KCAA: The Worker Power Hour (Tue, 29 Apr, 2025)

KCAA: The Worker Power Hour on Tue, 29 Apr, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The time of day.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
This is CACAA.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
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.

(00:27):
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. Since then, he's helped thousands organized, 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

(00:49):
towards victory. This is the Worker Power Hour, and now
here's the host of the show, Randy Corrigan.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Good afternoon, Everybody Hour Hour with Randy Corgan. Longtime organizer,
first time radio host. As I'll always say, I've got
plenty of time to say this, I can say that
I've only been doing this for a short period of time,
so all of my missteps and mishaps can can be
blamed on my rookie status. I ain't that right, Frank.

(01:18):
So you know with that, we're you know, obviously having
a conversation about unions and how we connect to working
people and making sure that the community understands this collective.
Here's something I haven't talked about is the new k
c AA app. This is k c AA ten fifty
AM and one oh six point five FM. The stations
we can listen be listened to live, but there's you

(01:40):
can also listen live on the KCAA app. That's been
pretty good engagement and U you know, we we appreciate that.
You know that technology is going to help us out.
Last week's show, we start off the show by talking
a little bit about a recap of last week's show.
We had Chief Munsey on. He did a great job

(02:02):
of explaining the fire district, the scope of the fire
district and all the different things that the fire district does,
and you know, it goes beyond just fighting fires. And
I think people really got a better understanding and a
deeper appreciation for how much work the support staff firefighters

(02:23):
do all that infrastructure around fire safety, fire suppression, and
essentially safety in Samardino County, which is you know, I
mean it's enormous, right, It's it's larger than you know,
six other states geographically, and he said, you can put
the three small estates together and still fit within the
geographical borders that you know, sometimes we forget how big

(02:46):
Samardino County is. It's immense. And you know, they're facing
a ballot measure measure w that if it passes, forty
six million dollars a year will be cut from their budget,
and you know, clearly that's some than that is not
a good thing, especially when it comes to response times
in a lot of rural areas or even in you know,

(03:08):
even in sam Mandino itself and some of the other
areas that you think you're not going to get negatively impacted.
And I think we it was a good show to
talk about all of the different elements of what the
fire district does. We really appreciate Chief Munsey coming on
the week before, we had had Letty and Alicia come

(03:32):
on who worked for the fire district and got to
hear about their jobs. They did support work, so it
was great to tie all that stuff together. We also
had Citrone on a team Servantage partner restaurant in Redlands,
and I really want to do a shout out to them.
They squeezed me in on Valentine's Day. My wife and

(03:52):
I were able to get in and we had an
amazing dinner. Man, their pork chops were great, their veal
was great. There all their appetizers were great. And and
I forgot how great their appetizer was when we met
with them last week and we talked about their uh
their food specifically their their their garlic bread, their garlic

(04:13):
cheese bread. Oh my god, I mean just like unbelievable.
And there was no ki It was like melted in
your mouth and it was just all the food was amazing.
It was just a reminder how how great that restaurant is.
It's a it's a it's a favorite of a lot
of people here in Redlands.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
And I also was corrected and uh uh yeah, you
can come on in. Don go ahead and sit down,
like we got her. We got her, got her guest
that we're gonna have at the backside of the hour
just walked in on us and interrupted us. You know,
it's okay, don, I'm just giving you our time. But yeah, Strone,
I had really I realized I've been mispronouncing it all

(04:54):
I would say in Citrons with an S, and I
got corrected a couple of times last week. So I'm
make sure that from now on I pronounce it correct.
It's citrone. And again, great food, great Teamster advantage partner,
great atmosphere when you get when you go to dinner there,
and obviously Teamster members and part of the Teamster Advantage network,

(05:15):
our members get a ten percent discount when they go
to you know, obviously partake in food at Citron, so
we really appreciate that. Next part of my show is
for us to get into the three Teamster jobs. Many
of you probably watched the Super Bowl, and for those
of you that don't know, which is probably almost all

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of you listening, if you looked at the field, all
of your field maintenance people that make sure that that
field itself is taken care of and groomed and maintained
are all teamsters. Those are teamsters from Teamsters Local six
thirty one. So you all got to watch how great
teamsters are at making sure that that field is taking

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care of that Allegiance there in Las Vegas, and it
takes them approximately six hours to roll the field in
from the outside because it's natural grass and it's taking
care of outside, and then rolled in on like a
huge machine that's got these big rollers and all of
the staff that takes care of I mean, imagine taking

(06:20):
a football field and rolling it. That's what they do.
It's just it's incredible what these teamsters do. And you
got to see it firsthand live last Sunday. And I
don't want to make anybody mad, but I'm so glad
that the Chiefs beat the Niners, just because I just
don't like the forty nine ers. So go Chiefs. I'm

(06:42):
now a Chiefs fan. Everybody gives me a hard time
because they say I'm a bandwagon jumping or a jump
from team to team. No, I actually just root for
who beats the teams I don't like. When it comes
to football, the next job may surprise you, and if
it doesn't surprise you, try to appreciate them because this
is a really tough job. School bus drivers, most of

(07:02):
your school bus drivers are teamsters. Most of your school
bus drivers that work for either cities and then a
lot of actually municipal drivers as well, but school bus drivers.
You got to really hand it to school bus drivers.
You know, you got a bunch of kids on I
remember myself at that age when I rode the bus.
I mean, I can't imagine having to deal with me
and then having a whole bus full of me when

(07:25):
I was that age. So, you know, let's shout out
to the school bus drivers. They do a great job
of taking care of our very patient. They take care
of our kids on that ride. They're typically very patient
with them, and they do a great job of caring
for our children as they're going to and from school
or events or you know, field trips and all the
other different things that they do. So good shout out

