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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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NBC News Radio. I'm Michael Kassner. The Trump administration has
ordered US embassies to stop scheduling appointments for new student visas.
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SpaceX engineers are troubleshooting several issues that plague tuesday night's
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President Trump is offering free Golden Dome protection in Canada
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the Worker Power Hour with Randy Corrigan, a brand new
show about labor and worker issues. The host of the
show is Randy Corrigan, Secretary Treasurer and Principal Office and
Leader of Teamsters nineteen thirty two, one of the largest

(03:39):
public sector labor unions on the 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 the Teamsters Union at the age of twenty one.
Since then, he's helped thousands organized, mobilize, and achieve bargaining rights.

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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 Corgan.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Good afternoon, everybody, Randy Corgan and the Worker Power Hour.
You got some music for me there, Mark you gonna
what is it? Okay?

Speaker 3 (04:25):
All right?

Speaker 4 (04:26):
And yeah, turn that up a little bit.

Speaker 7 (04:31):
Let's take it. I love it.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
You know. We got to get Scott on here to
actually sing this song, because he does a really good
job of actually saying that's exactly who that was for.
It's for you, Scott. If you're listening live, that's for
Scott anyway, long time organizer, first time radio host. Here,
I'm actually about ready to come on my one year
anniversary of the show. Randy Corgan A Worker Power Our
Case EAA ten fifty one six point five FM. This

(04:57):
is the Teamsters nineteen thirty two broad cast network. We're
excited to obviously report out this partnership that we have.
I actually have a full studio today. I got a
bunch of people roaming around here. I got Lucky over
here taking pictures and maybe I can sucker him to
get onto the show here in a minute. I got
Ralph putting his fingers behind Mark's head over here, and

(05:20):
everybody having a good time. But hey, last week, what
a great show we had last week. The the this
teamster advantage partner that came on Jose, the general manager
from the Banning restaurant called Los Caos. You know, I
actually went there the next day. I went there on Thursday,
and I had a shrimp cocktail and we had a

(05:45):
few few dishes, and man boy, I just got to say,
the food was off the charts as well as he
was describing it. The as much as the as Jose
was describing how good the food was, it was even
better in person. So if you get a chance, if
you get a chance, come in order, especially the seafood,

(06:09):
especially the mariscos. I think that's how you say right, right,
Robert Martskos, I do it right, Okay. I get sometimes
I can say some of these these these Spanish words
and pronounce them pronounce them correctly every now and then.
Not all the time, but most of the time, sometimes
half the time, maybe a third of the time. Anyway,

(06:30):
with that, make sure that you go to that restaurant
banning it is. It is very very good, great atmosphere,
you know, the the way they reset that place up
from the previous owners or from the previous setup.

Speaker 7 (06:46):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
Now it's a breakfast place and a Mexican food place,
and it's got to looks like what is a really
good happy hour. I went there pretty late, got off
work and ended up stopping by there. I think it
was about eight thirty or seven third to your eight o'clock,
and all I got to say is that was the
best from cocktail I've ever had, little spicy, the very

(07:08):
very good. As far as the broth is concerned, I
don't know what they call that, what the actual term
for it is, but but it just had such a
great flavor. Didn't need to add anything to it. It
was just great right right out the gate. It was.
It was phenomenal. And then we also had Jason the Steward,
our shop Steward from Chino Valley Fire District on He

(07:31):
did a great job. Hopefully you're listening again Jason Live today,
but he did a really good job of talking about
how the workers came together there at the fire district
and helped press those leaders there and also make sure
that we we remind everybody that that the board member

(07:51):
who got in front of trying to prevent these workers
from getting a good contract was very quickly knocked out
of office as a result of that. So kudos to
all that community and everybody getting behind the workers there
in that community and making sure that they have good
leadership leading the fire district. The employees, not just the firefighters,

(08:12):
but all the employees that are employed in a fire
district are important, not just the firefighter itself. The firefighter
can't do what they can do without all the workers
around them, and I think this is obviously one of
the reasons why we do what we do on this show.
And Jason again, thank you all of the members out
there at the Chino Valley Fire District. Great job, abe

(08:34):
Gego's great job at helping getting that bringing that contract home.
Looking forward to you guys building more worker power and
helping other workers in the area do what they need
to do. So next part of the show is are
live shout outs. The first live shout out I want
to give is that airmcer Lauren bart Bartlett. We also

(08:57):
have gens parents listening in from our office staff Bill
and Linda looks like Wasoom from Highland, California. It's great
that we've got all these people getting their family members
and everybody else listening in. It's cool to get feedback
from people that are just not not just teamsters or
in the labor movement, but those that are maybe connected

(09:20):
or not even connected at all, just hearing generally what
they think of the show. We also have Tito Ramirez
from San Maritino County Traffic Division listening in live. We
have Nicole Milled from the City of Colton. We have
Brian Hickinson from the City of Needles Water and Sewer Apartment.
We have Fontana members as a whole listening in. I'm

(09:42):
not sure who they all are. I know that I
believe they got a contract that they're going to be
taking out for vote here pretty soon, something that's a
recommended offer for them to be voting in the next
few days. Hopefully I didn't let the cat out of
the bag and the business agents have already let them
know my bad, my apologies if I messed ou up anyway.
City of San Brinino Code Enforcement with an Animal Shelter

(10:05):
members Tricia Flores and Crystal Olds, Stewart's and Ralto. We
also had Kirk Garrison and our favorite Susan loftis Susan,
I'm gonna I'm gonna say this every week that you're
listening live. We're gonna get you on this show, and
we're gonna get you. Sitting over here to Mara, is
she coming on? All right? She's coming on next week.
I guess my badgering finally paid off, right, Robert, So

(10:27):
we'll get We'll get Susan to tell us why she
finally gave in from what is this the thirtieth time
I've asked her to come on the show? Madeline Gonzalez
from the City of Barstow, Patricia Hernandez from Public Health,
tre Teresa Parciato from RMC, Jeremy Lopez, Olivia, Jermiah Germa,

(10:50):
and Christa Hunter all from ARAMC. Thanks for listening live.
Everybody really appreciate it. If you want to get a
live shout out, make sure you let us know. And
then we have Michelle texting me right now from Pete Town.
Michelle Etheridge from the city of Pomona, listening in lives saying,
don't forget me. If we're live today, I won't forget you, Michelle.
I just just said it are three Teamster jobs. This

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is one of our favorite parts of the show. For
many of you listeners. You're always like, what are they
going to be the three jobs today? Here's a unique one,
you know back in the day. The first job I'm
going to lay out as a matter of fact, Dennis Reardon,
who used to work with us and helped us essentially
build the infrastructure of this organization. His father was the

(11:34):
president of a union that did this job. There was
actually a union of those that did the job I'm
about to talk about right now, which is Lamar Billboard Employees.
So the billboards you see on the freeways that have
a Lamar logo on it on the bottom, many of
those are built, managed, and maintained by Teamsters. Those are
Teamster members. And there used to be a billboard union

(11:58):
organization many many, many many years ago, and Dennis Reardon's
father was the president of that union. I think it
was in Missouri, whatever local it was that was in Missouri,
and so shout out to Dennis Arden. Hopefully he's listening
in live. I actually got a chance to talk to
him again today, and he's always sending his best wishes

(12:22):
to us, and we're obviously sending ours to him as well.
He is enjoying his retirement as he should, and we
would not be where we are today if it wasn't
for that individual. He's just an amazing individual, and I
hope that you get to enjoy every day of that
retirement like you look like you are on Facebook right now.
The next one is the teamsters that we have at

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the Superior Court of California. Employees at the Superior Court
of California, County of Samrad, you know, perform a variety
of roles to ensure the effectiveness of administrative of justice,
and that is they manage appeal processes, they record court
transcripts as well as the oversea court administrative processes and
strategic planning. And we also have a bunch of attorneys

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there too in some of the classifications. So next time
you're in the court, hopefully it's not for a bad thing.
Hopefully it's for something it's not so bad. I can't
think of off the top of my head, why you'd
be in court unless it was a bad thing at
least right now. But maybe someone can remind me of
the good reasons why you're in court. But just remember,

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if you're in Samardino County, many of the individuals that
are in there helping process everything are actually teamsters as well.
And then also the City of Samardino public Works department.
Employees at Samordino public Works maintain roads, streets, parks, and sewers.
With the increase in homelessness, they are also on the
front lines of making sure our parks and recreation recreational

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areas are kept clean and safe. And you know, clearly
with the challenge of homelessness happening across the nation quite
frankly across the world, it's it's definitely a tough job
for our public works departments at all of our cities
and our counties that are represented. So a big shout
out to those teamsters doing those very important jobs. And

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so with that, I'm actually gonna mix things up here
right now, and I'm gonna gonna not do a bunch
of the news. I'm just gonna talk briefly about something
in the news that's really important. Many people may have
seen the HR eighty two past the House, and I'm

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going to talk about this in more depth later on,
but that's a big deal for us for HR eighty
two to pass, because we actually, over the last few
months have been encouraging our members to engage in this
and make sure that their congressional leaders have been contacted
and we have been asking them to be supportive. And

(14:51):
we're going to see the full list of who who
was a yes vote on this here pretty soon, so
hopefully we'll be able to unfold is that our membership
activity in this space created a really good bipartisan effort
to pass something that adjusts there's an issue with social security.

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If you worked in the private sector for a while
and then you go into a public sector job and
you end up drawing a public pension, a public sector pension,
government pension, there's a penalty to your social security, which
makes no sense, especially for the average worker, because quite frankly,
your social security you pay for it, So why are

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they pentalizing something that you pay for? And I understand
why it went into effect many decades ago because there
were individuals that were capitalizing it on it on the
top end. You know, your like your city managers and executives,
and they call it a windfall exemption or something like that.
And so I'm gonna talk a little bit more about that.

(15:54):
So great job for all of you that are listening
in that actually called your congressional leaders and encourage them
to be supportive. We're hopeful that that push that we
did across the country and specifically something that we agitated
a lot here in southern California, We're hopeful that that
was the difference, and it was it encouraged some congressional
leaders to get on board with eliminating a penalty that

(16:18):
they shouldn't have had. And so with that, I am
going to go into what is my favorite part of
the show, which is our Teamster Advantage partner and our
Teamster Advantage Network. I have Daniel Jack from People Helping People,
and just quick if this is the first time listening
to the show, I have always got to do my

(16:38):
little rap on the Team's Advantage program and the fact
that we're in twenty six chambers of commerce and commerce
and we're connected to more than a thousand small businesses
and one of the things that we do is we
try to utilize our platform to help those small businesses.
We advertise for them for free, we have them in
our app, we send out push notifications and all this.

(16:58):
We do this for free because what we want is
we want to make sure that small business owners are
connected to a network of working people so that they
can thrive and they can support their family as well.
Being a small business owner is difficult and tough, and
you know they need help too, just like working people do.
And we're all in the same bucket in this space,

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and we think it's really important for us to collaborate
and do the best we can it making sure that
the money stays in a local economy. And the best
way to do that is to support small business and
do everything we can to participate with small business. And
I'll shut up here for a minute and I'll let
Daniel Jack from People Helping People introduce himself and discuss

(17:43):
your great business. Daniel, thank you for having me on
the show. Got to get you to get a little
closer to that.

