Speaker 4 (32:43):
I'm just I know it's good marketing gimmick, but like
everything now, the way phones work, do you.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Chart to get charged?

Speaker 4 (32:51):
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. I've
been working with him for pretty close to two decades
now in one form or another, bouncing around the labor movement.
He works at nineteen thirty two. And then we also

(33:14):
have Nicole Fefferman on and we just saw her zoom in.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
She is a.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
Social studies teacher for LAUSD and she is also the
director of Young 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

(33:44):
school level when it comes to education, high school, junior
high And I remember as a kid seeing when I
was in 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

(34:06):
back to my teens, flipping that page back and forth,
going this is a contradiction. What is so roaring about that? Ironically,
all these years later, guests, 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

(34:27):
high school, he was going to school at Carlsbat High
in Carlsbat, he sends 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

(34:48):
from a labor family. Not only is his mother's side
complete labor family. Like he's 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

(35:12):
around unions have spilled into that being allowed to be
a textbook in a school.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
And so clearly we have the opposite on today.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
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 number one, and two that you know, we

(35:46):
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 work together, so he has to deal
with me on bad days. Anyway, thank you, Nicole for

(36:10):
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 partnership and talk about how the kids
have engaged in and understanding what unions are and understanding labor.

(36:33):
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 I can't hear her, Just so you know,
are you on mute? I guess we should have tried

(36:56):
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.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Carlos, what is your.

Speaker 8 (37:13):
Like?

Speaker 3 (37:14):
How do you see this engagement?

Speaker 4 (37:15):
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 (37:27):
Well, we've been looking up to part with with Nicole
since last year, and I feel the first time was
one of the high.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
Schools in San Pedro.

Speaker 6 (37:34):
She reached out for volunteers and we were more than
happy to help. And what's exciting is the amount of
kids that participate in this mock bargaining, mock negotiations.

Speaker 4 (37:47):
It's so you're setting up a situation like it's bargaining,
like you're actually arguing a contract with them.

Speaker 6 (37:52):
It's crazy because a lot of them it's economic classes,
social studies class depending on.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
The teacher and on the kids.

Speaker 6 (38:01):
And you're talking not a classroom, you're talking a lunch room.
You're talking a conference 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

(38:24):
career that will give the opportunity to voice your opinion
for you and your family.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
Nicole, can we do it quick test to see if
you're life?

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Yeah, now, yes, we can hear you, we're live.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
Hey, that's amazing.

Speaker 9 (38:38):
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 MPEDRO last year and
now we just did two in the last about month

(39:00):
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 (39:12):
Thing to show what are these kids getting out of that, Nicol,
How they how are they reacting to this space?

Speaker 9 (39:17):
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 3 (39:39):
I don't see you as a union thug, but hey, okay,
I'll buy it.

Speaker 9 (39:43):
I have, I have an underlying similary 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

(40:06):
Gates of the Fulkilded era, right, and they join 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

(40:27):
very idea that you're sad 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

(40:48):
of turned young people's perception of the labor movement. And
so what I really feel like we're doing at this
point is how thing students make sense?

Speaker 6 (41:02):
Right?

Speaker 9 (41:03):
What is why did the UAW go on strike? Why
did SAG go on strike? Why did our teachers go
on strike?

Speaker 3 (41:10):
We came down there on your picket line, by the way, hey.

Speaker 9 (41:13):
Thank you, We appreciate you. 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 (41:37):
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 (41:48):
Yes, so 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 all of those communication skills that they've developed

(42:11):
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 of
issues that workers are 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

(42:33):
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 quiet.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
And like bargaining does that at a certain point.

Speaker 9 (42:56):
An hour into it, it's so noisy 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 (43:16):
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 (43:28):
Yes, we bring it to them and yes, and they
feel it.

Speaker 5 (43:32):
Right.

Speaker 9 (43:32):
You think that four hours is not enough.

Speaker 5 (43:35):
It is.

Speaker 9 (43:36):
It really is right, like they instinctively get it because
they are they are you know, they are eighteen years old.
Seventeen years old.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
This is my favorite one. This is my favorite the
world collective bargaining. Again, 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. Getting

(44:09):
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 right a

(44:29):
couple of years earlier anyway, But you know, like, what's
your what do you what's your feel for that?