(07:46):
to them. That's a tough job. I really appreciate the
work you do. Here's another one, a little known fact
here del Monte canned fruits and vegetables as well as
the produce distribution is all handled by teamsters. So when
you next time you're in the grocery store and you
see Delmani canned fruit and vegetables, those are teamster jobs

(08:09):
and those are six thirty members and many of those members,
you know, have worked in the cannery industry their entire life.
They enjoy a good teamster pension and retiree medical. So
when you go to a grocery store and you see
the del Moni canned fruit or sticker on freshpruce, member
then a teamster and try to buy that first. Don't

(08:30):
buy the cheaper one, buy the good one. Because we
know that those workers are being taken care of. We
know they got retirement plants, we know they got good healthcare.
And instead of sometimes you know, saving ten cents on
a can of fruit or vegetables, let's make sure we
take care of those who take care of us. And
so with that, I'll transition into current labor news. I

(08:54):
think the biggest thing that we can highlight right now
is the Reichs have hit a twenty three year high
in according to the Labor Department. And so say, oh,
why is that a great thing to celebrate? Well, I
think that what it demonstrates is that, you know, there's
a lot of challenges that are happening for workers, and

(09:15):
workers you know you can't you can't put them in
a situation where first of all, you you minimize the
value of their job. One two you put them in
a situation where healthcare isn't affordable and then there's not
a lot of pathways to retirement. And so when you
see industries have shifted from from you know, having a

(09:38):
lot of good jobs, good middle class jobs, to then
moving into the say temporary contingent workforce being subcontracted out,
you see a very massive expansion of that and a
reduction and really good long term jobs that are going
to stay in the community and provide for good middle

(09:59):
class wages, for people to buy homes, for people to
buy vehicles, and be very connected to their community economically,
and that the money circulates through an economy in a
very positive way. And so we can see statistically where
wages have sagged for a very long time, specifically in

(10:19):
the private sector, and as a result of those wages sagging,
I mean, think about it. You know, I was actually
I had to correct somebody that was running for Congress
the other day at a meeting I spoke at a
week and a half ago. They were talking about warehouses
being transitional jobs or warehouse work not being you know,
they were comparing it to the say, a fast food job.

(10:40):
And the reality is is, you know, there's an argument
to say that working in a fast food restaurant shouldn't
be a transitional job. Aside from that me growing up,
that was a job. That was a job that you
did when you were in your teens, and then you
worked to go some other direction. But warehouse jobs are
jobs in transportation, which is the primary vehicle of jobs

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here in the Inland Empire. When those are devalued down
to a level in which when you work in those
operations you can't even buy a home in the area,
something's wrong. And it's not just in the Ie, it's
in all parts of the country. And when you have
devalued jobs to that level, workers are going to say, hey,

(11:23):
wait a minute, what can we do to get this
back to square? What can we do to deal with that?
And that's clearly usually where labor disputes start to happen. Now,
So yeah, everybody understands, you don't just run around having
labor disputes all the time. They need to be entered into,
you know, very cautiously and in a way in which
everybody understands the process and recognize of the two parts,

(11:46):
the two sides to this dispute are completely at odds
and won't get to a resolution and workers in this
country have a right to withhold their labor if they
feel that that is not fair, that the exchange for
their time is not fair. Many will say, well, just
move on and get another job. Well, guess what. We
can look back statistically and we can see the last

(12:09):
forty years they've been treated that way and as a result,
wages have sagged tremendously because the attitude was we'll just
go find another job. Well, the Inland Empire shows us
that there are plenty of those jobs. The problem is
there's not plenty of good jobs. Because when I first
started working in a warehouse when I was in my teens,
those jobs were good middle class jobs and you could

(12:30):
buy a home. As soon as I was eighteen nineteen
twenty years old, I could I qualify to purchase a home,
purchase a car. And now you go into those jobs
and those jobs don't pay enough on average unless they're
a union warehouse. If they're a union warehouse, you make
enough money to buy a home. You make enough money
to be able to anchor down in the community and

(12:50):
not have to bounce around from job to job. So
the reason why, and at least in my opinion, strikes
have hit a twenty three year high, according to Labor Department,
is because of those pressures that have happened, and quite
frankly to many of the big businesses and big corporations
have kind of gotten away with murder and they have
been able to push down those wages and devalue jobs.

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And at the end of the day, you know, we
need to make sure that there's a fair enough balance
because the more people that are earning enough money to
buy homes and to buy goods and services in a
particular area, that money circulates through the economy, the local
economy and small businesses do well, and teams to advantage

(13:34):
partners do well, and people are able to go to
concerts and all those other good things and have extra
activities and go on vacations, and so you know, the
surge and strike activity represents a major rebound from the
decline from post twenty twenty and you know, as a result,
you know, you saw a sag in that and there
wasn't a lot of the activity and now that activity

(13:55):
is increased. And it appears to be that education and
health services sector has a counted for the majority of
the work stoppages. You see a lot of workers that
are in healthcare. You see a lot of workers that
are in service industries that you know, it's just there.
It's a tough job. You're dealing with the public, or

(14:16):
you're dealing with with especially in healthcare, you're dealing with
people's lives, and you know they want to make sure
that their time is valued, and they want to make
sure that the not just your time is valued today,
but is your time value to the point of retirement?
Where is the where do we pull the trigger on retiring?
Is it I have to work? Tell them seventy five

(14:37):
Like especially if you if you use the Inland Empire
as an example with with hundreds of thousands of warehouse jobs.
Those jobs break your body down. And if you work
in that job your entire career, which many of you
listening here, I know you've been working with you. We
all started together when we were in our teens, and

(14:57):
many of you are still working in those warehouses. That's
very physical labor. And excuse it, a ups driver. No
one's ever seen a lazy ups driver. I'd love for
someone to come on the show and tell me they
know a lazy ups driver, because they really don't exist,
but they hustle every day. You know, they're jumping out
of the truck, they're jumping in the truck, they're grabbing packages,
they're carrying this, they're carrying that, they're moving this, they're