Speaker 8 (17:49):
Mike, appreciate you having me on the show. So basically,
I've been in the insurance industry for about seven years now.
I started with this company about four years ago, and
we help people to secure themselves with insurance annuities. We
help with debt protection or i'm sorry, debt elimination and

(18:12):
asset protection, so things like we actually have something similar
to I saw the Teamsters have it in a text here.
It is called the Teamster Teamster VIP plus plan.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (18:38):
So basically that is like the living benefits of our
insurance protection. So if an individual were to get an
insurance policy, it's called living benefits that are already built
into the policy, and it's basically, if you're unable to

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work for extended period of time, you're leaving, benefits will
kick in and take care of the bills that never
stop coming. So that's one thing the insurance protection. I'm
not sure if you've heard of anything called an indexed
universal life before.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
I have.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
Yeah, most people listening probably haven't, though, go ahead and
explain it.

Speaker 8 (19:21):
So we it's called an index universal life in that
basically it's an insurance policy that also has a built
in savings plan with it, and that savings aspect.

Speaker 9 (19:37):
Participates in the market, but is not.

Speaker 8 (19:41):
It doesn't it's not affected directly by the market, so
your funds will grow as the market grows, but if
the market were to take a dive, your funds will
stay protected. You will you never lose a red scent
that you've put into the policy. You can only gain
with this policy. So that's one of another advantage for

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what we do.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
So how long have you been doing this business? How
long have you been in business doing.

Speaker 8 (20:12):
This I've been doing insurance for about seven years with
people helping people, I've been with them about four years,
roughly five four to five years insurance.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
So many people, you know, realize that you've got to
have health insurance, you have car insurance, you have life insurance.
There's all kinds of insurance. You got dog insurance, which
is true, right, there's all kinds of insurance. So when
you say insurance, what are all the different insurances you do?
So there's different certifications for all of them, right.

Speaker 8 (20:43):
There is, So I do life insurance, so anything from
term insurance to up all the way up into the
IUL types of insurance.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
Which is a new form of whole life.

Speaker 9 (20:57):
A new form of whole life.

Speaker 4 (20:58):
Correct, Yes, so many people my age bracket just remember
the whole life expression.

Speaker 8 (21:04):
Yeah, So there's there's been a few evolutions from the
whole life. That what the new form of the whole
life is a little bit better protection. You're actually able
to get both buckets. If if you're an old school
whole life person, you understand that back then you were

(21:24):
only able to get the one bucket, the insurance portion.
And then you know if if anything were to happen
to you, knock on wood, there was no savings aspect.
It was just you you built towards the insurance.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
So I've always been in the impression that you could
take a life insurance policy out on anybody, right if
it's under a certain amount. Not true, No, not true.

Speaker 9 (21:54):
You got you you need to have a.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
But you can help me.

Speaker 9 (21:58):
That's interest in the person.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
So like so if somebody owed me money, I could
take a life insurance policy out on them, so just
in case something happened to guarantee my bank. No that's
not no, not that one.

Speaker 9 (22:13):
So like any any family member, you're able to do that.

Speaker 8 (22:19):
Like I couldn't take an insurance like a fifth cousin,
fifth cousin. Maybe maybe we have to look into we
have to look into the finer details with that. But
I wouldn't be able to take an insurance policy out
on you and vice versa. It just has to do
with family.

Speaker 9 (22:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (22:41):
As far as the debt protection or debt elimination goes,
we help people. So everybody nowadays has credit card debt,
maybe student loan debt. So we help people to minimize
the amount that they are paying out on a monthly
basis to bring down their debt and then use that

(23:01):
what they're saving and they can put it towards, you know,
whatever else, maybe put it into their savings.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
Debt.

Speaker 8 (23:11):
I wouldn't recommend that, but I would recommend putting it,
putting it into your savings, maybe purchasing going with that
alu L and building towards you know, a secure, more
secure retirement.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
Do you have any funny stories? You gotta have some
funny stories.

Speaker 9 (23:31):
And the insurance I honestly, I don't.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
Like you found out crazy, it's crazy.

Speaker 8 (23:37):
The stories that I have have to do with people
unfortunately being diagnosed with say cancer, yeah, something severe, Yeah,
you know, something like that. However, because of the living benefits,
they were able to focus more on.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Well, let's tell a good story. It's stell a good story.
So what's your favorite story? Obviously you don't have to
give names of who the people are, but.

Speaker 8 (24:04):
So a mentor of mine front of the office that
I work in in Pasadena.

Speaker 9 (24:08):
His sister.

Speaker 8 (24:11):
I want to say about six months before she was
diagnosed with a rare form of breast cancer, got one
of our and you know, she just something to do.
Six months later, she's diagnosed with this this form of
breath breast cancer. You know, obviously distraught about it and

(24:35):
wondering like how how they're going to make ends meet
her and her family, her husband, her kids. But because
the plan had living benefits built into it, she just
simply made a call to the insurance company said hey,
I have this diagnosis. I'm going to be out of

(24:56):
work for six months or so.

Speaker 9 (25:00):
Can you help me out?

Speaker 4 (25:01):
And then one of the is able to draw on it. Yeah,
she was.

Speaker 9 (25:04):
Able to draw on her insurance.

Speaker 8 (25:05):
I believe she got like eighty thousand dollars, a check
cut for eighty thousand dollars.

Speaker 9 (25:10):
She's able to take care of all of.

Speaker 8 (25:11):
Her bills and focus on what really mattered, which was
getting better.

Speaker 9 (25:17):
And yes, today story today she's cancer free.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
That's awesome. See that's a good story, got a good ending.
Anything else you want to cover before we wrap this up.
We really appreciate the relationship and how you know small
businesses is always trying to help you know the community
and obviously trying to help small businesses survive. When you're
competing with these huge corporations, right, you know, it definitely

(25:41):
has its challenges. So anything you want to close up with.

Speaker 8 (25:44):
So to close out, she's understanding that we work with
the larger companies, the AIGs, forresters, the nlg's national life groups.
We work with them to be able to bring the
services to the clients. But my service is complimentary and

(26:09):
you're able to take care of everything that you need
as far as the insurance coverage, the debtor, the debt elimination,
and building towards your retirement and financial future.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
Great, anything else you want to talk about your business
before we cut you off the air, we really appreciate
you coming on the show.

Speaker 8 (26:29):
By that, that's pretty much it. I just want to
get the name out there and help.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
People, help people to Yes, I like the I like
the I like the title. I like the name. I
like it. It's really oh absolutely, it's uh, it's it's catchy.

Speaker 8 (26:42):
And that that's exactly what we do. We do it
totally free of charge, and we're able to help people
to you know, eliminate their debt, build their their retirement
savings and just have a better, better way of life.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
Well, thank you, Daniel. Jack this people helping people. He's
with with people helping people, and make sure if you're
keep in mind. Obviously there's a lot of options in
this space, but when someone says they're going to do
it for free, you know, why not talk to them
and walk through it first and have a good understanding.
So I really appreciate you coming on, Daniel.

Speaker 9 (27:19):
Thank you for having me on.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
I appreciate you absolutely. And what that Mark, Why don't
you just take some quick music before we switch over
to our next guest. We're for those of you listening in.
We're gonna have Liz Ortega come on. Assembly Member Liz
Ortega will be coming on the line. You're pretty soon
we're going to be talking about some labor activities legislatively
throughout the state of California. Take it away month, Charles.

Speaker 10 (27:43):
We were downtown, bouncing round from the door to door.
There ain't a song.

Speaker 7 (27:49):
I was insane.

Speaker 10 (27:51):
From the DJs on the twos and fours to the
home towns on the hard wood floors. I was out
throwing down in the middle of a crowd when a
boy and the band Robber Boy.

Speaker 7 (28:03):
I'm just so cute.

Speaker 10 (28:05):
I was raised on the radio Minifest blown to a
Hollywood rocking suk, a trip to music set.

Speaker 7 (28:13):
I'm a little bit of everything with me.

Speaker 10 (28:16):
I'm a little bit of bab say the old eggs,
a little bit of clap yawns. I'm a little bit
of six strings on the back beat a fiddle in
the band.

Speaker 7 (28:29):
I'm lock up.

Speaker 10 (28:30):
Bernstay from MO three and a Mustang.

Speaker 7 (28:33):
You never knew what was coming.

Speaker 11 (28:36):
Man, Sure, I can't.

Speaker 10 (28:38):
Help to be R and B or a touch of
train head guitars and dashboard drum man.

Speaker 7 (28:47):
Hey, I'm just so cute.

Speaker 10 (28:51):
I was raised on the radio minifest blues, speak to
a Hollywood rocky sugar, trip to music set.

Speaker 7 (29:00):
Everything with me.

Speaker 10 (29:01):
I'm a little bit of bass, say the old age,
a little.

Speaker 7 (29:04):
Bit of clap your hands.

Speaker 10 (29:06):
I'm a little bit of six strings on the back.

Speaker 7 (29:08):
Bea with the fiddle in the man. Y'all hit the
next from.

Speaker 11 (29:19):
The DJ's on the Tues and fours to.

Speaker 7 (29:21):
The honkey town, from the arm.

Speaker 9 (29:22):
Work floor, from the first song to the Encore.

Speaker 7 (29:28):
I'm just like, yeah, I was raising the rail man
fast too, like going back to city dream to music
say everything.

Speaker 10 (29:40):
I mean, I'm a little bit of bass, say the
old age, a little bit of clap your hands, a
little bit of six strings on back.

Speaker 7 (29:50):
Bead, with the fiddle in the man, with the fiddle
in the man.

Speaker 4 (30:14):
Randy Corgan here and the Worker Power Hour. I've always
wanted to say this Live from Sandrondino, KCAA ten fifty
AM one oh six point five FM. Teamsters nineteen thirty
two Broadcast Network. How about that? Yeah, right, yeah, here
we are a longtime organizer, first time radio host. Let's

(30:34):
hear it for Daniel Jack. He's also a member. I
failed to mention it while he was in here. He's
a member of Teamsters nineteen thirty two. Works out of
our I think it's our Del Rosa Tad whatever it is.
I think it's one of the Tad locations. So working
hard as a as as a county employee and then
also doing a little side business and just trying to,

(30:55):
you know, work hard and feed the family, and you're
really really hustle. As I would say some people say
when you use the word hustle, that you're trying to
hustle people out of something. I've always used the term
if someone's hustling, that they're working hard, they're knocking on doors,
and they're trying to earn money and they're really doing

(31:16):
the best job that they can of making things happen.
And so we're gonna have assembly Woman Liz Ortega come
on here in a few minutes. I think she's going
to be calling in live. And for those of you
that do want to call in live for listeners, we
have nine o nine three eight three one thousand to
call in if you actually want to call in and

(31:38):
say something on the air, we're obviously gonna we're gonna
find out what you're talking about first. We can't just
We're not just gonna let you call in and say
anything you want. But short of that, we're really looking
forward to the conversation with Liz. We got Liz on yet,
is she actually on hold? She's not in yet, So
we got a couple of minutes until she comes on.
So let's take a couple of minutes we want to do. Oh,

(32:03):
we've got Amy Shackelford listening in live, so shout out
to Amy again, I kind of like this. Sometimes I
pay attention to my phone. I'm not always supposed to
be paying attention to my phone, but hey, when I
actually I shouldn't be paying attention to my phone. And
what we're going to do here is we're actually gonna
get a board so that that I can see there's

(32:24):
some feedback, live feedback, so that I'm not having to
actually look down and try to get my phone open,
because one of the issues with your phone is obviously
it's face recognition for it to open up. And I
got to move away from the microphone. But you know,
for those of you that you know have my phone
or want to text me a question, you know, you
want to call in live, you want to talk about
something on the air, you know, give suggestions, you know,

(32:47):
please let us know. We've we've gotten a lot of
suggestions over the last year that we've been doing this,
and we've actually made small adjustments or added things to
the show based on these suggestions over the last year
that we've been doing this. And I got to look
back and see exactly when the year anniversary is. But
I may have either about to pass it or going

(33:09):
to pass it here pretty soon. And looks like we
have our caller calling in Liz Artakea, but we really
want to hear from you. We want to hear what
parts of the show you like, maybe things that you'd
like to see go a little longer. The other thing
is some ideas on some segments and what individuals might
want to hear as far as parts of the segments.

