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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Here's the KCAA community calendar for the month of July.
The Redlands Theater Festival presents their fifty third season of
theater Under the Stars in prospect partner five Productions in
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year's lineup includes Young Frankenstein, Radio Gals, The Spitfire Grill,
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You Can't Take It With You, and The Thanksgiving Play.
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The one hundred and second Redlands Full Summer Music Festival
will present free performances every Tuesday and Friday evening throughout
the month of July. Enjoy music of world class performers
under the Stars. Arrive early with your picnic dinner or
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buy something to eat at their snack bar. Seating is
first come, first serve. Performances begin at apm. Thish musical
is Joseph and the Amazing Technic Pillar Dreamcoat July twenty
four through the twenty seventh. So many wonderful performances all
summer long. Located near downtown Redlands.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
If sports is more you're liking.
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There's plenty of single a professional baseball with three locations
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player or just starting out, the Lacana League is the
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Welcome to The Worker Power Hour with Randy Corrigan, a
brand new show about labor and worker issues. The host
of the show is Randy Corrigan, Secretary Treasurer and Principal
Office and leader of Teamsters nineteen thirty two, one of
the largest public sector labor unions on the West Coast,
representing workers in government and non sworn law enforcement personnel.
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And Corgan is a thirty year Teamster who first became
involved in the labor movement by volunteering his time as
an organizer with the Teamsters Union at the age of
twenty one. Since then, he's helped thousands organized, mobilize, and
achieve bargaining rights. He accomplished this by spending countless hours
with brave men and women all over southern California in
their living rooms on the picket line to bring workers
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towards victory. This is the Worker Power Hour, and now
here's the host of the show, Randy Corgan.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
We're back Randy Corgan and the Worker Power Hour. KCAA
ten fifty AM one six point five FM and the
Teamsters nineteen thirty two Broadcast Network. You know, I kind
of like that new music coming in. It's like hot
coming in, and it's like something's coming, something's coming down
the tracks, and we got to get ready to run
this show.
Speaker 13 (07:57):
That's what Robert and I came up with. We think
we're going to stick with. This is our intro.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Now, it might be it might be. Well, I would
love to hear listeners and what they think if they
like this this intro. We have to be now careful
what intro music we use because there's actually copyright issues
that we're running to. Now that the show is becoming
more popular, I guess people are complaining about the music
we play as it's on other platforms, you can't actually
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use that music, which I understand. I get that. I'm
not complaining. I just have to make an adjustment.
Speaker 13 (08:27):
The way I say it that if you had lunch
and now it's two o'clock and you're getting that carb hangover,
we'll just wake you up.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
Just get a coffee and listen to that music for
nine seconds and you should be ready to run laps
around the building. Right Yeah, anyway, worker A longtime organizer,
first time radio host. Like I said, I'm still gonna
claim this datus all the way through my sophomore year,
and I may I may even do it again next
year or the year after. Who knows. The cool thing
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about having your own show is I get to say
it as long as I want, or until the listeners
stop listening and say, Randy, we're not gonna listen to
you anymore because you're not a longtime organizer, first time radio
host anymore. You're a longtime organizer kind of first time
radio host.
Speaker 13 (09:11):
I don't see you giving up the organizer title.
Speaker 8 (09:12):
Well, I'm never going to give that up. I'd love
to be in that space right So anyway, it's good
to have everybody back. We had a second week in
a row, obviously a record for the last month. We
had a few weeks last month where it was traveling
and had to be out and couldn't make it. I
know that our Comm's director here, Comm's coordinator here said
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I was on vacation the entire month. But I'm going
to drag him around with me next time I'm on
vacation and show him what my vacation, my alleged vacation
appears to be I'm blaming you, Robert. That's how it works.