(15:18):
moving stuff around. And so that's that physical labor of
jumping in and out of the vehicle, your ankles, your knees,
your back, over and over again. Decades and decades and decades.
It hits you pretty hard, especially when we start getting
I'm feeling it really in my fifties now, and not
that I had to do that physical labor. I actually
appreciate the fact that I didn't. So you know, those

(15:39):
of you that did, you know, having an early retirement
vehicle or a vehicle that enables me after thirty years
or you know, twenty five, thirty thirty two, thirty four
years to be able to pull the plug is our
our vehicles that should be there for working people. That
it is not expecting too much that if you dedicate

(16:00):
a large portion of your adult life you give up
your physical body in your mind to make sure that
companies are profitable, that there's a fair exchange that not
only at the time in which I'm doing the work,
but there's an end game to it as well, that
I can retire in dignity and that if I going
into a health issue at the very end that I don't,
I'm not forced into poverty as a result of being

(16:22):
able to not being able to afford the medical bills
or any of this stuff around healthcare and those costs.
And we can see that workers are starting to recognize
this a little bit more today, actually by twenty percent
more today than they were let's just stay two decades ago.
And a lot of it has to be has a

(16:44):
lot of it has to do with let's just use
a cost of healthcare for the average worker is just skyrocketed,
and it's incredibly a dangerous situation. I just think, you know, obviously,
if you're in a union, that's a different it looks
very different for you. But the average person is facing
the situations that then creeps in and affects the union
contracts in a negative way. And you know, these workers

(17:06):
are saying enough's enough, and they're saying, you know, we
want you to be profitable, but we want to share
in the wealth, and we also it's it's also a
lot of times, like we found with our guests on
the show from the from from the actors strike, it
was about AI. You know, it was about other things
other than money. It's a lot of times it's working

(17:28):
conditions and it's making sure that someone's working in a
safe environment and that their future is taken care of
in other ways other than just what looks like in
your paycheck. So workers are really coming together and I
think that it's you know, this is something that more
workers should do, more worker should talk about. And you know,
we're the wealthiest country on the face of the planet.

(17:50):
These big companies can afford to do a little more
for workers. I understand some people may not want to
hear me say that, but no union wants to bankrupt
the other side. We just don't. We want to make
sure that those organizations are operational and profitable. The arguments
usually how profitable should the workers be too, And we

(18:13):
just got to make sure there's a fair balance. And
hopefully what will happen is the issue settles down a
little bit as a result of more employers doing the
right thing and contributing more in these in this space.
And so this is the worker power our CASEAA one
or six point five FM ten fifty AM now Frank,

(18:35):
I'm probably going to go to break a little bit early.
But what I'd like to do is transition into our
Teamster Advantage partner before we do go to break, and
maybe we'll go a little long. It depends on on depends.
I'll talk ittive. Andrea is and so we have Andrea
from the Samernardino Sympia Symphony Orchestra. She's a Teamster Advantaged partner.
Her organization's a Teamster Advantaged partner, and it's Andrea de Leon.

(18:59):
Everybody's heard from me enough. Tell us about your organization.

Speaker 5 (19:03):
Well, goodness, gracious, thank you so much for having us,
and thank you to your team STIRS Advantage team for
even including us in such a beautiful opportunity. We want
to serve the community as much as we want the
community to be at concerts and enjoying life. And we
kind of look at it as quality of life and
why community, actually, you know, works so hard. Why do

(19:24):
we work so hard? So spend spend time with.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Our family, right, have a little vacation or spend some
time right exactly.

Speaker 5 (19:30):
So we came on as a team Stir Advantage Program
a partner last year. All of your members should know
that they just go to our website and when they
go in and put the code tap twenty, they get
twenty percent off of all.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Of our concerts.

Speaker 6 (19:46):
Right.

Speaker 5 (19:47):
Yes pays to be yes, It pays to be a
team stirs, and it pays to have a great partnership.
We really appreciate you guys.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
So tell us about some of the shows you guys do.

Speaker 5 (19:59):
Thanks so much, because we are kicking off our twenty
twenty four season and that's why we're here to let
you know that not just the season is starting, but
we're starting out on March second. And really cool part
that I wanted to make sure I let you guys
know about March second and a couple of the other
concerts is that it is family friendly. It is the

(20:19):
best night you can spend with your kids. If you
thinking that you want them to visit a college campus,
that's the opportunity to do it. It's at Valley College.
It's in the auditorium there at three o'clock, three o'clock
show in a seven thirty PM show, So you could
do either day or evening your choice. But this is Americana.

(20:39):
This is an Americana show that you're not going to
want to miss. This is Rhapsody in Blue turns one
hundred years old, and it's going to be a phenomenal
concert with an amazing pianist. And then we're also going
to go into some tributes to those composers who we
know today, Aretha Frankelentina Turner, It's going to be Simon

(21:01):
and Garfunkle. We're gonna have a fun.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Fun This is second.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
This is on March second at Valley College on a
Saturday afternoon. What are you doing? Come on out, you know,
let's have some fun and listen to some music together.
It's going to be a great time. And I'm gonna
go through a few others if you don't mind, sure.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
But what is your favorite show from last year?

Speaker 5 (21:20):
Okay, so honestly, it's the favorite show of all time everybody.
We're already selling tickets for this year's movies with the Maestroka.
It will be on October twenty sixth. Last year was
a full house. You really need to get your tickets
early because it goes fast, and we encourage all kids

(21:40):
to show up with their life favors. Oh boy, oh yeah,
because this is the music that you hear in movies
and of course, John Williams and Star Wars and Indiana
Jones are just top of the list of the things
that you get to listen to when we talk about
symphony music, and it makes me remember to tell you

(22:01):
that one of the things I wanted your members to
know and for any listener out there to know, is
that you're practically listening to today's orchestral music all of
the time, whether you're watching movies or whether you're a
gamer and you're playing your favorite game, and you know
that music is going on in the background and you're
just memorized it already. That's today's symphonic orchestra music. So

(22:23):
really are good than Yeah, you're going to have fun.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
We learned something new every day and today was on
this show. That's good.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
So last year's show was packed and this year's show
will be again.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
I see a Christmas festival too on the list we do.