Speaker 6 (44:34):
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 helped with this project. 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

(44:57):
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 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,

(45:18):
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
four hours, it's amazing. It's inspirational for me the kids
that I've met, Like I take these pictures.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
With these kids and they.

Speaker 6 (45:36):
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 they don't know.
And if you explain it as a scenario plays out,
this is what a union does, This is.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
How you react.

Speaker 6 (45:55):
Is this the hill to die?

Speaker 5 (45:56):
On.

Speaker 6 (45:57):
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 we're not
we're not budget.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
This is what we're going to get to that point.
Here's another quote.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
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, we want safety, we want efficiency.

(46:39):
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. For us, the reason why
we've built out this this program is we want to

(47:02):
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 end up landing there,
there's something you could do to organize. Number One, we'll

(47:23):
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, O, I'm
gonna go to college, do you know how many people
that have high degrees Like you just heard Scott on earlier.

(47:46):
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 this is
what you look for is we believe it's just good

(48:06):
for our community and it's good for our social environment.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
And Nicole, you know you what you guys are doing.

Speaker 4 (48:14):
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. Don't forget
we are live on the radio show and call in
if you have any questions, Nicole, any thoughts on that?

Speaker 9 (48:29):
Yeah, I mean I think that interestingly enough. 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 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.
For them to understand the power of having a say

(48:54):
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
collective power right to fight for their fair share. I
think that that's a really powerful, you know moment for

(49:20):
these students.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
Nicole is Nicole.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
How do you deal with pushback?

Speaker 4 (49:26):
Pushback administratively internally, because you know, I've got I had
a son that looked at his book and said.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
We were a cartel.

Speaker 4 (49:33):
Right, that's the opposite side of, you know, a school district,
on the opposite side of wanting.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
To teach what you're doing.

Speaker 4 (49:39):
So I'm assuming you run into some pushback from some
people that may not necessarily agree 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 individuals like you
are doing a great job of making sure this importance

(50:00):
subject is at the forefront. And that doesn't necessarily mean
people are.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Just saying, yeah, I go right ahead and do it.
How do you deal with the pushback?

Speaker 9 (50:08):
So I want to say, first off, that Los Angeles
is a union town, so I haven't heard that point pushback,
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,

(50:28):
this is about creating a win win and companies, organizations
want workers who are going to stay with them, who
are going to continue developing their expertise, who are going
to you know, develop loyalty. Right, That's what makes a
company strongest. And I think that for folks who are

(50:49):
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 team
is kind of sort of hard.

Speaker 4 (51:01):
Yeah, those kids do a great job of playing the
other side, right, because that's the side that.

Speaker 9 (51:06):
They know about, Right, that's the side that they're familiar with,
that sort of like cut throat management.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Perspective, the highway.

Speaker 6 (51:13):
But the good thing about that that 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 3 (51:23):
But what was interesting a sudden you started to become tough,
you know.

Speaker 6 (51:26):
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 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

(51:47):
the people that take care of you. And I think
that was actually it was helpful for me to understand
that aspect of it.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
And you know, it does them understanding it's not that's right.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
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.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
They resolve the issues.

Speaker 4 (52:16):
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,

(52:38):
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

(52:59):
argue to their periors 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 (53:08):
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

(53:32):
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,
and I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
And Nicole, isn't this cool?

Speaker 4 (53:41):
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 in any closing remarks. We got only about a
minute left.

Speaker 9 (54:00):
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, I e's ie high
school folks, bring me, let's go.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
Let's do this.

Speaker 4 (54:22):
So the way you get the word out is to
share our obviously, share our link. It's the Worker Power
Hour with Randy Corgan, CACA one oh six point five FM,
ten fifty AM. Longtime organizer, first time radio host. What
we're doing here is building worker power. Talk with your family,
talk with your friends, talk with your neighbors, ask them
how to build worker power.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
Freddy Corgan signing off.

Speaker 10 (54:49):
CACAA is your CNBC News affiliate where the station that
gets down to business.

Speaker 11 (55:00):
Hi, this is Pastor Adrian McClellan with Jesus is the
Way ministries? Are you now ready to understand the Word
of God in truth instead of by uninformed and misinformed people.
Tune in on Sundays at one pm for the truth.
You will be very grateful that you did see you there.

Speaker 8 (55:21):
There's never been a better time for men to be
whoever they want to be, Yet it's never been less
clear who men really are. Guys Guy Radio, starring author
Robert Manny, is on Caseyaa every Wednesday at eight pm.
Whether it's relationships, sex, wellness, or spirituality, join Robert as

(55:43):
he interviews the experts about how men and women can
be at their best. Guys Guy Radio, Better Men, Better World.