That's cool. That's the cool thing about being Yeah, exactly. Anyway,
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it's July second. Obviously, our last show was on June
twenty fifth. We were joined by our Teamster Advantage partner
Daniel from Brewsters ice Cream in Rancha Coocamonga, and they've
got a new location coming to Eastvale as well, and
they are going to be offering up twenty percent for
the entire month of July, so don't miss out. And unfortunately,
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I know in the last show I talked, I was
hoping I can get by there on Friday. I was
unable to get by there on Friday. And I'm definitely
looking forward to getting over there, and I'm definitely looking
forward to hearing people talk about the pineapple, the coconut
pineapple ice cream, or the vanilla ice cream, or all
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the different other ice creams. But he came in and
did a pretty good job of describing all the stuff
that's going on. Excuse me, all the flavors that they have.
Speaker 13 (10:45):
Yeah, wasn't Robert supposed to bring ice cream to today's show?
I swear that's what we talked about.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
Yeah, what's the deal? You're supposed to have a bunch
of tasters out here. No, Robert, do you forgot? I say,
you go and listen to the last week's show, and
I thought you committed to doing it on the show,
and oh boy, oh wait, this is fun, all right?
Speaker 14 (11:09):
All right.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
We also were joined by Nonny Thompson, who is an
LVN at AARMC and boy, man, she came on really
did a great job of describing the work that she
does at AARMC. She describes the describe the things she
deals with and the community. She just described how important
her job is. And man, she described how much she
loved her job, and she described really came out how
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much she she really likes doing what she's doing because
she can give back and she's not just going to
try to jump to another you know, try to level
up and go somewhere else. She really feels like she's
giving back to her community and she's doing a job
where she can just really engage her community on the
highest level possible and she feels very rewarded in that. So,
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you know, Nonny, you did a great job of coming
in and describing that. Boy was nomenal. Really appreciate the
work you do, and we really appreciate the sacrifice you
make working in the job you do with in the
community and purposely deciding to be in that space and
making sure that you give back on a regular basis.
Working in the eight and the er, the emergency room
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at a r MC has got to be extremely challenging
and you have to be dealing with things every day,
and it's good to know that a teamster is there
to make sure that everything is as good as it
can be for those individuals and extreme need in those
moments makes you proud to be a teamster in moments
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like that, especially when she was describing a lot of
the things she deals with coming into the er. And lastly,
we were joined by James our James bites Back Special here.
That's that's that has kind of taken its own life,
and now they're gonna he's gonna have groups of people
go to locations and not just himself testing all the food.
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I guess the cool thing about that is you can
test more food or test more services when there's multiple
They're going to do Teamster days at our Teamster Advantage
Partner and James nearly did a good job of describing
the spirit of Texas. He went to the Spirit of
Texas and had their banana pudding, mac and cheese, pulled
pork and barbecue. Also Kuka's in Yu Kaipa. He had
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tried their nacho fries, tacos, chips, and salsa, and then
reminded me of Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory in Redlands. There
that he tried the chocolate covered strawberries and the carameled
apples there. So all THA partners, Yeah, you got something
you want to say.
Speaker 13 (13:41):
Mark, So that group event we're planning, we're looking at
August fourteenth, about six thirty, and I just want to
nail down the restaurant before we put it on air.
So if everybody's listening, we're going to get as many
teamsters as possible.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
Yeah that's cool. Yeah, I liked the idea. Let's get
some commitments ahead of time, maybe give the the business
a bit of a heads up what we're talking through
that And it looks like a date's been picked on
the calendar and now we're going to figure out who
we'll announce it to everybody where to go. And it
sounds like fun, I mean really does I like how
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something an idea literally turned into something that we're now
having fun with on the show, and we're engaging more
members in the process, but also spreading the word at
how important our Teams for Advantage program is, how connected
we are to the local community. And so James, we
appreciate you doing all the taste testing out there. That
saves me a lot of weight, It saves me a
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lot of calories. And I love you, bro just for
you doing that, just for you taking that burden off
of me. Even though I really would love to go
to all these places and eat all the same food
that you are. I can live vicariously through him as
we all can. And so this is a reminder to
download the KCAA app in the Apple Store or Google
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play Store. And if you want to reach our radio show,
please contact the radio show at Team Stars nineteen thirty
two dot org and you know, feel free to email us.
