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The Teamsters Union at the age of twenty one.
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Since then, Pease helped fous, organized, mobilized, and achieved bargaining rights.
He accomplished this by spending countless hours with brave men
and women all over Southern California and their living rooms
on the picket line to bring workers towards victory. This
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It's just one of those things where you don't want
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You know, you want to welcome back Randy Corgan and
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You know, I was just thinking of that song coming in.
It's perfect for last week.
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To describe last week's show.
Speaker 11 (07:48):
I wanted to break stuff last week.
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That was funny. That's that's that's a nice little intro.
For those of you who don't know, we had our challenges.
I'll talk about that in a minute. Anyway, this is
again Randy Corgan and the Work of Power Our KCA
six point five FM. We're live from sam Bornandino. By
the way, for those of you that don't know, this
is a live radio show that we do. Allow a
podcast to come off of it later and many of
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you may listen to it after the fact. But the
challenges of running a live show are what they are,
and we ran into them squarely last week. Longtime organizer,
first time radio host, we uh we James got to
make sure you got that Mike close to you. But
it's gonna be a while before he gets on anyway.
So yeah, let's just talk briefly Mark about last week
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the well, don't don't go listen to it. I'm going
to recap the show, but before I just just take
my recap and don't go back and listen to the show,
because because it was a train wreck, I.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
Just have one title for that show, the twilight Zone.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Yeah. Yeah, we you know what we'll do next time.
What it did is it made us create a backup
plan when we run into a technical difficulty like that. Again,
this is where our rookie status comes in. We're rooked,
he's on live radio.
Speaker 11 (09:01):
It's just a learning curve.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Definitely a learning curve. We figured that out and hopefully
when we reuse the system again this week, we don't
have the same issow. I don't think we're going to,
but we have a backup plan in case, and that
way we won't run into the chaos that we did
for a few minutes that blew the show up. But
last week we were joined by Steve Espinoza, who owns
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a mortgage company and he not only secures home loans
for first time buyer, but he also does financial management
and credit repair. And he you know, he did a
really good job. We'll bring him back back on another show,
one that I'll encourage you to listen to. Actually, the
first half of the show, the first hour was fine.
We just we just blew up the back end. But
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the reality is is he did a really good job
of explaining what he does, how he helps people buy homes,
how he really gets people to turn the corner from
renting to buying homes, and it's a lot easier, and
people realize sometimes you just got to kind of get
in the space to start to work into that space.
And we also had Victor Pius on the Secretary of
Treasure AFGE, and he talked about how the federal employees
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that they represent at Local one twelve sixty, how they're
being impacted by a lot of these policies that are
coming down the executive orders, and how they're being affected
by bargaining rights. And again, I know most of you
probably didn't listen, and if you were listening, you probably
shut off the show when we ran into the disaster,
And I don't blame you. At all. But I'll give
you a quick snippet of what I was doing with
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him when I was talking to him, and be interested
to hear from Robert if he followed up with them
after the fact. I know I pressed hard because I
think it's time that workers that the collective bargaining is
being shut down or eliminated or backed off or completely
you know, you know, taking and making illegal. That workers
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need to just start with holding their labor completely. You know,
AFGE represents the TSA workers, So imagine no TSA workers
coming to work for a few days. Boy, that would
really throw our air traffic in our airlines into chaos
for a bit. But that's the power that we should
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be should be exercising when, especially when somebody with the
swipe of a pin wants to take away our ability
to bargain. And ironically, I was read been reading up
a lot on how those TSA workers were affected since
the executive order, and I also was able to look
a little deeper into how fast their collective bargaining had matured.
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They had gained the right to collectively bargain in twenty eleven,
and then it took them a few years to really
kind of build up decent contracts, and it really shifted
them into a middle class job right about twenty seventeen
twenty eighteen, and then they had a really good contract
and I think it was twenty twenty three, and then
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it was wiped away. And I'll give you an example,
something that on the surface sounds like, oh, what does
it matter that you need to have a doctor's note
before you come into work or dift to call in
sick or else You're going to get penalized heavily. So
if you have a three am Star time, how do
you go you wake up at two? How do you
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get a doctor's note before your three am Star time?
So anybody who travels like myself, you go through the airport,
you see TSA, they're at the airport. If you get
there at five, they're there. A lot of them start
their shifts really early in the morning. So imagine that
happening where your policy is wiped away. That is exactly
what happened to them. Soon as their collective bargaining rights
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were stripped, they immediately changed their attendance policy, immediately change
their benefit packages, immediately changed a lot of their working conditions.
And the best one to point out is just something
as simple as calling in sick not being represented in
that circumstance or situation where you wake up you're sick
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and then you can't provide a doctor's note before the
start time of your shift. You're now going to be
penalized more heavily as a result of that when it's
literally impossible for you to comply with what's being asked.
This isn't a nine to five situation. This is, you know,
clearly something different. So most people, you know, when they
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hear the rhetoric of oh, well, they just don't want
to go to work and this and that, that's that's
all being twisted around. And I just wanted to give
that simple example on top of making sure that these
good middle class jobs that are maintaining the safety of
our airline travel, not just our airline travel, but customs
and a lot of other things, you know, throughout the
United States. So it was good to have Victor on.
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We'll have them on again when our systems are not
going to fall apart like they did last week. Again,
a new studio, we have new equipment. We've done a
couple of things and it caused a couple technical hitches.
No big deal. It is what it is. We've got
plenty of other shows in the past, and we've got
plenty more shows to do. We can always make up
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for it in the future, and we just kind of
kind of joke through this and have a good time
with it. But really appreciate both of them coming in
and being on the show. And again, last week's show
was quite the learning experience. You should have seen Robert
melting down over there. Do I have something over here
to look at? Oh? Okay, yeah, I have a friend
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who works for TSA and Las Vegas and is being
forced into retirement after working for them twenty one years,
only forty nine years old. He'll be jobless as of September.
So this is actually from somebody specifically who is telling
the story of somebody that they're connected to. So there's
literally hundreds, if not thousands, of these stories out there
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where workers that are in this space of collective bargaining
being eliminated. There's immediate policies that are going into place
that are affecting or that are affecting their working conditions.
So with that, again, appreciate them coming on and we
have before I do my live shoutouts I want to
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first talk about our live shoutouts on the picket line.
We have an active picket line going on right now
Teamster's Local eight ninety six. The Curig Doctor Pepper seven
up location in Victorville, which is a production plant up
in Victorville, off to the west of the fifteen Freeway,
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just a couple of miles west on Majave if you
exit Mohave. It's not on Mahavi, but it's out there
adjacent to the old I think it's Edwards. You got
the Edwards Air Force Base and you got a little
more than one hundred workers that have walked off the
job in a labor dispute. They they they are looking
for support. They have been a great group. We actually
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have people on the picket line. You're going to hear
from them here shortly with then the hour will cut
into them, probably around two forty and then again somewhere
around three thirty or three forty. Within both hours, will
actually get to hear directly from some picketers on the show.
I hear that they're listening in live as we speak,
and we obviously have some staff up there helping out.
So it's good to see workers taking control of their
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future taking direct action. And you know, the employer, a
very profitable employer, needs to be sharing the wealth and
making sure that they have great benefits and working conditions.
And they've obviously they be in Carrick doctor Pepper's come
up short there if I remember correctly, they are a
forty four billion dollar company and they can afford to
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do better by these workers. And so big shout out
to them on that picket line, especially those of you
that are listening out there live those who are walking
that line, and we are going to hear from you
very very shortly as far as our live shoutouts are concerned.
Warren Pennington from the Desert Water Agency, Ron Garcia from
Sunline Transit, Eli Salas from the City of Redlands Water Department.
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We also have Sandy Woodark, Jason Rivera, Andrea Pelacios, Lashanya Dalton,
Andrew Solaris, Daniel Palafox, we have Lauren and Reuben Baka,
and then we have Anthony Gersh and Cy Foley from
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the City of Needles the Wastewater Department. We have Natalie
Miles from h excuse me, ARMC HIM Department, Lisa Vasquez
from ARMC Rehab Kawana Donald excuse me, Kawana McDonald from
AARMC patient reception, Charmaine Cole from Register of Voters, and
we have Markisha Waller, she listens in. I get to
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see that name all the time. Thank you, Markisha, appreciate
you listening regularly almost every week, AARMC epic. And also
Kirk Garrison, he does listen in regularly almost every week,
and so does Connie Botani. And Connie was on the
picket line late last night. I think I saw a
picture of her as late as midnight, lilast night or
eleven thirty. So Connie, if you're listening in, is good
to see you via a text message and a picture
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on that picket line out there helping out. We also
have a DCSs low Melnda listening live as well as
the VIA office and sam Maordino listening in live. We
have Ryan Shrouds from CFS, Jenny Hernandez from Public Health,
Holly Edison, AARMC retiree, Micah Graham from AARMC, Kathleen Nelson
from AIRMC, Jonathan and Rod from AIRMC Security, Alexandra Wright
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from TAD and then just Sherry wants me to note
that we have ten scholarship winners have been selected and
will be presenting the winners at our main membership meeting.
We also have Sarah a blot from the Mentone Library.
Those are our live shout outs and may I always
remind you to download the CACAA app in your Apple
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Store or Google play store. And if you want to
reach our radio show, please go ahead and contact us
at radio show at Teamsters nineteen thirty two dot org.
Next part of our show is fun facts we have.
Let's see let me see what somebody live on the
picket line is. Yep, we are here and we can
hear you live on the picket line. So thanks for
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thanks for sending that text to me, really appreciate it.
And again, labor disputes and workers walking off the job
and taking direct action is the only way, unfortunately, it's
the only way to catch your employer's attention. And you know,
the more we see this and the more we educate
workers that they have the right to do this, the
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more workers are gonna win. This is you know, you
always it's not that you want to have labor disputes,
but you need to have them when the employer is unreasonable.
Period You're not just gonna get things shoved. We're not
just gonna get things shoved down our throats. So the
next part of our show is is you know fun
facts or highlights. Sometimes we do movies, we do books,
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we do jobs. Today we have the Hispanic Caucus highlighting
something of the nineteen thirty two Hispanic Caucus. This is
an incredible story, an absolutely incredible story that really goes
back almost fifty years. Actually the history to it goes
beyond fifty years at first, and then the resolution to
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it is just short of fifty years. But more than
a thousand students, faculty, and community supporters stood outside Murphy
Hall on June seventh of nineteen ninety three. And this
is a hunger strike that ended, but a center was
born as a result of it. And on June seventh
of nineteen ninety three, to celebrate the end of a
fourteen day hunger strike and the creation of the Caesar E.
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Chavis Center for chic and Chicano's Studies, culminating a story
that begun at least twenty years earlier. UCLA first established
the Chicano Studies Program in nineteen seventy three, drawn on
faculty and courses from different departments to constitute an undergraduate
major in the field, but the re entrenchment in California's
social and budget policies during the nineteen eighties and the
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recession of the early nineties took a toll on the program,
with lowered enrollments and graduates. By nineteen eighty nine, funding
had dwindled significantly, and the UCLA Excuse me and UCLA
suspended new admissions to the program the following year. Two
months later, in April of nineteen ninety, METCHA organized UCLA students, faculty,
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and community members staging a demonstration calling for the program's evaluation.
Excuse me, evlation, I'm sorry, I got a typo here
right in front of me. Not a typo, I'm misreading it.
Elevation to department level. So, in other words, they were
staging a demonstration calling for the program to be elevated
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to the department level. Negotiations continued for several years, and
after more than two years of discussion and considering the
proposal in the context of a serious budget of serious
budget cuts, UCLA faced. Former UCLA Chancellor Young announced on
April twenty eighth, nineteen ninety three, that it would not
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be implemented. The statement was made on the eve of
labor organizer Caesar Chavis wake, timing that was subsequently cited
for fueling the emotions. On May eleventh of nineteen ninety three, protesters,
some from UCLA others from the community, challenged Young's decision
by staging a sit in at the UCLA Faculty Center.
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The movement continued with peaceful demonstrations. On May twenty fourth,
five students, one professor, and three community members began a
hunger strike to protest Young's decision and disciplinary action against
student protesters. Days prior, a village of tenths and shanties
sprung up outside Murphy Hall. The debate raged on campus
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and in the media, draw national attention. After lengthy negotiations,
the strike ended when Young and the strikers reached agreement
and signed a proposal for the renaming and creation of
the new center as the Caesar EA java's Department of
Cha and chic Chicano Studies at UCLA. This was also
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this story is also featured on the nineteen thirty two
Hispanic Caucus Calendar. So really important, very important moment in history,
not just for labor but for equal rights in southern
California and quite frankly throughout the nation. And you know,
UCLA's Chicano Studies program had faced significant setbacks and funding
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cuts for all lots of different reasons. And it was
good to see everybody come together use protected concerted activity,
use the ability of collective action to make something happen
with student and community activism, activism including a fourteen day
hunger strike. This was absolutely important and pivotal at pressuring
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UCLA to reinstate the program and re elevate the program.
And so this movement, you know, succeeding and establishing the
scissor the Caesar Chava's Department of Chacano and Chicano Studies
Chicana and Chicano Studies at marking a major victory in
ethnic studies, in grassroots organizing. That's it's important for us.
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I know you're looking at me because I'm butchering this
over here. Sorry, Robert. You see, this is the problem
with reading things. I'm not as good at reading it.
I'm better if I just have bullet points and I
get to talk through. I have a tendency when I
see sentences to start to read them, and I don't
know why. I just don't like reading like this and
not it's like you're reading to everybody anyway.
Speaker 11 (24:37):
You just need a little rosetta stone. That's all. Roll
those ours.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
I can roll the rs. So it's not gonna be started.
Speaker 11 (24:46):
Oh okay, James.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
I'm all right. James, got me here, You got me here.
You know I got my back. You tried, could you
say ruffles have bridges?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Come on? No, this isn't the tests for me. This
is my show. You guys are killing me anyway. The
point to me sharing the story is the reality of
coming together, getting the community, labor activism, workers, students, putting
your foot down and sending a message is what it's
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all about. This is how we get things done, and
this is how we need to do more of this stuff.
And you're seeing that happen all over America right now.
So really really really appreciate pointing that out. Thank you
Carlos and the Hispanic Caucus for for giving us that
to highlight today in the news we have we really
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have a lot going on, Like it always seems like
there's a ton going on, especially with labor lately, but
there's a lot of good news too, and I think
that the best good news I want to point out
is in Utah, the there's enough signatures that have confirmed
the controversial the controversial union law that was put on hold,
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in other words, the public sector bargaining elimination that Utah pass,
which was HB two sixty seven, has been put on hold.
I remember last week or whenever it was I reported
on it. I said, I think based on the position
that it actually puts the cancelation of the bargaining on
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hold because there's a referendum that was true, that was accurate,
and so that has now been official because the Lieutenant
Governor Ddri Henderson has issued a temporary hold on it
because the signatures were able to reach the referendum requirement
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to put the referendum on the ballot, and so that
literally puts it allows you to override what the legislature
and the governor was going to do. And I just
want to point out that the size the amount of
people that knocked on doors and made this happen, especially
in a state that's what we call right to work.
It's not a big union state. And to literally see
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right about ten percent of the population sign petitions to
be submitted and mind you. This is where labor can
cut through the partisan politics because when you break down
the districts, even the Republican districts that typically don't lean
towards labor issues came out big and made sure that
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they hit not just the requirement of the signatures for
their particular Senate district, but also exceeded it in a
lot of cases more than doubled it. And so it
was worker to worker, door to door canvassing. Everybody was
out making it happen, and it just really goes to
show that labor can can really cut right through the
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partisan issues and it's very very successful. In a big
shout out to the Republican union members that came out strong.
The Lieutenant governor was the one who forced to delay
the bill. There was a lot of political and legal
wrangling going back and forth over the last couple of weeks.
In the end, in my opinion, the workers have won
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at least this battle. And then if you've knocked on
that many doors, I think that when it goes to
the voters overall, it's probably going to be something. Now
you don't want to take it for granted, but it's
definitely going to be something that's going to pass because
that's a lot of energy that you don't allow the
politics to get in the way of. So congratulations to
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all those public employees in Utah. Congratulations to all the
people that went out and knocked on doors and canvassed
and did all the hard work that really elevates labor
to a level that it should. I'm really proud to be,
you know, connected to people that are are not just
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going to lay down and say, oh, you know it's over.
You know they won, and and you know though, I
will lean back into everybody and I will say, next
time somebody does this, I'm going to do the same
thing I did with our our our friend at AFGE
is get workers to walk off the job and shut
it down when they take something away from me like that,
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like enough's enough. Like if you're going to go that
far and use the pin to wipe away my rights,
well then what we're going to do is we're going
to step out from it and we're going to just
withhold our work, and you're going to realize how important
and how valuable are the work that we do every
day is. And so in Teamster's Local nineteen thirty two
news it's Nurses Week. Teamster's Local nineteen thirty two proudly
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celebrates National Nurses Week. Our local, predominantly being a public
sector union, we want to represent or we represent licensed
vocational nurses, unit manager's assistant managers. We actually represent the
nurses that run the entire hospital at RMC, and we're
very proud of those workers, and they're proud of the
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work that they do. It's a very tough job. It's
a very challenging and difficult job, and this is nurses
we can you may see them on our billboards. We
actually have them on most of our billboards spread throughout
the Inland empire, raising awareness about how important they are.
And I talked earlier about Teamsters nineteen thirty two. We're
standing shoulder to shoulder with our our brothers and sisters
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at Teamsters Local eight ninety six at the Cure Doctor
Pepper facility. And you know, if you're up there, you
got to get out there and you got to go
see them, You got to connect to them, and you
got to see what they're doing. The last thing I
want to report in Local nineteen thirty two News before
we get into James here, we have come up with
a name for you. James.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
Oh, okay, this is this will be fun.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
You're gonna like it. I gotta report on one more
thing though. We're gonna call it James bites back.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
Hey, that's pretty good.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
You like it? Yeah, all right.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
I was toying between that. Well, that one sounds really good.
I was like, lunch break, that's.
Speaker 11 (31:08):
Pretty good, pretty to the point, lunch break.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
James bikes back during the lunch break.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Okay, so you can call it whatever you want while
you're on here. We'll talk about you while you're gone.
Speaker 9 (31:19):
But then even better.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
So the last thing I want to report on on
Local nineteen thirty two news is Teamsters. Local nineteen thirty
two's Hispanic Caucus also has secured over two hundred signatures,
smashing the one hundred required to officiate the name change
for SIKHM Park and try to change it to Ignacio
Lopez Park. The park that's literally I can almost throw
(31:42):
a rock and hit it. I can't quite get a
rock there or a baseball, but it's that close. It's
literally like less than a block, less than a half
a block away. It's that huge park here in sam
Ornandino that is being completely remodeled right now, and it
should have a new name by the time we're done
with this. So the next step of that process is
going to happen. I really appreciate the activism by making
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that happen. And so now I want to get to
our guests. We normally have a TA partner on and
we don't because we wanted to bring James Bites back on.
Speaker 9 (32:17):
James Bites Back and I like that.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
So we're gonna get you a nice little slogan. We'll
get you some shirts that Yeah, let's not get crazy.
I was just talking smack.
Speaker 9 (32:27):
I was really looking forward to like what.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
So, for those of you don't remember, a couple of
shows ago, you'd done a review on Johnny Russo's and
by popular demand, you are back. And from what I understand,
you've actually gone to a few places.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
Uh by accident, by accident.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Oh okay, you accidentally went to eat somewhere.
Speaker 9 (32:51):
Yeah. Yeah, well remember when I was here, you guys
were talking about donuts.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
That's not an accident. If we were talking about donuts,
it was design.
Speaker 9 (33:01):
Yeah, so funny story, Lucy. We did the show on Wednesday,
so on Friday, this is five thirty five forty in
the morning. It was one of those situations where like,
I'm awake, my wife just happened to wake up as
well by nudging, and we couldn't go back to sleep.
(33:24):
And we're like, I heard about those donuts and I
think it was donut town. Yeah, so they opened up
at six o'clock. We get ready drive down there six
here at the window open open exactly. So we got
there and uh, you guys undersold it. I you guys
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said it was like cake. It was more like heaven
than cake. So what did you get?
Speaker 5 (33:50):
What was heaven?
Speaker 9 (33:52):
They had a peanut butter oh Aoresi's peanut butter cup donut.
I saw that one, and then obviously the maid. Yeah,
the maple bacon, and a couple other ones.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Oh the maple bacon. Oh my, did you try the
maple bacon.
Speaker 9 (34:02):
They put like a whole, like half a pack of
bacon on that.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Thing, right. They don't come up short on him?
Speaker 9 (34:08):
No, And I was talking to the to the owner,
him and his wife and they have a baker and
now she does all the decorating and he does the selling.
And the baker comes in like about I think he said,
like about two o'clock in the morning to start working
on donuts and she's there decorating and he's it takes
for the rest of the day. But the one thing
I did like about that place it was, uh we
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walked in right after us, a gentleman walks in and he's, Hi,
how you doing. They knew each other, so it was
very uh community known where it's kind of like everyone
knows that they get a cup of coffee and they're
talking about and they're talking about, you know, getting a
cup of coffee and how the day's going, what do
you have planned for to day house the wife and kids.
(34:50):
So he knew about, you know, his customers that I
thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
Yeah, that family's always had a good relationship with their
customer base, even when the grandfather was the grandfather that
ran the block, right right, Mark, Yeah, Yeah, he.
Speaker 11 (35:03):
Said Tommy, remember Tommy came in?
Speaker 9 (35:05):
Yeah, sorry, it was it was Tommy that I spoke with. Yeah,
so we had a little back and forth.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
Then did you tell him you heard about it on
the radio show?
Speaker 9 (35:13):
Yes, I did, and so I said I heard about
it and I had to come and get these donuts.
So we did, and we didn't get maybe got five
donuts there, but then we remembered.
Speaker 11 (35:26):
That's like getting ten in a regular donuts.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
It's like twenty.
Speaker 9 (35:29):
Well, yeah, that's okay. You have to understand I had
never been there, so you know, you get donuts and
it's century.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Overload five like five of those donuts, like, oh my goodness.
Speaker 9 (35:41):
So we well, here's the thing. After we're driving there,
we remember you guys talked to a place in Redlands
called Dough.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
Yeah, it was do Yeah, it's like a French spelling
of dough or something. Yes, So they're like, we had
them on before.
Speaker 9 (35:58):
Yeah, I remembered that. So I'm like, they're on the
way home and they open up at six third.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
So these aren't accidents, James.
Speaker 9 (36:05):
So I think it was hypnosis when I was here,
when you guys, when I talked to you guys.
Speaker 11 (36:11):
You should have with sleepwalking.
Speaker 9 (36:12):
It could have just totally and then it would drive
So here, I am like, go to Dough and I
get four more donuts. So eventually I somewhere probably got
about a dozen, two different places, two different donut shops,
two really great experiences though they had. I don't know
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if you guys tried their breakfast donut, bacon, egg and
cheese in a donut. So I got that that one
pretty much.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
So you drove from one, had food at that one,
and then drove right over to the other one.
Speaker 9 (36:49):
Right and then went home and then and then I ate. Well,
luckily I had that day off because I napped.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
You'd have to have.
Speaker 9 (36:57):
I definitely had a nap.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
So what was your favorite donut from donut Town? Uh?
Speaker 9 (37:04):
Donut Town? It was probably the maple bacon. Yeah, that
one's oh my, that was like a half a pack
of it and not like they talked about ba did
you eat.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
The whole donut? You couldn't have?