Speaker 5 (22:35):
We have a Christmas Festival every year and another great
show that will be held at the historic California Theater
of Arts downtown Sapornino. It's just beautiful, beautiful theater, but
the sound quality is second to none. And I should
just mention here because I told you. I would mention
this earlier.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
Wait, that is that it right?

Speaker 5 (22:56):
That is that we have Union music and we have
Union stage hands hands, and so everybody in there is,
you know, working hard to provide this quality entertainment to everybody.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
But do you have bartenders?

Speaker 5 (23:13):
You know that that's got to be a question. That's
you know, I'll have to ask them next time I
buy a drink.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
So I see a jazz festival in September.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
Jazz Festival, amazing concert with Elephitzgerald chet Baker. Maestro brings
the best quality musicians to us. And each one of
these shows are just filled a room filled with music
that you know, music that you don't know, something to
make you think a little bit, like the Elephitzgerald and

(23:49):
chet Baker show. The first show that we have on
March second will include some some programs and music from
the Color Purple as well as from Ragtime. So just
kind of some true Americana, you know, reminiscence of some
jazz that you'll all know.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
That's great. So it looks like you have throughout the year.
You have six concerts, right, six shows, and it looks
like you moved the venue around. Is that correct?

Speaker 5 (24:19):
We do so last year we had three different sites.
This year we're going to do two sites, so it'll
transfer back and forth between the California Theater and Valley
College and our big, big annual concert. And your next
guest actually attended our concert last year and I think
she came up on stage in the whole nine yards.

(24:42):
America the Beautiful was by our county supervisor. America the
Beautiful a huge concert. Well, we probably had twenty five
hundred people out there this past year. We expected to
exceed four thousand people this upcoming year. It is food trucks,
it is fireworks. It's a a big deal to be
able to take your kids on campus and to be
able to walk on the football field and it's just

(25:05):
a fun, fun time.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Well, Andrea, this has been great having you on. We
really enjoy the partnership with all the small businesses and
organizations in the region. For those that don't know, we
have more than a thousand that are connected to the system,
and we advertise to all of our members for free.
Obviously we do this goes to even more than our
members on the radio show, and we just feel like

(25:30):
it's part of our responsibility to the community in utilizing
our platform to make sure that you know, instead of
going to Disneyland and spending the gazillion dollars, you can
get typically for much something, much more affordable entertainment right
here in our backyard.

Speaker 5 (25:47):
Right, I have to remind you that you can buy
tickets from twenty dollars to one hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
That's easy, piec right, but d dollars at the top, right.

Speaker 5 (25:55):
One hundred dollars at the top.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Every time you.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
Can go to Disneyland Fall six concerts for less than
one hundred and sixty dollars.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Oh my, that is great. It's amazing and no parking
for the family to be able to get together, go
to an event, hang out. Great teamster Advan See, this
is the conversation we want to have on a show
like this. Thank you, how how anything you want to
close your comments on on I.

Speaker 5 (26:19):
Would say that the best part about it is the
is talking about the quality. I want everybody to leave.
I want to leave you with what's really important here?

Speaker 1 (26:31):
This is and it was amazing. Right, we'll have her
when she comes on and she gets a microphone, but
we're going to have her talk about isn't it. I
always love how this show connects like this. Sometimes not
even expecting it, don comes in. She's going to show
the other she was at the last one show. Now
she gets to talk about being at an event that
did a team stur advantage partner just talked about.

Speaker 5 (26:50):
So if I could just take a quick second and
just say.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
That that's my show, I get to do whatever I want.

Speaker 5 (26:55):
I love it is that maestro is Anthony Parker and
he is a world where down maestro and conductor. He
conducted the music on the Oppenheimer music on the Open
Hire movie. You probably just recently saw Avatar. He's amazing
and he brings quality to our region.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, that's a that's a heavy hitter. That's that's that's
your hit. Great. So this is the Samardino Symphony Orchestra.
You can get tickets go to their website. Obviously it's
a very affordable event. Andrea, thanks for being here. That
you did a great job of explaining all this. Hopefully
you weren't nervous. You did sure didn't come across as

(27:33):
if you were. And we really appreciate the partnership and
every single week we try to make sure we have
one or two team Surdvantage partners on and celebrate the
small businesses and organizations in the area. This is the
worker power our CASEAA one oh six point five FM
ten fifty am. We're gonna go to break. See you
on the other side of the break.

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Speaker 1 (28:33):
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Speaker 6 (30:01):
Carefully, casey AA, this.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Is Randy Corgan with the Worker Power Hour. We have
around the backside of the hour, we have Don Rowe
with us, who is County Board of Supervisor District three. Correct, Yes, sir, Yes.
Sometimes I'll be honest with you now, I'm getting older.
I can't remember all the districts and this and that,
and it's you know, the Senate forty one and Assembly

(30:34):
this and Counsel this.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
It's sometimes a lot.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah. Sometimes it's just I feel like my brain feels
like a shot glass that a gallon of something's being
poured into, and I just know the numbers sometimes go
so I guess this one right, I got it right.
We're happy to be joined by Don Raoe. She's been
a great partner for Teamsters Local nineteen thirty two. She's
been great to the community for a long period of time.

(31:00):
And you know, we didn't start off our relationship in
a way that we knew each other really well. And
as time went on, I think that everybody's kind of
got to know each other in a way that's been
very productive. I'll get into some of that stuff in
a little bit, but I really want to start. I'll
let you talk about introduce yourself and your history and

(31:21):
all that. But man, what a great connection on our
team's advantage partner. Just now you're sitting in waiting in
to chime in, and you were actually at a concert
that our team's advantaged partner was talking about. How was
that concert?

