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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 (00:23):
Non sworn law enforcement personnel.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Randy Corgan is a thirty year Teamster who first became
involved in the labor movement by volunteering his time as
an organizer with the Teamsters Union at the age of
twenty one.
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Since then, he's.
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Helped thousands organize, 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. Randy Corgan here, Worker Power Hour. CASEYAA
one or six point five ten fifty A longtime.
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Organizer, first time radio host.
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First, I'd like to talk about last week's show.
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I thought that we.
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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.
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I have gotten a ton of.
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Feedback regarding the discussion that happened on that show from
various spaces, retirees, non union members, existing members, workers, friends,
just It was a show that really exposed some truths
that had been kind of hanging out there for sixty
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seventy years a.
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Lot of people were unaware of.
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And the exchange that's come from it has been very,
very good and very effective. So if you hadn't haven't
listened to it yet, feel free, you know, go back
and take a listen and understand the real history of
right to work in the oxymoron that it is. You know,
they call it right to work. Clearly it's an oxymoron
of a statement. It's not right to work. It's the
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opposite of it, and its origins being of such a
I would call it very disgusting racial beginning, A racist
beginning is quite appalling. I guess 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
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call the right to work organization should be embarrassed by
its history with that. That ties into a discussion that
came off of, which is a bill out of Kentucky,
House Bill five hundred that has 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
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trying to process right now that would trip away lunches,
breaks over time, the way overtime is paid, the way
people pay get paid for their time to go between
a lot of stripping a lot of what is basic issues.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
That bill is actually being ripped apart now.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
The backlash in Kentucky from elected officials and a lot
of obviously residents voters in the state pushed back tremendously
on it, and it probably is going to get pulled back.
But it's an example of when right to work comes
then there's all these other things that come right behind it.
And so when you get a chance to make sure
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you listen to that show, it's very impactful. Had a
ton of very very robust discussions and good feedback in
the way we handled that show and the things that
we talked about. So with that, I always want to
remind you callin Tolfree eight eight eight nine O nine
ten fifty. I've got a really really cool teamster advantage partner.
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This goes all the way back to my childhood, not
just mine, but also Mark's childhood.
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Sometimes he's in here.
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You guys get to hear him speak from Afar in
the mic, from Scott, from Don's Bicycles. And for those
of us that grew up in the ie, there's there.
They're a staple place for where all the kids went,
not just them. There's a couple others will get into
that in a few minutes. But I've also got a
couple other guests on the back side of the hour,
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which is a Nicole Fefferman. She's a social studies teacher
and the director of Young the Young Workers Project, And
I'm going to have our very own Carlos Gonzalez on here, who.
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Helps me come up with our three teamster.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
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
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.
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All of that.
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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 union service symbol there.
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It's another story.
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We'll get into that another show. But even to this day,
you're impacted by teamsters at a gas station when you
see the sticker there with the weights and measures sticker,
at least in Samardino County, and you recognize, Okay, well,
how do I know that I'm actually if I'm paying
for a gallon of gas, that I'm actually getting a gallon?
There are actually individuals that work for the County of
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Sambordino 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
individuals that work for the county, at least in this
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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 Seamster's code enforcement inspectors. They are whether
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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
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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 and 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. Did
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I say that right, Carlos el Pato?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I do? Okay? All right, goody good?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
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 in 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
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six thirty.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
And I actually think that's produced right over here in Ontario. Correct.
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They produce it there and gets canned and manufactured and
sent out. So think a team stir 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
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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. I was like, man, we got to
get that exchange on the live on the air because
it's just really excited about having Don's on here. Actually
been looking forward to it for a while. Anyway, in
recent news, current labor news, the first thing I want
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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 things that
they for years as they go to college and a
college would be able to use their skill and let's
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say football players or basketball and they're extremely good at it.
They didn't get paid for that, and you know, these
colleges are making a ton of money on these kids.