(33:30):
Have had some suggestions on some more meat and potatoes
kind of like around what aggrievance procedure is or arbitration
or some interpreting contract language. Remember, that's kind of for
those of us that are in the field, maybe that's
something we're connected to. But for other people that are
listening while they're driving, maybe that's a little too drive

(33:52):
for them, and they're like, you know, so, I'll try
to whatever your suggestions are, I'll try to turn it
into something that is digestible for anybody to listen to,
because for all of you that are listening live right
now and you're not in the Union, you don't understand
these terminologies. One of the things that we're doing with
this show is we're building a library over a period

(34:14):
of time so that we could direct you to each
of those subjects so that as a listener, if you're
non union, that you're able to connect to how unions
operate and you're able to go back to old shows
and listen to these different parts of how we operate,

(34:35):
or you know, the things that we do, or you
know the things that we talk about the way we're
connected to the community, and you know, a lot is
encompassed in labor, and there's most of what's encompassed in
labor doesn't really get talked about much. So I think
what's really really important is that we put as much
content as we can for future listeners or current listeners

(34:58):
and they're able to go back and pick up some
old shows and listen to some of that stuff that
we've already covered. So again, we want to hear your
hear your thoughts, We want to hear your ideas. We
really want to hear some ideas on some segments, you know,
maybe a ten minute segment on this or ten minute
segment on that. We do have pretty heavy guests, I

(35:21):
should say a heavy list of guests that are trying
to get on the show, so we're pretty filled up
most of the time, and we do take all this
stuff into account and we really think about it when
we're building on our show. So with that, I think
I have Liz Ortega on the show, right, Robert or
we have her, We have her on on on the phone,
and so let's make let's hope that we don't run

(35:43):
into the problem that we run into sometimes, which is
when someone calls in they sound like they're they're they
they're calling from a fish tank and they're underwater. So
let's get Let's get Liz Ortega assembly Woman Liz or
taking And by the way, she is the chair of
the Assembly Labor Committee. What does that mean here? Here's

(36:03):
where there's influence of an elected leader that is making
sure that bills that directly impact working class families are
moved through the process. And having somebody this close like
a Liz Ortega, who is really making sure that bills

(36:27):
that are impacting workers are that connection is there, and
that this individual who's helping advocate within the legislature to
pass these bills. It's really important and she's an extremely
important individual and we're so happy to have her on.
Do we have her connected yet? Liz? Are you there?

(36:47):
Can you hear me? Liz? Can you hear me? Nope,
I'm not hearing her yet, So all of our listeners
are going, what's going on with the don't hang up
on her? Okay? All right, so we don't there. Okay, well,

(37:15):
maybe we can call her and try to try to
get her connected. I would prefer in the future that
we do it via zoom and we get it up
on the screen so that we can actually see the
people that are that are listening in, so that we
don't run to these issues. I'm not sure why the
call in line is not working. I apologize for all
of you listeners for a bit of a little bit
of a snag here. This is one of the great

(37:36):
things about live radio. Liz, if you can hear me now,
why don't you say Hi? How you doing? Because I'm
being told that you should be connected now, Liz, are
you there? No, try it one last time, all right,
Mark and Mark, I'm gonna throw it out all right.

(38:01):
I can hear you now, Liz, Liz Ortega, the chair
of the Assembly Labor Committee. How are you doing. It's
great to have you on the show.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
I'm great, Randy. Oh and here's some feedback.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
Yeah, you got a little bit of feedback here. Is
there a way to tune that out.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
Let me see, can you hear me better?

Speaker 4 (38:23):
I can. I can hear you pretty good.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Okay, I hear the feedback still, but I don't know
if there's anything I can.

Speaker 12 (38:29):
Do about it.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
Maybe not. Why don't you introduce yourself, Liz, and talk about,
you know, a little bit of your history. You know,
obviously you're a assembly woman here in the state of California.
Talk a little bit about your district and talk about
you know, I'd like to get into really talking about
how important you are to the labor movement, because you're
a big, big advocate for the labor movement.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
Well, first I want to say thank you for having
me in such an honor to be on this radio
show and to have a place dedicated to edge itting
and listening to labor. So thank you for having me. Randy. Yes,
I'm a family member, Liz Ortega, and I represent the
beautiful District twenty, which is located in the Bay Area,

(39:14):
and I am lucky enough to represent one of the
most diverse districts in the state where we have you know,
people from all over the world, and it's such a
beauty and an honor to get to, you know, go
to Sacramento and be their voice every single day when
it comes to either legislation or the budget, and making

(39:37):
sure that their voices are heard and represented. A little
bit about me, you know, prior to becoming your asseamily member,
I was a labor organizer. I spent over twenty something
years organizing, first with SCAU, then I went to work

(39:59):
with apps ME and then I became the first Latina
to ever run or be president of a labor council
in the Bay Area, which meant that I represented over
one hundred and thirty five thousand workers in all different sectors,
and you know, really enjoyed my time there, did a

(40:20):
lot of great work, especially during some very difficult times.
You know. One of the things that I talked about
during my campaign was the pandemic and the work we
did to make sure that grocery workers received hazard pay.
You know, they were being called heroes everywhere, but they

(40:42):
were not being compensated as such. And so, you know,
I left the labor council to run for office knowing
that I had worked really hard to make sure that
every city that I represented passed laws that would protect
those workers and make sure that they received the wages
that they deserved, and you know that's what I did.

(41:05):
And then this opportunity came two years ago for me
to run for office, and you know I became the
family member for District twenty and then a year ago
had the honor of becoming your Labor and Employment chair.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
Well, I think you know that me being an organizer
for over thirty years, the thing that stuck out to
me and this whole conversation was the fact that you
were a labor organizer for all those years. So let's
give her a huge round of applause for that. I
you know, that's music, Mark not see. I love this

(41:45):
rookie status that I get. I don't always I don't
actually always hit the right button. But Liz, we really
appreciate the fact that, you know, taking somebody there, we go, there,
we go. See we're just a bunch of novices here
running a labor radio show. We're not out it's perfect.
But really appreciate your advocacy. I think coming from labor

(42:08):
and then into the legislature, it has got a very
different vantage point, right Like you, you come from a
perspective of really understanding the struggles that the movement goes
through and what the legislature needs to do to help
workers move along. What are your thoughts on that.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
Absolutely, I think what makes me or you know, gives
me that advantage is that organizing background that I have, where,
you know, I believe that in order for us to
make a difference in people's lives, we actually have to listen.
And that's the number one thing that our organizer must
do is listen, talk less and listen more, and then

(42:48):
you know, be able to take what you've learned from
the workers that you represent and turn them into you know, actions.
So whether it was you know, increasing weight, whether it's
protecting health access to healthcare, or retirement with dignity, or
you know, voice on the job like health and safety,

(43:12):
all of those things I've spent my entire life dedicated to,
both professionally and personally. As an immigrant myself, you know,
my parents taught me very early on that you know,
I had a guest when it came to translating. You know,
I learned to speak English when I was very little.
By the time I was in kindergarten, and my parents

(43:34):
said I was fluent in drama, and so you know,
I learned to watch and watching stuff and so I,
you know, but I used that state recognize that skill,
and so I used to have to go and translate
for them everywhere. And my story is not special or
different from many other immigrants in this state or country.

(43:57):
I think the only difference is that, you know, my
mom recognized and my dad recognized that I was going
to give give the skill that I had learned and
use it to serve others. So, you know, I would
go to job interviews, I would go to doctor's appointments,
and after I was done translating for my family, you know,

(44:18):
my mom would say to me, Okay, now that you're
done with us, I want you to go and help
every other family that's here who doesn't have a lisse.

Speaker 4 (44:28):
Yeah, and ABE eight hundred is a great it's a
great segue into if I understand correctly, it's a bill
that requires California Public schools to establish an entire week
for juniors and seniors in high school to learn about
their labor rights, right rules and regulations on the job.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Absolutely, it's one of the get.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
The bround of applause ready again, this is exactly what
we need. We need more of this. Thank you, I'm
sorry for cutting you off. There, Liz, But this is amazing.
These are the things that we unfortunately the schools don't
teach enough about this. And for you to take on
an issue like this for the labor movement and for

(45:09):
the future workers of California, future workers of America, thank
you very much. Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off.
I'm just so excited about seeing the bills like that
and soil.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Thank you, No apologies needed. Yes, AB eight hundred insurance
that our children, our youth enter the workforce with knowledge
to protect themselves and then advocate for their rights. You know,
I think it was very important that we educate our
youth about their workplace rights, because it doesn't do any
of us any good if we pass some of the

(45:43):
best legislation in the nation and some of our most
vulnerable or entering the workplace and are being taken advantage
or don't understand it. And so making sure that the
next generation of youth is educated not only knows about
their rights on the job, but also understands that they

(46:03):
have a right to a union and a right to
organize was also incredibly important.

Speaker 4 (46:09):
Yeah. Hey, so to shifting gears real quick, what do
you think of us having our own labor show. What
do you think of nineteen thirty two in the local
union anchoring down this type of platform? What do you
as an organizer for as long as you were, what
do you think about this? Do you think we were
wasting our time or you think it's a good idea?

Speaker 3 (46:29):
Absolutely not. I think it's a great idea. I think
you guys are setting you know, a president for having
a space where workers and families could tune into and
learn about what's happening in their communities. That is not
you know, being run by a media collaborative or you

(46:49):
know billionaires and millionaires.

Speaker 4 (46:51):
Right, It's why instead of doing the plause, Mark accidentally
pushed the wrong button and did the music. First time,
longtime organizer, first time radio host.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
No, I think yeah, I think this is an incredible
opportunity and really a pod you guys for doing this
and is absolutely not a waste of time.