Speaker 12 (55:53):
Memorial Day Weekend is coming up, but it's more than
a three day weekend and a chance to go camping.
This Memorial take some time to honor those who have
sacrificed so that you and your loved ones can live
a better life. Honor them for their service, and you
can still enjoy your holiday too. Make plans to attend
a Memorial Day ceremony near you. Coming up on May
twenty sixth, The Yukaipa Kalamsa Veterans Committee is planning their

(56:16):
annual ceremony starting at ten am at Desert Lawn Memorial
Park in Mortuary. There'll be music, reflections and a dignified
ceremony to honor our veterans, a great lesson for young
people to experience. Desert Lawn is at eleven twenty one
Desert Lawn Drive and Kalamisa between Cherry Valley Boulevard and
Oak Valley Parkway on the ten Freeway and Kalamesa. To

(56:37):
all of our veterans, thank you. Your service is an
inspiration to us all. See you on May twenty six
at ten am at Desert Lawn Memorial Park for the
Yukaipa Kalamsa Annual Veterans Day Ceremony.

Speaker 7 (56:54):
NBC News on KCAA Loma, Lada. Sponsored by Teamsters Local
nineteen thirty two, Protecting the Future of Working Families Teamsters
nineteen thirty two dot org.

Speaker 13 (57:09):
Located in the heart of San Bernardino, California, the Teamsters
Local nineteen thirty two Training Center is designed to train
workers for high demand, good paying jobs and various industries
throughout the Inland Empire. If you want a pathway to
a high paying job and the respect that comes with
a union contract. Visit nineteen thirty two Trainingcenter dot org

(57:32):
to enroll today. That's nineteen thirty two Trainingcenter dot.

Speaker 14 (57:37):
Org for KCAA ten fifty AM, NBC News Radio and
Express one of six point five FM. The sand Manuel
Tribe is going back to its original name. The sand
Manuel Band of Mission Indians has formerly changed its name

(57:59):
to Javatam of San Manuel Nation. The move to return
to the tribal's ancestral name Jehava tah as it reclaims
the tribal spoken language Ma Rayam or Serrano and honors
its heritage as the indigenous people of San Bernardino highlands, passes, valleys, mountains,
and high deserts. It also moves the tribe away from

(58:22):
a former name given to them by the US government.
The name the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians was
given to the tribe in eighteen ninety one, reflecting the
period of US colonization under the Spanish Mission, which leaders
said yielded a long history of depression, trauma, and genocide.
It also confined members to restricted, isolated and unproductive lands.

(58:47):
Lynn Valbuena, chairwoman of the Yehavatam Tribal Council showed that
the name is rooted in their spoken language, deeply embedded
in their heritage, and carries the wisdom of resilience of
their ancestors. UPS, the package delivery company, is set to
cut twenty thousand jobs close some facilities as it reduces

(59:07):
Amazon shipment handling. UPS anticipates closing seventy three lease and
owned buildings by the end of June and may identify
more buildings to be closed. They have not shared what
regions the cuts will take place, just that they are
coming whether in the Inland Empire. Will be partly sunny
and breezy, with highs in the mid seventies and lows

(59:28):
in the low fifties. For NBC News Radio KCAA ten
fifty AM and Express one oh six point five FM,
I'm Lillian Vasquez and Europe to Dates.

Speaker 10 (59:42):
Hey you yeah, you do? You know where you are? Well,
you've done it. Now you're listening to KCAA Loma Linda,
your CNBC news station, So expect the unexpected.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
MHM, It's time with a Rick Smith show. Now Here
is the voice of the working class
Advertise With Us

Popular Podcasts

Fudd Around And Find Out

Fudd Around And Find Out

UConn basketball star Azzi Fudd brings her championship swag to iHeart Women’s Sports with Fudd Around and Find Out, a weekly podcast that takes fans along for the ride as Azzi spends her final year of college trying to reclaim the National Championship and prepare to be a first round WNBA draft pick. Ever wonder what it’s like to be a world-class athlete in the public spotlight while still managing schoolwork, friendships and family time? It’s time to Fudd Around and Find Out!

Crime Junkie

Crime Junkie

Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.

The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club

The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!

Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.