Speaker 8 (31:32):
Now?

Speaker 9 (31:32):
It was truly first class. It's amazing to show up.
I didn't. It was my first time going and I
had no idea what we were in for. My husband
was with me, and I thought, oh, we'll just go
listen to some music. I'm like, wow, this takes place
in San Bernardino, and it is awesome.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
That's why we have this platform, is what we really
want to do is encourage people to look internal, to
look right here in your backyard. There's so many good
things happening in our backyard. We just got to talk
about them.

Speaker 9 (32:01):
We got to appreciate lovely events.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
What was your favorite part about it all?

Speaker 9 (32:05):
Seeing all the people, the kids, the families, eating dinner outside,
enjoying the open air, and you you feel like you're
in Hollywood. I mean, it was really amazing.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
It is. We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna call it
our little Hollywood. How's that? It's our show we get
to do whatever we want. So Kelly board a supervisor.
That's a big deal. You're you're a heavy hitter in
this area. You're you know, to say that person you
say that I'm most influential woman in this area.

Speaker 9 (32:36):
I'm just happy to serve. I had no idea what
I was getting myself into.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
You did not.

Speaker 9 (32:41):
I did not No. I just show up and try
to learn and work and go where I'm needed.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
You know, But you've done a great job with the role.
And here's here's my perspective on it. Whenever I call
you and I bring up an issue that's coming before
you to vote on, and sometimes it directly impacts our members,
and sometimes it directs it impacts the community. You always listen.
You give me kind of a brief explanation as to
where you're at at the particular moment, and you're always

(33:07):
willing to hear more information. And the most I think
the most positive thing about you, don is you're always
willing to change your mind with the proper information.

Speaker 9 (33:16):
I will tell people I work hard, I'm accessible, and
I'm open minded, but I may not always agree, and
if I don't, I'll still listen and try to figure
out why I disagree or why we may not agree,
and then articulate that back respectfully.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah, and I'll say this on behalf of the members
we represent in the county, which is clearly, you know,
the big portion of the entire county, over twelve thousand.
Your support on some policy stuff directly impacting the MoU
for our members are game changers, and we absolutely appreciate

(33:55):
you understanding how we approached it, because obviously when it
came to the retiring meta subsidy and a lot of things,
we've approached it in a very unique way, in a
way that didn't create additional liabilities for the county, and
it was approached in a way that was creative, in
a positive way. And your support was absolutely had to

(34:18):
be there, and it was there, and our members probably
can't thank you enough for that support, so I can.

Speaker 9 (34:25):
So and I appreciate that. At the county, it felt
like when I got there, we started with no, and
then we worked our way back to how to get
to yes and trying to change that culture of I
want to say yes, I don't know how to get there,
but let's start with that and then kind of work
our way back and figure out if we can't make

(34:45):
it happen, why not. So I think that's a culture change.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
And that's exactly how the conversations happened. Some of the
conversations we had in the beginning of the relationship when
you became Board of Supervisor were well, I'm a no
on a subject. It wasn't the retire medical something else,
and it was like, okay, well, what's going to change
my mind? And as we worked through and gave more information,
had more dialogue and you you work even more closely

(35:10):
with Kathleen Brennan and are president. She she she calls you.
You guys have a great relationship. Yeah, and we really
we really appreciate that. By the way, she was she
couldn't be here because there was an emergency in the county.
By the way, they had a server go down and
she was supposed to be there. Yeah, she was supposed
to be here. But as usual, you know, she she
rises to the occasion and make sure that she takes
care of the county. Anyway, for you to always work

(35:33):
through it in that way, very problem solving, very pragmatic,
not always the case that we experience with electeds.

Speaker 9 (35:41):
So it's fascinating. I had no idea. I had no
preconceived notion what a supervisor should be.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Like or it's a lot of stuff, what was.

Speaker 9 (35:49):
Going to be like? So I'm just me. I remember
I was corrected and said, somebody said, don't let them
call you, don let them call you supervisor. I'm like,
but I'm done, But.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
I'm done, right. So you're also very humble, and I
think everybody appreciates that. Our members really appreciate that as well.
It's a tough job being board superprisor like, I don't
know why anybody would want that.

Speaker 9 (36:10):
It's a lot.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
I'm telling you.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
We'll tell you.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
It's crazy what you are.

Speaker 9 (36:12):
Well, you know what, if I could share some of
the stories with you over time, you would because it's
rewarding the people that call our office that are appreciative
for the help that they've received from me or my team.
It's they wouldn't have had that assistance if we weren't there,
And that's what makes you want to get up and
do the job every day.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Yeah. I just the reason why I say it is
I think it's important for us to appreciate the difficulties
of your role. I think it's not just yours but
county employees, Yeah, somebody, the fire district, whatever these things are.
In our current society, we have really started to take
things for granted that are so close to us because

(36:52):
they were kind of automatic. We didn't have to build them.
And if you don't have to build something and create
the infrastructure for it, you kind of take a lot
of that for ranted. The county has so much infrastructure
that it's responsible for so many services that it's responsible
for all the committees you have to sit on, all
the organizations you have to interact with. It is the

(37:13):
five of you are running and gunning in fifteen different
directions every single day.

Speaker 9 (37:18):
Most people, I come to find out don't care who's
who makes the rule. They just need their problem solved
and ah good. Maybe sixty percent of information or problems
that come to me or my office are unrelated to
the county. There are other jurisdictions that have caused a
problem for someone. Could be a restaurant owner, could be justsident,

(37:41):
a resident that needs a pothole paved and all of
those things. Could be caltrans. It could be the federal government.
It could be a local city that's incorporated and they
don't care if it's they just know how to get
in touch with us, or were the first person that
they've bumped into since they had a problem. They don't
want to know. They don't want us to do this,
they want us to start.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
They don't want to see at somebody point the finger.
It's not my fault.