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,
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whether it be basketball or football, baseball. They actually have
won the right. It was a few years ago. I
think it was Minnesota was what broke through that for
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
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favor of it, and congratulations to them. Hope all 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.
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The next one is Activision, the gaming software company. Six
hundred workers, just about six hundred workers have unionized at
Microsoft owned Activision. The vote came down three hundred and
ninety out of three hundred ninety eight, So I'm assuming
that went three hundred ninety to eight. That's pretty overwhelming.
So congratulations to those workers that Microsoft owns them. It's
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great to see those workers occupy in that space. Obviously,
Microsoft is 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. I don't
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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 4 (10:34):
Uh.
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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 sides of the aisle politically
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that blow me up.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
And that is Biden his seeks.
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The endorsement of the Teamsters Labor for the Labor vote,
and he interviewed with the Teamsters last week, just as
Trump and others had interviewed with the Teamsters General President,
General Executive Board in Washington, d C.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
In January.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
And so clearly the right thing to do is to
sit down, go through all of the questions and policies
in which elected official is engaging in and making sure
that they match up to working people. We represent more
than a million workers in America, more than a million
families and households, and clearly it's important to know what
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their policy decisions are going to be in this space
and how they're going to be affected. And it's always
ironic to see how everybody in today's day kind of overreacts.
When Trump was at the building a couple months ago,
obviously back in January, all our liberal members are freaking out,
and I'm like, hey, guys, can you chill out, like
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that's our job. Our job is to sit down and
not take a personal preference and to understand where legitimate
candidates are so that in the end a voting process
can happen to decide who is going to be better,
who is believed the leadership is going to be better
for the membership and to represent the membership if they're
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President of the United States or any other you know,
US senator or whatever it may be. And so then
obviously the flip side of it is, you know, then
all the Republicans getting that's, oh, what's going on on?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Gonna got Biden there?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
You know, it's like, hey, guys, like everybody chill out,
like this is part of the process.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
You know.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
It's not like the union votes for you. They don't
ste No one takes your ballot. It's a recommendation.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
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 the or you know, at the president's level, what
executive orders they had passed or refused to pass or
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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.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Workers who are.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
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 areas to get
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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 record
of supporting working people based on facts, not what Facebook
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says in thirteen seconds. So it's really important to break
all that stuff down. The reason I thought it was
interesting to bring it up. I like to have fun
with this conversation because you know, politics always drives.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Good arguments between people.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I think that it's okay to disagree from time to time,
and so let's agree to disagree. Let's be maybe be
spirited about our position, but in the at the end
of the day, recognize that we got to work together
to make this country great. It's not about an individual
that makes it that way. It's about us working together
and coming together that makes this country great. It's a
work or power our CACAA one oh six point five
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FM ten fifty am.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
That now transitions us into our teamster advantage partner. And
before I let him talk, I just got to talk
about how, you know, Giggly, I'm kidding thinking about you know,
all the old bikes that I I had. I hear
that Don's actually has has has a bunch of bikes from.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Our era that are that are at the uh you know,
at the shop.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
You can go in they're on display and take a
look at We'll talk about that in a minute, but
I really appreciate the fact that that Scott, you're here.
We appreciate what your father did. I, for one, remember,
because I grew up in Fontana, it was Rick's Bicycle
City that I always went to because it was closer.
Obviously Don's was a bit further because I lived in Fontana,
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in various parts of Fontana most of my life, and
Rialto was, you know, clearly a bit further away. And
I remember I went there a few times, but for
me it was once a week, me and my brother
had to go to Ricks, right, We had to go
to the bicycle shop. We had to see what the
new hottest thing was. We had to you know, dream
about some of those bikes that were coming off the line,
or what was new happening, or you know, the new tires,
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the new breaks, you know, especially when breaks were handling
the handle break we were just coming out and getting
better and better. It just brings back all kinds of
great memories of being a kid, being active, getting on
my bike and we would just we would disappear for
the for we would just disappear and be gone. We
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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 4 (16:22):
We would.