Speaker 9 (37:14):
I did?
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Oh my?
Speaker 11 (37:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (37:15):
Wow? Where did you?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Like?
Speaker 9 (37:17):
I'm a fat man. I don't leave halves. I eat
the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
So am I but I cannot but like I cannot
either look at.
Speaker 9 (37:26):
Him like its really not enough for me to like save?
Speaker 5 (37:30):
How was this You accidentally went there? That sounds very purposeful.
Speaker 9 (37:34):
It was morning because I didn't mean to. It just happened.
I'm like, I couldn't sleep, my wife couldn't sleep. Let's
go get donuts. We got donuts. So we got different
two different places at six am, six thirty and we
wound up home at seven o'clock eight donuts, and then
we took a nap. I took a nap, I ate
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way more donuts. I couldn't stop see the difference is
like they the dough is very artisan like they have
these that was really good. What was it carry cake
donut which is really really good.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
I think I saw that one too. I didn't try
that one, but I did see it. If I know
Ralph Lopez ate them all. But because I think that
one was upstairs in the break room.
Speaker 9 (38:17):
Yeah, so I gotta go back because I know they
have a pastrami.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
Shut the front.
Speaker 9 (38:25):
Pastrami, pickles and mustard.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
Interesting.
Speaker 9 (38:28):
So they have the sweet and savory and then Donutown.
It was just like I said, they were both really good,
but you guys undersold Donutown for sure. And then yesterday
my business agent gave me a call and asked if
I could help out with the the Pigy lineh So
I'm like, cool, I'll go help out. But I also
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remember you guys bringing up Boil Bros. Which is also
a member of and they're only in Apple Valley victor
Ville area.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
Yeah, did you make your business agent take you to us.
Speaker 9 (39:00):
I told him we got to go stop by this place,
so hopefully he bought.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Did he buy?
Speaker 9 (39:05):
Uh, yeah he did. I don't know, Yeah, had to
think about it.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (39:08):
So Andrew helped me out.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Andrew himself on the back right now. Yeah, so he's
standing outside the door.
Speaker 9 (39:14):
So Andrew and I went to go try out this place,
and we were like genuinely discussing, like what are your thoughts,
you know, like this ratio to them, like, because you.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
Know you go to these so what you eat.
Speaker 9 (39:26):
It was a Lote bowl, so it was corn, beans, rice, cheese,
and their chicken. It's more of a juan so it's
got a really good, fiery, smoky flavor to it. The
sauces were really really good.
Speaker 12 (39:43):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (39:44):
Andrew had a burrito, so he said he really enjoyed.
So we were just talking back and forth about like
the meat to grain ratio was really really good because
you know, you hate it when you get like a
lot of rice and no yeah, a lot of filler,
no no protein so.
Speaker 5 (39:58):
Or when the chickens overseas and too salty all that stuff.
Speaker 9 (40:01):
This was really good. It was a little well, like
I said, I have never we had never been there.
Before we looked it up. We checked it out. We
drove there, we go in. I'm like, man, there's nobody here.
We ordered our food. We looked behind us. There's ten
people right behind us.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
Oh you got right in front of the road right
before the rush.
Speaker 9 (40:16):
So we're like, yes, we lucked out. We sat down,
we enjoyed our meal, we discussed it, and we started
taking notes about what we thought. And it was really
really good. I mean, if you live up there in
the area, or even the people that are doing the
pick a line, you know, go check them out. There's
a have three locations up in Victor Villa and Apple
Valley up there.
Speaker 5 (40:32):
Oh wow, okay, well good. Anything else you want to
share on your gluttonous behavior.
Speaker 9 (40:40):
No, I mean I'm trying to see what else is
coming up, like craving burgers. Maybe I will check out
a couple burger places and definitely a couple of bars,
so one might check those out.
Speaker 5 (40:51):
Yeah, well, you know, put that out there again, Robert.
You don't want the chicken to taste too chicken ey.
See he is good. What's that supposed to mean, rob.
Speaker 9 (41:02):
What's chicken talking about? Boiled chicken?
Speaker 12 (41:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (41:06):
Oh well, you boil you boil all the flavor. Yeah, yeah,
you can't. You shouldn't boil chicken.
Speaker 9 (41:11):
Can I ask you us something? What do you guys
think pineapple on a pizza?
Speaker 5 (41:15):
I don't love pineapples, and you gotta put halopanios with
it because they have the opposite. Well, that's the spicy
and the sweetest.
Speaker 9 (41:24):
My my go to is pepperoni, pineapple and halopano salty sweet.
Speaker 5 (41:30):
That's one of my favorite combinations.
Speaker 9 (41:32):
Right when people put like bacon, Oh not bacon, it's
a what is it they called Canadian bacon? It just ham,
it's ham tam. It just doesn't mesh well.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
Right, Look, anytime you put pepperoni and halopanios on the
same pizza, I'm in the only way you can kill me,
whether is you put sardines or anto.
Speaker 9 (41:50):
How do you guys deal with people that are like,
pineapple does not belong on a pizza.
Speaker 11 (41:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (41:55):
Hearing that late lately, I think I read it somewhere
where somebody said that's how you're ruined a pizza.
Speaker 11 (42:02):
He will just he will throw, he will melt down.
Speaker 5 (42:04):
Oh I'm gonna have to order him a pizzapple.
Speaker 11 (42:08):
Yeah, he won't melt down.
Speaker 9 (42:09):
That's great, but it tastes so good.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
I mean, right, all right, well we got to get
to some picketers, James, so really appreciate you coming in
and doing the James bite back.
Speaker 9 (42:18):
Let's do it again.
Speaker 5 (42:19):
We're gonna do it again next month, and any anything
else that sticks in your mind about how great. So
we're gonna have to do this rating system and stuff
here pretty soon. I see that we've got them queued
up and about ready to come in live here. But
we're gonna have to do a rating system. So on
a scale of one to ten, how was the donuts.
Speaker 9 (42:39):
Scale from one to ten? Both of the places were
a ten. Okay, the boil place, I would give it
about an eight. I mean it was really really good,
really seasoned properly. Didn't taste too Chickenyi.
Speaker 5 (42:53):
That's a new one for yeah chicken.
Speaker 9 (42:56):
But I like the ratio. The only reason I would
give it lower scorages because it's it's just three little locations.
I mean, I wouldn't I wouldn't mind going there again,
but I don't have to go and need a reason
to go up to Victorville like another picket line. So
we'll probably do that again.
Speaker 5 (43:10):
We got to do is go in there, grab a
few of them for the picketers, grab some tacos and
stuff and take it out. And with that, I'm gonna
transition live to a picket line up in Victorville. We
got Mario Vasquez on the line right now on the screen. Mario,
can you hear me? Ye oh, we can hear you too.
Speaker 9 (43:27):
It's working.
Speaker 5 (43:28):
Holy cow, we didn't have a catastrophe happened this time.
So great to see you up there on the picket line.
I think you guys are in a little r.
Speaker 11 (43:35):
V, right, that's.
Speaker 5 (43:39):
All right, So why don't you give a quick description
of what's going on. There's some picketing going on. I
heard there was some act, some some rucusing and activity
earlier this morning. Somebody tried to charge the line with
the truck or something. But man, these workers are great
up there. It's good to see. They're full of energy.
They realize what they're doing. Uh, you got any of
them you want to introduce and have them talk about
actually what they do when they're not on strike. Obviously,
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when they're on strike, they're holding a picket sign, but
when they're otherwise, they all have jobs inside the operation.
You want to take it from here, Mario.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
That's great.
Speaker 13 (44:11):
I like to you can explain it way better than
me to actually in their strength.
Speaker 14 (44:19):
Hello my hands, Adam at s. I'm forked out at
doctor Bosville. I'm also subs for second Ship. And you
know this is spend a long time coming.
Speaker 15 (44:33):
Man.
Speaker 16 (44:33):
We did this court has not helped us out at all,
has not taken care of his employees.
Speaker 14 (44:38):
We needed our sick time. They haven't give it to us.
Speaker 11 (44:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
They owe you guys back pay, don't they. They owe
you a ton of back pay that you guys want
an arbitration and they actually need to need to cough
that up. Isn't that right? Yes?
Speaker 16 (44:51):
They did, and they appilled it and pilled it and
they lost.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
They kept music.
Speaker 14 (44:55):
So but I'm gonna pass it over to another employee
here too.
Speaker 17 (44:59):
So the introduce yourself as well.
Speaker 5 (45:02):
Good how are you? You're live on the air casey
A A ten fifty A and one to six point
five f M the Teamsters nineteen thirty two broadcast network
here and live from San Bordino. Good to see you
guys so active on the picking line. Now, you don't
look like you're on the picking line because you're inside
of the little trailer that's just off to the side
of the picking line, right, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 9 (45:32):
So what do you do?
Speaker 5 (45:32):
What's what's your job inside? Got to get a little
closer to the mic.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
I know that currents I'm putting that comes out from
the lines. Yeah, production lines, I also do uh you
know everything that you will do in uh, in a warehouse.
Speaker 5 (45:55):
That's like yeah, and you guys actually produce product up there, right,
In other words, raw product comes in, you have a
production line and it comes out, you know, like apple
juice or tomato juice and so on and so forth.
Isn't that right?
Speaker 2 (46:11):
That's right?
Speaker 13 (46:11):
They have actually have we have seven production lines. Were
those uh? I think some Comado down to slacking Apple Judge,
some of some of the Doctor pettor you know, uh seven.
Speaker 17 (46:25):
Canada flying Orange kissed. So there is a big variety
of products that we produced here. This is a big
place with a lot of employees, and we've been h'
been mistreated for a long time now.
Speaker 13 (46:39):
So they had a comment for some time.
Speaker 5 (46:41):
Yeah, you know, it's the way it is in corporate America.
If they think they can they can take advantage, they're
going to try to do that, and you guys are
showing them. You said that Canada dry ist is on
that production line there. That's a popular that's a popular.
Speaker 9 (46:53):
Line, very popular.
Speaker 13 (46:55):
Also, like I mentioned all the types of comado from
the original one to go pekante uh shrimp uh cadana.
Speaker 17 (47:05):
You man, there is a like I said, there's a
big variety of products man, that we make you and
they just don't want to right, they always sit time
from a lot of time ago.
Speaker 13 (47:16):
They took it away from us, and we want it back.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
We want it back, and we want a pension as well.
Speaker 5 (47:22):
Nothing wrong with throwing down over a long term retirement,
over making sure. You know, the company is making billions
of dollars, making huge profits and and all you're asking
for is a little slice of it to make sure
that when you reach the ripe old age that you
have a decent nest egg there. Right, you're not asking
for the sun, the moon and the stars. You're just
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asking for a small piece.
Speaker 13 (47:47):
Yes, we're actually we're asking for what we believe it's there.
You know, like you said, they make billions of dollars
and uh, which is one what is owed to us?
And what's what we believe it is there.
Speaker 5 (48:00):
Well, yeah, and that's great you guys are you guys
are fighting for what you can get. It's good to
see that you. I was up there on Monday, saw
you guys up there when we rolled up on the bus,
and it was great to see your energies. Great to
see you guys understanding exactly where you're at in the space.
And it's tough. We we don't want to you don't
really want to undermine the difficulty of it. But also
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it's you guys seem to be having a little bit
of fun too. You're taking advantage of the circumstances and
making sure that you see the positive in int that.
Speaker 13 (48:31):
Right, Yeah, that's right. I mean we have here might
as well just you know, make it sense for us.
And I want to make an invitation for the brothers
up here in the high Desk that that are listening
to us, you know, come out and support us.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
We need it.
Speaker 13 (48:45):
We need it. You know, we're in the fight, you know,
and we're not gonna give up. You know, we're stunning
up and we're gonna make an invitation.
Speaker 5 (48:57):
You know, any worker that goes on strike, any worker
that is doing what you're doing, is actually laying the
foundation for everybody else. Uh. You know, everybody that's not
had to go on strike actually benefits from those of
you that are doing exactly what you're doing and sacrificing
what you're doing. So you guys up there, keep up
the great work. You guys got anybody else you want
(49:18):
to jump in here and say.
Speaker 13 (49:20):
Hi, Oh you know what business agent Cooper?
Speaker 5 (49:27):
Hey Phil, what's up?
Speaker 11 (49:30):
Phil?
Speaker 16 (49:31):
I just I took my sunglasses off.
Speaker 12 (49:33):
I had to be different.
Speaker 13 (49:36):
I do want to say a great show and really loved.
Speaker 17 (49:39):
The support that nineteen thirtyeen showing out here, the workers
out here.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
It's not going to do this.
Speaker 17 (49:45):
And I know there's going to be a day real
soon that you guys are looking for support, and I
think you've got it.
Speaker 14 (49:52):
We're going to come over back.
Speaker 11 (49:53):
You guys get the contract.
Speaker 5 (49:56):
That's right, and we got to get your Yours is
yours is obviously on on the hopper right now, and
it's about focusing on Victorville and making sure that happens. Phil,
really appreciate you allowing us to come up there and
occupy this space and then and then coming on the
show and that way all of the people that listen.
You know, thousands of people are listening to this live
on the radio KCA ten fifty am one or six
(50:17):
point five FM. And then obviously we have the digital version,
and then we have a podcast that goes out. We'll
end up sending you this clip in this section so
that you can send this out and share it with others.
Do you can you walk out and show everybody the
picket line is a picket line active. That way we
can get a quick view of it to see people
actually engaging in the picketing right now, or you all
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huddled around the all huddled around the trailer. No, we
want it to be noisy. This is exactly what we want,
Mario Beck. Yeah, go ahead, and it's okay if it's noisy.
I want everybody to get the feel for what a
picket line is in case you've never been on a
(50:59):
picket line before. There we go, all right, let these
guys know, let them all know. They're live on the
air right now. KSEAA ten fifty am. That's right, who
are we? This is exactly how the American middle class
(51:28):
was built. Is what you see these workers doing right
here right now, walking off the job in Victorville, California
demanding the currig Doctor Pepper seven up. You see that's
Steyn right there. They're at the entrance. You know they've
obviously they're withholding their labor and the company's got to
figure out they're holding trucks back. You can see the
trucks right there. Mario, this is perfect. Thank you very
(51:52):
much for showing everybody so they can visually see in
case you've never been there. But also if if if
you are in in the area, get up there. If
you're not in the area, drive over there, get over
there with those workers and show them that you support
them and make sure that you join one of the
greatest things that you can do for workers, and that
has helped them on a picket line. Mario's anything else
(52:14):
you want to say before we cut back to the
regular programming.
Speaker 9 (52:18):
Soren brother and sisters.
Speaker 5 (52:21):
Thank you, Mario. We'll hear from you again in about
an hour, maybe about forty five minutes. We'll chime back in.
Really appreciate that we'll find a few more workers. Man.
That is just great. Thank you very much. Those of
you up there Local eight ninety six, Phil really appreciate
you you jumping in and allowing us to put this
(52:42):
center stage, you know, is what This is what the
American worker has to do. This is the only thing
the American worker could do to catch corporate America's attention
or their employer's attention. Really in the end, and quite frankly,
let's be very blunt, most workers in America have not
had to face a labor dispute or had to had
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to walk off the job, and they have benefited from
millions of people doing exactly what you just saw on
our show right now. Benefited because others sacrificed, others did it,
and you have the right to do it. And guess
just the threat of you having that right is what
brings an employer to the table. The more solidarity you have,
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the more likely you are to withhold your labor, the
more powerful you're going to be, and the more your
employer is going to have to deliver on these issues
when it comes to your working conditions. And how does
it make you feel, James, I see, I was up.
Speaker 9 (53:37):
There yesterday with them. They're a very lively bunch. They
were not letting anything go by, like people trying to
sneak in. As a matter of fact, they set up
a gate, they bought fencing, so they pay for rent.
They rented a fence to try to try to push
everything through. So when they did that, they try to
sneak some people and they're like, okay, we only see
(53:58):
three or four people on this side. We shifted like no, no, no,
you're not coming in where they're catering was coming in.
So they're you know, now they're feeding the people inside
their the catering was coming.
Speaker 5 (54:10):
Well, did they feed them before the strike or what's up?
Speaker 9 (54:12):
They weren't.
Speaker 5 (54:13):
No, they weren't. Yeah, I'm right, that's a good guess.
Speaker 9 (54:17):
Yeah. Yeah, So they we're telling me that, yeah, the
guys are. They're like, oh yeah, I had a barbecue
truck out there, and then we had the purposely set
the barbecue out or so they could smell the food.
Speaker 5 (54:27):
You know. So one time in bargaining, I had a
situation like this. I was doing a first contract and
actually in the in the first contract proposal, I added
pizza weekly, uh and and I held on to that
proposal to the very end, and the employer was like
you really gonna I said, well, you fed them pizza
every single week when you're trying to convince them to
be non union, So why not keep giving them pizza now?
Speaker 11 (54:47):
Right?
Speaker 5 (54:47):
And so, just as a funny, maybe Phil before they
go back to work, maybe a return to work would
be barbecue weekly. Barbecue weekly.
Speaker 9 (54:55):
I'm more upset than Canada drives and not made in Canada.
Speaker 5 (54:59):
Yeah, well yeah, And ironically doctor Pepper is not made
by Doctor Pepper. It's actually it's actually produced by Coke.
Speaker 9 (55:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (55:07):
Man, hey, I was talking to one of the retirees
who came up to support the line yesterday. So, when
you're an employee of Curic Doctor Pepper, you get a
discount on pods, coffee pods. He retired and they took
him out of the system. He didn't get the discount anymore.
They cut him off. Oh wow, but he did get
a new coffee machine one year and that was their bonus.
Speaker 5 (55:30):
How many years you got to you know, It's like
Chris Rock says, I work for a company thirty years
and they give me a pin when I leave, nothing more,
just a pin. I want to stab you in the
neck with that pin. Yeah, that's his line. He's like,
He's like, I want to stab the employer. What do
you mean, just give me a pin? Yeah. These corporations
Man's and that's why these workers are fighting for a pension.
That's why they're fighting for a real retirement vehicle.
Speaker 9 (55:52):
Yeah, they were definitely lively. They had music going, they
were dancing, they were chanting, they were stopping people from
coming in or it was a good group.
Speaker 5 (56:00):
They weren't stopping. They were delaying. Delaying. The legal term
is a delay, not stop. They there, there's actually we
could actually do a whole show on delay versus stop. Yes,
legal the legal argument to delay versus stop. Believe it
(56:20):
or not, there is actually a legal there are legal
fights over that. When you get into picketing. It's kind
of funny. You're gonna say something Mark, no good. You know, no
one wants to hear from me anyway, right boom right, Yeah,
I just had a bunch of people say yeah, I agree.
So we have Emily Swallow listening in live, as well
(56:40):
as Sandra ray is listening in live. Always got to
catch up on the live shoutouts. Will they come in afterwards?
Speaker 9 (56:46):
For sure?
Speaker 5 (56:46):
Anything else you want to cover? James before you got
a couple of minutes.
Speaker 9 (56:49):
Oh man, on this segment. Now it went from.
Speaker 5 (56:52):
From donuts to picket line this is the worker power hour.
Speaker 9 (56:56):
Hot dog?
Speaker 2 (56:56):
Is it?
Speaker 9 (56:56):
A sandwich?
Speaker 5 (56:58):
Is a hot dog?
Speaker 8 (56:58):
No?
Speaker 5 (56:58):
Hot dog?
Speaker 9 (56:59):
Hot dog?
Speaker 5 (57:00):
You can't you can't call it the sandwich. There's too
many variations of a hot dog.
Speaker 9 (57:04):
I think a hot dog has got to definitely be it.
Speaker 5 (57:06):
What are you gonna rate a hot dog somewhere? I
could I'm getting ready where you're going next?
Speaker 9 (57:11):
Like I said, I'm probably gonna check out a burgger.
I'm looking for drinking buddies, and if anyone's interested, I
could really go for a drinking buddy to check check
out some of these bars that we have on the.
Speaker 5 (57:18):
There's five of them lined up at the door already.
Speaker 9 (57:20):
I'm pretty sure they're quick. Yeah, So maybe check out
a couple couple of bars that have a you know,
pub food. Nothing's wrong with a good you know.
Speaker 5 (57:27):
I think whiskey, uh Is Whiskey, the one in Redlands, Whiskey,
Whisky Republic, Whisky Republic. They're on teams to advantage, right, Okay,
I went there.
Speaker 9 (57:37):
I went I know the Falconer is another one. I
heard the falcon.
Speaker 5 (57:40):
Falconer's good, Falcon's great. I've actually been going to the
Falconer for thirty years.
Speaker 9 (57:43):
I have not gone there yet since what do you
recommend Falconer? Like, if you're gonna have some some good
bar food, what would you get?
Speaker 5 (57:51):
Oh, I don't know. It's just Falconer's typical bar food.
So let's espresso martini is a must over here. My
wife likes espresso martine, but I'm not. That's Robert.
Speaker 9 (58:01):
Do you want to go drinking with me? You in
a good spots we're at? What would you recommend?
Speaker 5 (58:08):
Yeah, the state's pretty good staying downtowntown Reds.
Speaker 9 (58:12):
Yeah, I don't think I've.
Speaker 5 (58:12):
Been there, but yeah, they're not yet. So we got
to send Mark on the hunt, or maybe you can
get him. James. Well, we got to send James Destrado
over there. Yeah, where's James been? Man, he's been quiet lately.
Speaker 11 (58:26):
He goes dark on us every once in a while.
Speaker 5 (58:29):
Hopefully he's listening and we can we can beat up
on James.
Speaker 18 (58:32):
The strata from Redlands were talking about the same guy. Yes,
I don't know. I haven't talked to James Astrada in
a long time.
Speaker 5 (58:38):
Yeah, all right, we're starting to forget who he is. Yeah,
all right, Well we just got a few minutes here, actually.
Speaker 9 (58:44):
Less so you know I would check those out, Robert,
if you're down. Like I said, we could always use
more drinking buddies. So name name of the places and
I'll be there for sure. We'll see. We could get
Randy a cocktail. I know we talked about this last time.
Speaker 5 (59:00):
Well, Whiskey Republic has twisted teas on tap. It's not boring.
It's perfect for me. They have all kinds of other
stuff everything how much so I got here, Ah this
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Today, Wow, Welcome to The Worker Power Hour with Randy Corrigan,
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Speaker 9 (01:06:16):
The Teamsters Union at the age of twenty one.
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Since then, he's helped thousands organize, mobilize, and achieved 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
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Speaker 9 (01:06:44):
Just stay those old.
Speaker 5 (01:06:48):
Now this song brings back some memory. Randy Corgan and
the Worker Power Hour caseyaa ten fifty AM one or
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brings back some What is this? Eighty five?
Speaker 11 (01:07:05):
Something like that? What was the movie? What was the movie?
Speaker 5 (01:07:08):
It was? I just had it in my head. Hold on,
hold on, what is it?
Speaker 11 (01:07:14):
Tom Cruise?
Speaker 5 (01:07:14):
I know, uh, I just lost it. I lost some
See it's old, guys, are miss what is it?
Speaker 11 (01:07:20):
What's risky business?
Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
Risky Business, the Porsche, you.
Speaker 11 (01:07:24):
Know, the dance in the living room.
Speaker 5 (01:07:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the candlestick, the egg got broken, the crystal.
Yeah yeah, that's a that's a that was quite the
It was the risky movie at the time.