You know what I forgot to do is I forgot
to actually tee up the shoutouts, the live shoutouts on
my screen here. My apologies everybody, and so for live
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shout outs. As we get into that, we have listening
in live Theray Robinson and Linda Harrow at tad Jeff
Horn and Ryan Shrouds at at CFS, the Doll Raffiti
at ARMC, Kurk Garrison at the Crime Lab, Connie Bottini Library,
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Andrew Marquez at wv I'm assuming West Valley Detention Center
l v N. Stewart sal Carranza at the West Valley
Detention Center c or SCS. Just had a baby girl. Congratulations,
congratulations as to you. Olivia Gibera at a r MC,
Ashley Moda, Krista Hunter, Amanda Montoya, Chas Kelly christaph Thank
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you for always listening in. It's like you're almost every
single week you're listening in live. Appreciate you listening live
and see you. I think I just saw you a
couple of days at the NEO and always a great
job NEO, doing the best you can getting people signed
up on day one. Jonathan Steinmetz from AARMC HIM Department,
Charmain Cole Register of Voters, Christine Montoya, City of Asperia,
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Bill Horton, Lamar Advertising, Warren Pennington Desert Water Agency, Ruben
Galardo from the City of Redlands, Gerald Stokes, Patricia Flores
and Crystal Olds from Ralto Tad. James Hayes from tad
O two. Also Zion Randolph, a new steward out of
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Raalto tad Congratulations Charmaine Barnow from HVP. We also have
Margarita Martinez, IR tech at AIRMC And happy birthday to
Kathleen Brennan yesterday. She turned twenty nine yesterday, our amazing
president of this local union. She's the greatest president in
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the Teamsters. We appreciate all the work that she does.
Our members absolutely love her and her spirit and her energy.
And she celebrated her birthday yesterday and I felt bad
because because I found myself I said Happy birthday to
her in the morning, and I found myself at some
point in the day calling her forgetting it was her birthday,
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and calling her and getting her up to speed on
these things that were going on. We talked multiple times
a day, many times, and I had forgotten at the
end of the day it was her birthday. What am
I doing. It's like eight thirty nine o'clock last night.
I'm getting her up to speed on some things that
had just happened. As I'm on my way in the
door at the house. And then I got reminded. My
wife had reminded me what are you doing on the
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phone with Kathleen? It's her birthday? You're killing me or
you're killing her? And I was like, I felt I
felt so bad, so I got to give her a
happy birthday shot out here, and Kathleen, being the trooper
she is, she was like, you know, Randy, now, madam
good Like, you know, no problem, Let's get it taken
care of. She's always got that great attitude. Yeah, give
her a big round of the plot. Thank you for
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all right, those are our live shoutouts. Enough of that, Kathleen,
it's enough of your birthday. It's over. That was yesterday.
Today's a new day.
Speaker 14 (18:35):
Anyway.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
I'm gonna get to the next part of our show,
which is some fun facts. And first it's the job
that we we wanna we wanna highlight, and we're actually
gonna have someone on the show today from this unique
job in the county. It's a public guardian conservator, and
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the public guardian arranges for custodial care and administers the
states of gravely disabled or other incompetent persons by appointment
of the courts, and serves as a guardian of the
conservative's property and financial assets, and coordinates legal and Social
Services on behalf of the Conservatives, and what an important
job that is provided for the community and for individuals
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and clearly a very stressful, difficult time. And so we're
actually going to have somebody on today to describe this
job later on in the hour. And they serve young
disabled people too. Thank you for pointing that out, Robert, right,
they serve young disabled people too. There's all these really
important jobs that get done out there every day, and
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many people don't know clearly how important they are and
tell sometimes that they actually need them. And you don't
realize that how many people are actually utilizing them, because
maybe you don't realize your neighbor or other individuals in
your community are in that sort of space where there
is that type of need. And so thank you for
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those that do that job. It's such an important job.