Speaker 4 (47:12):
Well, we appreciate you coming on the show too, because
that helps, you know, kind of broaden our audience too.
You know, we're we're not looking to try to, you know,
get like a big national sort of recognition. We're what
we're really trying to do is, you know, onesie Tuesdays.
Build it up slow, like you do any organizing, drive right,

(47:32):
one on one, one at a time, and build the relationship.
Like you said earlier, listen right. Obviously, as the talk
show host, I can't do the same amount of listening
because I got to keep things moving. But as an organizer,
we know that if if you're listening and people are
listening and the content matches what their needs are, it's
going to grow and it's going to give people more

(47:53):
familiarity into labor right. Make it to where it's not
this abstract. We're not a cartel like we're described in
the In my son's high school book, the unions were cartels.
So again, you coming on helps legitimize and helps it
helps broadcast our show a bit more, and I'm having

(48:17):
a great time with it, I'll tell you honestly, As
an organizer, I feel like it's this great tool where
we're able to communicate and just slowly educate everybody on
the positive parts of being a union and all stop
kind of rambling on about how great the show is.
I just I just always like to hear from people
in a position like yours, how powerful you think this

(48:38):
tool can be. If it's utilized properly.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
Yeah. No, I again, I think it's a great tool
and something that's unique and something that other unions should
pay attention to and do more of.

Speaker 4 (48:53):
So let's talk a little bit about your role as
the chair of the Assembly Labor Committee. Can you talk
really how are you using your influence in that space
to advocate right now? Give me an example.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
Yeah, I mean, we've this space is one to advocate for,
you know, for legislation and budget items that directly impact
workers across the state. But I think one of the
biggest things that you know, I'm doing as your Labor
Unemployment chair is not just you know, paying attention to

(49:30):
workers who have a union, but also thinking about the
many who don't and who this committee is is here
to protect and to lift up and to move forward.
And you know, we do it both ways by introducing
bills and making sure that they're you know, they are
doing what they're intended to do, but also protecting by

(49:55):
looking at and viewing potential risks, you know, because not
everyone understands organized labor workers or protections, and so there's
a lot of legislation that actually doesn't see the light
of day because we have that advantage of point at
being able to, you know, look at things that could

(50:17):
have unintended consequences and really hurt you know, those we
are trying to protect. And so that's how you know,
I am using our Labor and Employment Committee to progress
and continue to make strives in the workplace.

Speaker 4 (50:37):
Yeah. Clearly coming out of a very working class area,
the Alameda County area, and you were obviously part of
the Alameda Labor.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Council, right, Yeah, I let the Alameda Labor Council.

Speaker 4 (50:49):
So so being coming from that space, to me, I
always see it. It's very much mirrored in the Ie
the Inland Empire. Those two communities are very very much alike,
very working class US obviously affected by corporate America, you know,
doing some of the things that they do to really
knock down workers. And you know, so we really appreciate

(51:10):
your advocate advocacy clearly pointing out the fact that you're
able to shut down some of these bills before they
ever get started. Is thank you very much for doing
that for these workers. I think it's just it's it's
amazing and it's an important work, and like you said,
sometimes it never sees the light of day, and nobody
ever knows that something dangerous is working its way up,

(51:32):
something's going to cut some services or you know, cut
some safety cut or negatively affect working conditions, So we
really really appreciate that work. Is there anything in particular
that stands out to you in that space that you
may have stopped over the last few years that most
people aren't aware of.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
Thank Yeah, I mean, without getting into too much into
the weeds, we've seen a trend, you know, of bills
related to you know, out of AI, artificial intelligence, worker surveillance,
rolling back some of the wages that we've been able

(52:11):
to increase in some of the sectors. So things like
that that you know, might look like they're good, but
to really have a harmful impact if you don't have
someone like myself at the table looking at things, knowing
what they actually mean. And it could be something as

(52:32):
simple as a word, which is what I learned during
my time with asked me, which is you know, I
used to be their lobbyist and really learn that in
the halls of power, there's very few people who come
from a working class background who are looking for things

(52:53):
like this that otherwise wouldn't you know, been noticed or
action would have been taken on.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
Yeah, I think you bring up an important point about AI.
Like one of the things that's dangerous about AI. Take
take your job, any job that somebody does, and take
the like the job description or the nuts and bolts
of what you do. Go into those they got. They
got like test areas where you can go into these
AI things and you can ask it questions and it'll

(53:20):
it'll produce something for you, like see if you can
get AI and that and test it to see if
you can actually get it to do your job for you.
And I've been shocked at the results of some of
the stuff that comes out and how quickly it produces
something that somebody could argue is a replacement for you someday,

(53:44):
right right, And and I mean that so everybody listening, like,
I think that's something you gotta do. You gotta as
much as we say, oh you can't replace me, you
can't replace this, No, no, you actually can. It's it's
incredible the technology within AI and how much it can replace.
So do yourself a little test. And I'm doing saying

(54:07):
this to all the listeners, right, and so thank you
for helping advocate and putting some guardrails in this space
because you know this, you're talking a very dangerous situation
where you know, all of a sudden, one day somebody
comes in and says, oh, by the way, we've got
this ABC company now that AI is going to be
performing all your work and spitting it out in like

(54:27):
nine seconds versus it taking you, you know, two weeks
to produce these reports.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
Sah. We saw that with the Hollywood strike what are
the longest strikes we've seen in a very long time,
and it was all related to the use of the
workers and you know AI.

Speaker 4 (54:47):
Yeah, look at the video games nowadays that our kids
are playing, right, You look at the video games and
you see how lifelike all of that stuff is and
and how that could be turned into doing, you know,
performing things that you would normally perform on a daily basis.
You know, maybe most people don't care. I'll whatever, I'll
go do something different, but I don't you know, I'd

(55:09):
hate for my job to be replaced by AI. Right,
how many jobs are vulnerable in that space and what
are the guardrails to prevent it from going too far? Right?

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Yes, absolutely, And that's been the biggest challenge last year
and it's going to continue to be in terms of
balancing innovation, which we're you know, we're the state of California.
Here in the Bay Area, we have the you know,
the highest rates of tech anywhere else in the country,
and so balancing innovation and technology with worker protection and

(55:40):
guardrails is going to be very much at the forefront
of what I focus on for the next few years.

Speaker 4 (55:48):
That's phenomenal. Anything you want to close on, We've got
a few minutes here and I don't want to It
looks like we got three and what do you want
to close on? What are the important things you'd like
to hit like our listeners to know that you're working
on again. Thank you so much for taking the time
out to come on to our show for thank you
for advocating for workers. Thank you for being an organizer,

(56:11):
and always never forgetting. Every time I approach something, I
always approach it as an organizer first, simply because it
takes that approach to build our organizations up in the
right way. So thank you for all that. Is there
anything you'd like to close on?

Speaker 3 (56:28):
Keep doing your radio show, organizing, organizing, organizing, So who
do you think.

Speaker 4 (56:34):
We should get on a radio show?

Speaker 3 (56:36):
Oh, that's a good question.

Speaker 4 (56:39):
I have to get Lorena on here.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
Yes, you definitely need to get.

Speaker 4 (56:43):
I'm gonna tell her next time she can't borrow the
bus unless she comes on the radio show. I'm gonna
have to like play some leverage here. You know. It
was funny when she asked to use the bus for
this last election cycle. She was kind of like, well,
you know, Randy, it's a kind of a big ask.
What are you asking for, Lorena? What's up. She's like, well,
you know, you need a driver, and what you need

(57:03):
the bus. She's like, well, yeah, you got it. Like
that's why we got the bus. We actually got the
bus to do exactly what she used it for. Everybody
seemed to have a great time with it.

Speaker 3 (57:13):
But I love the bus. I used it when I
was at the Labor Council and we used to park
it right in front of city Hall.

Speaker 4 (57:18):
That's right, it's it's it's it's it's a powerful tool,
and it it I love the fact that you can
cart so many people around and get them there. And
it's obviously just a billboard rolling every single day across
the system. And so you know, let's uh, let's not
also forget that you were the first Latina and woman,
uh serving the Alameda Labor Council too, correct.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
Not the first woman, but the first latina.

Speaker 4 (57:42):
Yeah yeah, the first Latina woman. Yes right, yeah, So see,
you're a trendsetter here.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
Well, it doesn't do us any good if I'm the
first and the last. We need to keep the movie.
We need to grow more.

Speaker 4 (57:54):
You know what. That's a very good point. Thank you
for pointing that out. Well, once again, we really appreciate
you coming on Earth with on the Worker Power Hour.
We're doing everything we can to make sure that the
community really understands how unions work. Were we have billboards
and we obviously have buses that we have are think

(58:14):
of Teamster branding throughout the entire region. We have six
buses that are branded. We have the radio show. We're
doing everything we can just to create a familiarity. We
also have our Teamster the teams are training center and
we're trying to connect while they're in high school. And
what we want to do is make sure that the
familiarity whether you're in high school, you're listening to on

(58:36):
the radio, you drive by on a billboard, you see
a bus drive by, and you know you see the
branding and that way when we're knocking on your door
and workers are organizing, it's not like who's that just
a familiarity with with labor, So we really appreciate your
partnership in that space. List and Nat.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
I also one last thing, we'd love to give a
shout out to Robert. He was one of my interns
and an incredible part of my and I stole very yes,
but you're very lucky and I'm happy to see he
is in labor and making a difference.

Speaker 4 (59:08):
Well, thanks for coming on, Yes, And what we're going
to do is we're going to make sure that Robert
always comes back and visits you. And we appreciate you
training him and helping us occupy this space. So with that,
we're gonna have to close out. I have a required
break at the top of the hour. This is Randy
Corgan and the Worker Power Are CASEAA ten fifty AM

(59:30):
one oh six point five FM. Thanks assembly Woman Artega
for coming on the show.

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Welcome to the Worker Power Hour with Randy Corrigan, a
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Randy Corgan is a thirty year Teamster who first became
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Since then, he's.

Speaker 6 (01:04:33):
Helped thousands organized, mobilize and achieve bargaining rights. He accomplished
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Speaker 4 (01:04:52):
Randy Corgan, Hope I got to hear the music. Everybody's
liking your music, Mark, I just want you to know
all the listeners. I have not had one person email,
text or call saying they don't like your music selection.
And I'm talking right over it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
They just don't like my phone operation.

Speaker 4 (01:05:12):
Yeah, well we'll figure it out. I don't see. I
don't get freaked out over that long time organized, our
first time radios. It's just a good gym. I like
it all right. Randy Corgan at the Worker Power Hour
CACA ten fifty AM one or six point five FM
live from San Bernardino. The team start nineteen thirty two

(01:05:33):
Broadcast Network. I'm so excited, like I was at a
big event down in San Diego the last couple of
days Sunday Monday Tuesday, and there were thousands of people
there trustees for funds. It's called the International Foundation, and
we all have to get training multiple times a year
for those of us sit on trust funds, because I
got to make sure we know what we're doing. It's
called fiduciary training, so that you don't make mistakes. And

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we just understand how it all works. So they just
have they have hundreds of classes for us to go
to and from. And it was really cool to talk
about the radio show. And I just get excited about
this because we're doing something kind of new and labor.
We're having fun. There's it's there's it's really not controversial
because we're just kind of educating people. And and I've

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always I remember as a kid watching WKRP in Cincinnati
and Robert's looking at me like huh what like what
is that? Hopefully he looks it up. You know, there's
this huge generational you know, I'm supposedly a baby boomer,
but he doesn't realize I'm not old enough to be
a baby boomer. But that's okay, he's old enough. I've

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got a lot of kids older than him, So we
fully understand the generational difference. So you got to look
up WKRP in Cincinnati. So as I you know, so
Live from Sam Bordino is just a tagline that, you know,
I think anybody can anybody in my age, my generation

(01:07:01):
can connect to as far as the WKRP thing. So anyway,
having a great time with the radio show. Like I said,
longtime organizer, first time radio host. A great segment with
Liz Ortega on with Assembly Woman Ortega earlier. She's a
great advocate for us in this space when it comes
to labor. Obviously, having good legislators in this space to
not only cut off bad law that's coming, but also

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help support good law when it comes to workers. There's
a lot that goes behind making sure that there's a
bunch of good rules in place for working people. And
so I've got Lisa and Jessica on that are that
are Kaiser nurses that are on strike right now. I'm
going to get to them in a minute, because I
got to go through some of the news first. I
know that they're really chomping at the bit because I

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got to watch last night your group shut down pet
Goo Park Kaiser. Kaiser was doing this big shin dig
and so what happens at the International Foundation is all
of the providers are there, and you know, they're obviously
celebrating whatever they're celebrating, and they're trying to make sure
everybody loves them. And so they rented out this huge.