Speaker 11 (01:07:37):
Yeah, oh, interesting all that.
Speaker 5 (01:07:40):
It's always funny how songs always spark a place in
time and they hit you and you go boom. This
is what it reminds me of most of them. Most
of them for me, they're always pretty positive. There's only
a handful of them that are negative. But it's it's
always I think it's good if the music always connects
to a positive.
Speaker 18 (01:07:58):
I came across it when I was going down the
YouTube rabbit holes looking for new music.
Speaker 5 (01:08:03):
And I was like, oh, that's that's a good one.
That's a really good one. Anyway. Yeah, Randy Corgan and
Worker Power Hour, here we are again, back live. A boy,
it was great having those striking workers up there in
Victorville live. I just got a few text messages in
saying that it was awesome to see them on kick
and live on the air, seeing the actual activity on
the picket line and having them call in and talk
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about what they do and what they're doing right now
and what they're fighting for, and in news in labor
news out there. I also want to point out that
the current administration last week canceled the first bargaining session
scheduled with the US Food and Drug Administration's largest workers
union since its ability to represent government staff was temporarily
(01:08:46):
restored by the federal court. So as the administration keeps
trying to cancel certain parts of bargaining for public employees,
they're getting dragged into court and then having to engage
in the bargaining process. Because there's a lot of layers
to this, and why I think it's important to raise
this news is is you know, I think we got
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to get to a point where I said it earlier.
The TSA got their bargaining rights wiped away. They're not
allowed to have a collective baring agreement. All right, Well,
TASA workers just don't go to work and guess what,
no planes are gonna fly and and maybe they'll hurry
up and figure it out and restore their rights. That's
how I see it. That's why I think we need
to start doing. This is a good example of even
(01:09:29):
though the courts have said you don't have the ability
to do this. Congress is probably the one that put
the law in place that you know that that created
the department, created the work, created the funding, and an
executive order cannot override an Act of Congress. That is,
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that is how this country is built, is structured, and
it's unfortunate that even when those rights are being restored
by a federal court, that they're being ignore it. And
what I think this should be is just again a reminder.
I'm not going to sit here and say, oh, I'm
mad because so and so is the president and this
and that, and you know, this is where those of
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you that voted for him need to remind your elected
officials that you don't agree with what is happening, and
you need to participate in pathways that exercise that in
a way that catches the attention of those that are
making these decisions. And there's going to be there's a
lot of this that's happening right now. There is obviously
(01:10:30):
a lot of legal wrangling. There's nearly one hundred cases
that are before federal courts right now regarding collective bargaining issues.
I actually went back and did a little research. I
think it's ninety three cases, which is incredible when you
think about how much collective bargaining is having to just
go to court and the unions are having to take
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a position to exercise rights that they had prior to
January twentieth, and trying to make sure that everybody understands
these are don't allow these rights to be stripped away,
because if your collective bargaining rights get stripped away, then
there's something else that's going to come right behind it,
and we need to pay attention to this on the
highest level. I want to give you some really good news.
(01:11:12):
The Kaiser Permanente workers have reached a tentative agreement following
a month's long strike. Matter of fact, we had Jessica
and Lisa in here multiple times after twenty four hundred
mental health workers from Kaiser begun their strike in October
of twenty twenty four. The representative the union representing those
workers is the National Union of Healthcare Workers, and they
(01:11:34):
have come to an agreement, a tentative agreement in the
new contract is out. Details will be released pretty soon,
and you know, Robert, let's get let's get Jessica and
or Lisa to come back on and talk about, you know,
their victory. Great to see you know, I mean you're
talking what six seven months out and the other the
ratification voters tomorrow, So man, is that is phenomenal to
(01:11:57):
see that that has resolved. And it's great to see
that they or steadfast in that process and it's good
to see that they're not they didn't waiver in that.
And one of the things they were fighting for was
retire remedical reinstatement of a retirement triarymedical pathway. What's that. Yeah,
the biggest issue they were fighting for was was patient
(01:12:18):
ratio issues. Most of the time, when nurses or healthcare
individuals professionals are out on some sort of labor dispute,
it is usually centered around some patient centric issue and
you know, we, oh, there must be greedy nurses or
this or that, like that's the narrative somebody else wants
to say. Most of the time, those professionals are fighting
(01:12:40):
more for what's going to help them protect their patients
or care for their patients than it is for themselves individually.
The problem is is you get to a point where
you draw the line and you can't completely sacrifice your
well being over whom you're taking care of. And you know,
people have a right to withhold their labor and they
have every right to exercise that. So with that, the
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next part of our show is I have a guest
on here, Ryan Ward. He is a public defender investigator
with sam Bardino County and apparently he's been doing this
job for what sixteen years, right, seventeen years? Seventeen years?
And so Ryan, why don't you introduce yourself and actually
kind of give a job description, talk about how unique
and I appreciate the work that you do. Some other
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people out there may not. There's this narrative that wills
if somebody you know got arrested, they must have done
something wrong. No, that's not true. Number one, they may
have done something wrong allegedly, Yeah, and there's an obligation
to prove that. And you also have the right to
represent yourself and to walk through that, which includes making
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sure that you have the ability to investigate the allegation
against you, which is your role. And so I really
believe your role is extremely important in making sure that
the freedoms of Americans are preserved, and especially those that
don't have a lot of money. You know, if the
district attorney files charges against you, the district attorney has
(01:14:06):
a pretty big piggy bank to fight you. If you
are poor and don't have a lot of money, then
you don't have the ability to defend yourself, like the
prosecution has to prosecute you. And it is an unbalanced system.
Regardless of what people will say, those of us that
understand the system intimately, like I do, know that it's
(01:14:27):
an unbalanced system, not for the defendant but for the prosecution,
and so it's important for the investigations to be done right,
making sure that there's plenty of resources or at least personally,
I believe you're completely under resourced. And do you know
you don't need to comment on any of that, won't
That's my individual opinion as somebody who is very very
(01:14:49):
well aware of how the system is built funded, and
I would assume anybody that works in the public defender's
office would agree with me. If you see the public
defen vendors resources compared to the district attorney's resources, it's
not evenly balanced. So you know, if they say, oh no,
(01:15:10):
it's a fair system in my opinion, and maybe I'll
get into it in a minute, but I just want
to give you a quick synopsis of how I see it, Ryan,
And why don't you talk about your job real quickly. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (01:15:21):
So I've been with the county for the last year.
Speaker 20 (01:15:23):
I've done this job as a defense investigator for sixteen
years prior to come into the county. And the Public
Defender's Office is a law office and we defend people
that are arrested for crimes and are in the court system.
For those of you that don't know how we get
appointed the cases. If somebody is arrested for allegedly committing
(01:15:47):
a crime, they go into court, the judge asks them
if they have money to hire an attorney, and if
they say no, then the court appoints the Public Defender's
Office to represent them. Our office is staffed with very
many differ from positions, not just attorneys, not just investigators.
There's a lot of support staff that goes into that.
Our attorneys utilize investigators for very many different parts of
(01:16:12):
their cases. Sometimes, you know, we're serving subpoenas for records,
or sometimes we're interviewing witnesses. Sometimes we're looking for surveillance footage.
But it's all attorney driven investigations. So whatever that attorney
needs on their case, they're going to submit a request
and we are going to do everything we can to
fulfill that request.
Speaker 5 (01:16:31):
Yeah, and I appreciate that that description and one of
the things I want to you know, lay out to people.
You know, it may cause some controversy to me saying this,
and really don't care because I know it personally firsthand
in many, many different layers. I believe most people that
are arrested and charged are overcharged. That is my personal
opinion based on individual experience and not just for me individually,
(01:16:54):
but also from a lot of people. And I think
that the way the system is built is maybe somebody
did something wrong and then somebody lays on this heavy,
heavy charge that's in a lot of ways overcharged, and
then there's this barter system to knock it down to
some plea bargain, and and then there's a race to
at least on the district attorney side, for you to
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be judged on how many convictions you got, not necessarily
to actually find the truth. And look, I'm not taking
a shot at all district attorneys. I'm sure there's a
lot of them that don't. They may not fall into
that trap completely, but they are scored on how many
felony convictions, how many this, how many that, and and
(01:17:36):
it's almost a system that kind of encourages it. Again,
you don't have to comment on any of this. This
is this is just me understanding the system firsthand and seeing,
especially people that don't have the financial means to fight back,
that how how difficult it could be in the system.
(01:17:56):
So making sure that you have an investigator that is
passionate about finding the truth and and and cross examining
whatever may be accused or or also finding the alternative truth.
Speaker 9 (01:18:10):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:18:11):
Part of your role, I'm assuming is somebody says that
this individual did something and there's a way to identify
that there's another answer to this, and it's a it's
not the person that's that's being accused. That's part of
your job is to dig that out, work through it,
and identify those leads in a way that show the
district attorney, Hey, wait a minute, did you look at this?
(01:18:32):
Did you know this? Did you see this? Is that
an accurate description? Yeah?
Speaker 20 (01:18:35):
I mean there's there's a mitigating circumstances and in everything
that we do, right, you know, we believe in holistic
representation in our office because we don't just look at
what the person is alleged to have committed. We look
at a lot of other factors, whether it was how
they were raised, the home that they were raised in,
the type of education that they were provided, the type
(01:18:56):
of family environment that they were in. So it's not
just singly, oh, this person may have done something. It's okay,
how did we get to this spot, how did we
get here, and what can we do to make sure
that this never happens again?
Speaker 5 (01:19:12):
Very good point, Like most people don't realize your environment
is what's gonna lead you to making decisions, Like it's
if you grew up in a certain area, certain situations,
certain culture, certain circumstances, if that's all you know. And
I saw statistic here recently. I had a had a
superintendent on the show a couple of weeks ago, and
(01:19:33):
he popped out a statistic that I had never heard
before but made all the sense in the world, and
that was a lot of kids below a certain economic
level that they they only view their opportunities in like
a two mile radius from where they live.
Speaker 9 (01:19:51):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (01:19:51):
I mean wow, I mean hit me like a ton
of bricks when I heard him say that here on
the show, because it made all like made all the
sense in the world. If if if you can only
see the world in a two mile radius from you,
regardless of what you see in your phone, say, oh
you got your you know, the internet, this and that.
That's not live. Right, But if your experience is only
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within that two mile radius, that affects you know, criminal behavior,
that affects your education, that affects making good decisions, that
affects knowing the difference between what's right and wrong, and
then living in some areas, right and wrong gets blurred
a bit, especially when it's as tough as it can
be in some particular areas.
Speaker 20 (01:20:32):
Yeah, and you know, we do one of the most
important parts that are not the most important part, but
a part that I'm really proud of our office is
we have a committee called the Diversity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee,
and we do a lot of community events where we
go out to schools, colleges, high schools, and.
Speaker 9 (01:20:47):
We say, hey, we're here.
Speaker 20 (01:20:49):
We have plenty of we have plenty of job hopenies,
we have plenty of different you know, positions, not just attorneys,
social workers, office assistants, and we let them know, hey,
like we're here, come work for us, and let them
know that also what our office does. It's been a really,
really really these last few months have been a lot
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of fun because I've spent you know, an afternoon out
of high school talking to kids during your career day
and they get to ask questions about, oh, how do
we you know, what's the schooling path for this, what's
the schooling path for that, how do we do this,
how do we do that? Those are the things that
really I love getting back to the community and letting
them know, hey, we're here, and then also serving them
on the investigation side for our clients.
Speaker 5 (01:21:28):
Yeah, that's great. I also we partnered with you guys before.
It's been about five or six years. We did an
expungement clinic with you too here. I think we did
it the building if I remember correctly. So, you guys
actually have a ton of programs in the community out
there where you're engaging on all these different levels, not
(01:21:49):
just with the kids, but maybe those that have, you know,
some minor crimes that they need to have expunged for
jobs obviously career days. That's great, that's great work. Uh,
what's the what's the most challenging part of your job?
Speaker 20 (01:22:05):
The most challenging part of my job is to get
someone to speak to me when it's been a violent incident.
Speaker 9 (01:22:13):
That's the hardest part.
Speaker 5 (01:22:15):
Yeah, getting I can imagine that's got to be difficult.
I'm sure you've been yelled at and you've been on
the you've been on the receiving side of that difficulty.
It's got to be incredibly challenging.
Speaker 20 (01:22:28):
It's it's really hard because people, even in my friend group,
they'll say, oh, how could you, how could.
Speaker 9 (01:22:34):
You fight for that person?
Speaker 5 (01:22:35):
How can we defend this right?
Speaker 20 (01:22:36):
And it's and then I tell them, hey, so you
don't believe in the constitution then, because that's what it is,
and it's that serious, because the people need.
Speaker 5 (01:22:44):
Help, and and and it gets into you know, passing
judgment in a way that, oh, who cares what happens
if somebody did make a mistake regardless, you know, most
crimes or the alleged crimes are you know, somewhere middle ground,
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are not necessarily violent, or you know, they're you know,
maybe minor. The reality is is getting people to understand
the process better. Just because somebody is accused of something
doesn't mean number one that they did it, or as
I pointed out earlier, that the charge being levied against
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them is the appropriate fix. It doesn't the punishment doesn't
fit right.
Speaker 20 (01:23:32):
Well, you know, thanks to cops and a lot of
law and order, you know, society is kind of conditioned
on a certain way of thinking when it comes to
the criminal justice system.
Speaker 9 (01:23:42):
I think that's fair to say, And yeah, it's education.
Speaker 20 (01:23:46):
A lot of people don't know how this works, and
they think if somebody is arrested that they're automatically guilty.
Speaker 5 (01:23:51):
Yeah, and being somebody who's been through the system, I
always try to remind people that until it's you or
your family member. And I've actually had this happen where
I've had people that you know, very opinionated, very you know,
over the top on it. Oh you know, you know,
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just they must have done something. And then a family
member usually it's usually a family member like a kid,
a brother, or a sister, you know, their dad or
their mom. Something happens and then people know my life
story and they immediately Randy like, they pick up the
phone and talk to me, and then you My discussion
(01:24:35):
with them is about getting them to see you see
how you were so programmed to be opinionated and judgmental
without knowing any of the real facts, because most of
the time, regardless of what you read in the paper
or what somebody says in the media, anybody outside of
the actual facts themselves, don't know the real facts until
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you get into the court house. And it doesn't even
necessarily mean you heard all the facts, because you could
have had motions that actually excluded some of the facts
as part of you know, certain certain legal arguments. That
my point to this is is I wish we could
get to a society where people were much less judgmental,
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because it would actually make your job easier.
Speaker 20 (01:25:19):
Yeah, yeah, make my job a lot easier. Could you
imagine it would be so much easier.
Speaker 5 (01:25:24):
See, I just made your job easier. Not that anybody's
gonna listen to me, but you know, and but it does.
It goes back to the programming. I think part of
it is it's about the fear of of you knows,
if you instill fear in people, then they're they're they're
more likely to have certain patterns of behavior. And we
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can see that there's a purposeful approach to this by
corporate America advertising. There's a whole bunch of stuff that
lends to this. You know, who's knocking at my door, Like.
Speaker 11 (01:25:55):
What is that?
Speaker 5 (01:25:56):
What is this deal that we're afraid of? Who's knocking
at our door? Like we get mad that a salesperson's
walking and knocking on doors. Isn't that one of the
toughest jobs, Like, isn't that hustle? Isn't that defined hustle?
But somehow culturally we're in a space now where we
want to be mad at it.
Speaker 20 (01:26:10):
But wasn't our country built on that? It's exactly right
what the milkman do that.
Speaker 5 (01:26:14):
Is correct door to door and sold milk door to door. Yeah,
so what's your uh, what's your take on that? You
think we can change America's culture here?
Speaker 9 (01:26:25):
Yeah, I think we definitely can.
Speaker 20 (01:26:26):
But it all comes back to education and where we're
getting our information from, like educate ourselves. I mean, since
I've been involved with the union, being with the county
for a year, it's been an eye opening experience on
the stuff that I didn't know and where I was
getting my information from. It's drastically changed.
Speaker 5 (01:26:45):
Like what give me an example.
Speaker 20 (01:26:47):
Well, I mean I think I probably used to be
a little bit more not paying attention to labor, not
paying attention to what goes on in that space, not
paying attention to the laws that would affect labor, and
now being involved with the union, it's just a really
cool experience to see everything that goes on in the space.
Speaker 5 (01:27:05):
You Know what's incredible is what I love about running
this organization is we have such this crazy diverse set
of jobs. I mean, we have drivers, we have cooks,
we have office people, we have attorneys, we have investigators,
we have nurses. Like we have this extremely diverse approach
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to it. And what I've found over my thirty plus
years of doing this is that the more all of
these different types of jobs people in these jobs careers
learn about the history of labor, it actually shifts their
entire view of history on top of it, because we
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have purposely, over the last few decades been programmed to
separate ourselves from understanding labor because corporate America doesn't want
us to know the power labor has labor being workers.
And as a resultant, we go back and peel back
the layers and realize that there was no laws on
the books until nineteen thirty four in this country to
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protect workers. None. I mean, that is quite the statement
to go. It's crazy to go that long from seventeen
seventy six to nineteen thirty four, and then and then
and then to villainize labor. It only took Corporate America
about thirty thirty five years to villainize labor as a whole.
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And you know, supposed to be I'm a mobster and
a gangster, you know, and the teamsters and Jimmy Hoffa
and you know all the movies and the stories and
all that stuff like and the funny thing I always say,
and I've said it a few times on the show,
I'll say it again. If I was the mob then
I would just have the boss whacked right like I would.
There would be no fight up in Victorville with the
strike right now. We had just had the people running
(01:28:58):
the organization in Dallas or I mean they're not in Dallas,
think they're in somewhere else in Texas, Austin or something.
We'd have them, we'd have them whacked, and then we'd
have a deal and everybody'd be making good money and
everybody'd be happier.
Speaker 9 (01:29:10):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:29:11):
So the reality is it doesn't work that way. You know,
somebody else wanted to tell this narrative about us to
make us look bad, to make workers look bad, to
make labor look bad. So then when you peel back
the layers and you see how that fight happened, then
you also see what workers actually have the right and
the power to do, and how they've been distanced from
that education and information that you pointed out. It's real
(01:29:34):
eye opening for those that they're like, like yourself, professional
for seventeen years and then man, this last few months,
it's like, man, this is a different world. And I'll
tell you, the longer you go and the more you
dig down into it, the more research you do, the
more facts you find. We we were part of more
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positive in this country than anybody ever get this credit for.
And we're the single that, the single largest and most
consistent organization, which is labor, in the last one hundred
plus years to protect workers. Nobody else has got that
track record. And somehow we're the bad guy. Yeah, we're
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the ones that created retirement plans, weekends, holidays, like, we're
the ones that argued for it. We being workers. I'm
not saying we Randy the teamsters, you know, Yeah, some
of us are are elected to run parts of these organizations.
Speaker 9 (01:30:31):
But I think some of that's quickly forgotten.
Speaker 5 (01:30:34):
Oh yeah, it purposefully forgotten to try to villainize for
some reason. And you know the reason why we have
our billboards and we're doing the education. And you know,
right now we got a steward meeting with with you know,
seventy eighty maybe one hundred stewards. I'm not sure how
big the attendance is right now in the in the building.
But the reason why we do all this is to
slowly try to give that history back to everybody, because
(01:30:57):
if you look at school books, my my son it
hit his high school union's labors called a cartel, like
in a school book, a cartel. My son, my son's
like sends me a picture of it from school. Hey, dad, like,
look at look at and he his his family on
both sides, mom's side and dad's side are very labor oriented,
(01:31:20):
so he obviously knew, you know, you know him reading
that is like a blow to him, like why would
this be happening in my school? But for anybody that
doesn't know that, all of a sudden, it's a bad
condenptation right right, See, you're hanging out with a cartel.
Speaker 20 (01:31:34):
Right right where it goes back to the same thing
where you getting your information. I care a school book, right,
I care for my ninety two year old grandma, and
she'll call me. We talk every day. She'll call me
once in a while and she'll say, grandson, did you
hear this X, Y, and Z. And I'll go, Grandma,
where did you hear that from? She'll she'll always say Facebook.
(01:31:56):
And I tell grandma, I say, grandma, let's let's try
to get some better information, and let's search a few sources,
not just face.
Speaker 5 (01:32:02):
Back away from Facebook.
Speaker 9 (01:32:03):
Right.
Speaker 20 (01:32:04):
So it's it's also educating those around us. You know,
our loved ones are our family members, because we hear
things in our families like oh wait, that's not that's
not right.
Speaker 9 (01:32:13):
What you just said is not right.
Speaker 20 (01:32:14):
But let's talk about what is right and how the information,
why it is, and why it isn't.
Speaker 5 (01:32:20):
Yeah, that's great. How do you how do you think
you're going to be able to apply these principles with
your job itself?
Speaker 9 (01:32:29):
Yeah? Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 5 (01:32:30):
Yeah, pose an interesting question there.
Speaker 9 (01:32:33):
Huh, Yeah, I had to think about it for a
little bit.
Speaker 5 (01:32:34):
Yeah you can. And and I think that as every
teamster or labor member, member of some labor union, the
more we explain and educate to our family members and
or those we come in contact with. How important and
beneficial this whole line of information is, because you know,
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unions don't perpetuate like false information and false narratives. We're
subject to that happening to us on literally a daily basis,
because corporate America wants us to be villainized. But what
you could do and what others can do, and what
I hope every union member in America doesn't and this
is the power that we have and I'm hoping to
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get there someday. Just in the Teamsters alone, we have
over one million members. It's one point three million members.
And so if every one of our members just ten
minutes a day said something positive and educated a new
person every single day, do you know that we can
talk to the whole country in a year. That's how
powerful the numbers can be if we use it properly
(01:33:40):
in one year and one year, you can talk to
every single person in one year.
Speaker 9 (01:33:45):
Wow, that's saying a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:33:49):
That's what we're out to do. That's why you see
the billboards, the bus is the radio show, you see
the meetings. What we're trying to do is five at
a time, you know, and it has to be one
on one.
Speaker 9 (01:33:58):
You can't.
Speaker 5 (01:34:00):
What we've tried to fall back on is technology to
kind of give us a crutch to do these massive,
sort of fast communication things, right, and let's send an
email to everybody, or let's send a text to everybody.
We just got to do the old fashioned conversation like
we're having right here.
Speaker 20 (01:34:20):
Yeah, I agree, I'd noticed that with the all in
campaign and others in the department.
Speaker 5 (01:34:25):
So what'd you think. I'm glad you brought that up.
What'd you think of the all in campaign? What'd you
think of the survey?
Speaker 9 (01:34:30):
I thought the survey was great.
Speaker 20 (01:34:31):
Having, you know, trying to get other people's mind wrapped
around it can be a little bit challenging, but also,
you know, instilling in them what's happened in Utah, what's
happening with Amazon, what's happening in the space, Like, we
just can't turn a blind eye to it because if
we are, then we're the next ones. So it's like
you say, though, that the conversations have to be individual.
(01:34:53):
I've tried it at the lunch table. It does not work.
It has to be individual, one on one and let's
sit down and talk about what it really is.
Speaker 5 (01:35:04):
Couldn't have said it better myself. Spot on, Hey, are
we going to get the picket line connected here again
here in a few minutes, So you want to hang
out while we bring those strikers on the on the screen. Yeah,
so you can see them. Yeah, No, we don't take
a break. I just I just want to make sure
we're just a step ahead as we're rolling through this.