And we're going to be hearing from Carla later on
in the show, and she's going to talk specifically about
the things that she does in her role as well
as the importance of her role to the community, and
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maybe she'll have some good stories or funny stories. I
always try to get funny stories out of people that
are in jobs like this because sometimes we're really surprised
with some funny stuff. Anyway, Again, shout out for those
public guardians. Really appreciate the work that you do. We
will be hearing from you soon. The labor wins that
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we want to bring up is the Hilton workers in
Orlando secure a new contract. Unite Here Local seven thirty
seven announced last Thursday that hospitality workers that they're Hilton
or Orlando Boina Vista Palace Hotel in Florida have ratified
a new contract after nearly a year of negotiations. The
previous contract covering members expired on December thirty first of
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twenty twenty four, so they've been without a contract for
a bit. It's good to see that that got resolved.
And you know, management had failed to offer fair provisions
up to this point, and it's good to see that
that stuff really really closed out. And you know, the
contract includes multiple wins including good wage increases, lower medical
insurance costs and automatic twenty percent gratuity on guest checks,
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lower workload for housekeepers, and stronger protections for immigrant workers.
So congratulations to those of you at Unite Here seven
thirty seven in Orlando. We also have San Diego Iatzi
members Local one two two. They just secured a powerful
contract and those members who work for Encore or in
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Core Global won a historic contract that includes wage increases
of up to twenty eight percent in the first year.
Workers curedist victory after several months of coordinated collective action.
In Core is that Incore, Encore, Robert Incore, Okay. Incore
is a majority owned by Blackstone, which is the world's
largest private equity firm. Oh boy, imagine that these huge
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private equity firms owning everything in the entire on the
entire face of the planet. That's where we're going, ladies
and gentlemen. I'll talk about that in a little while anyway.
Some highlights of the new contract include an average wage
increase of up to twenty eight percent in the first year,
premiums for hazardous working conditions, a reduced evaluation period to
allow more opportunities for increases, a ratification bonus, and strengthened
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arbitration process to protect workers' rights and fortify the agreement.
The next thing I want to roll into is I
want to do a quick promotion on some upcoming events
that quakes Saturday, July twenty six, There is a promo
out here for this game. Make sure that the tickets
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are I think thirteen dollars each. There's a spot that
they can connect to these right Mark, I forgot your name.
Speaker 13 (23:10):
Briefly, my name is Mark. I work here at Teamster
Local nineteen thirty two, so they can go on the team.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
You consider that work. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 13 (23:18):
My best Teamster Advantage app mobile app. We also have
the web page. It's on the teams to Advantage Facebook page.
There's three different ways.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
And if you have any questions, call the front desk.
They'll help you. Yes, correct, And then there's this little
little QR code you scan in hell, maybe with our
new camera here, by the way, I didn't talk about that.
I'll talk about that in a few minutes. This cool
new camera we got makes it nice and clear. Everybody's
complaining he's need a new camera. It's too grainy, it's
not looking good and we had planned on upgrading the camera.
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But maybe maybe you can get this QR code from
the camera there. Don't don't zoom in yet. We'll do
that later. And then the next one is the sixty
six ers July fourth, at six thirty five pm, ten
dollars off tickets for the Executive Club in Bullpen. Make
sure that you reach out. There's again another QR, one
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of those cool QR codes. You can just get your
tickets Rams twenty twenty five home games. Another QR code.