Speaker 9 (38:05):
They if you call our office, we will help you.
We won't tell you if it's not our pothole, will
just get you the information that you need. And so
that's where I think it is. It comes to us
to be like it feels good to help people.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
So, yeah, you were at a meeting at our office.
I think it was last week. One of the things
that we're all working on right now is trying to
get a grocery store into the city of Needles. And
it's really important to get a good grocery store in
that area. Most people don't realize, you know, there's no
grocery store in the City of Needles. I now the
right Aid is announced that they're going to close that
one up as well, and so obviously righte A is

(38:40):
not a grocery store, but the City of Needles is.
You know, if you go down into into have us
through landing. If you if you reach up a little
bit further, you get across the border.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
There.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
You know, not only is there over five thousand residents
in the area that need a grocery store, you have
the secondary part, which is needles grows in side eyes
because of all the weekenders, right, you got the you
got the riders, you know, the side by sides and
the desert riders, and then you get you know, the
boating that happens in the summer, and so you know

(39:10):
it is we appreciate your partnership and that too, because
there's a lot of things that a lot of us
have been doing to try to try to catch the
attention of certain grocery store change.

Speaker 9 (39:20):
Can I plug one?

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Absolutely?

Speaker 9 (39:22):
All right? So I left your office, I had my
team send an email to Pete van Heldon over at
Stater Brothers. Within within ten minutes, I have an appointment
with him to go and she wants to know what
the topic was his scheduler, and I said, well, I'm
working with teamsters to try to see if it's viable
to get a store. There doesn't have to be a

(39:43):
big store. Love to have a pharmacy within the store,
and if the answers, No, that's that's okay, but help
me understand ANSWER's no.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Let us know. We'll go back over there.

Speaker 9 (39:51):
Yeah, well no, let's figure out why it's no. And
it has to be a viable it has to be
a viable business operator. That's what they're They're in business
to make a profit. I understand that, but at least
help me understand it so that we can know what
the threshold is to get a store out there, if
it's possible. So I have that meeting coming up, such
great news, and he was excited to take it when
he found out the reason.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
Absolutely, you know, it's it's sometimes it's a matter of
just connecting the right people to solve a problem. And
so whether it's that or I can tell you Kathleen
is a tremendous amount of respect for Kathleen Brennan, the president,
because there's a lot of times you reach out to
us and you're like, hey, you know, we're having this
challenge within the county. Can you help us with this? Internally?

Speaker 10 (40:31):
For sure?

Speaker 1 (40:32):
And it's a real you know, it's good communication. I
have that with a number of board supervisors as well
as other elected officials or business owners and or you
know operators. You know, the union. Environment's not this thing
where we're scratching each other's eyes out all the time.
It's a real partnership. Most of the time. We're going
to get to a point where sometimes we differ adamantly,

(40:55):
but ninety nine percent of the time we're on the
same page to solve these problems.

Speaker 9 (40:59):
Oh for sure. And a lot of it is just
making sure that we have the open lines of communication.
I remember at some point in the initial days of
the snowstorm when we had County employees that were trapped
in the mountains? Are they burning leaf time up there?
Are they?

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Like?

Speaker 9 (41:12):
That's not appropriate. If they can't get to work, we
can't expect them. So I'm like, hey, Kathleen, I'm thinking
about a dozen different things, but this needs to be
one of them, and I'll get it taken care of.
It might not be today, but I'm thinking about it
and we'll make it happen.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
So let's talk about the snowstorm. You know, I know
that you know there's an election going on right now,
and there's some people that want to criticize. It's always
easy to throw stones at somebody when you weren't doing
the work. The example I like to give is if
you don't have a shovel in your hand, you're and
you're not doing the work. It's very easy to talk
to tell someone else how to operate that shovel, right,
Like you know, understanding the snowstorm from last year and

(41:50):
the unpredictable nature of the size, as well as some
other stuff, there was a lot of preparation that went
into it. There were some challenges that were presented, and
us representing the members that not only helped clear the
road but also donated their time to help the community.

Speaker 9 (42:08):
The commodity points of distribution yep.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Yes, and and just everybody jumping in to help out
and get it done. You could always look at a
very difficult situation and unpack and say, oh, you know,
the supervisors should have done this, or the county should
have done that, or the organization should have done this.
But I can tell you firsthand dealing with the members
that had actually that work for you to deal with

(42:34):
the crisis. Everybody was doing everything they could possibly with
the infrastructure to deal with the challenges that were there.
And regardless of what anybody would say, I'm telling people
you did a good job. With that, you did the
best job you could with the circumstances. That proved to
be true because when the Hillary situation happened and that

(42:54):
next storm came in in September, you guys were right
in front of it, clearing roads, doing certain things, fixing
things that didn't. Emergencies didn't happen, and then clearly we
got hit with some more storm shirt recently. So I'll
shut up now let you because I know you got
a lot of things you can pipe in.

Speaker 9 (43:10):
So it was interesting for me. It was a literally
perfect storm. Timing wise, I had just rotated in as
the chairman of the board about six weeks prior, and
it's in my district, but I had just taken over
that district in the first of January from Supervisor Rutherford
when she turned out, So I knew the whole big bear.
I knew from the Dam East, but from the Dam

(43:30):
West was all new to me, and so I learned
what those neighborhoods were, their challenges, and I learned it
in that rapid response time. It was unfortunate for me
to have the role as the chairman of the Board
at the same time that I'm taken over the new district.
So there was that for me on the front end,
that was a learning curve. It ended up to be
a silver lining because now I know those neighborhoods, ins

(43:52):
and outs, I know the back way around, I know
all the particulars of each of the communities, and there
were things that we identified. You know, our Office of
Emergency Services had really still been in COVID mode. They
had transitioned through that. They did a great job in COVID,
but then all of a sudden, here we are back

(44:12):
to sort of a natural disaster, and it's a pivot
that we didn't pivot fast enough. You know, it's the
first blizzard we've had. What does the blizzard mean? Well,
we all know nowads we know now clearly. And while
we expected a storm, we didn't expect that big of
a storm. And so hindsight's twenty twenty for all of us.