What else did you like about the survey? You know again,
(01:35:25):
I'm man makes me extremely happy to hear you actually
bring it up without me having to bring it up.
That means it made an impact on you. And are
you having one on one conversations with your coworkers? Yeah?
How is that going? It could be a little challenging, a.
Speaker 9 (01:35:40):
Little challenging at times.
Speaker 5 (01:35:42):
It's like people like, oh, don't bother me with this, Oh.
Speaker 20 (01:35:44):
Yeah, don't bother me, or the most popular one is
the one that I've heard you say multiple times. That's
not happening here, that's not happening to me, that's not
happening to us, that's never going to happen.
Speaker 9 (01:35:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:35:57):
Yeah, we all for those of you that couldn't see
on the screen right now, we all just kind of
cringe like, yeah, it can happen.
Speaker 9 (01:36:04):
And I will happen. I love following it up with
well then how did it happen in Utah?
Speaker 5 (01:36:08):
That's correct?
Speaker 9 (01:36:09):
How is how are these things happening? How?
Speaker 20 (01:36:11):
How is the whole National Labor Board being dismantled? Like
are we just going to say that that's not happening?
Speaker 5 (01:36:19):
Yeah, it's not true? Alternative facts right fu fake fake fake?
Speaker 9 (01:36:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:36:24):
No, Yeah, it's been uh, it's been a tough run
the last you know, a few months. But but the
opportunity in it is to do exactly this. I think,
what we realize, what we can see and what you're seeing,
and and man, I lend you some advice on the
tough conversations. Yeah, absolutely, don't relent. Push It's okay that
they're uncomfortable. You want to be mad at the at
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the steward or a member that's that's pressing you, go
ahead and write me a letter, come in and talk
to me, and I'll explain to you why it's important.
And and my point to bringing this up is, you know,
people want to get on faceboo book. I have all
this anger filled but then the minute you have a
one on one conference. Oh yeah, you're making me uncomfortable.
I'm out of here. I could find that a lot
(01:37:09):
of times. It's it's funny. I just had somebody send
me a send us a really really uh, I want
to use a really poopy I was going to use
a different word letter email that supposedly we didn't do
something right, and they were incorre absolutely in actually incorrect
about their email yesterday. So I immediately went in to
see if they filled out a survey.
Speaker 9 (01:37:31):
No, they did not.
Speaker 5 (01:37:33):
Like when you break down all the things that you
that the person was accusing us of, accusing the organization
and not doing I was like, I would bet a
thousand bucks that they didn't fill out a survey. Of course,
we go and look and guess what they didn't fill
out a survey. Point is is is you got to
double down and kind of press and even when people
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feel a little uncomfortable, you keep pressing. You know, you
obviously aren't offensive or you know, break people's back boundaries.
But we're we're we we've occupied this space where we're
we We don't want to push people. No I'm not
saying physically push them, but push them in the conversation.
If people are learning and they're unaware they're gonna be
(01:38:14):
a natural moment of being uncomfortable. It's oh, it's okay
to work through that. It's okay to make that happen.
We we got them coming coming in. Okay, Well, here
we are back again live.
Speaker 9 (01:38:27):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (01:38:28):
This is Randy Corgan and Casey and the Worker Power
are Casey AA ten fifty A and one six point
five FM aerin live from sam or Nandino. I know
we have a guest on the show right now. We're
being joined by Ryan Ward from the Samardino Public Defender's Office.
He's an investigator. But we're going to break in because
we have picketers currently on the picket line up in
(01:38:50):
victor Ville at Currag Doctor Pepper. I want to point
something out. You know, PEPSI was the number two beverage
distributor UH and producer in the country, and I understand
now Carrick Dr Pepper's bumped them out and Carrik Doctor
Pepper's number two, and you know, quite frankly, they need
to step up to the plate and if they're going
to be the second largest bottler in the country, they
(01:39:10):
need to pay like it too, as well as have
the right benefits that workers at Coke and Pepsi have.
And so we got a couple striking workers up there
that are on the line. Why don't you guys introduce
yourselves and take it from here.
Speaker 16 (01:39:23):
Alright, guys, my name is Adam Barcia. Hi, guys, my
name is Don Barcia. I'm the shop stewart.
Speaker 2 (01:39:28):
Here for Pepper Rickorville.
Speaker 16 (01:39:33):
You know, we're out here picketting showing the corporate that
we mean business. And we've been trashed down. We've been
just you know, just not taken care of from this
multi billion dollar corporation. And just like how you guys
said earlier they bought out Pepsi, We've got.
Speaker 14 (01:39:50):
The doctor Pepper contract.
Speaker 5 (01:39:53):
We have the value.
Speaker 16 (01:39:54):
They make enough money to pay all these members and
all these employees. What data the.
Speaker 5 (01:40:01):
Yeah, And this is exactly how you know, taking direct
action collective action is exactly how workers establish their space
in America, in the middle class and making sure that
you can afford to buy a home that you can
and have, you know, buy goods and services in your
particular area that you live. And this is what built
the American middle class, is what built the American dream.
(01:40:23):
And this is what working people need to do more
of across the country. I just want to tell you
guys that for all the people that have never had
to go on strike, you are doing the work that
makes it easier for them, because it was workers that
did what you did to have the eight hour workday,
to have over time, you know, paid a time and
a half after eight and forty, to make sure we
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have weekends, and to have all these protections that we
have on the job that quite frankly, everybody typically takes
for granted and doesn't realize that it's workers like you
that made this happen. You got anybody else out there
that wants to say hi and tell us what they do?
Speaker 16 (01:41:00):
I did not, I do not right out the moment,
but I could definitely grab somebody for you guys to
see you guys can hear their side of their point
of view and uh and let them talk to you
right now. Let me just grab somebody real quick.
Speaker 5 (01:41:12):
Yeah, nless there's anything else you wanna you wanna you
want to talk about?
Speaker 14 (01:41:17):
I mean absolutely, I do, you know.
Speaker 16 (01:41:19):
I just like how you said, we're doing this strike
or to show everybody that we're the ones with the power,
you know, and we want to motivate everybody to do
the exact same thing. Stand up to each corporation, stand
up for the voiceless, in my opinion, So we show
them that we mean business. They're gonna come around and
(01:41:41):
they're gonna realize, you know what, we should have treated
our employees a lot more better. We should have gave
them the time that they deserve to be with their families,
to just even go out, just to go out to
them all the movies. But we can't even do that
because the corporate requires us to be here six seven
days out of the out of.
Speaker 14 (01:41:58):
The week, which is not right.
Speaker 16 (01:42:00):
So so yeah, we're just we're just here outside putting
up the fight and we're going to continue to put
up the fight and if not, then we're taking it
next week to Vernon, Orange County, San Fernando. We're gonna
shut it down. We're gonna shut it down.
Speaker 5 (01:42:16):
Oh, I can tell you this. All the other team
stirs throughout southern California are saying bring it, bring it.
They want it.
Speaker 9 (01:42:26):
Man.
Speaker 5 (01:42:26):
I'm getting text messages every day, when's the picket line
coming to our area? When does this happen? In this
So you guys have a ton of support out there.
Speaker 11 (01:42:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 16 (01:42:34):
And just like we said earlier, uh, we want to
encourage any other teams to remember out there to come
and join the fight.
Speaker 5 (01:42:41):
You know, we got we.
Speaker 16 (01:42:42):
Got hamburgers, we got hot dogs, we got music. You know,
it's a good time out here. So if they could
come by and share the support, it'll be duly appreciated.
Speaker 5 (01:42:51):
Great job. Yeah, take a get a get a view
there of the pick a line. Can you see the
pick of line in back of you. We'll be able
to get a quick view of that. There we go.
All right, guys. What you see in now live is
a is A is A is a live picket line
in Victorville, California with carreg doctor Pepper. Uh. These workers
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are are have walked off the job. They're demanding to
have better pay and in a retirement plan on top
of a number of other working conditions that need to
be need to be satisfied in bargaining. The company is
bargaining in bag faith. As a result, these workers are
exercising their right, which is the right to withhold their labor.
More workers across the country have got to do this
(01:43:35):
if the middle class wants to to thrive. They have
to do more of what you see right here, which
is workers withholding their labor and especially in expertise. These
are workers that are producing product at in Victorville. They're
producing Canada dry motts, apple, Uh, you know, Climato, all
(01:43:55):
the all the different things in which the different brands
in which care doctor Pepper makes billions of dollars in
profits on forty four billion dollars. And guess what these
workers are just asking for a little piece of the pie.
And and also you know, making sure that the working
conditions are are good and not having to work you know,
seven days straight all the time, and and and especially
(01:44:17):
under conditions you know, to where they could be clearly
making more money. So uh, you're a forkliff driver, right brother.
He may not be able to hear me. He's just
walking around showing. Yeah. See see and see how peaceful
the picketing is. Everybody says we throw rocks and beat
people up and all that stuff that you got anybody
(01:44:38):
else you want to hand the phone to to introduce
so they can talk about their job.
Speaker 14 (01:44:43):
Absolutely absolutely, I love this.
Speaker 5 (01:44:51):
This is seat you're catching, This is this is live
like this is no not making it's I'm not regurgitating
a story.
Speaker 9 (01:44:57):
This is no editing.
Speaker 11 (01:44:58):
There's no in a reality show.
Speaker 5 (01:45:01):
That's right, it's not a rehearsed one. Hey, brother, why
don't you introduce yourself? Tell us your name and and
what you do in the facility. You got to talk
a little lower, pull the mic up. There you go, Ah,
tex Mario, have him, have him handle them. Yeah, we're
(01:45:26):
having a hard time hearing your brother. That's okay, let's start.
Let's see if we can't get it to where let's
try it again. No worries. They're on a picking line,
so it's noisy and they're trying to figure it out. Man,
it's not their fault. This is we're just flying with this.
We what we want is want people to be able
to see live these workers sacrificing, jumping off the job.
(01:45:46):
Let's try this again. Well, there you go. We can
hear you.
Speaker 9 (01:45:49):
Now, how's it going. How's it going?
Speaker 5 (01:45:52):
Man? What's your name? What job do you do inside
the operations?
Speaker 17 (01:46:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:46:05):
I appreciate, well, we appreciate it. We can't really hear
much of it. It's too noisy. Not your fault, that's
just we're just flying with this and it's it's you know,
this is this is raw picket line activity. Keep up
the fight. You got thousands of people listening in right
(01:46:27):
now all over southern California. You got got thousands of
other workers in the industry that are willing to support you.
And it's great to see you guys making this happen. Uh.
We'll make sure that we get the word out and
more and more people come up there and and and
support you up there. And you what you're doing is
you're fighting for the American dream. Uh. Millions of workers
will never have to go on strike because you're doing it,
(01:46:49):
and you're making sure that you draw the line and
you get this employer to pay attention uh to a
fair work day.
Speaker 14 (01:46:55):
Yeah, thank you, man, appreciate it so much.
Speaker 11 (01:46:57):
Man.
Speaker 5 (01:46:58):
Yeah, thanks for coming on the show. Oh. This is
Randy Corgan and the work of Power Hour live from
Sam Bernardino KCAA ten fifty A M one O six
point five FM and the Teamsters Local nineteen thirty two
broadcast network. There you see live pictures of the of
the strike happening up there in Victorville right now. It
is about two or three miles west of the fifteen
(01:47:19):
Freeway off of Majave. You can actually get there off
of three ninety five. It is right adjacent to the
old Edwards Air Force Base. I think it's on Gateway Drive.
I forget the address off the top of my head.
If you want to stop by, I know somebody will
get that address to me here in a second so
I can spit it out. But really really want to
commend these courageous workers. For those of you who don't
(01:47:40):
know the history, these workers organized a union three years ago,
four years ago. Let me get the address. The address
is one eight one eight zero, which is one eight
one eight zero Gateway Drive in Victorville, so you can
get up there. You can stop by and help them.
(01:48:00):
But these workers organized. They were non union before for
many many years. Since the place opened up, they organized,
got a first contract in twenty twenty or excuse me,
the organized in twenty twenty one. Got their first contract
in twenty twenty two. Their first contract has expired. And
what the company is trying to do is trying to
break them, thinking that they're going to be able to
(01:48:21):
break the solidarity of this group. And I think the
company is definitely surprised at how strong this group is.
To see them almost unanimously walk off the job. And
you know, the company's trying to operate. They're bringing in
all these people that have no idea how to do
this work, and they're trying to, you know, produce. But
we've found over the years that the minute you take
out the real people from the operations, the ones that
(01:48:42):
have been doing it every single day, you can never
do the same work that those that have been doing
it every single day. So and again, this is what
America's workforce needs to do more of. And it's great
for us to have people calling in live from that
picket line and we get to get to hear from them.
This Again, it's not reheard. This is on the fly.
That's why, you know, it's kind of hard to hear them.
(01:49:03):
And hopefully y' all can be patient. This is this
is for all of you that have never had to
be on strike. This right here is what gave you
everything that you have today. As a matter of fact,
I got into it with a member of retiree. He
was mad about something and I had to remind him, like,
you recently got all these benefits, all these raises, you
got a retiree medical component. There's all these new things
(01:49:26):
yet and you never had to go on strike one day,
not one day like we asked you to go on strike,
and you know we settled the contract before. But the
reality is is you didn't have to go on strike,
so you know at some point you may have to go. Well,
as a retire you don't have to go on strike anymore.
But when you're in that space, try not to take
it for granted. Is what I'm getting at is this
(01:49:48):
is tough, and it's easy to sit back and say
I want more, I want more, I want more. Well
when did you throw down? Were you willing to Well,
you're willing to get in the mix and do what
these workers are doing, because there's nothing gain in this
country for workers without that right there, that you see
on that screen. So really, really really want to emphasize
that point. Again, nothing in this country was gained for
(01:50:11):
workers without what you see on that screen right there,
right those workers in Victorville are doing exactly what built
the American dream for workers? Wouldn't you agree? Ryan? Does
that inspire you?
Speaker 9 (01:50:23):
It does? It does?
Speaker 20 (01:50:24):
And we were talking about the survey again. I'm sorry,
going back to the survey. Everybody wants to don't stop
talking about the survey. But the survey when it asked
in there are you willing to take action? That's when
I was like, Wow, okay, yes, yes I am. But
I don't know that everybody's that way.
Speaker 5 (01:50:43):
They're not there yet. We got to get them there.
I'll give you an example. When we were bargaining the
last contract, I told everybody, I will not recommend this
contract unless it has one hundred percent medical paid and
any increases in the future, and I'm going to tell
you to go on strike. Otherwise, when we got down
of the wire, down to the very end, we could
tell the membership was willing to accept it was a
(01:51:05):
good deal, even though it didn't have as much as
I just laid the line on. But I believe fighting
for one hundred percent paid healthcare is worth doing exactly that.
It is absolutely worth every minute of that and making
sure that the employer recognizes how valuable something like that is.
My point to bringing it up is is that we
(01:51:28):
got to push people more. That uncomfortable thing I talked
about earlier. What you know, I want, I want, I want,
But how do I get If I don't fight for it?
Someone else has got to do it. For me. If
you leave it up to someone else, you're not going
to get you're not going to get the same value. Right, yeah, yeah,
So what's this? Uh, what's this experienced for you being
(01:51:50):
on the show here? Right?
Speaker 9 (01:51:52):
Oh, it's been great. I like it. It's fun.
Speaker 5 (01:51:54):
I'll have a little more than just great.
Speaker 20 (01:51:55):
It's been a great time. It's been a real good time.
It's cool to see the back the back operations and
see how all this actually is done when I've been
listening to it for weeks and then here I am.
Speaker 5 (01:52:04):
So if you listening to other shows, what were you
What were your favorite parts of other shows? What comes
to mind? Real quick? See, I always pull the track
everybody goes Brandy. You always ask these questions and put
people on the spot.
Speaker 9 (01:52:16):
Because I listen, it's hard to into one spot.
Speaker 5 (01:52:19):
Right right, well, and plus it's hard to on the fly.
You know, you're on the radio and you're like, oh,
I just drew a blank, No big deal. But every
a lot of people do that, actually most people do that.
That's hard to just pull something you know, out of
your memory bank like that, especially when you're on the spot.
But what I really like about the show is this, right,
here is members get to hear other members, get to
(01:52:41):
see what other members are doing. We talk about I'm
sure you heard earlier we had James on here that
was doing a review. James had come up with this
idea at the last membership meeting. You know, we need
to do a review of these restaurants and our teams
to advantage partners. And I was like, sure, got a
show tomorrow, let's go on just on the Flyer's like, well,
so we got him on the show and and and
(01:53:03):
we're having a good time with it. He did great today, obviously,
he he did great to a degree that he went
to two donut shops on Friday, James Joos he went
to and I'm not talking just a regular donut shop.
Speaker 9 (01:53:18):
I'm talking these donuts.
Speaker 11 (01:53:21):
These are these are talking about.
Speaker 5 (01:53:23):
These are the Cadillac of donuts.
Speaker 9 (01:53:26):
I mean, look how much the donuts changed over the years.
It's not the same it used to be.
Speaker 5 (01:53:30):
Back in my day when I was delivering papers. Apple
fritter was the was the cadillac. It was you didn't
get any I mean, this makes an apple fritter look
like just a regular glazed donut.
Speaker 18 (01:53:39):
Yeah, what what's an apple fritter anymore because after the
dough and then.
Speaker 5 (01:53:45):
I still love apple fritters though, man those are I
guess for me, it's it's nostalgic and it takes me
back to being a kid. But uh, and and of
course my story on donuts is I always had a
fresh one as a kid because I was a paper
boy in the morning and I exchanged it and so
I got the best donut you could ever, which is
fresh at five am in nineteen eighty one, eighty two,
eighty three. It was still warm. It was still warm,
(01:54:06):
and they didn't have all the preservatives that they do now.
And when I eat donuts now, it's nothing like what
I remember from being a kid. But those donuts are
still pretty good at both Dough and donut Town. So
are you part of our teamster Advantage network?
Speaker 9 (01:54:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:54:20):
So what's your favorite place do you have a go to?
Speaker 9 (01:54:24):
Probably the Hitch because it's closest to work, you know.
Speaker 5 (01:54:27):
Yeah, Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one.
See I put you on the spot and you answered.
Speaker 9 (01:54:31):
I had to think about it for a second though.
Speaker 11 (01:54:33):
He should give us a review.
Speaker 5 (01:54:35):
Yeah, yeah, what's your favorite thing to eat? There?
Speaker 20 (01:54:38):
I go with the Uh, they have a Nashville hot
chicken sandwich.
Speaker 5 (01:54:44):
I don't think I've had that. There's pretty good.
Speaker 9 (01:54:46):
Yeah, I don't light your world up. It's hot, deep fright, Yeah,
it's hot.
Speaker 5 (01:54:50):
You see the look on his face.
Speaker 9 (01:54:51):
Everybody in the studio just laughed. He was like, Yeah,
that's hot. It'll get you, It'll get you.
Speaker 5 (01:54:56):
Oh, I'm gonna have to do with that. I'm gonna
have to. I'm gonna have to pick that one up.
I'm gonna have to because I love I love that sandwich.
Speaker 9 (01:55:02):
Done right, a few pickles on it, good to go.
Speaker 5 (01:55:04):
There's a place in Palm Springs that I have that
sandwich here. Recently thought that the one I had in
Tennessee was the best. But there's actually a place in
Palm Springs. I can't think of the name of it.
It's right by the casino there. It has that that
that that sandwich better than any place I've ever had. No,
(01:55:25):
it's not chick fil A, Robert Chick fil A. So
anything else you want to say before we wrap up.
You're part of the segment. Boy, we stretched you out
a while here.
Speaker 20 (01:55:36):
No, I just I appreciate the opportunity. I appreciate all
the hard work and and and everything you do for
for us and and all your staff. I mean, it's
just you guys are awesome, and I'm glad to be
a part of the movement, glad to be a part
of the union and the county.
Speaker 5 (01:55:51):
The name of the place in Palm Springs is Tropical.
It's called the Tropical. It's right there by. It's right
there by the casino, by the spa. Yeah, by the spa.
Speaker 11 (01:56:00):
Is it on Indian Canyon?
Speaker 5 (01:56:02):
No, the other one, Palm Canyon? No, no, no, no, no,
it's the street that runs north and south. I mean
Chocolate to Tropical. It's called Tropical Tropic c R O
P I C A l E. Phenomenal food, phenomenal And
they're spicy chicken or whatever that that what would you
(01:56:24):
call it? The Nashville hot chicken was just the best
I've ever had, better than when we had it in Nashville.
In Tennessee.
Speaker 9 (01:56:33):
You need to get him on the team. Start advantage.
So we didn't go over.
Speaker 5 (01:56:35):
There, not yet. We're we're going to definitely try to.
It's it's it's definitely going to try to make that happen. Anyway.
I just got a couple of minutes left to really
appreciate you coming on, Ryan, Really appreciate the work that
you do. Really appreciate, uh you. You also recognizing how
different the world looks once you learn how important labor
is to you know, the rest of the workforce. You know,
(01:56:57):
somewhat takes that for granted. We're doing the best we
can to get this message out so that more and
more people understand how powerful being in the union is
and how rewarding it is, but also the general public
recognizing how good it is for their local community. You know,
all these things that we do with Teamster Advantage and
our training center and and you know, building out the community,
(01:57:20):
representing the community, working for the community, all the community
events that we do is really built around building the
holistic approach, like you pointed out earlier, just a holistic
approach to our local community. And so you know, this
is Randy Corgan and the Worker Power are KCAA ten
f one oh six point five FM and the Teamsters
(01:57:41):
nineteen thirty two broadcast Network. We're building worker power. You
still got some time, right but you don't have music.
That's okay. I'll close this out probably right on time.
I got two and a half minutes, right, Okay, Yeah,
the you know, we're building worker power and empire. And
how do you build worker power. The way you build
(01:58:02):
worker powers you talk to your neighbors, you talk to
your friends, and you educate them on many of the
things that me and Ryan here talked about here for
a few minutes and explaining to them that collective bargaining
and collective action is what helps the middle class thrive.
This is workers can organize a union, workers can participate
in these things within the community, and we can make
sure that our community thrives more through through collective action
(01:58:25):
and through organizing union, and most importantly through making sure
that others do the same thing. Getting that to grow
is our objective in our think. A Teamster program is
on the billboards you see, you think a team straw
on these buses, you see it, You hear it on
the radio, you hear all these platforms in which we're
(01:58:46):
really trying to pump the message out to one respect
at the work that many like you do, Ryan and
others that are fifteen thousand members in the County of
sam Bardino, as well as the tens of thousands of
others in the area to do the very same work.
We got to appreciate this space more around us, and
we're building worker power here in the Inland Empire by
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doing all of these things every single day, and we're
trying to make sure we're doing it with a positive approach.
This is Randy Corgan the Worker Power, our longtime organizer,
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Welcome to The Worker Power Hour with Randy Corrigan, a
brand new show about labor and worker issues. The host
of the show is Randy Corgan, 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.
(06:49):
Randy Corgan is a thirty year Teamster who first became
involved in the labor movement by volunteering his time as
an organizer with.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
The Teamsters Union at the age of twenty one.
Speaker 10 (06:58):
Since then, Pease helped fous, organized, mobilized, and achieved bargaining rights.
He accomplished this by spending countless hours with brave men
and women all over Southern California and 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 Corgan.