Speaker 16 (01:08:06):
Part of Petco Park and guess what, they had to
shut it off and we got to stand there and
watch them turn the lights to the park off. You know,
all these all these picketers showed up and of course no,
you know, none of the trustees are going to cross
the picket line. They realized that their event got blown out,
and shame on them. It should have got blown out
once once the word got out on what was going on.

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You know, none of the people that were attendants at
the IF or We're obviously going to go over there
and participate in that.

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
So we'll get into the nuts and bolts of that.
But what I want to do is go back and
talk about something that I talked about at the very
beginning of the show, which is Hr. Eighty two, the
Social Security Fairness Act of twenty three to twenty four.
This is long overdue. It's great to see that it
finally got out of the House with some partisan support.
And we really appreciate the fact that the Social Security
Fairness Act passed the House Representatives on Tuesday morning with

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Democrat and Republican support and Congressman Clay Higgins from Louisiana
and Congressman Garrett Graves from Louisiana led. They both led
the effort. And for those of you who don't know
what it is is Hr eighty two aims to allow
public employees who have worked in jobs not covered by
Social Security to receive their full SO Security benefits without reductions,

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even if they've also received a government pension. And so
you know, there's this real wonky rule from many decades
ago that it's like a it's a windfall. I forget
the exact terminology off the top of my head. I'm sorry,
I'm having a brain fart this particular moment. But the
Windfall Act is if you had Social Security and you

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have a public pension, it actually penalizes your Social Security
even though you paid for Social Security and you contributed
SO Security yourself. So what it was intended for originally
were the high wage joarners that there were individuals that
were in very high paid position that were double dipping,
and it was intended to kind of approach that first,

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and it's just gone too far. And now really the
only people that are be infected are average working people
whose social security is being cut dramatically as a result. Now,
think about it. They work in social security, or they
work in the private sector for let's say twenty years,
and then they work in a government job for twenty years.
Why would we penalize their retirement vehicle. It just makes

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zero sense. It should have been repaired a long time ago.
It's good to see it's on its way to the Senate.
Hopefully what happens is the Senate passes it. I don't
see the Senate not passing it because this is a
bipartisan effort and quite frankly, everybody on both sides of
the aisle right now wants to support working people. And

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I sir, hope regardless of the outcome of the election
last week, I sure hope everybody stays there. Like it's
really important for us to hold accountable our elected officials
that have just recently been elected. If they say they
support working people, you know what, it's time we call
them out on it, and we make sure that we
lay it out and we identify what specifically they can do.

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And this is exactly what we did on Hr. Eighty two.
We made sure that our members called the Teamsters nineteen
thirty two members, We sent out multiple emails, We talked
about this at our steward's meetings. We educated them on
which congress people weren't signed onto it yet. We asked

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them to call their congressional leaders and ask them, because
what it eliminates is the windfall Elimination provision, which reduces
Social Security retirement event benefits if you also receive a
pension from a job not covered by Social Security, and
so these penalties just don't make sense in today's day,
and it's really important for us. Oh, thank you Robert

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for giving me the number. So it's three twenty seven
yes and seventy five no. That's how the count went down.
And then I'm assuming we now have a list of
who voted Jess, and I'm actually I'm happy to report
that I won't Maybe at a future show, I'll actually
talk about specifically which congressional leaders it was. But some

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of them here locally weren't actually signed on. We targeted
them and actually had calls go into their office. And
I'm hopeful that those calls helped move this along. And again,
I'll say it one last time. The everybody wants to
get in front of being so called pro labor right now,
well show me, don't talk it, walk it, and let's

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make sure and this is a good this is a
good step. So I'm pretty confident this gets to Biden's desk.
He's going to sign this. This is not something he's
going to veto. This is something that is clearly something
he's going to sign onto. And what a great thing
he could do in his last few days of his
presidency is do another good thing for working people. So
really looking forward to that. Great job members for making

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that happen. I think that your activity in this space
is exactly what we have to do, and I'm going
to tell you straight up, we've got to do more
of it. For all of you that were happy about
the election outcome, you're going to have to hold the
new administration accountable. For those that were not happy about
the election outcome, we're going to have to hold it
coming up its administration accountable. And quite frankly, if they

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say they support working people, well let's just ask them to, right,
Let's not be mad or upset. Let's just say you say,
that's what you do. So let's make sure that you
don't attack our programs. Let's make sure you don't change
the law. Let's make sure that when you do, we're
going to call you out on it, and we're going
to ask you not to put your foot on the
throat of labor period. Make sure that you continue to

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move the energy of these policies that are pro labor.
They're not pro Democrat, they're not pro Republican, they're pro labor.
Let's make sure we're in that space. So in Team
Stars nineteen thirty two news, we're uploading a new video
on this sending direct message to the Right to Work
Committee and anti union folks. Our account name is nineteen

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thirty two Teamsters on Twitter and Instagram. It's not Twitter anymore,
it's called X. You know, don't get me started on
Elon Musk. The guy owns like four hundred and seventy
five thousand satellites and you know, you know whatever. We'll
talk about him on a later show. Anyway. It's on
X nineteen thirty two Teamsters on X and Instagram. Check

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it out. Our reason for bringing this subject up is
making sure that we hold the Right to Work Committee
and anti union folks accountable. They are going to try
with a Republican trifecta. They're absolutely going to try to
put up a national right to work bill. And if
you've seen any of the stuff they've put out here

(01:14:55):
recently villainizing unions and saying that we you know, we're
in limousine in champagne and all this crazy stuff again
limousine and showed up to pick me up lately. Nor
do I like champagne. You know, the characterization of us
is rather dumb and wrong. But you know, if there's

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no narrative on the other side of it, guess what
people are gonna believe it. So let's make sure that
we actually push back on the Right to Work Committee
and the Right to Work Foundation and we make sure
they understand that workers don't need to hear that rhetoric anymore.
And we can start by doing that, So look out
for that coming soon and IBT News. Teamsters at the

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Michigan AFL CIO ratify the first collective barging agreement organizing specialists,
training specialist graphic designers, advocacy coordinators and policy coordinators at
the Michigan AFL CIO have voted unanimously to ratify their
first collective burning agreement with Teamsters Local two forty three.
I know the leadership over there, a good group of people,
so eight congratulations to them unanimous, So it must have

(01:15:59):
been a deal. It's unanimous. Cisco and Sigma drivers have
overwhelmingly voted to become Teamsters. The Cisco Sigma they voted
overwhelming to join Local nine to fifty five in Kansas City.
A great space over there in Kansas City, and congratulations
to them, look forward to them getting a good first contract.

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And so, in more broader labor news, Amazon workers are
now in Bessemer, Alabama, going to get a third shot
at getting an election of there with that facility that
they have there in Bessemer. And so it's been ruled
that Amazon has broken the rules again. Gee, that's I

(01:16:46):
guess that's not news, that's expected. That's just fact. Right.
We're obviously seeing Amazon blow through the law on many,
many levels across this entire country. And so congratulations to them,
and hopefully this time third times a charm. You've heard
me kind of rail on about the election process. My
personal opinion is they how to just not do the election.

(01:17:07):
They how to just stop working until Amazon gives them
a contract, and they should just walk out the job
and say, excuse me, We're not going to deliver your
packages or process them or receive them until you give
us a good contract. You want to catch everybody's attention.
That's the way we get it done. And so also
the NLRB in Starbucks case lowers the bar for proving

(01:17:29):
anti union threats. The NLRB on Friday said Starbucks broke
the law by telling workers at its flagship Seattle cafe
that they would lose benefits if they joined the union. Okay,
look I've heard this. I've been organizing for over thirty years.
I have never seen people lose. First of all, if
you lose benefits after you organize, that means you have

(01:17:52):
voted to accept less because you vote on the contract.
It makes no sense that anybody even leaves this, but
you know, they say it. They say it enough that
people kind of get caught up in the process. Oh
maybe I could lose something. And I always explain to
them when I'm organizing workers, well would you vote to
take less? And they say no, Well, then that guarantees

(01:18:13):
you're not getting less. And if Starbucks thought you were
going to get less, then they would just encourage you
to the process, like you sure, just open the door.
It's kind of like the whole mob thing. Yeah, there's mob.
Like I said, we just whack them. We just we
just we just get rid of them and we wouldn't
have to worry about it anymore. So that's the news.

(01:18:33):
What happened to my news music? Why'd you shut it off?

Speaker 1 (01:18:36):
Mark?

Speaker 4 (01:18:37):
The accident was shut off? See that look, ladies? Did
you see that look? That look was like oops, did
you forget about it? Or did it go away? You know?
You turn it off? You turn it off. See I
thought that the music was supposed to play in the
background and I was going to get this screen behind
me that did all this cool news stuff. No, no,

(01:18:57):
we're not that sophisticated. Though. I got these amazing nurses
sitting next to me and they're like, they're like, are
you kidding me? So mix, make sure your guys as
mics are back on, and they are. So we have
Lisa and Jessica here kaiser nurses. They are on strike.

Speaker 7 (01:19:17):
People.

Speaker 17 (01:19:18):
We're actually mening health workers because you're gonna freak. Everyone
else kis.

Speaker 1 (01:19:22):
Are all going to be right?

Speaker 4 (01:19:23):
Mental health workers, sorry, my bad, Thank you for correcting me.

Speaker 12 (01:19:27):
Oh, come out a little bit far, thank you, nurses,
Not yet soon.

Speaker 4 (01:19:36):
Mental health workers, my bad, my Paul. You know, my
head is lately. I feel like a shot glass with
a gallon of stuff being constantly poured into it. It's
spilling out all over the place, right, I'm trying to
hold on to what I can remember, and so I
appreciate everybody forgiving my uh me missing a little bit

(01:19:59):
of detis here and there.

Speaker 18 (01:20:00):
And you're not fully wrong, because we do have some
psych our ends out there with.

Speaker 17 (01:20:03):
Us, so that is not that.

Speaker 4 (01:20:10):
So I heard you talking about how much you really
liked the show, So why don't you get into that
space real quick, because you know that always makes us
feel warm and.

Speaker 17 (01:20:19):
Fuzzy, right, So I'm glad you know.

Speaker 12 (01:20:21):
So, yes, I have to say that after our segment,
I decided to continue to listen, and wow, I have
to say how educational this is. I recommend people I'm
going to go back and listen to all the rest
of them for the you know, but learning a lot
about just just about pensions, about four oh one case
just about a union in general, that right to work committee,

(01:20:45):
which that sounds horrific. So I mean, yeah, it was great,
and I really appreciate your efforts.