(44:34):
The lessons that we took, we learned we will embed
County Fire into our Office of Emergency Services right from
the get go. That will help. We helped our utility companies,
which as we look back on, I think, should we
do that again? Should we not do that again? Electricity
did not go out for majority of the homeowners during
the storm, which was great. However, we moved our county

(44:56):
public Works plows to be able to get Edison in
the gas company into those downed areas because they didn't
have that equipment themselves, and that caused then a delay
in counting did and then we had so much of
the velocity or the downpour was such that then when
they went back to the roads, it wasn't a plowing
operation because the way to the snow it turned into
a scoop and dump and that's a completely different operation.

(45:19):
So as you look back, is it better that they
had electricity or should we maintain the plows? The jury's
still out.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
On that, but we now have the I'm sorry I
say the electricity to start right, because there's there's too
much that's dependent on electricity in your home if you're stranded.
So I think that you know we can we can
second guess this still till the flows come home.

Speaker 9 (45:40):
Edison will have some plows next time, and.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
What's on the bill have them pay a little bit.

Speaker 9 (45:45):
But we procured more front endloaders and chains for the
front endloaders and operators.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
I noticed the Edison and the gas company and a
few of the other utilities have actually done the same thing.
They put some up there.

Speaker 9 (45:56):
As well that they prepositioned them.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Because you know, it's funny, because tax bears are fickle sometimes.
Oh why is that? You know it doesn't ever snow
up here? Why is that snowplow sitting there for the
last ten years? Get rid of it. We don't need
to pay for it. We don't need to do it.
And then when you get it, I want it?

Speaker 9 (46:12):
Now?

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Where did it go? Why did somebody sell it? That
is the world to live.

Speaker 5 (46:19):
It is.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
So, what's one of the favorite most favorite things about
you being a county supervisor? We've got probably about five minutes,
six minutes, right, Frank nine minutes. Oh, we got even
a little bit more time. What are some of the
favorite things you get to do? Is borders? I mean
you are I mean, I think you're the most powerful
woman in the ie. Is there anybody?

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (46:42):
Come on, yes you are now, So I don't know,
but it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
It doesn't matter, right, there's no powerful where we need
more powerful women.

Speaker 9 (46:51):
You think everybody serves a purpose?

Speaker 1 (46:53):
Absolutely right.

Speaker 9 (46:54):
I'm telling you, as a Christian woman, God put me
here to serve a purpose and a plan for today
at this moment in time, and I'm happy to do it.
You know what, if Kathleen Brennan didn't exist today, we
would have a problem. We'd have probably have a problem
that would be blowing up my phone.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Yeah, I wouldn't have a great partner.

Speaker 9 (47:10):
I would argue, she's probably the most powerful woman at
the moment.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
She's pretty Yeah, she's pretty darn good.

Speaker 9 (47:18):
We also run our different roles.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
But no, but let's not downplay it. Don you know
The reason I bringing it up is because you know
it's you bring uh you were You showed up at
one of our events, a Women's Committee event last year
that you spoke at. We have lorainater her. It's tough
to go after the Loina. Loraina came in and just

(47:40):
rocked the building. You know she is.

Speaker 9 (47:42):
I'm listening to And as I was listening to her,
I got this pit in my stomach. I'm like, Randy, you.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
Did a great job of just slight, slight right into
the conversation. Yeah, and that's why you did a great job.
Like for those of you who don't know, Lorina Gonzalez
is Fletcher Is. She's the head of the labor fed
for the state of California, So she is the person
who's got more power in labor in California. Is a woman,
and she is an unbelievable speaker. She is very passionate

(48:12):
about what she does. She does a great job of
delivering a good message. I can tell she was a
former legislator. She's actually a former labor leader at a
certain point. So she's very well rounded. And having the
two of you as well as others at our union
hall talking to our members and explaining how they can
get involved in the public, you know, arena to run,

(48:33):
potentially run for office in the future and participate in
a positive way in these things. It's just don't downplay
that you have so much more influence then sometimes we realize.

Speaker 9 (48:46):
So I don't have a fear of public speaking. I'm
comfortable talking to any audience. And I mean, it's easier
when you know the material that you're going to be
talking about clearly, right, true. So i walk in and
I'm listening to her and I'm like, oh my, this
is really a tough act to follow. And then I'm
sitting there and I'm like, all right, is it Beth

(49:07):
or Randy that I'm going to give a ration to
when we're done here, because this is so not there.
And I'm like, is this a setup? I'm like, no,
it's not a setup. But it was just the way
it worked out for her schedule, right, She's a tight schedule.
She needed to get in, she need to get out.
And as I'm listening to her, I'm like, what the heck,
what am I going to say that? How do I
I'm like, I can't compare myself to her. Clearly we

(49:28):
have different experiences in different backgrounds. I just need to
share with people who I am. And it's actually so
as I'm sitting there in my mind and I'm like,
all right, I got to think of a couple of
things that I can at least touch on. This is
not going to go well. And so as I stood up,
I'm like, you know, you have a tremendous advocate for labor,

(49:49):
and I know in the beginning, you know I come
from a different background, a different ideological bent than you
know people maybe wanted to embrace in the beginning, like
we should talk about that because this is how we're
making good things happen.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
You killed that message, and I'm looking forward to you
explaining it right now?