Speaker 9 (07:21):
It's just one of those things where you don't want
to wake up. Everybody sucks.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
You know, you want to welcome back Randy Corgan and
the Work of Power Hour ACAA ten fifty A one
six point five FM, the Teamsters nineteen thirty two Broadcast Network.
You know, I was just thinking of that song coming in.
It's perfect for last week.
Speaker 9 (07:45):
To describe last week's show.
Speaker 11 (07:48):
I wanted to break stuff last week.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
That was funny. That's that's that's a nice little intro.
For those of you who don't know, we had our challenges.
I'll talk about that in a minute. Anyway, this is
again Randy Corgan and the Work of Power Our KCA
six point five FM. We're live from sam Bornandino. By
the way, for those of you that don't know, this
is a live radio show that we do. Allow a
podcast to come off of it later and many of
(08:11):
you may listen to it after the fact. But the
challenges of running a live show are what they are,
and we ran into them squarely last week. Longtime organizer,
first time radio host, we uh we James got to
make sure you got that Mike close to you. But
it's gonna be a while before he gets on anyway.
So yeah, let's just talk briefly Mark about last week
(08:33):
the well, don't don't go listen to it. I'm going
to recap the show, but before I just just take
my recap and don't go back and listen to the show,
because because it was a train wreck, I.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
Just have one title for that show, the twilight Zone.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Yeah. Yeah, we you know what we'll do next time.
What it did is it made us create a backup
plan when we run into a technical difficulty like that. Again,
this is where our rookie status comes in. We're rooked,
he's on live radio.
Speaker 11 (09:01):
It's just a learning curve.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Definitely a learning curve. We figured that out and hopefully
when we reuse the system again this week, we don't
have the same issow. I don't think we're going to,
but we have a backup plan in case, and that
way we won't run into the chaos that we did
for a few minutes that blew the show up. But
last week we were joined by Steve Espinoza, who owns
(09:24):
a mortgage company and he not only secures home loans
for first time buyer, but he also does financial management
and credit repair. And he you know, he did a
really good job. We'll bring him back back on another show,
one that I'll encourage you to listen to. Actually, the
first half of the show, the first hour was fine.
We just we just blew up the back end. But
(09:46):
the reality is is he did a really good job
of explaining what he does, how he helps people buy homes,
how he really gets people to turn the corner from
renting to buying homes, and it's a lot easier, and
people realize sometimes you just got to kind of get
in the space to start to work into that space.
And we also had Victor Pius on the Secretary of
Treasure AFGE, and he talked about how the federal employees
(10:09):
that they represent at Local one twelve sixty, how they're
being impacted by a lot of these policies that are
coming down the executive orders, and how they're being affected
by bargaining rights. And again, I know most of you
probably didn't listen, and if you were listening, you probably
shut off the show when we ran into the disaster,
And I don't blame you. At all. But I'll give
you a quick snippet of what I was doing with
(10:31):
him when I was talking to him, and be interested
to hear from Robert if he followed up with them
after the fact. I know I pressed hard because I
think it's time that workers that the collective bargaining is
being shut down or eliminated or backed off or completely
you know, you know, taking and making illegal. That workers
(10:53):
need to just start with holding their labor completely. You know,
AFGE represents the TSA workers, So imagine no TSA workers
coming to work for a few days. Boy, that would
really throw our air traffic in our airlines into chaos
for a bit. But that's the power that we should
(11:13):
be should be exercising when, especially when somebody with the
swipe of a pin wants to take away our ability
to bargain. And ironically, I was read been reading up
a lot on how those TSA workers were affected since
the executive order, and I also was able to look
a little deeper into how fast their collective bargaining had matured.
(11:40):
They had gained the right to collectively bargain in twenty eleven,
and then it took them a few years to really
kind of build up decent contracts, and it really shifted
them into a middle class job right about twenty seventeen
twenty eighteen, and then they had a really good contract
and I think it was twenty twenty three, and then
(12:02):
it was wiped away. And I'll give you an example,
something that on the surface sounds like, oh, what does
it matter that you need to have a doctor's note
before you come into work or dift to call in
sick or else You're going to get penalized heavily. So
if you have a three am Star time, how do
you go you wake up at two? How do you
(12:23):
get a doctor's note before your three am Star time?
So anybody who travels like myself, you go through the airport,
you see TSA, they're at the airport. If you get
there at five, they're there. A lot of them start
their shifts really early in the morning. So imagine that
happening where your policy is wiped away. That is exactly
what happened to them. Soon as their collective bargaining rights
(12:46):
were stripped, they immediately changed their attendance policy, immediately change
their benefit packages, immediately changed a lot of their working conditions.
And the best one to point out is just something
as simple as calling in sick not being represented in
that circumstance or situation where you wake up you're sick
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and then you can't provide a doctor's note before the
start time of your shift. You're now going to be
penalized more heavily as a result of that when it's
literally impossible for you to comply with what's being asked.
This isn't a nine to five situation. This is, you know,
clearly something different. So most people, you know, when they
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hear the rhetoric of oh, well, they just don't want
to go to work and this and that, that's that's
all being twisted around. And I just wanted to give
that simple example on top of making sure that these
good middle class jobs that are maintaining the safety of
our airline travel, not just our airline travel, but customs
and a lot of other things, you know, throughout the
United States. So it was good to have Victor on.
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We'll have them on again when our systems are not
going to fall apart like they did last week. Again,
a new studio, we have new equipment. We've done a
couple of things and it caused a couple technical hitches.
No big deal. It is what it is. We've got
plenty of other shows in the past, and we've got
plenty more shows to do. We can always make up
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for it in the future, and we just kind of
kind of joke through this and have a good time
with it. But really appreciate both of them coming in
and being on the show. And again, last week's show
was quite the learning experience. You should have seen Robert
melting down over there. Do I have something over here
to look at? Oh? Okay, yeah, I have a friend
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who works for TSA and Las Vegas and is being
forced into retirement after working for them twenty one years,
only forty nine years old. He'll be jobless as of September.
So this is actually from somebody specifically who is telling
the story of somebody that they're connected to. So there's
literally hundreds, if not thousands, of these stories out there
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where workers that are in this space of collective bargaining
being eliminated. There's immediate policies that are going into place
that are affecting or that are affecting their working conditions.
So with that, again, appreciate them coming on and we
have before I do my live shoutouts I want to
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first talk about our live shoutouts on the picket line.
We have an active picket line going on right now
Teamster's Local eight ninety six. The Curig Doctor Pepper seven
up location in Victorville, which is a production plant up
in Victorville, off to the west of the fifteen Freeway,
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just a couple of miles west on Majave if you
exit Mohave. It's not on Mahavi, but it's out there
adjacent to the old I think it's Edwards. You got
the Edwards Air Force Base and you got a little
more than one hundred workers that have walked off the
job in a labor dispute. They they they are looking
for support. They have been a great group. We actually
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have people on the picket line. You're going to hear
from them here shortly with then the hour will cut
into them, probably around two forty and then again somewhere
around three thirty or three forty. Within both hours, will
actually get to hear directly from some picketers on the show.
I hear that they're listening in live as we speak,
and we obviously have some staff up there helping out.
So it's good to see workers taking control of their
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future taking direct action. And you know, the employer, a
very profitable employer, needs to be sharing the wealth and
making sure that they have great benefits and working conditions.
And they've obviously they be in Carrick doctor Pepper's come
up short there if I remember correctly, they are a
forty four billion dollar company and they can afford to
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do better by these workers. And so big shout out
to them on that picket line, especially those of you
that are listening out there live those who are walking
that line, and we are going to hear from you
very very shortly as far as our live shoutouts are concerned.
Warren Pennington from the Desert Water Agency, Ron Garcia from
Sunline Transit, Eli Salas from the City of Redlands Water Department.
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We also have Sandy Woodark, Jason Rivera, Andrea Pelacios, Lashanya Dalton,
Andrew Solaris, Daniel Palafox, we have Lauren and Reuben Baka,
and then we have Anthony Gersh and Cy Foley from
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the City of Needles the Wastewater Department. We have Natalie
Miles from h excuse me, ARMC HIM Department, Lisa Vasquez
from ARMC Rehab Kawana Donald excuse me, Kawana McDonald from
AARMC patient reception, Charmaine Cole from Register of Voters, and
we have Markisha Waller, she listens in. I get to
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see that name all the time. Thank you, Markisha, appreciate
you listening regularly almost every week, AARMC epic. And also
Kirk Garrison, he does listen in regularly almost every week,
and so does Connie Botani. And Connie was on the
picket line late last night. I think I saw a
picture of her as late as midnight, lilast night or
eleven thirty. So Connie, if you're listening in, is good
to see you via a text message and a picture
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on that picket line out there helping out. We also
have a DCSs low Melnda listening live as well as
the VIA office and sam Maordino listening in live. We
have Ryan Shrouds from CFS, Jenny Hernandez from Public Health,
Holly Edison, AARMC retiree, Micah Graham from AARMC, Kathleen Nelson
from AIRMC, Jonathan and Rod from AIRMC Security, Alexandra Wright
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from TAD and then just Sherry wants me to note
that we have ten scholarship winners have been selected and
will be presenting the winners at our main membership meeting.
We also have Sarah a blot from the Mentone Library.
Those are our live shout outs and may I always
remind you to download the CACAA app in your Apple
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Store or Google play store. And if you want to
reach our radio show, please go ahead and contact us
at radio show at Teamsters nineteen thirty two dot org.
Next part of our show is fun facts we have.
Let's see let me see what somebody live on the
picket line is. Yep, we are here and we can
hear you live on the picket line. So thanks for
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thanks for sending that text to me, really appreciate it.
And again, labor disputes and workers walking off the job
and taking direct action is the only way, unfortunately, it's
the only way to catch your employer's attention. And you know,
the more we see this and the more we educate
workers that they have the right to do this, the
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more workers are gonna win. This is you know, you
always it's not that you want to have labor disputes,
but you need to have them when the employer is unreasonable.
Period You're not just gonna get things shoved. We're not
just gonna get things shoved down our throats. So the
next part of our show is is you know fun
facts or highlights. Sometimes we do movies, we do books,
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we do jobs. Today we have the Hispanic Caucus highlighting
something of the nineteen thirty two Hispanic Caucus. This is
an incredible story, an absolutely incredible story that really goes
back almost fifty years. Actually the history to it goes
beyond fifty years at first, and then the resolution to
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it is just short of fifty years. But more than
a thousand students, faculty, and community supporters stood outside Murphy
Hall on June seventh of nineteen ninety three. And this
is a hunger strike that ended, but a center was
born as a result of it. And on June seventh
of nineteen ninety three, to celebrate the end of a
fourteen day hunger strike and the creation of the Caesar E.
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Chavis Center for chic and Chicano's Studies, culminating a story
that begun at least twenty years earlier. UCLA first established
the Chicano Studies Program in nineteen seventy three, drawn on
faculty and courses from different departments to constitute an undergraduate
major in the field, but the re entrenchment in California's
social and budget policies during the nineteen eighties and the
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recession of the early nineties took a toll on the program,
with lowered enrollments and graduates. By nineteen eighty nine, funding
had dwindled significantly, and the UCLA Excuse me and UCLA
suspended new admissions to the program the following year. Two
months later, in April of nineteen ninety, METCHA organized UCLA students, faculty,
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and community members staging a demonstration calling for the program's evaluation.
Excuse me, evlation, I'm sorry, I got a typo here
right in front of me. Not a typo, I'm misreading it.
Elevation to department level. So, in other words, they were
staging a demonstration calling for the program to be elevated
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to the department level. Negotiations continued for several years, and
after more than two years of discussion and considering the
proposal in the context of a serious budget of serious
budget cuts, UCLA faced. Former UCLA Chancellor Young announced on
April twenty eighth, nineteen ninety three, that it would not
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be implemented. The statement was made on the eve of
labor organizer Caesar Chavis wake, timing that was subsequently cited
for fueling the emotions. On May eleventh of nineteen ninety three, protesters,
some from UCLA others from the community, challenged Young's decision
by staging a sit in at the UCLA Faculty Center.
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The movement continued with peaceful demonstrations. On May twenty fourth,
five students, one professor, and three community members began a
hunger strike to protest Young's decision and disciplinary action against
student protesters. Days prior, a village of tenths and shanties
sprung up outside Murphy Hall. The debate raged on campus
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and in the media, draw national attention. After lengthy negotiations,
the strike ended when Young and the strikers reached agreement
and signed a proposal for the renaming and creation of
the new center as the Caesar EA java's Department of
Cha and chic Chicano Studies at UCLA. This was also
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this story is also featured on the nineteen thirty two
Hispanic Caucus Calendar. So really important, very important moment in history,
not just for labor but for equal rights in southern
California and quite frankly throughout the nation. And you know,
UCLA's Chicano Studies program had faced significant setbacks and funding
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cuts for all lots of different reasons. And it was
good to see everybody come together use protected concerted activity,
use the ability of collective action to make something happen
with student and community activism, activism including a fourteen day
hunger strike. This was absolutely important and pivotal at pressuring
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UCLA to reinstate the program and re elevate the program.
And so this movement, you know, succeeding and establishing the
scissor the Caesar Chava's Department of Chacano and Chicano Studies
Chicana and Chicano Studies at marking a major victory in
ethnic studies, in grassroots organizing. That's it's important for us.
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I know you're looking at me because I'm butchering this
over here. Sorry, Robert. You see, this is the problem
with reading things. I'm not as good at reading it.
I'm better if I just have bullet points and I
get to talk through. I have a tendency when I
see sentences to start to read them, and I don't
know why. I just don't like reading like this and
not it's like you're reading to everybody anyway.
Speaker 11 (24:37):
You just need a little rosetta stone. That's all. Roll
those ours.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
I can roll the rs. So it's not gonna be started.
Speaker 11 (24:46):
Oh okay, James.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
I'm all right. James, got me here, You got me here.
You know I got my back. You tried, could you
say ruffles have bridges?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Come on? No, this isn't the tests for me. This
is my show. You guys are killing me anyway. The
point to me sharing the story is the reality of
coming together, getting the community, labor activism, workers, students, putting
your foot down and sending a message is what it's
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all about. This is how we get things done, and
this is how we need to do more of this stuff.
And you're seeing that happen all over America right now.
So really really really appreciate pointing that out. Thank you
Carlos and the Hispanic Caucus for for giving us that
to highlight today in the news we have we really
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have a lot going on, Like it always seems like
there's a ton going on, especially with labor lately, but
there's a lot of good news too, and I think
that the best good news I want to point out
is in Utah, the there's enough signatures that have confirmed
the controversial the controversial union law that was put on hold,
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in other words, the public sector bargaining elimination that Utah pass,
which was HB two sixty seven, has been put on hold.
I remember last week or whenever it was I reported
on it. I said, I think based on the position
that it actually puts the cancelation of the bargaining on
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hold because there's a referendum that was true, that was accurate,
and so that has now been official because the Lieutenant
Governor Ddri Henderson has issued a temporary hold on it
because the signatures were able to reach the referendum requirement
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to put the referendum on the ballot, and so that
literally puts it allows you to override what the legislature
and the governor was going to do. And I just
want to point out that the size the amount of
people that knocked on doors and made this happen, especially
in a state that's what we call right to work.
It's not a big union state. And to literally see
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right about ten percent of the population sign petitions to
be submitted and mind you. This is where labor can
cut through the partisan politics because when you break down
the districts, even the Republican districts that typically don't lean
towards labor issues came out big and made sure that
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they hit not just the requirement of the signatures for
their particular Senate district, but also exceeded it in a
lot of cases more than doubled it. And so it
was worker to worker, door to door canvassing. Everybody was
out making it happen, and it just really goes to
show that labor can can really cut right through the
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partisan issues and it's very very successful. In a big
shout out to the Republican union members that came out strong.
The Lieutenant governor was the one who forced to delay
the bill. There was a lot of political and legal
wrangling going back and forth over the last couple of weeks.
In the end, in my opinion, the workers have won
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at least this battle. And then if you've knocked on
that many doors, I think that when it goes to
the voters overall, it's probably going to be something. Now
you don't want to take it for granted, but it's
definitely going to be something that's going to pass because
that's a lot of energy that you don't allow the
politics to get in the way of. So congratulations to
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all those public employees in Utah. Congratulations to all the
people that went out and knocked on doors and canvassed
and did all the hard work that really elevates labor
to a level that it should. I'm really proud to be,
you know, connected to people that are are not just
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going to lay down and say, oh, you know it's over.
You know they won, and and you know though, I
will lean back into everybody and I will say, next
time somebody does this, I'm going to do the same
thing I did with our our our friend at AFGE
is get workers to walk off the job and shut
it down when they take something away from me like that,
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like enough's enough. Like if you're going to go that
far and use the pin to wipe away my rights,
well then what we're going to do is we're going
to step out from it and we're going to just
withhold our work, and you're going to realize how important
and how valuable are the work that we do every
day is. And so in Teamster's Local nineteen thirty two
news it's Nurses Week. Teamster's Local nineteen thirty two proudly
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celebrates National Nurses Week. Our local, predominantly being a public
sector union, we want to represent or we represent licensed
vocational nurses, unit manager's assistant managers. We actually represent the
nurses that run the entire hospital at RMC, and we're
very proud of those workers, and they're proud of the
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work that they do. It's a very tough job. It's
a very challenging and difficult job, and this is nurses
we can you may see them on our billboards. We
actually have them on most of our billboards spread throughout
the Inland empire, raising awareness about how important they are.
And I talked earlier about Teamsters nineteen thirty two. We're
standing shoulder to shoulder with our our brothers and sisters
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at Teamsters Local eight ninety six at the Cure Doctor
Pepper facility. And you know, if you're up there, you
got to get out there and you got to go
see them, You got to connect to them, and you
got to see what they're doing. The last thing I
want to report in Local nineteen thirty two News before
we get into James here, we have come up with
a name for you. James.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
Oh, okay, this is this will be fun.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
You're gonna like it. I gotta report on one more
thing though. We're gonna call it James bites back.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
Hey, that's pretty good.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
You like it? Yeah, all right.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
I was toying between that. Well, that one sounds really good.
I was like, lunch break, that's.
Speaker 11 (31:08):
Pretty good, pretty to the point, lunch break.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
James bikes back during the lunch break.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Okay, so you can call it whatever you want while
you're on here. We'll talk about you while you're gone.
Speaker 9 (31:19):
But then even better.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
So the last thing I want to report on on
Local nineteen thirty two news is Teamsters. Local nineteen thirty
two's Hispanic Caucus also has secured over two hundred signatures,
smashing the one hundred required to officiate the name change
for SIKHM Park and try to change it to Ignacio
Lopez Park. The park that's literally I can almost throw
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a rock and hit it. I can't quite get a
rock there or a baseball, but it's that close. It's
literally like less than a block, less than a half
a block away. It's that huge park here in sam
Ornandino that is being completely remodeled right now, and it
should have a new name by the time we're done
with this. So the next step of that process is
going to happen. I really appreciate the activism by making
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that happen. And so now I want to get to
our guests. We normally have a TA partner on and
we don't because we wanted to bring James Bites back on.
Speaker 9 (32:17):
James Bites Back and I like that.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
So we're gonna get you a nice little slogan. We'll
get you some shirts that Yeah, let's not get crazy.
I was just talking smack.
Speaker 9 (32:27):
I was really looking forward to like what.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
So, for those of you don't remember, a couple of
shows ago, you'd done a review on Johnny Russo's and
by popular demand, you are back. And from what I understand,
you've actually gone to a few places.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
Uh by accident, by accident.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Oh okay, you accidentally went to eat somewhere.
Speaker 9 (32:51):
Yeah. Yeah, well remember when I was here, you guys
were talking about donuts.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
That's not an accident. If we were talking about donuts,
it was design.
Speaker 9 (33:01):
Yeah, so funny story, Lucy. We did the show on Wednesday,
so on Friday, this is five thirty five forty in
the morning. It was one of those situations where like,
I'm awake, my wife just happened to wake up as
well by nudging, and we couldn't go back to sleep.
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And we're like, I heard about those donuts and I
think it was donut town. Yeah, so they opened up
at six o'clock. We get ready drive down there six
here at the window open open exactly. So we got
there and uh, you guys undersold it. I you guys
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said it was like cake. It was more like heaven
than cake. So what did you get?
Speaker 5 (33:50):
What was heaven?
Speaker 9 (33:52):
They had a peanut butter oh Aoresi's peanut butter cup donut.
I saw that one, and then obviously the maid. Yeah,
the maple bacon, and a couple other ones.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Oh the maple bacon. Oh my, did you try the
maple bacon.
Speaker 9 (34:02):
They put like a whole, like half a pack of
bacon on that.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Thing, right. They don't come up short on him?
Speaker 9 (34:08):
No, And I was talking to the to the owner,
him and his wife and they have a baker and
now she does all the decorating and he does the selling.
And the baker comes in like about I think he said,
like about two o'clock in the morning to start working
on donuts and she's there decorating and he's it takes
for the rest of the day. But the one thing
I did like about that place it was, uh we
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walked in right after us, a gentleman walks in and he's, Hi,
how you doing. They knew each other, so it was
very uh community known where it's kind of like everyone
knows that they get a cup of coffee and they're
talking about and they're talking about, you know, getting a
cup of coffee and how the day's going, what do
you have planned for to day house the wife and kids.
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So he knew about, you know, his customers that I
thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
Yeah, that family's always had a good relationship with their
customer base, even when the grandfather was the grandfather that
ran the block, right right, Mark, Yeah, Yeah, he.
Speaker 11 (35:03):
Said Tommy, remember Tommy came in?
Speaker 9 (35:05):
Yeah, sorry, it was it was Tommy that I spoke with. Yeah,
so we had a little back and forth.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
Then did you tell him you heard about it on
the radio show?
Speaker 9 (35:13):
Yes, I did, and so I said I heard about
it and I had to come and get these donuts.
So we did, and we didn't get maybe got five
donuts there, but then we remembered.
Speaker 11 (35:26):
That's like getting ten in a regular donuts.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
It's like twenty.
Speaker 9 (35:29):
Well, yeah, that's okay. You have to understand I had
never been there, so you know, you get donuts and
it's century.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Overload five like five of those donuts, like, oh my goodness.
Speaker 9 (35:41):
So we well, here's the thing. After we're driving there,
we remember you guys talked to a place in Redlands
called Dough.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
Yeah, it was do Yeah, it's like a French spelling
of dough or something. Yes, So they're like, we had
them on before.
Speaker 9 (35:58):
Yeah, I remembered that. So I'm like, they're on the
way home and they open up at six third.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
So these aren't accidents, James.
Speaker 9 (36:05):
So I think it was hypnosis when I was here,
when you guys, when I talked to you guys.
Speaker 11 (36:11):
You should have with sleepwalking.
Speaker 9 (36:12):
It could have just totally and then it would drive
So here, I am like, go to Dough and I
get four more donuts. So eventually I somewhere probably got
about a dozen, two different places, two different donut shops,
two really great experiences though they had. I don't know
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if you guys tried their breakfast donut, bacon, egg and
cheese in a donut. So I got that that one
pretty much.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
So you drove from one, had food at that one,
and then drove right over to the other one.
Speaker 9 (36:49):
Right and then went home and then and then I ate. Well,
luckily I had that day off because I napped.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
You'd have to have.
Speaker 9 (36:57):
I definitely had a nap.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
So what was your favorite donut from donut Town? Uh?
Speaker 9 (37:04):
Donut Town? It was probably the maple bacon. Yeah, that
one's oh my, that was like a half a pack
of it and not like they talked about ba did
you eat.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
The whole donut? You couldn't have?