Speaker 3 (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 4 (16:31):
You know, we ride here and ride there.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
And so with that, Scott tell us about Don's Bike
bicycle shop. I'm so excited to have you here.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Thanks well, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
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 not everybody
can say that. Long history short, my dad opened it up.
I kind of grew up around bikes as a kid, so.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
I would help him out.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
I would do a lot of the purchasing for him,
and I guess I just sort of least learned the
fundamentals of how small business works.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
And five days after my eighteenth.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Birthday, my father passed away. He was actually riding his
bicycle home and he had a heart attack. So that
was kind of a shock to myself and my older
brother and my mom, and it's 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.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Off the air, I found his ledger.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
His first day in business, he did eight dollars and
seventy eight cents, which I think back in nineteen fifty
nine he coul put a deposit on a house I
think back then for.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
That kind of money.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
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 4 (17:49):
Your dad was a mechanic at Norton, right he was.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
He worked two jobs. He was a workaholic. I was gone,
worked crazy hours.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
So yes, he was in the.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Air Force during World War Two and then he also
worked as a mechanic at an Ordin Air Force base
when that was a thing. In addition to running the
bike shop basically kind of a one man operation. Occasionally
you'd 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. We decided to keep it. It was
generating an income, it was getting me through school, so
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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.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Story short, I had to make a decision.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
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 5 (18:46):
So that's kind of.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
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 5 (18:53):
Right, I'll show you this electric mountain biking an exercise.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
You'll actually be a better person because you'll you know
I was, and doorphins all that good stuff'll right, You
won't be up out of each other one hundred percent
I mean there's a lot of there's a lot of
psychology and sales, a lot of psychology.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
And business, and obviously, you know, cycling is a great thing.
It's physical and it's social and it's fun. And as
you're pointing out, it brings back all those memories as kids.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
And you guys are beast you cyclers. Man, I see
you on the road.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I live in you Kaipe and I see all the
time on Wildwood Canyon or Beaumont Avenue seeing you guys
go up that hill. You make me tired of just
watching you as a driving by you.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Well, I'm kind of a roady myself. There's obviously different
categories of bicycles.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
I'm a roadie. I got into roadsycle. It's funny. One
of my first employees.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Raced bikes and each 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 5 (19:42):
I mean, he's just a monster, and that maybe I'll
try that.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
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 5 (19:51):
I was a horrible sprinter, but I was a good climber.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
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 coach
for a while, started riding back and forth to work
every day. It's training basically every day, and UH won
two state titles for California.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
UH.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
In ninety two, I qualified to go to the US
Olympic Trials. So I competed in the US Olympic Trials.
I finished thirty eighth 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.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Go to Then you're no smuck and I everybody knows
who dogs bicycle.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
I appreciate that, right.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
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 won a silver medal in Reo on the vella.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
So that's kind of it.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
And like this is rock Star.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
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 3 (20:57):
Everybody in the bicycle bicycling Communion, that's what they call it.
They everybody knows you. Everybody knows your your establishment because
of all this activity that you do in the community.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Sure, sure, well.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
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, well, what what makes you
give back to your community? And it's simple because my
community gives so much to me. And the thing about
a bike shop, as you know from your childhood, is
that it's kind of like like a barber shop.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
To an extent, it's a special kind of business where
you really get to know people.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah, And and what I always loved about when I
went into ricks kind of like what Mark said about
your dad is knowing your dad. You guys always remember
the kids coming in, right, because we're dreaming about that
next bike, and then you build that relationship with us
at that age, right and then and then as soon
as we got the money, we're like, hey man, I
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need to get those tires, or I need to get this,
you know, this brake set or whatever it may be.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
And that's very valuable, especially.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
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.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I'm sure people do it. I would try it.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Do it well, well, you're right.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
I mean it's it's kind of to an extent in
old fashioned activity, but it's physical, it's social, and it
kind of goes against.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Some of the great exercise.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's great. Cardio doesn't beat you up,
and there's and it's weird. The part of the fund
of this is that we have such a diverse group
of people that we deal with. It's the kids, it's
older people that maybe want electric bike that's.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
A new booming category. Give me that. I want the
bike that's going to drive me.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Around, you know, you you think that, and people.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Like, well, that electric bike it rides itself, doesn't know
it doesn't You still have to pedal, You're still.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Getting to work out. It just kind of extends the
range of what you can do.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
So you're talking about Kape, Well, now you can write
up that hill, You're still gonna go to work out.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Get the electric part of it, take me up the
hill coming down.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Sure, But it's a very diverse group of people, and
just the experiences.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
That we have crazy.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
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.