Speaker 4 (01:20:53):
Yes, listen to the show.

Speaker 12 (01:20:59):
Everyone listen. It's really good. But no, it's very education,
it's very inspiring and just yeah. I mean I sometimes
we as a union union people kind of get into
our own little bubbles and and why.

Speaker 17 (01:21:12):
Are we doing what we're doing?

Speaker 12 (01:21:13):
But yeah, this like and and educational and interesting too,
so it was really helpful.

Speaker 17 (01:21:19):
I was really glad to listen to the rest of it.

Speaker 4 (01:21:21):
And I got to point out your Dodger hat.

Speaker 12 (01:21:23):
This is my husband reminded me I were a Dodgers,
So I had to do World Series one this time.
Shout out to my husband, who's a union person as well.

Speaker 4 (01:21:33):
You don't go Dodgers, you know Dodgers. It's funny. I
have somebody I know in New York hopefully he's listening
right now, by the way, and and you know he's
a Yankee fan, and so you know, that was a
rough World Series. It went. It went a little faster
than I thought it would, but I was like, yeah,
I don't know what to tell you. After Game one

(01:21:54):
he says, oh, okay, well that's just one game, and
so he says, you know, game one down. So the
next when I said game two down, game three down,
and then I go, okay, you got one. And then
he was silent on me when I did the fifth game,
game five down. And then the next day I called him.
I says, you're not upset to me, are you. He's like, no, no,
actually I just went to bed. Oh anyway, so you

(01:22:19):
guys shut down Petco Park yesterday.

Speaker 17 (01:22:23):
Yes, we heard about that. You want to talk about that.

Speaker 18 (01:22:26):
Yeah, so we neither of us. We shut down our
picket line in locally, but we also had another committee
that we were part of that we couldn't join the
festivities down in Petco Park. But yes, there were I
want to say, at least a hundred members down there,
you know, ready to rock and roll. They had all
of their signs, all of their energy, and what we

(01:22:48):
loved about this was obviously they they got enough attention
to where you had mentioned before we started the show
that the people attending the event stopped to ask what
we were out there for, what we're fighting for, and
didn't even bother to go into Kaiser's event so they
joined us on the picket line. Yes, yes, So it

(01:23:08):
was just to watch the video and the see the
pictures and stuff. We are so proud of our brothers
and sisters. We were out there holding it down out
there at Pecko Park.

Speaker 4 (01:23:17):
So, yeah, they killed it. And it was the talk
of the conference. I'm talking. There had to be seven
eight thousand people at the conference. I mean it's massive. Yes,
the San Diego Convention Center completely packed with this, with
this convention and and so that's a lot of people.

(01:23:39):
And everybody knew about it. Everybody was talking about it,
and everybody was embarrassing Kaiser and so Kaiser was over
in the in the vendor area too, and boy, they
were just getting it. Everybody's like, man, you need to
settle her. As everybody's walking by, what's going on? What's
going on? And they're like, I'm wondering if they packed
up and actually left, I would hope not. They just

(01:24:02):
kind of got to take the beating, you know. But
you know, it was rough for them.

Speaker 12 (01:24:06):
I think we heard that some of the CEOs and
side were complaining it was too loud, which is yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:24:11):
We tend to hear that out of our picket lines
that they'll come hr will come out to us and
say the patients are complaining. I'm like, really, they're they're
applauding us and chanting with us. But okay, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:24:21):
I was on the opposite side of the stadium on
I think it's Seventh Street. No, it was a street
just north of that, and and and it was behind
home plate where the picketing was going on the entrance
behind home Plate, and we actually saw them shut the

(01:24:42):
shut the stadium lights down. We're like.

Speaker 17 (01:24:49):
Conquered.

Speaker 4 (01:24:50):
They actually shut the event down. Now that is that's effective,
right that? And they're they're embarrassed and all that good stuff.
So why don't you talk about where you're at, Like,
what's what's happened since the last time you've all been
on the show? And and and you know what are
the issues still hanging out?

Speaker 18 (01:25:10):
So we are in the middle of our thing.

Speaker 4 (01:25:13):
You know what we didn't do is introduce ok we
got to introduce ourselves. I'm sorry. Sorry, I'm Randy Corgan.

Speaker 18 (01:25:18):
By the way, I see who you are, Okay, okay, No,
I'm just kidding. My name is Jessica Renz. I am
a licensed marriage and family therapist for for Kaiser and.

Speaker 17 (01:25:25):
I'm Lisa Delgado.

Speaker 12 (01:25:26):
I'm a licensed clinical social worker for as a therapist
for Kaiser as well.

Speaker 18 (01:25:30):
And then we are also both nu h W stewards.
I'm actually part of our bargaining committee as well in
this whole process.

Speaker 4 (01:25:37):
So, so you're one of the people that won't you're
one of the people being greedy, right, yes, absolutely, greedy, greedy, greedy.

Speaker 18 (01:25:45):
I will take that on. Yes, So I thank you
Lisa for correcting me. So, we are actually in the
middle of our fourth week on strike, and we believe
it or not, we are getting more. More people are
joining us. We were having more members walk off the
job and join us now that hadn't come out before.
We are also hearing that management is now walking off

(01:26:06):
the job because it's just too stressful, like they can't
handle it.

Speaker 4 (01:26:09):
They got to take on the work.

Speaker 18 (01:26:10):
Absolutely, the scabs that they've hired for thirteen thousand dollars
a week are also walking off the job because they
can't handle it either.

Speaker 4 (01:26:17):
And that was me blowing a bubble.

Speaker 18 (01:26:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they can't either. But that we're also
hearing from you know, our patients and the our workers
inside that they're barely even doing safety check ins with
these patients. They're not providing therapy or having patients call
to schedule appointments, and they're being told that they're not
going to be scheduled until in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (01:26:39):
What do you say for the people on the other
side of this argument, say you're affecting the patients negatively,
How do you respond to that.

Speaker 12 (01:26:46):
I have a response to it, and that we've heard
that before, and no doubt, like any of us who
are there out there, like a lot of us, have
grappled with that, like you know, thinking about like, oh
my gosh, like it's you know, I've been out here
for four weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:27:03):
You know, it's why you waited so long to do it.

Speaker 17 (01:27:05):
It's exactly, you know, it's it's a big deal. We
take it.

Speaker 12 (01:27:08):
Were the thought of like them getting substandard care by
once again, thirteen thousand dollars a week.

Speaker 17 (01:27:16):
Scavs say that again.

Speaker 12 (01:27:18):
Thirteen thousand dollars a week meals all of their meals,
taking care of fifty dollars a night a day for
food and transportation, and uh the table, Oh yeah, I'm
going to give you a gavel that. So when they

(01:27:39):
want to talk about us being greedy. This is corporate
greed at its at its at its highest because they're
willing to do this, they're willing to hurt their workers.

Speaker 17 (01:27:48):
There were and not just us. We like some of
our managers. I know that's blasphemous.

Speaker 4 (01:27:52):
Maybe he oh, that's okay.

Speaker 17 (01:27:54):
We do like us.

Speaker 4 (01:27:55):
Remember in public sector we represent tons of managers and supervisors.

Speaker 17 (01:27:59):
And so ours are.

Speaker 12 (01:28:00):
But I know that they're working twelve hour days that
we're working weekends.

Speaker 17 (01:28:03):
They don't get compensated because they're salaried.

Speaker 12 (01:28:05):
So not only they're hurting us, they're hurting our their
their managers, and they're hurting their members. So when people
say that we have to look at the big picture,
I said this the last time. Everything that we do
to improve the mental health system within Kaiser has only
been within our fights during the.

Speaker 17 (01:28:22):
Contract campaign campaign.

Speaker 12 (01:28:24):
So it hurts, but it's like it's like, you know,
we're doing this for the benefit ultimately for the clients
to get better mental health service overall within the Kaiser system.
They will not do it on their own, no matter
what they say.

Speaker 18 (01:28:39):
And we have had a lot of support from our
patients via social media. Our patients are coming out to
the strike lines, making their own picket signs, just cheering.

Speaker 17 (01:28:48):
TikTok videos and sort of part of their therapists.

Speaker 18 (01:28:52):
So community support and patient support has been amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:28:55):
I bring up the pushback issue because a lot of
times those that are in positions like you, are in
professions that are really in need, right and that are
crucial that you put the patients over your own well being,
over your own career, over your own retirement. A matter

(01:29:18):
of fact, what's one of the issues here is your
retirement vehicle. And clearly in the past you group, the
group had allowed that patient advocacy to to override your needs,
and you conceded in a space on the retirement vehicle. Right.

(01:29:38):
So when I hear people say, oh, you know you're
you're you're not thinking about the patient. No, we actually
are thinking about the patient all the time. Yes, and
and you're thinking about them all the time, yes, and
and and when it gets this bad, the problem is
there only there are only people aren't hearing about at
the point of the conflict where you've now kind of

(01:29:59):
drawn the line in the same and you said no more,
you have that right to draw it in the line,
to draw the line set Yeah, it's it's okay, you
have the right. We understand there's going to be people
that are made uncomfortable by it temporarily, we understand that.
But that's the definition of a protest, that's a definition
of a strike. Is if they didn't make anybody uncomfortable,

(01:30:20):
they wouldn't work. So for those that say that, and
you know, look, you're when I brought the issue up
to see you so empathetically so quickly respond to it
in a way where you were like, no, we obviously
really think about the patients, which is why we're arguing
some of the things you're arguing is based on patient care.

(01:30:42):
Is that correct? What are those issues?

Speaker 17 (01:30:45):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (01:30:47):
So, so part of that, I think I mentioned the
last time. Part of this is also there's the face
of it. It's first of all, it's access, so being
able to get in to see your therapist within a
timely manner, not like not a month later or two
months later.

Speaker 17 (01:31:01):
So that's the first thing.

Speaker 12 (01:31:02):
The second thing is is that it's not just the
face to face time, it's the indirect time, the administrative
time that we need that I think we said nine seconds, uh,
you know, nine seconds for information the last time, so
we really do need that that protected time.

Speaker 17 (01:31:18):
To be able to do you know, non you know, non.

Speaker 12 (01:31:22):
Face to face work, make reports, do correspondence, consult with
our colleagues.

Speaker 17 (01:31:27):
For quality care.

Speaker 12 (01:31:29):
So and then the last thing, and I really once again,
your your podcast is so educational.

Speaker 4 (01:31:35):
That the depends on live radio show.

Speaker 17 (01:31:36):
Get live radio show, live live radio show.

Speaker 4 (01:31:40):
Sorry, so for those that run a live.

Speaker 17 (01:31:42):
Radio show, live radio show, we make sure we.

Speaker 4 (01:31:45):
Point that out because we can't edit this.

Speaker 17 (01:31:48):
Yeah, live radio show.

Speaker 12 (01:31:51):
But also the pension and you you you spoke about
it so well about if Yeah, it's it's to hold
on to quality employees because if if you have people
leaving their jobs constantly, that does impact the clients because
if they have to start all over again with new
new therapists and tell their story.

Speaker 17 (01:32:10):
I haven't had to.

Speaker 12 (01:32:10):
Some of my clients say I'm going to wait for
you to come back, which breaks my.