Speaker 9 (37:14):
I did?
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Oh my?
Speaker 11 (37:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (37:15):
Wow? Where did you?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Like?
Speaker 9 (37:17):
I'm a fat man. I don't leave halves. I eat
the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
So am I but I cannot but like I cannot
either look at.
Speaker 9 (37:26):
Him like its really not enough for me to like save?
Speaker 5 (37:30):
How was this You accidentally went there? That sounds very purposeful.
Speaker 9 (37:34):
It was morning because I didn't mean to. It just happened.
I'm like, I couldn't sleep, my wife couldn't sleep. Let's
go get donuts. We got donuts. So we got different
two different places at six am, six thirty and we
wound up home at seven o'clock eight donuts, and then
we took a nap. I took a nap, I ate
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way more donuts. I couldn't stop see the difference is
like they the dough is very artisan like they have
these that was really good. What was it carry cake
donut which is really really good.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
I think I saw that one too. I didn't try
that one, but I did see it. If I know
Ralph Lopez ate them all. But because I think that
one was upstairs in the break room.
Speaker 9 (38:17):
Yeah, so I gotta go back because I know they
have a pastrami.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
Shut the front.
Speaker 9 (38:25):
Pastrami, pickles and mustard.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
Interesting.
Speaker 9 (38:28):
So they have the sweet and savory and then Donutown.
It was just like I said, they were both really good,
but you guys undersold Donutown for sure. And then yesterday
my business agent gave me a call and asked if
I could help out with the the Pigy lineh So
I'm like, cool, I'll go help out. But I also
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remember you guys bringing up Boil Bros. Which is also
a member of and they're only in Apple Valley victor
Ville area.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
Yeah, did you make your business agent take you to us.
Speaker 9 (39:00):
I told him we got to go stop by this place,
so hopefully he bought.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Did he buy?
Speaker 9 (39:05):
Uh, yeah he did. I don't know, Yeah, had to
think about it.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (39:08):
So Andrew helped me out.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Andrew himself on the back right now. Yeah, so he's
standing outside the door.
Speaker 9 (39:14):
So Andrew and I went to go try out this place,
and we were like genuinely discussing, like what are your thoughts,
you know, like this ratio to them, like, because you.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
Know you go to these so what you eat.
Speaker 9 (39:26):
It was a Lote bowl, so it was corn, beans, rice, cheese,
and their chicken. It's more of a juan so it's
got a really good, fiery, smoky flavor to it. The
sauces were really really good.
Speaker 12 (39:43):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (39:44):
Andrew had a burrito, so he said he really enjoyed.
So we were just talking back and forth about like
the meat to grain ratio was really really good because
you know, you hate it when you get like a
lot of rice and no yeah, a lot of filler,
no no protein so.
Speaker 5 (39:58):
Or when the chickens overseas and too salty all that stuff.
Speaker 9 (40:01):
This was really good. It was a little well, like
I said, I have never we had never been there.
Before we looked it up. We checked it out. We
drove there, we go in. I'm like, man, there's nobody here.
We ordered our food. We looked behind us. There's ten
people right behind us.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
Oh you got right in front of the road right
before the rush.
Speaker 9 (40:16):
So we're like, yes, we lucked out. We sat down,
we enjoyed our meal, we discussed it, and we started
taking notes about what we thought. And it was really
really good. I mean, if you live up there in
the area, or even the people that are doing the
pick a line, you know, go check them out. There's
a have three locations up in Victor Villa and Apple
Valley up there.
Speaker 5 (40:32):
Oh wow, okay, well good. Anything else you want to
share on your gluttonous behavior.
Speaker 9 (40:40):
No, I mean I'm trying to see what else is
coming up, like craving burgers. Maybe I will check out
a couple burger places and definitely a couple of bars,
so one might check those out.
Speaker 5 (40:51):
Yeah, well, you know, put that out there again, Robert.
You don't want the chicken to taste too chicken ey.
See he is good. What's that supposed to mean, rob.
Speaker 9 (41:02):
What's chicken talking about? Boiled chicken?
Speaker 12 (41:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (41:06):
Oh well, you boil you boil all the flavor. Yeah, yeah,
you can't. You shouldn't boil chicken.
Speaker 9 (41:11):
Can I ask you us something? What do you guys
think pineapple on a pizza?
Speaker 5 (41:15):
I don't love pineapples, and you gotta put halopanios with
it because they have the opposite. Well, that's the spicy
and the sweetest.
Speaker 9 (41:24):
My my go to is pepperoni, pineapple and halopano salty sweet.
Speaker 5 (41:30):
That's one of my favorite combinations.
Speaker 9 (41:32):
Right when people put like bacon, Oh not bacon, it's
a what is it they called Canadian bacon? It just ham,
it's ham tam. It just doesn't mesh well.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
Right, Look, anytime you put pepperoni and halopanios on the
same pizza, I'm in the only way you can kill me,
whether is you put sardines or anto.
Speaker 9 (41:50):
How do you guys deal with people that are like,
pineapple does not belong on a pizza.
Speaker 11 (41:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (41:55):
Hearing that late lately, I think I read it somewhere
where somebody said that's how you're ruined a pizza.
Speaker 11 (42:02):
He will just he will throw, he will melt down.
Speaker 5 (42:04):
Oh I'm gonna have to order him a pizzapple.
Speaker 11 (42:08):
Yeah, he won't melt down.
Speaker 9 (42:09):
That's great, but it tastes so good.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
I mean, right, all right, well we got to get
to some picketers, James, so really appreciate you coming in
and doing the James bite back.
Speaker 9 (42:18):
Let's do it again.
Speaker 5 (42:19):
We're gonna do it again next month, and any anything
else that sticks in your mind about how great. So
we're gonna have to do this rating system and stuff
here pretty soon. I see that we've got them queued
up and about ready to come in live here. But
we're gonna have to do a rating system. So on
a scale of one to ten, how was the donuts.
Speaker 9 (42:39):
Scale from one to ten? Both of the places were
a ten. Okay, the boil place, I would give it
about an eight. I mean it was really really good,
really seasoned properly. Didn't taste too Chickenyi.
Speaker 5 (42:53):
That's a new one for yeah chicken.
Speaker 9 (42:56):
But I like the ratio. The only reason I would
give it lower scorages because it's it's just three little locations.
I mean, I wouldn't I wouldn't mind going there again,
but I don't have to go and need a reason
to go up to Victorville like another picket line. So
we'll probably do that again.
Speaker 5 (43:10):
We got to do is go in there, grab a
few of them for the picketers, grab some tacos and
stuff and take it out. And with that, I'm gonna
transition live to a picket line up in Victorville. We
got Mario Vasquez on the line right now on the screen. Mario,
can you hear me? Ye oh, we can hear you too.
Speaker 9 (43:27):
It's working.
Speaker 5 (43:28):
Holy cow, we didn't have a catastrophe happened this time.
So great to see you up there on the picket line.
I think you guys are in a little r.
Speaker 11 (43:35):
V, right, that's.
Speaker 5 (43:39):
All right, So why don't you give a quick description
of what's going on. There's some picketing going on. I
heard there was some act, some some rucusing and activity
earlier this morning. Somebody tried to charge the line with
the truck or something. But man, these workers are great
up there. It's good to see. They're full of energy.
They realize what they're doing. Uh, you got any of
them you want to introduce and have them talk about
actually what they do when they're not on strike. Obviously,
(44:02):
when they're on strike, they're holding a picket sign, but
when they're otherwise, they all have jobs inside the operation.
You want to take it from here, Mario.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
That's great.
Speaker 13 (44:11):
I like to you can explain it way better than
me to actually in their strength.
Speaker 14 (44:19):
Hello my hands, Adam at s. I'm forked out at
doctor Bosville. I'm also subs for second Ship. And you
know this is spend a long time coming.
Speaker 15 (44:33):
Man.
Speaker 16 (44:33):
We did this court has not helped us out at all,
has not taken care of his employees.
Speaker 14 (44:38):
We needed our sick time. They haven't give it to us.
Speaker 11 (44:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
They owe you guys back pay, don't they. They owe
you a ton of back pay that you guys want
an arbitration and they actually need to need to cough
that up. Isn't that right? Yes?
Speaker 16 (44:51):
They did, and they appilled it and pilled it and
they lost.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
They kept music.
Speaker 14 (44:55):
So but I'm gonna pass it over to another employee
here too.
Speaker 17 (44:59):
So the introduce yourself as well.
Speaker 5 (45:02):
Good how are you? You're live on the air casey
A A ten fifty A and one to six point
five f M the Teamsters nineteen thirty two broadcast network
here and live from San Bordino. Good to see you
guys so active on the picking line. Now, you don't
look like you're on the picking line because you're inside
of the little trailer that's just off to the side
of the picking line, right, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 9 (45:32):
So what do you do?
Speaker 5 (45:32):
What's what's your job inside? Got to get a little
closer to the mic.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
I know that currents I'm putting that comes out from
the lines. Yeah, production lines, I also do uh you
know everything that you will do in uh, in a warehouse.
Speaker 5 (45:55):
That's like yeah, and you guys actually produce product up there, right,
In other words, raw product comes in, you have a
production line and it comes out, you know, like apple
juice or tomato juice and so on and so forth.
Isn't that right?
Speaker 2 (46:11):
That's right?
Speaker 13 (46:11):
They have actually have we have seven production lines. Were
those uh? I think some Comado down to slacking Apple Judge,
some of some of the Doctor pettor you know, uh seven.
Speaker 17 (46:25):
Canada flying Orange kissed. So there is a big variety
of products that we produced here. This is a big
place with a lot of employees, and we've been h'
been mistreated for a long time now.
Speaker 13 (46:39):
So they had a comment for some time.
Speaker 5 (46:41):
Yeah, you know, it's the way it is in corporate America.
If they think they can they can take advantage, they're
going to try to do that, and you guys are
showing them. You said that Canada dry ist is on
that production line there. That's a popular that's a popular.
Speaker 9 (46:53):
Line, very popular.
Speaker 13 (46:55):
Also, like I mentioned all the types of comado from
the original one to go pekante uh shrimp uh cadana.
Speaker 17 (47:05):
You man, there is a like I said, there's a
big variety of products man, that we make you and
they just don't want to right, they always sit time
from a lot of time ago.
Speaker 13 (47:16):
They took it away from us, and we want it back.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
We want it back, and we want a pension as well.
Speaker 5 (47:22):
Nothing wrong with throwing down over a long term retirement,
over making sure. You know, the company is making billions
of dollars, making huge profits and and all you're asking
for is a little slice of it to make sure
that when you reach the ripe old age that you
have a decent nest egg there. Right, you're not asking
for the sun, the moon and the stars. You're just
(47:44):
asking for a small piece.
Speaker 13 (47:47):
Yes, we're actually we're asking for what we believe it's there.
You know, like you said, they make billions of dollars
and uh, which is one what is owed to us?
And what's what we believe it is there.
Speaker 5 (48:00):
Well, yeah, and that's great you guys are you guys
are fighting for what you can get. It's good to
see that you. I was up there on Monday, saw
you guys up there when we rolled up on the bus,
and it was great to see your energies. Great to
see you guys understanding exactly where you're at in the space.
And it's tough. We we don't want to you don't
really want to undermine the difficulty of it. But also
(48:23):
it's you guys seem to be having a little bit
of fun too. You're taking advantage of the circumstances and
making sure that you see the positive in int that.
Speaker 13 (48:31):
Right, Yeah, that's right. I mean we have here might
as well just you know, make it sense for us.
And I want to make an invitation for the brothers
up here in the high Desk that that are listening
to us, you know, come out and support us.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
We need it.
Speaker 13 (48:45):
We need it. You know, we're in the fight, you know,
and we're not gonna give up. You know, we're stunning
up and we're gonna make an invitation.
Speaker 5 (48:57):
You know, any worker that goes on strike, any worker
that is doing what you're doing, is actually laying the
foundation for everybody else. Uh. You know, everybody that's not
had to go on strike actually benefits from those of
you that are doing exactly what you're doing and sacrificing
what you're doing. So you guys up there, keep up
the great work. You guys got anybody else you want
(49:18):
to jump in here and say.
Speaker 13 (49:20):
Hi, Oh you know what business agent Cooper?
Speaker 5 (49:27):
Hey Phil, what's up?
Speaker 11 (49:30):
Phil?
Speaker 16 (49:31):
I just I took my sunglasses off.
Speaker 12 (49:33):
I had to be different.
Speaker 13 (49:36):
I do want to say a great show and really loved.
Speaker 17 (49:39):
The support that nineteen thirtyeen showing out here, the workers
out here.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
It's not going to do this.
Speaker 17 (49:45):
And I know there's going to be a day real
soon that you guys are looking for support, and I
think you've got it.
Speaker 14 (49:52):
We're going to come over back.
Speaker 11 (49:53):
You guys get the contract.
Speaker 5 (49:56):
That's right, and we got to get your Yours is
yours is obviously on on the hopper right now, and
it's about focusing on Victorville and making sure that happens. Phil,
really appreciate you allowing us to come up there and
occupy this space and then and then coming on the
show and that way all of the people that listen.
You know, thousands of people are listening to this live
on the radio KCA ten fifty am one or six
(50:17):
point five FM. And then obviously we have the digital version,
and then we have a podcast that goes out. We'll
end up sending you this clip in this section so
that you can send this out and share it with others.
Do you can you walk out and show everybody the
picket line is a picket line active. That way we
can get a quick view of it to see people
actually engaging in the picketing right now, or you all
(50:38):
huddled around the all huddled around the trailer. No, we
want it to be noisy. This is exactly what we want,
Mario Beck. Yeah, go ahead, and it's okay if it's noisy.
I want everybody to get the feel for what a
picket line is in case you've never been on a
(50:59):
picket line before. There we go, all right, let these
guys know, let them all know. They're live on the
air right now. KSEAA ten fifty am. That's right, who
are we? This is exactly how the American middle class
(51:28):
was built. Is what you see these workers doing right
here right now, walking off the job in Victorville, California
demanding the currig Doctor Pepper seven up. You see that's
Steyn right there. They're at the entrance. You know they've
obviously they're withholding their labor and the company's got to
figure out they're holding trucks back. You can see the
trucks right there. Mario, this is perfect. Thank you very
(51:52):
much for showing everybody so they can visually see in
case you've never been there. But also if if if
you are in in the area, get up there. If
you're not in the area, drive over there, get over
there with those workers and show them that you support
them and make sure that you join one of the
greatest things that you can do for workers, and that
has helped them on a picket line. Mario's anything else
(52:14):
you want to say before we cut back to the
regular programming.
Speaker 9 (52:18):
Soren brother and sisters.
Speaker 5 (52:21):
Thank you, Mario. We'll hear from you again in about
an hour, maybe about forty five minutes. We'll chime back in.
Really appreciate that we'll find a few more workers. Man.
That is just great. Thank you very much. Those of
you up there Local eight ninety six, Phil really appreciate
you you jumping in and allowing us to put this
(52:42):
center stage, you know, is what This is what the
American worker has to do. This is the only thing
the American worker could do to catch corporate America's attention
or their employer's attention. Really in the end, and quite frankly,
let's be very blunt, most workers in America have not
had to face a labor dispute or had to had
(53:03):
to walk off the job, and they have benefited from
millions of people doing exactly what you just saw on
our show right now. Benefited because others sacrificed, others did it,
and you have the right to do it. And guess
just the threat of you having that right is what
brings an employer to the table. The more solidarity you have,
(53:25):
the more likely you are to withhold your labor, the
more powerful you're going to be, and the more your
employer is going to have to deliver on these issues
when it comes to your working conditions. And how does
it make you feel, James, I see, I was up.
Speaker 9 (53:37):
There yesterday with them. They're a very lively bunch. They
were not letting anything go by, like people trying to
sneak in. As a matter of fact, they set up
a gate, they bought fencing, so they pay for rent.
They rented a fence to try to try to push
everything through. So when they did that, they try to
sneak some people and they're like, okay, we only see
(53:58):
three or four people on this side. We shifted like no, no, no,
you're not coming in where they're catering was coming in.
So they're you know, now they're feeding the people inside
their the catering was coming.
Speaker 5 (54:10):
Well, did they feed them before the strike or what's up?
Speaker 9 (54:12):
They weren't.
Speaker 5 (54:13):
No, they weren't. Yeah, I'm right, that's a good guess.
Speaker 9 (54:17):
Yeah. Yeah, So they we're telling me that, yeah, the
guys are. They're like, oh yeah, I had a barbecue
truck out there, and then we had the purposely set
the barbecue out or so they could smell the food.
Speaker 5 (54:27):
You know. So one time in bargaining, I had a
situation like this. I was doing a first contract and
actually in the in the first contract proposal, I added
pizza weekly, uh and and I held on to that
proposal to the very end, and the employer was like
you really gonna I said, well, you fed them pizza
every single week when you're trying to convince them to
be non union, So why not keep giving them pizza now?
Speaker 11 (54:47):
Right?
Speaker 5 (54:47):
And so, just as a funny, maybe Phil before they
go back to work, maybe a return to work would
be barbecue weekly. Barbecue weekly.
Speaker 9 (54:55):
I'm more upset than Canada drives and not made in Canada.
Speaker 5 (54:59):
Yeah, well yeah, And ironically doctor Pepper is not made
by Doctor Pepper. It's actually it's actually produced by Coke.
Speaker 9 (55:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (55:07):
Man, hey, I was talking to one of the retirees
who came up to support the line yesterday. So, when
you're an employee of Curic Doctor Pepper, you get a
discount on pods, coffee pods. He retired and they took
him out of the system. He didn't get the discount anymore.
They cut him off. Oh wow, but he did get
a new coffee machine one year and that was their bonus.
Speaker 5 (55:30):
How many years you got to you know, It's like
Chris Rock says, I work for a company thirty years
and they give me a pin when I leave, nothing more,
just a pin. I want to stab you in the
neck with that pin. Yeah, that's his line. He's like,
He's like, I want to stab the employer. What do
you mean, just give me a pin? Yeah. These corporations
Man's and that's why these workers are fighting for a pension.
That's why they're fighting for a real retirement vehicle.
Speaker 9 (55:52):
Yeah, they were definitely lively. They had music going, they
were dancing, they were chanting, they were stopping people from
coming in or it was a good group.
Speaker 5 (56:00):
They weren't stopping. They were delaying. Delaying. The legal term
is a delay, not stop. They there, there's actually we
could actually do a whole show on delay versus stop. Yes,
legal the legal argument to delay versus stop. Believe it
(56:20):
or not, there is actually a legal there are legal
fights over that. When you get into picketing. It's kind
of funny. You're gonna say something Mark, no good. You know, no
one wants to hear from me anyway, right boom right, Yeah,
I just had a bunch of people say yeah, I agree.
So we have Emily Swallow listening in live, as well
(56:40):
as Sandra ray is listening in live. Always got to
catch up on the live shoutouts. Will they come in afterwards?
Speaker 9 (56:46):
For sure?
Speaker 5 (56:46):
Anything else you want to cover? James before you got
a couple of minutes.
Speaker 9 (56:49):
Oh man, on this segment. Now it went from.
Speaker 5 (56:52):
From donuts to picket line this is the worker power hour.
Speaker 9 (56:56):
Hot dog?
Speaker 2 (56:56):
Is it?
Speaker 9 (56:56):
A sandwich?
Speaker 5 (56:58):
Is a hot dog?
Speaker 8 (56:58):
No?
Speaker 5 (56:58):
Hot dog?
Speaker 9 (56:59):
Hot dog?
Speaker 5 (57:00):
You can't you can't call it the sandwich. There's too
many variations of a hot dog.
Speaker 9 (57:04):
I think a hot dog has got to definitely be it.
Speaker 5 (57:06):
What are you gonna rate a hot dog somewhere? I
could I'm getting ready where you're going next?
Speaker 9 (57:11):
Like I said, I'm probably gonna check out a burgger.
I'm looking for drinking buddies, and if anyone's interested, I
could really go for a drinking buddy to check check
out some of these bars that we have on the.
Speaker 5 (57:18):
There's five of them lined up at the door already.
Speaker 9 (57:20):
I'm pretty sure they're quick. Yeah, So maybe check out
a couple couple of bars that have a you know,
pub food. Nothing's wrong with a good you know.
Speaker 5 (57:27):
I think whiskey, uh Is Whiskey, the one in Redlands, Whiskey,
Whisky Republic, Whisky Republic. They're on teams to advantage, right, Okay,
I went there.
Speaker 9 (57:37):
I went I know the Falconer is another one. I
heard the falcon.
Speaker 5 (57:40):
Falconer's good, Falcon's great. I've actually been going to the
Falconer for thirty years.
Speaker 9 (57:43):
I have not gone there yet since what do you
recommend Falconer? Like, if you're gonna have some some good
bar food, what would you get?
Speaker 5 (57:51):
Oh, I don't know. It's just Falconer's typical bar food.
So let's espresso martini is a must over here. My
wife likes espresso martine, but I'm not. That's Robert.
Speaker 9 (58:01):
Do you want to go drinking with me? You in
a good spots we're at? What would you recommend?
Speaker 5 (58:08):
Yeah, the state's pretty good staying downtowntown Reds.
Speaker 9 (58:12):
Yeah, I don't think I've.
Speaker 5 (58:12):
Been there, but yeah, they're not yet. So we got
to send Mark on the hunt, or maybe you can
get him. James. Well, we got to send James Destrado
over there. Yeah, where's James been? Man, he's been quiet lately.
Speaker 11 (58:26):
He goes dark on us every once in a while.
Speaker 5 (58:29):
Hopefully he's listening and we can we can beat up
on James.
Speaker 18 (58:32):
The strata from Redlands were talking about the same guy. Yes,
I don't know. I haven't talked to James Astrada in
a long time.
Speaker 5 (58:38):
Yeah, all right, we're starting to forget who he is. Yeah,
all right, Well we just got a few minutes here, actually.
Speaker 9 (58:44):
Less so you know I would check those out, Robert,
if you're down. Like I said, we could always use
more drinking buddies. So name name of the places and
I'll be there for sure. We'll see. We could get
Randy a cocktail. I know we talked about this last time.
Speaker 5 (59:00):
Well, Whiskey Republic has twisted teas on tap. It's not boring.
It's perfect for me. They have all kinds of other
stuff everything how much so I got here, Ah this
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Speaker 10 (01:05:42):
Today, Wow, 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 Corgan, Secretary Treasurer and
Principal Office and leader of two Teamsters nineteen thirty two,
one of the largest public sector labor unions on the
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West Coast, representing workers in government and non sworn law
enforcement personnel. Randy Corgan is a thirty year Teamster who
first became involved in the labor movement by volunteering his
time as an organizer with.
Speaker 9 (01:06:16):
The Teamsters Union at the age of twenty one.
Speaker 10 (01:06:18):
Since then, he's helped thousands organize, mobilize, and achieved 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 9 (01:06:44):
Just stay those old.
Speaker 5 (01:06:48):
Now this song brings back some memory. Randy Corgan and
the Worker Power Hour caseyaa ten fifty AM one or
six point five FM and the Teamsters Local nineteen thirty
two Broadcast Network airing live from San Bernardino. Yeah, this
brings back some What is this? Eighty five?
Speaker 11 (01:07:05):
Something like that? What was the movie? What was the movie?
Speaker 5 (01:07:08):
It was? I just had it in my head. Hold on,
hold on, what is it?
Speaker 11 (01:07:14):
Tom Cruise?