I had a guy just two weeks ago came in
and he was looking for a mountain bike, and I
could tell there was something just a little.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Off about him.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
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 somebody hid him from behind,
knocked him off his motorcycle. He goes skidding. He said,
I had all my protective armors, so I knew how
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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
it survived.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Though I guess we're chuckling. He survived.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
He survived.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Yeah, but he's lying on the side of the freeway.
And again, not to talk about the dark side of
human nature, but the people that hit him, according to him,
they stole his wallet. They came up, Tom stole as
wall and then left and they went on a spending
spree in Vegas. So the guy that was driving the
truck helped him get you know, they airlifted him out.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
He was in a coma for seven months and he
finally came to and he's on the road to recovery.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Now, I mean, I'm just like my jaws is hitting
the floor, going, oh my god. I mean, these are
the kind of stories that I get to hear, and
to be part of this guy's journey back from hell,
you know, it's just it's an 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 5 (24:44):
But it's so cool.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
So let's talk about some of the bikes that you have.
I know I have a few of them hanging in
my garage from our boys. Yeah, and you know, two
of them now are driving, so the last thing they
want to do is touch a bicycle. But you know,
it's it's it's I've personally purchased bikes from your shop,
and obviously I know a lot of listeners probably have.
(25:06):
And if they haven't, 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 (25:17):
Yes, So again that's another cool.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
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.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
We're pretty much a mountain bike store.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
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 3 (25:42):
Gonna hop on a push bike, but that kid's gonna
grow up and buy it, buy an electric bike.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
That's right. Well, we want to get.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
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 balance, so we'll put them on maybe like
a like a recumbent trike. So there's that category. Electric
bikes again, huge, huge, huge, It's becoming a bigger piece
(26:12):
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.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
The expression on their face when they come back is like,
oh my god. You know, it's like.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Wow, I know, I want one. I do.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
It's so much fun.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
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.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Sold an electric road bike to a lady and her.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Husband's like, yeah, I want, I want to keep up
with my husband here, but he's just faster than I am.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Well, now he's gonna have our time keeping up with her.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
So now that we hear that you got you got
basically every bike that there is to have.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
You know what's uh?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I know that you've been part of the Teamster Advantage
partnership since almost the beginning of us. Yeah, you were
one of the first. We have more than a thousand
small businesses connected that network. Now, I don't know 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
(27:22):
free service to the small businesses, and that partnership has
got a discount. I forget what the discount is. It's
ten percent on parts in labor and and so you
know for us, you know, I always, I always when
I 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
(27:44):
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 has meant for
you in partnering up with us as an organization literally
I think since twenty sixteen or seventeen.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
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. So, no,
it's been a wonderful arrangement. Your people are great. So
we hope this this continues.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
For a long time.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
But yeah, it will as long as we're going to
be around.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
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.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Do we charge you, oh for the radio show.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
No, no, how much do we charge you for the
team servedvantage partnership?