Check that out. These connect to all the home games
for August ninth August sixteenth, So it's the Rams Chargers,
excuse me, Rams Cowboys August ninth, Rams Chargers, August sixteenth,
Rams Colts, September twenty eighth, November two, Rams Saints, November sixteenth,
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Ram Seahawks, November twenty third, Rams Buccaneers, and then a
to be announced Rams versus Cardinals must be one of
those games that float around. They haven't set the time yet,
but hit that QR code and guess what, you can
purchase tickets there as well. And then we have Teamster
Night at Angel Stadium. Those games are the games that
are left are July twelfth versus the Diamondbacks, and then
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the Angel Dodger Freeway Series which is August eleven, twelve,
and thirteen, and then August twenty third versus the Cubs. Again,
another QR code there. You can maybe quickly go in
and well, are you laughing at me? See iver with
the old camera, you couldn't get away with this. I'm
just curious to know, because I'm gonna go back and
I'm gonna watch it, and I'm going to see if
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I can zoom in and hit that QR code and
then we'll have some fun with it. Anyway, you gotta
have fun with your new toys, right, It's like a kid,
you know, and then never forget. Right here in our
hometown of Colton, which is in the Ie, we have
Fiesta Village Family Fun Park and this is a best
day past ten dollars off. It's enjoy four hours of
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unlimited go karts and amusement rides and all kinds of
good stuff as well as a free blizzard here and
you can go on our website as well as the
Team's for Advantage app or give us a call and
you can try to connect to those discounts. So, just
as part of our Teams to Advantage program, which is
connected to more than a thousand small businesses in the community,
just wanted to give a quick shout out and a
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quick promo to all those upcoming events that our members
can can participate in and you know, clearly get at
a discount get much cheaper, and we're really enjoying that
some of these like baseball teams and football teams are
doing the going too a link and then we don't
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have to buy the tickets ahead of time. That just
creates a lot of inventory issues and it's hard for
us to buy tickets, hold on the tickets, and give
tickets back just because of the reporting requirements we have
as an organization, and so a lot of the organizations
that are going to just being able to go to
the link, we can track it, we can share it,
they get the discount. We don't have to front load
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all those tickets. We appreciate that partnership with those organizations.
And the next part of our show, I'm going to
give some quick victories that happened at nineteen thirty two
in the last few weeks, and I'm going to slowly
integrate this into the show and see how it works
and how well it's either received or I can keep
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it up and keep it going in the right way,
or you know, mess it up or speak about it wrong.
I don't know. I'll I love. What I love about
the show is we kind of tweak things, do a
little bit different. This a little bit different that and
and what I want to do is give these little
nuggets of information that are happening around the local for
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listeners to realize there's all this stuff happening on a
regular basis. And so we got a member added back
to a promotion list and receive the promotion. So in
other words, someone was booted off a promotion list and
they were able to get back on that promotion list,
thank you very much, and get back on that list
and then got the promotion. So that tells us that
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the process worked, because obviously, if they were non union,
they would have been kicked off that promotion list and
never been never been added. This is a particular This
next story really really hit home again. Someone at aarmc
at the hospital, sixty year old worker who came from Egypt,
where she had worked non union her entire working life.
She spent her life savings on her kids schooling and
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dedicated the work to the county so she can have
a retirement. She was having issues at work and after
one meeting she was able to be recognized for her work.
And the member is extremely grateful like this just shift
in a recognition of all the great work that she
had been doing over a period of time. Those are
stories I always love to hear where people it's not
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like this, you know, huge like economic situation. It's it's
really significant to them because they feel that their work
is being valued. And I think that, you know, that's
what workers, that's all they want in America is they
just want to feel as if their their work has value.
There are a lot of group meetings with workers to
escalate organizing efforts and obviously push back against a lot
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of unfair behavior form management, as well as group meetings
with a number of men members in areas that we
have ongoing workplace concerns. In some of our operations of
successful new employee orientations that agencies are numbers of being
over eighty percent continue to where we're signing up most
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of the time more than eighty or ninety percent on
day one, where they're becoming members and they're choosing not
to be freeloaders. They're choosing, you know, it's always interesting
in this space when I have someone says I want
to opt I don't want to pay dues. I'm like,
so you want everybody at the union to work for free?
That's what you're saying you want you don't want to
pay dues, you want everybody to work for free. What
would happen if if if your employer asked you to
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work for free, what would you do? And then they
kind of start to get a little offended. And I
really don't care that they get offended at that space,
because you're basically saying we need to work for free,
even though you've got great benefits. You got a retirement vehicle,
you have this, you have that, you have all these
things that are bargained every day, and oh they're not.
No one's doing anything for me, and you want to freeload.
So yeah, that's going to be a contention, a conversation.