Speaker 17 (01:32:14):
Heart, you know, but if they needed it, there's.

Speaker 12 (01:32:16):
Crisis, but they're willing to wait because they don't want
to start all over. So when you're not taking care
of your employees, then you get high turnover, which doesn't
impact client care as well.

Speaker 4 (01:32:27):
Absolutely, yeah, And so for any executive at Kaiser, who
you know, they're doing pretty darn well. And you know,
I don't know if anybody's seen Kaiser's rates increases to
the trust funds that all of us have been screaming
about the last couple of years. It's not like they've
been hurting. Matter of fact, they bought a hospital network

(01:32:48):
back East in addition to some other things that they've done,
so you know, I you know, it's again like big,
big corporation not paying attention to the little stuff. And
this is how it happens. Whether you're a Democrat or
Republican or independent, you have the right to withhold your
labor until the employer until you come to a reasonable agreement. Yes,

(01:33:13):
we're not bad for doing this, No.

Speaker 12 (01:33:16):
No, And we're asking for equity. I think Jessica said
that the last time. We're not asking for more. Correct
they have you know, our one hundred and twenty one
thousand union represented employees within Kaiser have a pension have
you know, had rare weed higher wages than we had
over the course of the past several years. And so

(01:33:40):
we're not asking for more, that's what that's the thing.
We're asking for the same equity as.

Speaker 4 (01:33:45):
We've said, yeah, and on the issue of pensions, let's
let's stick down a little bit deeper. There's some statistics
I want to throw at you from man's like twenty
year old statistics. I don't remember exactly what they are
now now other than they have gone down, they have
gotten worse. And that is on retirement vehicles. And when

(01:34:05):
I did a deep dive on this a little bit
right about twenty years ago, here's where the statistics were.
And I'm just using some round numbers to make it
easier for everybody it's listening on the other side of this.
And this is how important this issue is, because we're
when I did this deep dive twenty years ago, we're
now actually running into the problem where there's actually a

(01:34:27):
lack of retirement crisis in America. There's a lack of
retirement crisis, in other words, a retirement vehicle, retirement income,
retire medical and how people are economically affected when they retire.
We're actually just starting to go into that phase where

(01:34:48):
there's a crisis that's happening. And here's why the four
oh one K has really taken over. What is the
primary vehicle as a so called retirement it's not a
retirement VIC. Well, it's a savings vehicle. And ironically, if
you eighty percent of workers whom have a four to

(01:35:09):
oh one K, now that's assuming all of them contribute.
They don't. They don't. It's actually, of all the workers
that have a four one K, it's only like sixty
five percent contribute. But let's just for statistical reasons, use
the argument that the whole eighty percent is contributing. Let's

(01:35:31):
just say that the whole thing is they're all contributing.
So eighty percent of workers in the workforce, there is
only thirteen percent of the workforce that has a defined benefit.
So you're talking eighty seven percent. That's depending on the
four to one K. Of that eighty seven percent, you

(01:35:54):
take eighty percent of them. So eighty percent of the
workers that have a four to one K option have
to draw their retirement vehicle. Excuse me, their four one
K down to zero by the time they retire for
one of three reasons, plant closure, health issue, or death

(01:36:15):
in the family. One of those three reasons take it
to zero to zero. So assuming all of them are contributing,
that leaves a bucket of only twenty percent of that
pool left right, so now you add that to the
thirteen percent, we know that the twenty percent is not real,

(01:36:38):
it's much smaller. You were talking a very small percentage
of people in America having a retirement vehicle. And the
four one K that's so called you know, that's great,
it's difficult. No, it was never intended to be this
sole retirement vehicle. People say, oh, you got the sole

(01:36:58):
security Okay, well it was. It was actually meant that
you have Social Security four to one K or a
savings plan in addition to maybe your home paid off
or other you know, you know, eras or personal investments
that you may have done. And so you had three
prongs to your to your vehicle. So you know, having

(01:37:18):
a defined benefit was the anchor. And between the defined benefit,
the Social Security and then something supplemental you would be
in good shape upon retirement. Well, you know what, we're
at a stage now, we're less than twenty percent of
the population has something like that. And when you just google,

(01:37:42):
you know, something where you're asking what the average person
has in their form and one K and then you'll
look at what the eighty percent supposedly has. That's a
bit shocking when you see the balance the average balance.
So this is something worth fighting for. So what we're
gonna do is we're gonna take a quick break. We're

(01:38:02):
just gonna take a you know, like a ninety second break.
Mark is gonna play some of his his really cool music,
uh while we just take a quick break. But and
then we'll come back and finish this conversation because I
really think it's important for us to recognize how important
your fight is. It was much like the Boeing fight
where where there was an argument over the retirement vehicle

(01:38:26):
and making sure there's time, because the retirement vehicle is
not just the pension, it's also the retire remedical on
top of it, issues that seem to have disappeared because
Corporate America wants to put all the money in their pocket.
This is Randy Corgan with the work of Power Our
Case AA ten fifty A and one oh six point
five FM live from San Bernardino, Team Serres nineteen thirty
two Broadcast Network.

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top found on my hair can blow. The girl is
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Speaker 7 (01:39:55):
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Speaker 9 (01:40:12):
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Speaker 19 (01:40:19):
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Speaker 17 (01:40:32):
They got me up. Can run it all. If there
was a problem, Joe, I saw it.

Speaker 4 (01:40:36):
Chick out the hook on my DJOSS all right, truth
be told. I just needed a quick break a live show.
Sometimes I can see why they do commercial breaks on
on these on these talk shows and stuff. So before

(01:40:56):
we took that quick break, and again thanks for the
cool Musicfully Scott's listening in and he can come in
and do a live rendition of it right here in
front of the camera so we can all hear. Some
of us have actually heard the live rendition. I know.
I think Lucky has so. And by the way, I
got Lucky. Lepen's sitting over here riding side saddle. He's

(01:41:17):
watching and he's wondering if I'm going to yank him
into the show and put a microphone in front of him.
But I've been trying to get his wife on the
show too, Becky. She'll be coming on here pretty soon.
But for those of you who don't know Lucky lepens,
he helps us put on the car show. He's part
of Youth Helpers. He does all this stuff when it
comes to volunteering for the kids. It's just amazing. They

(01:41:38):
run the whole camp up there, the Youth Helpers camp
up in Big Bear. Just an amazing individual. Really appreciate
the partnership there. And he's also a teamster at Cisco
and he's a trustee at Teamster's Local eight forty eight.
I don't I mean, is there any title I left
out on you? Lucky? Yeah, Yeah, that's right. He runs

(01:42:01):
a car and motorcycle club. Hey yeah, Teamster car and
motorcycle clubs. So thanks for hanging out with us today, Lucky.
And so before I took the break, I was talking
about the retirement issue and why it's important to fight.
And you know, forty years ago, fifty years ago, lots
of people had a good retirement vehicle, in other words,

(01:42:22):
a defined benefit, and then also had retire remedical yea
retire remedicals like almost completely disappeared and most people, at
least the ones that have it. I was at the
International Foundation and I had to check some people like you,
realize you're in this real small bucket.

Speaker 1 (01:42:40):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:42:41):
I'm not saying that you should give it up at all.
I'm saying, appreciate the bucket you're in. Let's try to
help others get into the bucket, because the smaller the
bucket gets, the more likely it is for you to
lose your bucket completely. Anyway. It seeing workers draw the
line in the sand on this subject is to me,

(01:43:01):
it's very important. It's very empowering because unfortunately the American
worker and workers in America have gotten to a point
where they think that this isn't something that's attainable. And
to me, it's for those of us that came into
the job at eighteen years old and it was all
there and a bunch of older guys threatened my life

(01:43:22):
right when I walked in the door and said, don't
you give up our retirement vehicle or our retiree medical
or our medical or we'll throw you in a trailer
and beat you to a pulp. Right, I was like,
all right, cool, I mean, at eighteen years old, part
of me was like, yeah, let's fight, all right, cool,
but it made sense, so I didn't want to fight, right.
The point is is what happened to that you guys

(01:43:46):
are at the front of bringing an issue like that
to the forefront again. That is very powerful, it's very important,
and I'm so happy that you're back on the show
because it's an issue that we don't talk enough about.
And so your thoughts on that.

Speaker 3 (01:44:02):
Go ahead of it.

Speaker 4 (01:44:04):
Well, did I know.

Speaker 12 (01:44:06):
You know, as someone who's like and it's interesting because
I think when you're young, you don't understand that concept
of pension. Like I didn't understand it when I started
the County and it was like now I understand it
now at my age and going like oh wow, I
was at the County, I vested and well I'm going
to get a little pension.

Speaker 17 (01:44:22):
Now I have it, and again, you know, I have
it now.

Speaker 12 (01:44:25):
So the fact that and you know, and I think
when you once again when you're young, you don't get it.
You're you're trying to you know, build a family, do
you know, guild your.

Speaker 4 (01:44:33):
Career too busy chasing the dollars.

Speaker 12 (01:44:35):
I get it, and so I and I And honestly,
I think corporate America took advantage of that. Like I
just you know, once again, I unfortunately some of the
people that are going to be in charge of of
some of these things, I'm afraid that they're going to
decimate that. But that's you know, but I think corporate
America took advantage of that. And so I'm lucky. I

(01:44:56):
have the pension I I do. I have the I
have the the healthcare, the retiree healthcare, and as you
as we age, we appreciate that more and more. And
so the fact that, you know, I have young people
that are investing in Kaiser and are starting to like
look at this as holy cow, the four okay, get

(01:45:17):
you know, it's not enough.

Speaker 17 (01:45:18):
You're right, it's not enough.

Speaker 12 (01:45:20):
So I think that we are, you know, trying to
educate people. This is a big, big deal. And I
once again, I think that the fact that Kaiser wants
to say that we're greedy, mind you, I'm sure all
of those I think the administrators have, the executives have
like eight different pension plans.

Speaker 17 (01:45:36):
Oh yeah, you know, and so yeah, but we're the greedy.
The workers are the greedy one.

Speaker 18 (01:45:40):
We just want one, and we just want our one.

Speaker 4 (01:45:42):
I just want one great, and they have stock options.

Speaker 18 (01:45:46):
And crazy stuff on top of their normal salary that
is outrageous anyways, But and I just added that to
Li said, you're you're right, So I somebody coming in
that doesn't have the pension. I started about a year
after it went to way for us, our union has
done it's a pension calculator right for people that are

(01:46:06):
younger that don't quite understand it to compare what you
would be different.

Speaker 4 (01:46:11):
Yes, is it on a website that they can go
to and just pull it up. That's a great tool.

Speaker 18 (01:46:16):
So we've had a lot of our members do that
just to kind of get more of an understanding of
why this is so important. That education has been huge.
The other thing is that there there was.

Speaker 4 (01:46:26):
And we get to that age where we pay attention
to quicker than we realize.

Speaker 18 (01:46:29):
Absolutely absolutely. And then the other piece of it is
because so many companies have gone away with the pension.
There before we went out on strike, there was that,
you know, people being so unsure like well, why are
we even going to fight for this? Was that we're
not going to get it back. We're not going to
get it back. But now that we're out there, people
are fired up, like, yes, let's fight this to get

(01:46:50):
it back.

Speaker 4 (01:46:51):
You won't get it back if you believe you won't.