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Boy? You know it's actually it's free. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
No, everybody he believes, like when you first have a conversation,
they're like, how much is it?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
There's got to be a backside gimmick in it, right,
Not at all. No, It's like.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
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.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Go to all these other places.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Go to the local shop and try to figure out
how to make sure that you keep your tax dollars
in the local economy, keep those small businesses, you know,
connected in a way that we do. This is case
AA one O six point five FM, ten fifty am.
It's the Worker Power Hour, Scott. We really want to
thank you for coming on. We appreciate you being here.
Any last couple of words before we go to break.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
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.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
It's gonna blow you away if you had like a
GT or a Dino.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Some of these classic vintage BMX bikes we put together
an amazing museum.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Or was the other one kp ripperk Ripper?
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Yeah, you got a pk Ripper two? We got them all.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Oh yeah, all right, this is the worker power hour.
We're gonna go to break. Let's see you on the
other side. Thanks Frank.
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We're back.
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know this whole thing about toll freeline, is there anything
you know?
Speaker 8 (32:42):
Does?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Do we really need toll free lines anymore? I'm just
I know it's good marketing gimmick, but like everything now,
the way phones work, do you charge.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
To get charged?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
So maybe you'll have another show on that in the future.
I'm really excited about our next couple.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Guests.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
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 have Nicole Fefferman on. We just saw her
(33:20):
zoom in. She is a 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
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has been forgotten at the school level when it comes
to education, high school, junior, high And I remember as
a kid seeing when I was I was in high school,
we were going through the decades for history, and I
remember in the Roaring twenties seeing the Roaring twenties, flipping
the page over on the other side, it was all
about woman and child labor and those things. I remember
(34:06):
all the way 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.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
I got, I gotta.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
I can only laugh at it.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
When my oldest son graduated from before he graduated from
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,
(34:46):
you know, obviously my son, he's my son. He comes
from a labor family. Not only is his mother's side
complete labor family. Like he's 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 4 (35:19):
And so clearly we have the opposite on today.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
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 things thank you all the time to Carlos sitting
here to my left. I don't always say thank you
to Tim because we worked together, so he has to
deal with me on bad days. Anyway, thank you, Nicole
(36:10):
for what you're doing in this space like this is
My team is so complimentary of you and how you
have helped kind of create this space. And what I'd
like for you to do is talk about this relationship
and talk about this partnership and talk about how the
kids have engaged in and understanding what unions are and
(36:32):
understanding labor. And you know, I got a bunch of
questions for you, But Nicole, why don't you start off
by kind of introducing yourself and quickly talking about like
what this is all about. In a nutshell, some of the
things I just described, I can't hear her just so
you know, are you on mute? I guess we should
(36:57):
have tried an audio piece for all right, for all
my listeners, I'm sorry while we figure out this piece, Carlos,
seeing that you're here right now, let's switch over until
we get that fixed. Carlos, what is your.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Like? How do you see this engagement?
Speaker 3 (37:16):
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 Nicole working out?
Speaker 8 (37:28):
Well, we've been looking enough to part with with Nicole
since last year, and I feel the first time was
one of the high schools in San Pedro. She reached
out for volunteers and we're more than happy to help.
And what's exciting is the amount of kids that participate
in this mock bargaining, mock negotiations.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
It's so you're setting up a situation like it's bargaining,
like actually arguing a contract with them.
Speaker 8 (37:55):
It's crazy because a lot of them it's economic classes,
social studies class depending on the teacher and the amount
of kids. And you're talking not a classroom, you're talking
a lunch room. You're talking a conference room typesetting. You're
talking about these kids walking in and understanding contract bargaining,
and it seems like complex, But what you're really teaching
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them is that they have a voice in the workplace,
that unions matter, and that unions are the only thing
through your working career that will give the opportunity to
voice your opinion for you and your family.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Nicole, Can we do it quick test to see if
you're life?
Speaker 9 (38:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Now, yes, we can hear you. Awesome, We're live.