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I get people that sometimes complain to me, like, you know,
you're not being very nice. Would you be nice if
somebody came to you and said that you had to
work for free. No, man, you'd be like, no, I'm
not working for free. I'm not coming to work every
day for free anyway. Really great work that our our
NEO teams do and our members that are engaged in
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that process and explaining how important it is to be
part of the collective and how important it is to
participate and how important it is to not be a
free loader. Also a member at CFS doing an excellent
job at making sure other employees are signed up and
building their worker power. We also challenged the courts on
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prolonged investigative timelines, resulting in a new policy with weekly
check ins for current investigations. Pushed back against a manager
who demanded a doctor's note for a two day absence,
raising red flags, and you know, and addressing the absentee policy,
got that fixed, realized, a side finalized a side letter
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agreement to ensure that a district continues to cover the
seven percent peers contribution. So great work in all that space.
Really appreciate all that the staff is doing on a
regular basis. And with that, we're gonna take a quick break.
I'm gonna get to our guest. And you know, this
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next guest coming in for me is I always love
being in the space of Amazon workers. This last few days,
I've actually been with a bunch of them in a
bunch of different settings, and it's always a reminder of
the organizing work that we do. And you know, at
the top of the hour mark, you had pointed out
that longtime organizer I always brag about being an organizer,
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and regardless of what other position I hold, I always
brag about being an organizer because in this space you
get to meet people that are really really challenging their
employer at a level there in a lot of cases
withholding their labor and exercising their First Amendment right to
get more, get things resolved, to resolve issues, to take
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on issues, to make the place safer, to make the
place more efficient. And as an organizer, you're constantly in
this space, and it's so fun to have individuals with
us and to be blessed enough to be in this
space all the time. And Gaspar Diaz is a KSBD teamster.
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He's everywhere. I've spoke at a bunch of events with
him where he's either been speaking before me or after me.
He's obviously going to talk about this great momentum that
we have when it comes to AB two eighty eight,
and he was up there participating in that, he'll get
to talk about experiencing that. And I also want to
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thank him for his military service, because he served in
the military ser proudly. So when he comes back on
uh here in a minute, we're gonna take a quick
break get him in the seat, and then you're gonna
see this new camera in action. How we actually can
pan out and zoom in. I don't want you to
zoom too much in on me because I am so I. Look,
this new camera is like four K or whatever crazy
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thing it is, and look I look super old and
super fat and I almost can we go back to
the blurry stuff where I don't what's matter? I don't
know if I like this new camera. I mean, it's cool,
cool to play with, but man, it shows all our
flaws with that. Why don't you take it away for
a quick break? Casey aa. This is Randy Corgan and
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the Work of Power Our KSEAA ten fifty A and
one to six point five FM and the team shows
Local nineteen thirty two Broadcast Network airing live from Samardino.
Take it away, Mark.
Speaker 9 (33:52):
I'm Lillian Vasquez with Community Matters. There are many car
clubs and car shows throughout the Illin Empire. I visited
a car show in Yukaipa and spoke with David Avilov, president.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Of Past Pleasures car Club. He shared about the club,
it's purpose and when it first began.
Speaker 15 (34:09):
Well, it's kind of a debate We believe that the
first organized group was around nineteen seventy nine, but more
officially closer to nineteen eighty six or eighty seven.
Speaker 14 (34:19):
We gather to.
Speaker 15 (34:20):
Help celebrate the Southern California car culture of the forties, fifties, sixties,
and seventies.
Speaker 9 (34:26):
David shared the types of cars you might see, and
of course his pride and joy.
Speaker 14 (34:31):
We see all.
Speaker 15 (34:32):
Kinds of cars, from early model hot rods to very
very well appointed custom cars, all mixing models.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
We have everything that's pre eighty.
Speaker 15 (34:43):
I have a nineteen sixty six Chevelle Malibu, a yellow one.
Here my pride and joy, but everyone just brings whatever
they have. There's several cars are under various stages of
construction and restoration, and we enjoy seeing them and see
the progress every month that they bring. It's a wonderful event.
It's a nice family friendly. We have a bubblegum blowing contests,
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pula hoops, blimbo contests. It's just a wonderful family event,
and we encourage everybody who has a car, don't have
a car, come over here and enjoy the camaraderie that
we have. Again celebrating the Southern California car culture.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
You don't have to have a car in the show.