Speaker 5 (01:07:14):
I know, uh, I just lost it. I lost some
See it's old, guys, are miss what is it?
Speaker 11 (01:07:20):
What's risky business?
Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
Risky Business, the Porsche, you.
Speaker 11 (01:07:24):
Know, the dance in the living room.
Speaker 5 (01:07:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the candlestick, the egg got broken, the crystal.
Yeah yeah, that's a that's a that was quite the
It was the risky movie at the time.
Speaker 11 (01:07:37):
Yeah, oh, interesting all that.
Speaker 5 (01:07:40):
It's always funny how songs always spark a place in
time and they hit you and you go boom. This
is what it reminds me of most of them. Most
of them for me, they're always pretty positive. There's only
a handful of them that are negative. But it's it's
always I think it's good if the music always connects
to a positive.
Speaker 18 (01:07:58):
I came across it when I was going down the
YouTube rabbit holes looking for new music.
Speaker 5 (01:08:03):
And I was like, oh, that's that's a good one.
That's a really good one. Anyway. Yeah, Randy Corgan and
Worker Power Hour, here we are again, back live. A boy,
it was great having those striking workers up there in
Victorville live. I just got a few text messages in
saying that it was awesome to see them on kick
and live on the air, seeing the actual activity on
the picket line and having them call in and talk
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about what they do and what they're doing right now
and what they're fighting for, and in news in labor
news out there. I also want to point out that
the current administration last week canceled the first bargaining session
scheduled with the US Food and Drug Administration's largest workers
union since its ability to represent government staff was temporarily
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restored by the federal court. So as the administration keeps
trying to cancel certain parts of bargaining for public employees,
they're getting dragged into court and then having to engage
in the bargaining process. Because there's a lot of layers
to this, and why I think it's important to raise
this news is is you know, I think we got
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to get to a point where I said it earlier.
The TSA got their bargaining rights wiped away. They're not
allowed to have a collective baring agreement. All right, Well,
TASA workers just don't go to work and guess what,
no planes are gonna fly and and maybe they'll hurry
up and figure it out and restore their rights. That's
how I see it. That's why I think we need
to start doing. This is a good example of even
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though the courts have said you don't have the ability
to do this. Congress is probably the one that put
the law in place that you know that that created
the department, created the work, created the funding, and an
executive order cannot override an Act of Congress. That is,
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that is how this country is built, is structured, and
it's unfortunate that even when those rights are being restored
by a federal court, that they're being ignore it. And
what I think this should be is just again a reminder.
I'm not going to sit here and say, oh, I'm
mad because so and so is the president and this
and that, and you know, this is where those of
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you that voted for him need to remind your elected
officials that you don't agree with what is happening, and
you need to participate in pathways that exercise that in
a way that catches the attention of those that are
making these decisions. And there's going to be there's a
lot of this that's happening right now. There is obviously
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a lot of legal wrangling. There's nearly one hundred cases
that are before federal courts right now regarding collective bargaining issues.
I actually went back and did a little research. I
think it's ninety three cases, which is incredible when you
think about how much collective bargaining is having to just
go to court and the unions are having to take
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a position to exercise rights that they had prior to
January twentieth, and trying to make sure that everybody understands
these are don't allow these rights to be stripped away,
because if your collective bargaining rights get stripped away, then
there's something else that's going to come right behind it,
and we need to pay attention to this on the
highest level. I want to give you some really good news.
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The Kaiser Permanente workers have reached a tentative agreement following
a month's long strike. Matter of fact, we had Jessica
and Lisa in here multiple times after twenty four hundred
mental health workers from Kaiser begun their strike in October
of twenty twenty four. The representative the union representing those
workers is the National Union of Healthcare Workers, and they
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have come to an agreement, a tentative agreement in the
new contract is out. Details will be released pretty soon,
and you know, Robert, let's get let's get Jessica and
or Lisa to come back on and talk about, you know,
their victory. Great to see you know, I mean you're
talking what six seven months out and the other the
ratification voters tomorrow, So man, is that is phenomenal to
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see that that has resolved. And it's great to see
that they or steadfast in that process and it's good
to see that they're not they didn't waiver in that.
And one of the things they were fighting for was
retire remedical reinstatement of a retirement triarymedical pathway. What's that. Yeah,
the biggest issue they were fighting for was was patient
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ratio issues. Most of the time, when nurses or healthcare
individuals professionals are out on some sort of labor dispute,
it is usually centered around some patient centric issue and
you know, we, oh, there must be greedy nurses or
this or that, like that's the narrative somebody else wants
to say. Most of the time, those professionals are fighting
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more for what's going to help them protect their patients
or care for their patients than it is for themselves individually.
The problem is is you get to a point where
you draw the line and you can't completely sacrifice your
well being over whom you're taking care of. And you know,
people have a right to withhold their labor and they
have every right to exercise that. So with that, the
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next part of our show is I have a guest
on here, Ryan Ward. He is a public defender investigator
with sam Bardino County and apparently he's been doing this
job for what sixteen years, right, seventeen years? Seventeen years?
And so Ryan, why don't you introduce yourself and actually
kind of give a job description, talk about how unique
and I appreciate the work that you do. Some other
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people out there may not. There's this narrative that wills
if somebody you know got arrested, they must have done
something wrong. No, that's not true. Number one, they may
have done something wrong allegedly, Yeah, and there's an obligation
to prove that. And you also have the right to
represent yourself and to walk through that, which includes making
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sure that you have the ability to investigate the allegation
against you, which is your role. And so I really
believe your role is extremely important in making sure that
the freedoms of Americans are preserved, and especially those that
don't have a lot of money. You know, if the
district attorney files charges against you, the district attorney has
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a pretty big piggy bank to fight you. If you
are poor and don't have a lot of money, then
you don't have the ability to defend yourself, like the
prosecution has to prosecute you. And it is an unbalanced system.
Regardless of what people will say, those of us that
understand the system intimately, like I do, know that it's
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an unbalanced system, not for the defendant but for the prosecution,
and so it's important for the investigations to be done right,
making sure that there's plenty of resources or at least personally,
I believe you're completely under resourced. And do you know
you don't need to comment on any of that, won't
That's my individual opinion as somebody who is very very
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well aware of how the system is built funded, and
I would assume anybody that works in the public defender's
office would agree with me. If you see the public
defen vendors resources compared to the district attorney's resources, it's
not evenly balanced. So you know, if they say, oh no,
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it's a fair system in my opinion, and maybe I'll
get into it in a minute, but I just want
to give you a quick synopsis of how I see it, Ryan,
And why don't you talk about your job real quickly. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (01:15:21):
So I've been with the county for the last year.
Speaker 20 (01:15:23):
I've done this job as a defense investigator for sixteen
years prior to come into the county. And the Public
Defender's Office is a law office and we defend people
that are arrested for crimes and are in the court system.
For those of you that don't know how we get
appointed the cases. If somebody is arrested for allegedly committing
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a crime, they go into court, the judge asks them
if they have money to hire an attorney, and if
they say no, then the court appoints the Public Defender's
Office to represent them. Our office is staffed with very
many differ from positions, not just attorneys, not just investigators.
There's a lot of support staff that goes into that.
Our attorneys utilize investigators for very many different parts of
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their cases. Sometimes, you know, we're serving subpoenas for records,
or sometimes we're interviewing witnesses. Sometimes we're looking for surveillance footage.
But it's all attorney driven investigations. So whatever that attorney
needs on their case, they're going to submit a request
and we are going to do everything we can to
fulfill that request.
Speaker 5 (01:16:31):
Yeah, and I appreciate that that description and one of
the things I want to you know, lay out to people.
You know, it may cause some controversy to me saying this,
and really don't care because I know it personally firsthand
in many, many different layers. I believe most people that
are arrested and charged are overcharged. That is my personal
opinion based on individual experience and not just for me individually,
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but also from a lot of people. And I think
that the way the system is built is maybe somebody
did something wrong and then somebody lays on this heavy,
heavy charge that's in a lot of ways overcharged, and
then there's this barter system to knock it down to
some plea bargain, and and then there's a race to
at least on the district attorney side, for you to
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be judged on how many convictions you got, not necessarily
to actually find the truth. And look, I'm not taking
a shot at all district attorneys. I'm sure there's a
lot of them that don't. They may not fall into
that trap completely, but they are scored on how many
felony convictions, how many this, how many that, and and
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it's almost a system that kind of encourages it. Again,
you don't have to comment on any of this. This
is this is just me understanding the system firsthand and seeing,
especially people that don't have the financial means to fight back,
that how how difficult it could be in the system.
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So making sure that you have an investigator that is
passionate about finding the truth and and and cross examining
whatever may be accused or or also finding the alternative truth.
Speaker 9 (01:18:10):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:18:11):
Part of your role, I'm assuming is somebody says that
this individual did something and there's a way to identify
that there's another answer to this, and it's a it's
not the person that's that's being accused. That's part of
your job is to dig that out, work through it,
and identify those leads in a way that show the
district attorney, Hey, wait a minute, did you look at this?
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Did you know this? Did you see this? Is that
an accurate description? Yeah?
Speaker 20 (01:18:35):
I mean there's there's a mitigating circumstances and in everything
that we do, right, you know, we believe in holistic
representation in our office because we don't just look at
what the person is alleged to have committed. We look
at a lot of other factors, whether it was how
they were raised, the home that they were raised in,
the type of education that they were provided, the type
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of family environment that they were in. So it's not
just singly, oh, this person may have done something. It's okay,
how did we get to this spot, how did we
get here, and what can we do to make sure
that this never happens again?
Speaker 5 (01:19:12):
Very good point, Like most people don't realize your environment
is what's gonna lead you to making decisions, Like it's
if you grew up in a certain area, certain situations,
certain culture, certain circumstances, if that's all you know. And
I saw statistic here recently. I had a had a
superintendent on the show a couple of weeks ago, and
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he popped out a statistic that I had never heard
before but made all the sense in the world, and
that was a lot of kids below a certain economic
level that they they only view their opportunities in like
a two mile radius from where they live.
Speaker 9 (01:19:51):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (01:19:51):
I mean wow, I mean hit me like a ton
of bricks when I heard him say that here on
the show, because it made all like made all the
sense in the world. If if if you can only
see the world in a two mile radius from you,
regardless of what you see in your phone, say, oh
you got your you know, the internet, this and that.
That's not live. Right, But if your experience is only
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within that two mile radius, that affects you know, criminal behavior,
that affects your education, that affects making good decisions, that
affects knowing the difference between what's right and wrong, and
then living in some areas, right and wrong gets blurred
a bit, especially when it's as tough as it can
be in some particular areas.
Speaker 20 (01:20:32):
Yeah, and you know, we do one of the most
important parts that are not the most important part, but
a part that I'm really proud of our office is
we have a committee called the Diversity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee,
and we do a lot of community events where we
go out to schools, colleges, high schools, and.
Speaker 9 (01:20:47):
We say, hey, we're here.
Speaker 20 (01:20:49):
We have plenty of we have plenty of job hopenies,
we have plenty of different you know, positions, not just attorneys,
social workers, office assistants, and we let them know, hey,
like we're here, come work for us, and let them
know that also what our office does. It's been a really,
really really these last few months have been a lot
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of fun because I've spent you know, an afternoon out
of high school talking to kids during your career day
and they get to ask questions about, oh, how do
we you know, what's the schooling path for this, what's
the schooling path for that, how do we do this,
how do we do that? Those are the things that
really I love getting back to the community and letting
them know, hey, we're here, and then also serving them
on the investigation side for our clients.
Speaker 5 (01:21:28):
Yeah, that's great. I also we partnered with you guys before.
It's been about five or six years. We did an
expungement clinic with you too here. I think we did
it the building if I remember correctly. So, you guys
actually have a ton of programs in the community out
there where you're engaging on all these different levels, not
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just with the kids, but maybe those that have, you know,
some minor crimes that they need to have expunged for
jobs obviously career days. That's great, that's great work. Uh,
what's the what's the most challenging part of your job?
Speaker 20 (01:22:05):
The most challenging part of my job is to get
someone to speak to me when it's been a violent incident.
Speaker 9 (01:22:13):
That's the hardest part.
Speaker 5 (01:22:15):
Yeah, getting I can imagine that's got to be difficult.
I'm sure you've been yelled at and you've been on
the you've been on the receiving side of that difficulty.
It's got to be incredibly challenging.
Speaker 20 (01:22:28):
It's it's really hard because people, even in my friend group,
they'll say, oh, how could you, how could.
Speaker 9 (01:22:34):
You fight for that person?
Speaker 5 (01:22:35):
How can we defend this right?
Speaker 20 (01:22:36):
And it's and then I tell them, hey, so you
don't believe in the constitution then, because that's what it is,
and it's that serious, because the people need.
Speaker 5 (01:22:44):
Help, and and and it gets into you know, passing
judgment in a way that, oh, who cares what happens
if somebody did make a mistake regardless, you know, most
crimes or the alleged crimes are you know, somewhere middle ground,
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are not necessarily violent, or you know, they're you know,
maybe minor. The reality is is getting people to understand
the process better. Just because somebody is accused of something
doesn't mean number one that they did it, or as
I pointed out earlier, that the charge being levied against
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them is the appropriate fix. It doesn't the punishment doesn't
fit right.
Speaker 20 (01:23:32):
Well, you know, thanks to cops and a lot of
law and order, you know, society is kind of conditioned
on a certain way of thinking when it comes to
the criminal justice system.
Speaker 9 (01:23:42):
I think that's fair to say, And yeah, it's education.
Speaker 20 (01:23:46):
A lot of people don't know how this works, and
they think if somebody is arrested that they're automatically guilty.
Speaker 5 (01:23:51):
Yeah, and being somebody who's been through the system, I
always try to remind people that until it's you or
your family member. And I've actually had this happen where
I've had people that you know, very opinionated, very you know,
over the top on it. Oh you know, you know,
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just they must have done something. And then a family
member usually it's usually a family member like a kid,
a brother, or a sister, you know, their dad or
their mom. Something happens and then people know my life
story and they immediately Randy like, they pick up the
phone and talk to me, and then you My discussion
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with them is about getting them to see you see
how you were so programmed to be opinionated and judgmental
without knowing any of the real facts, because most of
the time, regardless of what you read in the paper
or what somebody says in the media, anybody outside of
the actual facts themselves, don't know the real facts until
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you get into the court house. And it doesn't even
necessarily mean you heard all the facts, because you could
have had motions that actually excluded some of the facts
as part of you know, certain certain legal arguments. That
my point to this is is I wish we could
get to a society where people were much less judgmental,
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because it would actually make your job easier.
Speaker 20 (01:25:19):
Yeah, yeah, make my job a lot easier. Could you
imagine it would be so much easier.
Speaker 5 (01:25:24):
See, I just made your job easier. Not that anybody's
gonna listen to me, but you know, and but it does.
It goes back to the programming. I think part of
it is it's about the fear of of you knows,
if you instill fear in people, then they're they're they're
more likely to have certain patterns of behavior. And we
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can see that there's a purposeful approach to this by
corporate America advertising. There's a whole bunch of stuff that
lends to this. You know, who's knocking at my door, Like.
Speaker 11 (01:25:55):
What is that?
Speaker 5 (01:25:56):
What is this deal that we're afraid of? Who's knocking
at our door? Like we get mad that a salesperson's
walking and knocking on doors. Isn't that one of the
toughest jobs, Like, isn't that hustle? Isn't that defined hustle?
But somehow culturally we're in a space now where we
want to be mad at it.
Speaker 20 (01:26:10):
But wasn't our country built on that? It's exactly right
what the milkman do that.
Speaker 5 (01:26:14):
Is correct door to door and sold milk door to door. Yeah,
so what's your uh, what's your take on that? You
think we can change America's culture here?
Speaker 9 (01:26:25):
Yeah, I think we definitely can.
Speaker 20 (01:26:26):
But it all comes back to education and where we're
getting our information from, like educate ourselves. I mean, since
I've been involved with the union, being with the county
for a year, it's been an eye opening experience on
the stuff that I didn't know and where I was
getting my information from. It's drastically changed.
Speaker 5 (01:26:45):
Like what give me an example.
Speaker 20 (01:26:47):
Well, I mean I think I probably used to be
a little bit more not paying attention to labor, not
paying attention to what goes on in that space, not
paying attention to the laws that would affect labor, and
now being involved with the union, it's just a really
cool experience to see everything that goes on in the space.
Speaker 5 (01:27:05):
You Know what's incredible is what I love about running
this organization is we have such this crazy diverse set
of jobs. I mean, we have drivers, we have cooks,
we have office people, we have attorneys, we have investigators,
we have nurses. Like we have this extremely diverse approach
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to it. And what I've found over my thirty plus
years of doing this is that the more all of
these different types of jobs people in these jobs careers
learn about the history of labor, it actually shifts their
entire view of history on top of it, because we
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have purposely, over the last few decades been programmed to
separate ourselves from understanding labor because corporate America doesn't want
us to know the power labor has labor being workers.
And as a resultant, we go back and peel back
the layers and realize that there was no laws on
the books until nineteen thirty four in this country to
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protect workers. None. I mean, that is quite the statement
to go. It's crazy to go that long from seventeen
seventy six to nineteen thirty four, and then and then
and then to villainize labor. It only took Corporate America
about thirty thirty five years to villainize labor as a whole.
(01:28:36):
And you know, supposed to be I'm a mobster and
a gangster, you know, and the teamsters and Jimmy Hoffa
and you know all the movies and the stories and
all that stuff like and the funny thing I always say,
and I've said it a few times on the show,
I'll say it again. If I was the mob then
I would just have the boss whacked right like I would.
There would be no fight up in Victorville with the
strike right now. We had just had the people running
(01:28:58):
the organization in Dallas or I mean they're not in Dallas,
think they're in somewhere else in Texas, Austin or something.
We'd have them, we'd have them whacked, and then we'd
have a deal and everybody'd be making good money and
everybody'd be happier.
Speaker 9 (01:29:10):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:29:11):
So the reality is it doesn't work that way. You know,
somebody else wanted to tell this narrative about us to
make us look bad, to make workers look bad, to
make labor look bad. So then when you peel back
the layers and you see how that fight happened, then
you also see what workers actually have the right and
the power to do, and how they've been distanced from
that education and information that you pointed out. It's real
(01:29:34):
eye opening for those that they're like, like yourself, professional
for seventeen years and then man, this last few months,
it's like, man, this is a different world. And I'll
tell you, the longer you go and the more you
dig down into it, the more research you do, the
more facts you find. We we were part of more
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positive in this country than anybody ever get this credit for.
And we're the single that, the single largest and most
consistent organization, which is labor, in the last one hundred
plus years to protect workers. Nobody else has got that
track record. And somehow we're the bad guy. Yeah, we're
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the ones that created retirement plans, weekends, holidays, like, we're
the ones that argued for it. We being workers. I'm
not saying we Randy the teamsters, you know, Yeah, some
of us are are elected to run parts of these organizations.
Speaker 9 (01:30:31):
But I think some of that's quickly forgotten.
Speaker 5 (01:30:34):
Oh yeah, it purposefully forgotten to try to villainize for
some reason. And you know the reason why we have
our billboards and we're doing the education. And you know,
right now we got a steward meeting with with you know,
seventy eighty maybe one hundred stewards. I'm not sure how
big the attendance is right now in the in the building.
But the reason why we do all this is to
slowly try to give that history back to everybody, because
(01:30:57):
if you look at school books, my my son it
hit his high school union's labors called a cartel, like
in a school book, a cartel. My son, my son's
like sends me a picture of it from school. Hey, dad, like,
look at look at and he his his family on
both sides, mom's side and dad's side are very labor oriented,
(01:31:20):
so he obviously knew, you know, you know him reading
that is like a blow to him, like why would
this be happening in my school? But for anybody that
doesn't know that, all of a sudden, it's a bad
condenptation right right, See, you're hanging out with a cartel.
Speaker 20 (01:31:34):
Right right where it goes back to the same thing
where you getting your information. I care a school book, right,
I care for my ninety two year old grandma, and
she'll call me. We talk every day. She'll call me
once in a while and she'll say, grandson, did you
hear this X, Y, and Z. And I'll go, Grandma,
where did you hear that from? She'll she'll always say Facebook.
(01:31:56):
And I tell grandma, I say, grandma, let's let's try
to get some better information, and let's search a few sources,
not just face.
Speaker 5 (01:32:02):
Back away from Facebook.
Speaker 9 (01:32:03):
Right.
Speaker 20 (01:32:04):
So it's it's also educating those around us. You know,
our loved ones are our family members, because we hear
things in our families like oh wait, that's not that's
not right.
Speaker 9 (01:32:13):
What you just said is not right.
Speaker 20 (01:32:14):
But let's talk about what is right and how the information,
why it is, and why it isn't.
Speaker 5 (01:32:20):
Yeah, that's great. How do you how do you think
you're going to be able to apply these principles with
your job itself?
Speaker 9 (01:32:29):
Yeah? Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 5 (01:32:30):
Yeah, pose an interesting question there.
Speaker 9 (01:32:33):
Huh, Yeah, I had to think about it for a
little bit.
Speaker 5 (01:32:34):
Yeah you can. And and I think that as every
teamster or labor member, member of some labor union, the
more we explain and educate to our family members and
or those we come in contact with. How important and
beneficial this whole line of information is, because you know,
(01:32:58):
unions don't perpetuate like false information and false narratives. We're
subject to that happening to us on literally a daily basis,
because corporate America wants us to be villainized. But what
you could do and what others can do, and what
I hope every union member in America doesn't and this
is the power that we have and I'm hoping to
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get there someday. Just in the Teamsters alone, we have
over one million members. It's one point three million members.
And so if every one of our members just ten
minutes a day said something positive and educated a new
person every single day, do you know that we can
talk to the whole country in a year. That's how
powerful the numbers can be if we use it properly
(01:33:40):
in one year and one year, you can talk to
every single person in one year.
Speaker 9 (01:33:45):
Wow, that's saying a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:33:49):
That's what we're out to do. That's why you see
the billboards, the bus is the radio show, you see
the meetings. What we're trying to do is five at
a time, you know, and it has to be one
on one.
Speaker 9 (01:33:58):
You can't.
Speaker 5 (01:34:00):
What we've tried to fall back on is technology to
kind of give us a crutch to do these massive,
sort of fast communication things, right, and let's send an
email to everybody, or let's send a text to everybody.
We just got to do the old fashioned conversation like
we're having right here.
Speaker 20 (01:34:20):
Yeah, I agree, I'd noticed that with the all in
campaign and others in the department.
Speaker 5 (01:34:25):
So what'd you think. I'm glad you brought that up.
What'd you think of the all in campaign? What'd you
think of the survey?
Speaker 9 (01:34:30):
I thought the survey was great.
Speaker 20 (01:34:31):
Having, you know, trying to get other people's mind wrapped
around it can be a little bit challenging, but also,
you know, instilling in them what's happened in Utah, what's
happening with Amazon, what's happening in the space, Like, we
just can't turn a blind eye to it because if
we are, then we're the next ones. So it's like
you say, though, that the conversations have to be individual.
(01:34:53):
I've tried it at the lunch table. It does not work.
It has to be individual, one on one and let's
sit down and talk about what it really is.
Speaker 5 (01:35:04):
Couldn't have said it better myself. Spot on, Hey, are
we going to get the picket line connected here again
here in a few minutes, So you want to hang
out while we bring those strikers on the on the screen. Yeah,
so you can see them. Yeah, No, we don't take
a break. I just I just want to make sure
we're just a step ahead as we're rolling through this.