Speaker 9 (38:38):
Hey, that's amazing. 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 to in the last
(39:00):
about month 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 3 (39:12):
Thing to who what are these kids getting out of that, Nicol?
How they how are they reacting to this space?
Speaker 9 (39:18):
Well, I mean, look, I'm a twenty almost twenty year teacher.
I was an SEIU organizer before I became a teacher,
and I worked with the hospital workers and nursing homeworkers,
and so you know, like we're union thugs sort of
like what you were describing right like twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
I don't see you as a union thug, but hey, okay,
I'll buy it.
Speaker 9 (39:44):
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
(40:07):
gates of the builded era, right, and they joined together
across ethnic lines, you know, new immigrants and more established
American families, right, native born American families, And so you know,
my whole career, I have been working to dispel that
(40:28):
very idea that your son experienced in his textbook. I
will say that what is especially gratifying as a labor
person is that, you know, while we can say lots
of bad things about social media. It actually has I think,
in like the last maybe five years, really sort of
(40:49):
turned young people's perception of the labor movement. And so
what I really feel like we're doing at this point
is helping students make sense, right, what is why did
the UAW go on strike? Why did SAG go on strike?
Why did our teachers go on strike?
Speaker 4 (41:11):
We came down there on your piket line, by the way, Hey.
Speaker 9 (41:14):
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 3 (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 (41:49):
Yes, this is so. This is sort of what's really
nice and elegant as a teacher about this collective bargaining
simulation that Carlos has been supporting. Is that working with seniors,
mostly right, students who are on the verge of graduating
from high school, and we are asking them to take
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all of those communication skills that they've developed over their
years in school, take all of their analytical skills that
they have developed through their years in school, and say
to them, great, now, here's a set of issues that
workers are fighting for, and half of you are going
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to be management and half of you are going to
be those union folks, and you all have to figure
out how to make this work at the bargaining table.
And so you know, they are discussing, they are analyzing,
they are strategizing, and Carlos can speak to this like
it's usually about a four hour simulation. It starts off
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real quiet, real.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
Quiet, and like bargaining does that at a certain point
an hour.
Speaker 9 (42:57):
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 3 (43:17):
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 7 (43:33):
Right.
Speaker 9 (43:33):
You think that four hours is not enough, it is.
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 (43:46):
This is my favorite one.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
This is my favorite face the world.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Collective bargaining again, these are these are quotes from the
kids that were in the class. To be able to bargain,
you must think about every re one. Uh, it has
an us, It's an US situation. In other words, the collective.
Getting people to understand the collective is where we get
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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 couple of years earlier anyway, But you know, like,
(44:33):
what's your what do you what's your feel for that?
Speaker 8 (44:35):
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 help 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
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shell and speak up and get them 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
(45:18):
at will, what does that mean? Explaining those types of
things to them and why there's power in a union,
and then to see them get it at the end
of the four hours, it's amazing. It's inspirational for me
the kids that I've met, Like I take these pictures
with these kids and they just share about their lives
(45:38):
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 how you react is this the hill to
die on? They instantly get it right off the bat,
(46:01):
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.
Speaker 4 (46:10):
It down, like we're not we're not budget. This is
what we're going to get to that point. Here's another quote.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
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 the 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 built out this program is we want to build
(47:03):
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 have a whole show
(47:25):
on this at some point in the future. And then
and what the first thing you should do is look
for the one that is a union job, because clearly
a lot of the work's already been done. It's not
all done, but a lot of the work has been done,
and it's a good starting point for you at eighteen
years old if you're going to be in the workforce.
And some say, oh, I'm gonna go to college, do
you know how many people that have high degrees, Like
you just heard Scott on earlier. He's got all these
(47:48):
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, we may end
up still in the workforce in another space and it
still should be good jobs. Teaching people at a young
age that this is what you look for is we
believe it's just good for our community and it's good
(48:09):
for our social environment.
Speaker 4 (48:11):
And Nicole, you know you what you guys are doing.