Speaker 18 (01:46:53):
Absolutely, absolutely, I will say that that idea, that feeling
has changed based on the energy our shrik lines, But
it's always that was beforehand, like oh, do we really
want to go out for an open end to strike
on that issue? But yes, here we are and they're fighting.

Speaker 4 (01:47:10):
You touched on something, you know, the election of the
November fifth election. And here's the way I'm trying to
phrase it, and I think it's important that we all
look at it this way, is Corporate America got what
it wanted on November fifth, and you can actually see
that in the appointments that are coming, like, this is
not you can't hide from this. No one's going to.
I'd love to if you disagree with me, come on

(01:47:31):
this show and absolutely tell me. I'd love to argue
sitting right here that corporate America didn't win on November fifth.
They don't know what.

Speaker 12 (01:47:40):
Elon Musk feels about unions in general, what he did
with his company.

Speaker 17 (01:47:43):
So yeah, that's corrects already been out there.

Speaker 4 (01:47:45):
So now it's time for workers in America to get
what they need. So, yes, if if in the last
few decades corporate profits all time highs, it's our turn, period.
So instead of being mad or let's fight about or whatever,
All right, cool, y'all say that you protect workers. Well,

(01:48:05):
this is what we need, and we're going to withhold
our labor until you give us what we need. And
we'll be fair because you know, look at some of
these super wealthy people. I mean, you need five yachts,
you need to fly around in the spaceship to Mars,
you know what I mean? Like some of these like
so far removed from the reality of everyday life. It's incredible.

(01:48:29):
And somehow were the villains. Yes, like no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Corporate America got what it wanted. So now it's time
for workers in America to get what they need. And
I think we coin that phrase and we repeat this
over and over on our radio show and on billboards
and everywhere, and we keep explaining to workers that they
can versus they can't. Yes, what do you have to

(01:48:52):
say about that? I ready to go on strike again
even though you're on strike, he said.

Speaker 18 (01:48:58):
Radio shows and billboards and I say a picket sign
I make, I'll make one tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (01:49:03):
No, that's a great picket sign it and if somebody
steals it, you'll know where it started.

Speaker 18 (01:49:07):
Yes, yes, absolutely, the live radio show, not the podcast.

Speaker 4 (01:49:12):
We do have a podcast that comes out of the
radio show. It turns into a recorded version, but we
don't edit it. I know at least it's like, oh man, yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:49:23):
But no, I agree. I agree, Like if we believe,
you know, it's it's we can not. We we can't.

Speaker 4 (01:49:29):
So, Lisa, you were telling me that your husband's affected
by HR eighty.

Speaker 17 (01:49:33):
Two very much.

Speaker 12 (01:49:34):
So, So my husband is a he's a he's a
case manager for Riverside County so and he's been in
uh he's been in the public sector for a little
lesson ten years. So that means that he's worked all
of his working life, you know. It's it's like thirty
past thirty so years in the private sector. So I

(01:49:58):
remember hearing about that when and once again, sometimes these
things I don't understand.

Speaker 17 (01:50:02):
Until like the last minute, like oh, I need to
know what this is about.

Speaker 12 (01:50:06):
And so when you just read that and I found
that out, I was like, I got.

Speaker 17 (01:50:10):
Some good news this week.

Speaker 12 (01:50:12):
So it's like because that will impact us, that will
directly impact that legislation.

Speaker 17 (01:50:17):
Sometimes I think.

Speaker 12 (01:50:17):
That people don't know, like how like you know, politics
and legislation attacks their day to day lives.

Speaker 17 (01:50:25):
That's huge.

Speaker 12 (01:50:26):
That's a big deal because yeah, he's going to be
able to get his full social security that he worked
hard for, as well as the pension that he's getting
for the public set.

Speaker 4 (01:50:37):
Isn't it crazy that it's it's called windfall elimination, like windfall,
Like Okay, I I think I won the lottery. This
is what's not Like I got to hand it the
right to work foundation and you know, I mean right
to work, the whole right to work. Like they've coined

(01:50:58):
these phrases that they own that sound the complete opposite
of what they actually are, like the windfall elimination situation,
like like that situation, like I'm in this wind fall
with my social security that I heard that I actually
that I paid into, and then I go and I

(01:51:20):
get a public pension and somehow I get penalized because
I got a windfall, like like I won the lottery.
Like this is crazy again. It's great. I know we're
having fun with it, but there's a lot of this
that's happened over the last few decades, because I think
you said, corporate America is taking advantage of this by

(01:51:43):
you know, taking advantage of us, by us being so busy, right,
trying to get the kids to soccer, trying to do this,
trying to do that. You know, you know, you're you're
trying to manage the household. You're going to work a
lot of cases, working you know, fifty hours or more
a week, some people working two jobs three yes, And
and you know, kids, I know what me and my

(01:52:03):
brother did, and we were left home alone. We were boneheads,
you know what I mean. We're like, we got in trouble,
can we get you know? And you know, so you know,
it leads to all these other cascades into other issues,
and you know, and somehow we're the bad guy when
we say, hey, you know, don't you think we should
get a little fair shake in this? And of course

(01:52:24):
we need to listen to somebody who's you know, who
buys Twitter for forty four billion dollars like okay, like
and and if you really drilled down on what was said,
like you just pounded this corporate America message, and you know,
shame on people who actually ate it up and are

(01:52:45):
part of the working class, Like, come on, you honestly
think that individual. I was actually joking with someone the
other day. Everybody knows Elon Musk wants to populate the
world himself, right, he's he said multiple times, right, yeah,
he has lots of kids, and he says, I think
I think lots of people should have lots of kids. Well,

(01:53:06):
of course, because what's happening is people are having less
kids now, so there's less workers to exploit. Yes, right,
I mean when you really think about it, you know,
it's people in that mindset where some of us are thinking, well,
you know, I mean I can't say this because I
actually populated the world. My wife and I have nine kids,
by the way, but I didn't I didn't complain about it,

(01:53:28):
and I wasn't trying to do it to exploit labor.

Speaker 17 (01:53:33):
He has a farm.

Speaker 4 (01:53:36):
But we did it for sports purposes. We can play baseball,
we can play football. We have a full team, no
matter what, right, no matter what. So we're about ready
to wrap this up a little bit. Anything you guys
want to close on, we got plenty of time to
wrap up. But really appreciate you coming on, and I'll
tell you what. It was so inspiring to see members

(01:53:58):
like you down in San Diego last night, just knocking
Kaiser right in the teeth. I wish I was a
fly on the wall inside the stadium to see those
executives go, we got to close this down. We got
to shut it down.

Speaker 17 (01:54:17):
That's great.

Speaker 4 (01:54:17):
So I wish I had a drone to fly over. Yes, yes,
So when's your next action?

Speaker 18 (01:54:26):
Actually, so, we're still waiting for to come back to
the bargaining table, right, We're still they've been ignoring us
the past.

Speaker 4 (01:54:32):
We could have went down and cottom at the stadium. Yes, yeah,
we should have brought a table out. Yes, we should
have brought some tables out.

Speaker 12 (01:54:38):
Here's a limousines as you're yes, yeah, of those CEOs,
Yeah yeah, yeah, the CEOs.

Speaker 18 (01:54:46):
So we're so we're still waiting on them to come
back again. We are they they're continuing to put out
these ads. We're not afraid by them. They are actually
inspiring us and motivating us. More and more of our
workers are getting out there on the lines to join us.
Like I said, so continue to lie about us, Kaiser,
continue to you know, spread.

Speaker 12 (01:55:04):
This newspaper ads just basically distorted and full blown lies.

Speaker 17 (01:55:10):
It's just lying.

Speaker 18 (01:55:10):
It is so but again it's not You're not scaring us,
you're not weakening us. We are getting stronger every day,
we're getting louder, and we're waiting for you to come back.

Speaker 17 (01:55:20):
We'll be ready.

Speaker 18 (01:55:21):
We'll be the ones in the NUHW shirts, the red shirts.

Speaker 4 (01:55:25):
Well, really got to hand it to you again. I
know I'm going to get a ton of positive feedback
from the two of you on the show. I got
a ton of positive feedback. Line, your energy is spot on.
Everybody loved it that you hitting the table. You know,
anybody who's an advocate for a union or you know
in some way advocacy within the confines of what we do,

(01:55:47):
appreciates what you're doing right now, the energy that you're
bringing into this. So thank you very much. I know
everybody that listens to the show is all excited from
listening to this segment. We appreciate it and quite frankly
holding the line on an issue that a lot of
people abandoned and unfortunately, for a few decades, this issue
has kind of been walked away from and you're right,
corporate America has won the message in the narrative on this,

(01:56:10):
and it's really important for us as labor advocates to
say this is okay to fight for. You know, you
obviously saw the Boeing workers. They ultimately conceded and I
don't know if you noticed, but they announced that they
were going to lay off seventeen thousand Boeing workers just
I think it was yesterday, and so I don't know
if that's in retribution or what. You know, I mean,

(01:56:31):
you got to break that down and see. Sometimes the
layoff does happen temporarily because you shut the operation down,
and if you shut the production down, there's going to
be a delay, So you have a layoff for a bit,
and then everybody will be recalled later on. Let us
peel back the layers and figure that out before we
actually report on it and say that it is something negative.
It could just be a temporary situation as a result
of the action itself, which means that it worked. And

(01:56:54):
most importantly, for those of you that are listening, if
you do have a retirement vehicle defined benefit, it don't
assume everybody else in the world has one. That's what
I found that union members that have these benefits sometimes
forget that you're in a very small percentage sometimes five percent,
seven percent, ten percent, maybe eleven percent at the biggest

(01:57:17):
in these buckets, depending on what that combination of benefits are.
And if you're if you're fighting for something like this,
you know, be sophisticated about it, be diligent about it.
And it's okay. In other words, it's okay to say,
what's going to happen when I'm fifty seven, when I'm
sixty two, what's going to happen pre sixty five? I mean,

(01:57:39):
there's some people that want to extend the retirement date
to like seventy or seventy two. So thank you very
much for coming on the show. Really appreciate it. I'm
going to wrap up the back part of the show
and clothes like I always do, by talking about worker power.
And this is this is the definition of worker power.
This is how we build worker powers. Workers coming together
saying hey, I want my defined benefit back, or I

(01:58:02):
want one and I never had one, or I want
to retire remedical or you know my working conditions or
patient care is affected this way or affected that way.
You have every right as a worker in this country
to fight for all of these issues. Quite frankly, you
have a right to fight for everything. You can actually
argue that the polls in the building that you're in

(01:58:22):
need to be painted blue. You have that right. Yeah,
right where That's where I was going, right the we
have that right as a worker in America, and we
got to stop giving it away. And so what are
we doing here in the Inland Empire? We're building worker power?
And how are we building worker power? We're talking to
our friends, We're talking to our neighbors. We've got billboards,

(01:58:42):
we got our buses, we've got the radio show. We've
got all these workers talking about worker power, and they're
starting to understand that when you come together and you
demand worker power and we talk to our friends, we
talk to our neighbors, and we talk to our family,
that we can build worker power. Longtime organizer, first time
radio host Randy Corgan a Worker Power r KCAA ten

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fifty am one oh six point five FM live from
San Bernardino, Teamster's nineteen thirty two broadcast network. Signing off,
see you next week.

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