Speaker 9 (50:05):
Yeah, So so she gets up there, she is I
would say, pretty liberal in her views. I tend to
be more conservative in my views, right, and not every
team STIR is a Democrat, and so we have some conservatives.
It's what makes the world go round. And if we
can respect the other's views, and if we can do

(50:26):
so with humility and compassion and understanding and open mindedness,
we really do get things for whatever it is we're
working on today. We're working on county and county ploys,
right and businesses. So I'm like, okay, people want in
the labor world, they traditionally like to not want to
embrace me because I tend to come from a more
conservative view for the enemy.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
I know.

Speaker 9 (50:49):
But yeah, so that's and I'm not going to change
who I am. I'm not going to tell you something different,
but I can explain why I feel the way that
I feel. I'm open minded to you know, hearing things out.
And so I really felt it was important because as
you work with legislators or people in governance, it's important
to understand both sides. You don't have to agree, but

(51:12):
just to have the respect for both sides, I think
is exceptionally important in today's day and age, especially when
you flip on the TV and you're listening to the
awfulness that is national politics and I don't like, I
don't want to listen to it. It doesn't motivate me more.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
It can be done with local politics than international stuff.
And that's what we appreciate about the relationship. You told
the story. I don't know if you could do it quickly.
It's when I got three and a half minutes. But
the about how you know, you got to meet the
Teamsters and then you turn out you meet Kathleen, who's
the president of the Teamsters, and you're like, it really
shattered your whole view of like because the narrative that's

(51:51):
made about us is very different. Oh for sure, then
what the truth is?

Speaker 9 (51:55):
Well, and to meet you, I'm like, Okay, he's twelve
feet tall and completely intimidating. There's mister Clean's standing there.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
You know.

Speaker 9 (52:00):
I'm like, oh, I would say that you don't come
off as a teddy bear when you first Yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
You're telling me I'm not warm and fuzzy.

Speaker 9 (52:12):
Oh no, you go to be warm and fuzzy, but
maybe not in the initial thirty seconds just ask.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
My staff how warm and fuzzy. I am not just kidding.

Speaker 9 (52:20):
No, you grow to love you. But it's that first year,
it's the visual I'm like, oh wow. So there was
that intimidating factor. But Kathleen and I started off. She says,
I have a problem. She articulated the problem. I'm like, wow,
that would be a problem for me too. It doesn't
matter what your political party is. That's not human problem.
And it was a working condition issue. I'm like, that's

(52:42):
not fair, it's not right. We should change it. So
I gave her my cell phone. I'm like, listen, I'm
an early riser. She's like, so am. I I'm like,
can you just call and text me early in the
morning before the day gets wild? And we've had that
relationship ever since.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
Yeah, it's been great, you know, being able to have
the connection and the conversation and not having preconceived you know,
boundaries or opinions, and you know, as a board of supervisor,
it's important to always you touched on. It is to
have that empathy and under trying to understand as much

(53:14):
as you can about what's coming at you, because you
can solve the problem with if you have empathy you
can really solve for sure, and to hear you describe
it that way is very appreciative. So you know, we
really appreciate you coming on the show. I appreciate and
we you know, we don't agree on everything. There's obviously
a lot of stuff that you know, we can argue about,

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but we've just found more success trying to occupy the
space where we can agree, where we can solve problems
where we differ. We got to keep, you know, having
those discussions and until we kind of push ourselves into
the space of solving it. It's especially if it's a
bigger problem or a problem that's about to arise.

Speaker 9 (53:52):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
And you are the most powerful woman, I would say, yeah,
Kathleen's the second most powerful woman. You know, maybe you
think she's the first. Cool maybe she's the most powerful.
I think Kathleen is phenomenal. She's she would love to
be I got one minute. She would love to have
been here, but can't because obviously her sheep. She takes
great pride in making sure she does a good job
for the count. She does too, and she's just to

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have her as a president of Teamster's nineteen thirty two,
I couldn't be more proud for her to be our president.

Speaker 9 (54:21):
I will tell you it is an honor to me.
Every team start I've met has been very gracious and
respectful to me, and we've learned so much working together.
I shared this message before, but I'm only going to
do this for maybe four more years, five if you
count this year. We need to find the next person
that wants to run for supervisor. So if I can
do it, that's anybody that's right.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
That's another show I got less than thirty seconds are
going to transition me. This is the worker Power Hours.
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fifty am. What are you doing to build worker power?
Make sure you talk to your family, your friends, and
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NBC News Radio on Michael Kastner. President Trump is marking
his first one hundred days back in office this week
and the run up to the occasion. Trump on Monday
signed a number of executive orders related to his crackdown
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enforcement of federal immigration laws within thirty days. President Trump
will hold a rally in Michigan today to mark the
first one hundred days of his second term. This morning,
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt at the White House.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
He is traveling to Michigan.

Speaker 9 (57:06):
He'll make a stop at the Air Force Base with
Governor Whitmer, and then we will head to a rally
tonight while we'll hear more from him directly, so we'll
see you in Michigan.

Speaker 12 (57:15):
The rally will take place at Makeham Community College in Warren,
that's north of Detroit. About fifty five thousand Los Angeles
County employees are now on strike. David Green is the
president of SEIU Local seven twenty one, whose members have
walked off the job for the first time in the
union's history.

Speaker 8 (57:33):
These folks here are the frontline workers. This is the
safety net. We're serving the most vulnerable citizens of Los Angeles,
including here in General Hospital. We're telling the county to
come back to the cable, bargaining good faith, negotiating good faith.

Speaker 12 (57:45):
The strike is expected to impact services ranging from parks
and libraries to healthcare and social work. Columbia University students, faculty,
and alumni are protesting the school's decision to agree to
a series of Trump administry demands. Scott Pringle reports there
in the middle of a twenty five hour demonstration.

Speaker 10 (58:05):
Columbia previously agreed to a series of federal demands, including
rewriting protest policies and its Middle Eastern Studies program. Professor
Rihanna Anderson is one of those protesting outside the campus
at Morningside Heights.

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