What else did you like about the survey? You know again,
(01:35:25):
I'm man makes me extremely happy to hear you actually
bring it up without me having to bring it up.
That means it made an impact on you. And are
you having one on one conversations with your coworkers? Yeah?
How is that going? It could be a little challenging, a.
Speaker 9 (01:35:40):
Little challenging at times.
Speaker 5 (01:35:42):
It's like people like, oh, don't bother me with this, Oh.
Speaker 20 (01:35:44):
Yeah, don't bother me, or the most popular one is
the one that I've heard you say multiple times. That's
not happening here, that's not happening to me, that's not
happening to us, that's never going to happen.
Speaker 9 (01:35:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:35:57):
Yeah, we all for those of you that couldn't see
on the screen right now, we all just kind of
cringe like, yeah, it can happen.
Speaker 9 (01:36:04):
And I will happen. I love following it up with
well then how did it happen in Utah?
Speaker 5 (01:36:08):
That's correct?
Speaker 9 (01:36:09):
How is how are these things happening? How?
Speaker 20 (01:36:11):
How is the whole National Labor Board being dismantled? Like
are we just going to say that that's not happening?
Speaker 5 (01:36:19):
Yeah, it's not true? Alternative facts right fu fake fake fake?
Speaker 9 (01:36:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:36:24):
No, Yeah, it's been uh, it's been a tough run
the last you know, a few months. But but the
opportunity in it is to do exactly this. I think,
what we realize, what we can see and what you're seeing,
and and man, I lend you some advice on the
tough conversations. Yeah, absolutely, don't relent. Push It's okay that
they're uncomfortable. You want to be mad at the at
(01:36:47):
the steward or a member that's that's pressing you, go
ahead and write me a letter, come in and talk
to me, and I'll explain to you why it's important.
And and my point to bringing this up is, you know,
people want to get on faceboo book. I have all
this anger filled but then the minute you have a
one on one conference. Oh yeah, you're making me uncomfortable.
I'm out of here. I could find that a lot
(01:37:09):
of times. It's it's funny. I just had somebody send
me a send us a really really uh, I want
to use a really poopy I was going to use
a different word letter email that supposedly we didn't do
something right, and they were incorre absolutely in actually incorrect
about their email yesterday. So I immediately went in to
see if they filled out a survey.
Speaker 9 (01:37:31):
No, they did not.
Speaker 5 (01:37:33):
Like when you break down all the things that you
that the person was accusing us of, accusing the organization
and not doing I was like, I would bet a
thousand bucks that they didn't fill out a survey. Of course,
we go and look and guess what they didn't fill
out a survey. Point is is is you got to
double down and kind of press and even when people
(01:37:53):
feel a little uncomfortable, you keep pressing. You know, you
obviously aren't offensive or you know, break people's back boundaries.
But we're we're we we've occupied this space where we're
we We don't want to push people. No I'm not
saying physically push them, but push them in the conversation.
If people are learning and they're unaware they're gonna be
(01:38:14):
a natural moment of being uncomfortable. It's oh, it's okay
to work through that. It's okay to make that happen.
We we got them coming coming in. Okay, Well, here
we are back again live.
Speaker 9 (01:38:27):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (01:38:28):
This is Randy Corgan and Casey and the Worker Power
are Casey AA ten fifty A and one six point
five FM aerin live from sam or Nandino. I know
we have a guest on the show right now. We're
being joined by Ryan Ward from the Samardino Public Defender's Office.
He's an investigator. But we're going to break in because
we have picketers currently on the picket line up in
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victor Ville at Currag Doctor Pepper. I want to point
something out. You know, PEPSI was the number two beverage
distributor UH and producer in the country, and I understand
now Carrick Dr Pepper's bumped them out and Carrik Doctor
Pepper's number two, and you know, quite frankly, they need
to step up to the plate and if they're going
to be the second largest bottler in the country, they
(01:39:10):
need to pay like it too, as well as have
the right benefits that workers at Coke and Pepsi have.
And so we got a couple striking workers up there
that are on the line. Why don't you guys introduce
yourselves and take it from here.
Speaker 16 (01:39:23):
Alright, guys, my name is Adam Barcia. Hi, guys, my
name is Don Barcia. I'm the shop stewart.
Speaker 2 (01:39:28):
Here for Pepper Rickorville.
Speaker 16 (01:39:33):
You know, we're out here picketting showing the corporate that
we mean business. And we've been trashed down. We've been
just you know, just not taken care of from this
multi billion dollar corporation. And just like how you guys
said earlier they bought out Pepsi, We've got.
Speaker 14 (01:39:50):
The doctor Pepper contract.
Speaker 5 (01:39:53):
We have the value.
Speaker 16 (01:39:54):
They make enough money to pay all these members and
all these employees. What data the.
Speaker 5 (01:40:01):
Yeah, And this is exactly how you know, taking direct
action collective action is exactly how workers establish their space
in America, in the middle class and making sure that
you can afford to buy a home that you can
and have, you know, buy goods and services in your
particular area that you live. And this is what built
the American middle class, is what built the American dream.
(01:40:23):
And this is what working people need to do more
of across the country. I just want to tell you
guys that for all the people that have never had
to go on strike, you are doing the work that
makes it easier for them, because it was workers that
did what you did to have the eight hour workday,
to have over time, you know, paid a time and
a half after eight and forty, to make sure we
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have weekends, and to have all these protections that we
have on the job that quite frankly, everybody typically takes
for granted and doesn't realize that it's workers like you
that made this happen. You got anybody else out there
that wants to say hi and tell us what they do?
Speaker 16 (01:41:00):
I did not, I do not right out the moment,
but I could definitely grab somebody for you guys to
see you guys can hear their side of their point
of view and uh and let them talk to you
right now. Let me just grab somebody real quick.
Speaker 5 (01:41:12):
Yeah, nless there's anything else you wanna you wanna you
want to talk about?
Speaker 14 (01:41:17):
I mean absolutely, I do, you know.
Speaker 16 (01:41:19):
I just like how you said, we're doing this strike
or to show everybody that we're the ones with the power,
you know, and we want to motivate everybody to do
the exact same thing. Stand up to each corporation, stand
up for the voiceless, in my opinion, So we show
them that we mean business. They're gonna come around and
(01:41:41):
they're gonna realize, you know what, we should have treated
our employees a lot more better. We should have gave
them the time that they deserve to be with their families,
to just even go out, just to go out to
them all the movies. But we can't even do that
because the corporate requires us to be here six seven
days out of the out of.
Speaker 14 (01:41:58):
The week, which is not right.
Speaker 16 (01:42:00):
So so yeah, we're just we're just here outside putting
up the fight and we're going to continue to put
up the fight and if not, then we're taking it
next week to Vernon, Orange County, San Fernando. We're gonna
shut it down. We're gonna shut it down.
Speaker 5 (01:42:16):
Oh, I can tell you this. All the other team
stirs throughout southern California are saying bring it, bring it.
They want it.
Speaker 9 (01:42:26):
Man.
Speaker 5 (01:42:26):
I'm getting text messages every day, when's the picket line
coming to our area? When does this happen? In this
So you guys have a ton of support out there.
Speaker 11 (01:42:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 16 (01:42:34):
And just like we said earlier, uh, we want to
encourage any other teams to remember out there to come
and join the fight.
Speaker 5 (01:42:41):
You know, we got we.
Speaker 16 (01:42:42):
Got hamburgers, we got hot dogs, we got music. You know,
it's a good time out here. So if they could
come by and share the support, it'll be duly appreciated.
Speaker 5 (01:42:51):
Great job. Yeah, take a get a get a view
there of the pick a line. Can you see the
pick of line in back of you. We'll be able
to get a quick view of that. There we go.
All right, guys. What you see in now live is
a is A is A is a live picket line
in Victorville, California with carreg doctor Pepper. Uh. These workers
(01:43:12):
are are have walked off the job. They're demanding to
have better pay and in a retirement plan on top
of a number of other working conditions that need to
be need to be satisfied in bargaining. The company is
bargaining in bag faith. As a result, these workers are
exercising their right, which is the right to withhold their labor.
More workers across the country have got to do this
(01:43:35):
if the middle class wants to to thrive. They have
to do more of what you see right here, which
is workers withholding their labor and especially in expertise. These
are workers that are producing product at in Victorville. They're
producing Canada dry motts, apple, Uh, you know, Climato, all
(01:43:55):
the all the different things in which the different brands
in which care doctor Pepper makes billions of dollars in
profits on forty four billion dollars. And guess what these
workers are just asking for a little piece of the pie.
And and also you know, making sure that the working
conditions are are good and not having to work you know,
seven days straight all the time, and and and especially
(01:44:17):
under conditions you know, to where they could be clearly
making more money. So uh, you're a forkliff driver, right brother.
He may not be able to hear me. He's just
walking around showing. Yeah. See see and see how peaceful
the picketing is. Everybody says we throw rocks and beat
people up and all that stuff that you got anybody
(01:44:38):
else you want to hand the phone to to introduce
so they can talk about their job.
Speaker 14 (01:44:43):
Absolutely absolutely, I love this.
Speaker 5 (01:44:51):
This is seat you're catching, This is this is live
like this is no not making it's I'm not regurgitating
a story.
Speaker 9 (01:44:57):
This is no editing.
Speaker 11 (01:44:58):
There's no in a reality show.
Speaker 5 (01:45:01):
That's right, it's not a rehearsed one. Hey, brother, why
don't you introduce yourself? Tell us your name and and
what you do in the facility. You got to talk
a little lower, pull the mic up. There you go, Ah,
tex Mario, have him, have him handle them. Yeah, we're
(01:45:26):
having a hard time hearing your brother. That's okay, let's start.
Let's see if we can't get it to where let's
try it again. No worries. They're on a picking line,
so it's noisy and they're trying to figure it out. Man,
it's not their fault. This is we're just flying with this.
We what we want is want people to be able
to see live these workers sacrificing, jumping off the job.
(01:45:46):
Let's try this again. Well, there you go. We can
hear you.
Speaker 9 (01:45:49):
Now, how's it going. How's it going?
Speaker 5 (01:45:52):
Man? What's your name? What job do you do inside
the operations?
Speaker 17 (01:46:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:46:05):
I appreciate, well, we appreciate it. We can't really hear
much of it. It's too noisy. Not your fault, that's
just we're just flying with this and it's it's you know,
this is this is raw picket line activity. Keep up
the fight. You got thousands of people listening in right
(01:46:27):
now all over southern California. You got got thousands of
other workers in the industry that are willing to support you.
And it's great to see you guys making this happen. Uh.
We'll make sure that we get the word out and
more and more people come up there and and and
support you up there. And you what you're doing is
you're fighting for the American dream. Uh. Millions of workers
will never have to go on strike because you're doing it,
(01:46:49):
and you're making sure that you draw the line and
you get this employer to pay attention uh to a
fair work day.
Speaker 14 (01:46:55):
Yeah, thank you, man, appreciate it so much.
Speaker 11 (01:46:57):
Man.
Speaker 5 (01:46:58):
Yeah, thanks for coming on the show. Oh. This is
Randy Corgan and the work of Power Hour live from
Sam Bernardino KCAA ten fifty A M one O six
point five FM and the Teamsters Local nineteen thirty two
broadcast network. There you see live pictures of the of
the strike happening up there in Victorville right now. It
is about two or three miles west of the fifteen
(01:47:19):
Freeway off of Majave. You can actually get there off
of three ninety five. It is right adjacent to the
old Edwards Air Force Base. I think it's on Gateway Drive.
I forget the address off the top of my head.
If you want to stop by, I know somebody will
get that address to me here in a second so
I can spit it out. But really really want to
commend these courageous workers. For those of you who don't
(01:47:40):
know the history, these workers organized a union three years ago,
four years ago. Let me get the address. The address
is one eight one eight zero, which is one eight
one eight zero Gateway Drive in Victorville, so you can
get up there. You can stop by and help them.
(01:48:00):
But these workers organized. They were non union before for
many many years. Since the place opened up, they organized,
got a first contract in twenty twenty or excuse me,
the organized in twenty twenty one. Got their first contract
in twenty twenty two. Their first contract has expired. And
what the company is trying to do is trying to
break them, thinking that they're going to be able to
(01:48:21):
break the solidarity of this group. And I think the
company is definitely surprised at how strong this group is.
To see them almost unanimously walk off the job. And
you know, the company's trying to operate. They're bringing in
all these people that have no idea how to do
this work, and they're trying to, you know, produce. But
we've found over the years that the minute you take
out the real people from the operations, the ones that
(01:48:42):
have been doing it every single day, you can never
do the same work that those that have been doing
it every single day. So and again, this is what
America's workforce needs to do more of. And it's great
for us to have people calling in live from that
picket line and we get to get to hear from them.
This Again, it's not reheard. This is on the fly.
That's why, you know, it's kind of hard to hear them.
(01:49:03):
And hopefully y' all can be patient. This is this
is for all of you that have never had to
be on strike. This right here is what gave you
everything that you have today. As a matter of fact,
I got into it with a member of retiree. He
was mad about something and I had to remind him, like,
you recently got all these benefits, all these raises, you
got a retiree medical component. There's all these new things
(01:49:26):
yet and you never had to go on strike one day,
not one day like we asked you to go on strike,
and you know we settled the contract before. But the
reality is is you didn't have to go on strike,
so you know at some point you may have to go. Well,
as a retire you don't have to go on strike anymore.
But when you're in that space, try not to take
it for granted. Is what I'm getting at is this
(01:49:48):
is tough, and it's easy to sit back and say
I want more, I want more, I want more. Well
when did you throw down? Were you willing to Well,
you're willing to get in the mix and do what
these workers are doing, because there's nothing gain in this
country for workers without that right there, that you see
on that screen. So really, really really want to emphasize
that point. Again, nothing in this country was gained for
(01:50:11):
workers without what you see on that screen right there,
right those workers in Victorville are doing exactly what built
the American dream for workers? Wouldn't you agree? Ryan? Does
that inspire you?
Speaker 9 (01:50:23):
It does? It does?
Speaker 20 (01:50:24):
And we were talking about the survey again. I'm sorry,
going back to the survey. Everybody wants to don't stop
talking about the survey. But the survey when it asked
in there are you willing to take action? That's when
I was like, Wow, okay, yes, yes I am. But
I don't know that everybody's that way.
Speaker 5 (01:50:43):
They're not there yet. We got to get them there.
I'll give you an example. When we were bargaining the
last contract, I told everybody, I will not recommend this
contract unless it has one hundred percent medical paid and
any increases in the future, and I'm going to tell
you to go on strike. Otherwise, when we got down
of the wire, down to the very end, we could
tell the membership was willing to accept it was a
(01:51:05):
good deal, even though it didn't have as much as
I just laid the line on. But I believe fighting
for one hundred percent paid healthcare is worth doing exactly that.
It is absolutely worth every minute of that and making
sure that the employer recognizes how valuable something like that is.
My point to bringing it up is is that we
(01:51:28):
got to push people more. That uncomfortable thing I talked
about earlier. What you know, I want, I want, I want,
But how do I get If I don't fight for it?
Someone else has got to do it. For me. If
you leave it up to someone else, you're not going
to get you're not going to get the same value. Right, yeah, yeah,
So what's this? Uh, what's this experienced for you being
(01:51:50):
on the show here? Right?
Speaker 9 (01:51:52):
Oh, it's been great. I like it. It's fun.
Speaker 5 (01:51:54):
I'll have a little more than just great.
Speaker 20 (01:51:55):
It's been a great time. It's been a real good time.
It's cool to see the back the back operations and
see how all this actually is done when I've been
listening to it for weeks and then here I am.
Speaker 5 (01:52:04):
So if you listening to other shows, what were you
What were your favorite parts of other shows? What comes
to mind? Real quick? See, I always pull the track
everybody goes Brandy. You always ask these questions and put
people on the spot.
Speaker 9 (01:52:16):
Because I listen, it's hard to into one spot.
Speaker 5 (01:52:19):
Right right, well, and plus it's hard to on the fly.
You know, you're on the radio and you're like, oh,
I just drew a blank, No big deal. But every
a lot of people do that, actually most people do that.
That's hard to just pull something you know, out of
your memory bank like that, especially when you're on the spot.
But what I really like about the show is this, right,
here is members get to hear other members, get to
(01:52:41):
see what other members are doing. We talk about I'm
sure you heard earlier we had James on here that
was doing a review. James had come up with this
idea at the last membership meeting. You know, we need
to do a review of these restaurants and our teams
to advantage partners. And I was like, sure, got a
show tomorrow, let's go on just on the Flyer's like, well,
so we got him on the show and and and
(01:53:03):
we're having a good time with it. He did great today, obviously,
he he did great to a degree that he went
to two donut shops on Friday, James Joos he went
to and I'm not talking just a regular donut shop.
Speaker 9 (01:53:18):
I'm talking these donuts.
Speaker 11 (01:53:21):
These are these are talking about.
Speaker 5 (01:53:23):
These are the Cadillac of donuts.
Speaker 9 (01:53:26):
I mean, look how much the donuts changed over the years.
It's not the same it used to be.
Speaker 5 (01:53:30):
Back in my day when I was delivering papers. Apple
fritter was the was the cadillac. It was you didn't
get any I mean, this makes an apple fritter look
like just a regular glazed donut.
Speaker 18 (01:53:39):
Yeah, what what's an apple fritter anymore because after the
dough and then.
Speaker 5 (01:53:45):
I still love apple fritters though, man those are I
guess for me, it's it's nostalgic and it takes me
back to being a kid. But uh, and and of
course my story on donuts is I always had a
fresh one as a kid because I was a paper
boy in the morning and I exchanged it and so
I got the best donut you could ever, which is
fresh at five am in nineteen eighty one, eighty two,
eighty three. It was still warm. It was still warm,
(01:54:06):
and they didn't have all the preservatives that they do now.
And when I eat donuts now, it's nothing like what
I remember from being a kid. But those donuts are
still pretty good at both Dough and donut Town. So
are you part of our teamster Advantage network?
Speaker 9 (01:54:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:54:20):
So what's your favorite place do you have a go to?
Speaker 9 (01:54:24):
Probably the Hitch because it's closest to work, you know.
Speaker 5 (01:54:27):
Yeah, Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one.
See I put you on the spot and you answered.
Speaker 9 (01:54:31):
I had to think about it for a second though.
Speaker 11 (01:54:33):
He should give us a review.
Speaker 5 (01:54:35):
Yeah, yeah, what's your favorite thing to eat? There?
Speaker 20 (01:54:38):
I go with the Uh, they have a Nashville hot
chicken sandwich.
Speaker 5 (01:54:44):
I don't think I've had that. There's pretty good.
Speaker 9 (01:54:46):
Yeah, I don't light your world up. It's hot, deep fright, Yeah,
it's hot.
Speaker 5 (01:54:50):
You see the look on his face.
Speaker 9 (01:54:51):
Everybody in the studio just laughed. He was like, Yeah,
that's hot. It'll get you, It'll get you.
Speaker 5 (01:54:56):
Oh, I'm gonna have to do with that. I'm gonna
have to. I'm gonna have to pick that one up.
I'm gonna have to because I love I love that sandwich.
Speaker 9 (01:55:02):
Done right, a few pickles on it, good to go.
Speaker 5 (01:55:04):
There's a place in Palm Springs that I have that
sandwich here. Recently thought that the one I had in
Tennessee was the best. But there's actually a place in
Palm Springs. I can't think of the name of it.
It's right by the casino there. It has that that
that that sandwich better than any place I've ever had. No,
(01:55:25):
it's not chick fil A, Robert Chick fil A. So
anything else you want to say before we wrap up.
You're part of the segment. Boy, we stretched you out
a while here.
Speaker 20 (01:55:36):
No, I just I appreciate the opportunity. I appreciate all
the hard work and and and everything you do for
for us and and all your staff. I mean, it's
just you guys are awesome, and I'm glad to be
a part of the movement, glad to be a part
of the union and the county.
Speaker 5 (01:55:51):
The name of the place in Palm Springs is Tropical.
It's called the Tropical. It's right there by. It's right
there by the casino, by the spa. Yeah, by the spa.
Speaker 11 (01:56:00):
Is it on Indian Canyon?
Speaker 5 (01:56:02):
No, the other one, Palm Canyon? No, no, no, no, no,
it's the street that runs north and south. I mean
Chocolate to Tropical. It's called Tropical Tropic c R O
P I C A l E. Phenomenal food, phenomenal And
they're spicy chicken or whatever that that what would you
(01:56:24):
call it? The Nashville hot chicken was just the best
I've ever had, better than when we had it in Nashville.
In Tennessee.
Speaker 9 (01:56:33):
You need to get him on the team. Start advantage.
So we didn't go over.
Speaker 5 (01:56:35):
There, not yet. We're we're going to definitely try to.
It's it's it's definitely going to try to make that happen. Anyway.
I just got a couple of minutes left to really
appreciate you coming on, Ryan, Really appreciate the work that
you do. Really appreciate, uh you. You also recognizing how
different the world looks once you learn how important labor
is to you know, the rest of the workforce. You know,
(01:56:57):
somewhat takes that for granted. We're doing the best we
can to get this message out so that more and
more people understand how powerful being in the union is
and how rewarding it is, but also the general public
recognizing how good it is for their local community. You know,
all these things that we do with Teamster Advantage and
our training center and and you know, building out the community,
(01:57:20):
representing the community, working for the community, all the community
events that we do is really built around building the
holistic approach, like you pointed out earlier, just a holistic
approach to our local community. And so you know, this
is Randy Corgan and the Worker Power are KCAA ten
f one oh six point five FM and the Teamsters
(01:57:41):
nineteen thirty two broadcast Network. We're building worker power. You
still got some time, right but you don't have music.
That's okay. I'll close this out probably right on time.
I got two and a half minutes, right, Okay, Yeah,
the you know, we're building worker power and empire. And
how do you build worker power. The way you build
(01:58:02):
worker powers you talk to your neighbors, you talk to
your friends, and you educate them on many of the
things that me and Ryan here talked about here for
a few minutes and explaining to them that collective bargaining
and collective action is what helps the middle class thrive.
This is workers can organize a union, workers can participate
in these things within the community, and we can make
sure that our community thrives more through through collective action
(01:58:25):
and through organizing union, and most importantly through making sure
that others do the same thing. Getting that to grow
is our objective in our think. A Teamster program is
on the billboards you see, you think a team straw
on these buses, you see it, You hear it on
the radio, you hear all these platforms in which we're
(01:58:46):
really trying to pump the message out to one respect
at the work that many like you do, Ryan and
others that are fifteen thousand members in the County of
sam Bardino, as well as the tens of thousands of
others in the area to do the very same work.
We got to appreciate this space more around us, and
we're building worker power here in the Inland Empire by
(01:59:08):
doing all of these things every single day, and we're
trying to make sure we're doing it with a positive approach.
This is Randy Corgan the Worker Power, our longtime organizer,
first time radio host KCAA ten fifty AM one oh
six point five FM, and the Teamsters nineteen thirty two
broadcast network Live from San Bernardino, Take it Away, Mark.
Speaker 2 (01:59:49):
NBC News on KCAA Lomlad sponsored by Teamsters Local nineteen
thirty two, Protecting the Future of Working Families, Teamsters nineteen
thirty two, Dot Org, h m hmmmm, k c
Speaker 7 (02:00:05):
A A ten fifty A, m NBC News Radio and
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