Speaker 3 (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 (48:30):
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 HOTLG
on a stick and Maria's Italian Kitchen and so and so.
For them to understand the power of having a say
(48:55):
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
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these students.
Speaker 4 (49:23):
Nicole is Nicole. How do you deal with pushback?
Speaker 3 (49:27):
Pushback administratively internally, because you know, I've got I had
a son that looked at his book and said, we.
Speaker 4 (49:33):
Were a cartel.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
Right, that's the opposite side of, you know, a school district,
on the opposite side of wanting.
Speaker 4 (49:39):
To teach what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (49:40):
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.
Speaker 4 (49:47):
Do you deal with that?
Speaker 3 (49:49):
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
important subject is at the forefront.
Speaker 4 (50:02):
And that doesn't necessarily mean people are just saying, yeah,
I go right ahead and do it. How do you
deal with the pushback?
Speaker 9 (50:09):
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.
(50:29):
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
(50:50):
skeptical of this work, you know, the first thing I
would do is to invite them to come and observe.
Speaker 1 (50:56):
Right.
Speaker 9 (50:57):
And Carlos can speak to this, because those management team
has kind of come sort of hard.
Speaker 3 (51:02):
Yeah, those kids do a great job of playing the
other side, right, because that's the.
Speaker 9 (51:07):
Side that they know about, Right, that's the side that
they're familiar with, that sort of like hut throat management
perspective the highway.
Speaker 8 (51:14):
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 4 (51:24):
But what was interesting, Suddenly you started to become tough,
you know.
Speaker 8 (51:27):
What's it was interesting to talk to them about how
that side is about building a relationship, It's about building
trust and about how you need to take care of
your workforce at the same time and within your budgets
and not be you know, there's no sense in taking
pennies back just to try to show the boss. Yeah
I took pennies back. You got to take care of
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the people that take care of you. And I think
that was actually it was helpful for me to understand
that aspect of it.
Speaker 4 (51:56):
And you know, he.
Speaker 5 (51:59):
Does exactly the understanding.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
It's not that's right, It's not all adversarials, not all
everybody's you know, fighting each other. Yeah, you get some disagreements.
At the end of the day, the objective is to
resolve issues. In ninety nine point nine percent of the time,
that's what the sides do, is.
Speaker 4 (52:16):
They resolve the issues.
Speaker 3 (52:17):
There maybe some spirited discussion as you're getting there, but
it's the collective goal is supposed to be to help
those workers get to a better place, and if both
sides have that in mind, will always be there. And
I think that you're you make a very good point
that you know, we jokingly say, oh, the management side,
we hate them those We're all literally joking about that,
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because at the end of the day, teaching those kids
the management side, some of them are going to become managers,
and like a couple of my children are that are
in positions, they absolutely respect the workers because we've taught
them to do that. And they're going to be better managers,
and they're going to have better relationships with their employees,
and they're going to actually be able to argue to
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their superiors in a much more effective manner if they
understand that. We got two minutes left. Any closing remarks,
Carlos and Nicole. Let's start with Carlos.
Speaker 8 (53:09):
I just want to say, you know, thanks to Nicole
and you Randy, because you've actually, you know, been the
forefront here, especially in an empire, bringing labor conversations to
the schools, and it as much as it helps the kids,
it helps us too. So when I get negative or
I have my negative thoughts about the labor movement and
where it's at, coming to these schools and working with
the cole and the other labor activists in there, bringing
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me back to the place of happiness and why I
originally got involved, because every now and then I need
that kick from the butt, you know why you get
involved in and I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (53:41):
And Nicole, isn't this cool?
Speaker 3 (53:42):
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):
I welcome you all to come and do a little
taping of one of these simulations that we've done so
that your listeners can hear just how amazing these conversations are.
And I'm so again, I'm just so thankful that Carlos,
you Randy brought me on here today. Love to get
the word out. And you know, I e IE high
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