Speaker 9 (35:23):
Spectators and car enthusiasts are encouraged to check out the classics.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
It's free to attend.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
The Past Pleasure Car Club shows off their cars the
first Friday of the month from April through November, located
in the Ross Parking Lot on Yukaifo Boulevard for community
It Matters.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
I'm Liian Vascos.
Speaker 8 (35:47):
We're back Randy Corgan and the work of Power Hour
CACAA ten fifty A and one to six point five
FM and the Teamsters Local nineteen thirty two broadcast Network.
Aaron Live from San Bernardino. We are joined by Gaspar
Ds who is a KSBD. We call that KSPD. That's
the airport for Amazon here in San Bernardino. And first
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of all, let me say gaspar thanks for coming on
and thank you for your service. You served in the military. Correct,
we're not hearing him. We checked the mic earlier. Come on, Mark,
did you fall asleep over here?
Speaker 7 (36:26):
No?
Speaker 8 (36:26):
I got the button on.
Speaker 13 (36:29):
Let's try a different one.
Speaker 8 (36:30):
I'm going to jump there you go, he's on.
Speaker 14 (36:32):
We go, all right, Yes, I signed up.
Speaker 8 (36:35):
Mark is going to get a warning letter now, Hell
I'll probably get fired.
Speaker 14 (36:40):
He's got a I'll be a stewart for him.
Speaker 13 (36:42):
There, you got Gaspar. I'm going to need representation, bro.
Speaker 14 (36:45):
I got you. I got you on that one. Yeah.
Speaker 16 (36:47):
I listed in nineteen eighty nine, So real quick, I'm
going to reset this, okay, just make it make it
easier because we've got a little fumbly there thanks to
somebody else.
Speaker 8 (36:55):
So first thing I want to say is all the
great work that you do. Let's let's appreciate the fact
that you served in the military. You served in the military.
Thank you for your service in the military. And why
don't you tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 14 (37:07):
Thank Thank you very much. Randy.
Speaker 16 (37:09):
Yeah, I enlisted in nineteen eighty nine and it was
still during the Berlin Wall was still up. Tear down
this wall, right, and Russia was our primary adversary at
the time. And as you can see, things have kind
of gone back to that because now they're you know,
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with war with Ukraine and but yeah, I joined the
National Guard and was fortunate to be in several you
know call ups. One was the La Riots that was
the first big one, and north umber ninety two had
Northward's earthquakes that was really bad, and then I didn't
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think anything was going to happen. We had a lot
of peace going on, and then the nine to eleven
occurred and that's when things got really serious. So all
fun and games set aside, you know. It was we
really had a train for war. And so I got
the call to go to Iraq in two thousand and
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three and I was gone until got back in March
of two thousand and five. And then San Diego fires.
I was down to San Diego fires for like three weeks.
That was pretty bad. In two thousand and eight, then
I got I got called up to go to Kosovo.
So I did a year tour in Kosovo and NATO mission,
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very interesting mission. Got to work with several countries. So
it's a it was.
Speaker 14 (38:44):
Proud to do. Put in my twenty one years.
Speaker 16 (38:47):
And and when I came back, I got a job
offer at the State of California, and it was it
was neat working with veterans because I could relate to
their experiences and and help them with their claims, you know,
their VA claims, you know, as far as getting a
medical help. And I also would see if they wanted
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to find work. And I had several employers on my list,
and one of those employers was Amazon. I would I
had a recruiter that I would send send these.
Speaker 14 (39:26):
Veterans to and.
Speaker 16 (39:29):
I worked that for about a year and a half
until I got a letter or told that the state
of California budget was coming to an end. So when
that came to an end, I called up that recruiter
and I said, hey, guess what, I got one for you.
Speaker 14 (39:44):
He said, who's that? That's me.
Speaker 16 (39:46):
He said, come on down. I'll get you working at Amazon.
So that was in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 8 (39:50):
Got one for you, it's me.
Speaker 16 (39:51):
It's so he gets me the job. And here I
am at Amazon. I started there in October at twenty thirteen.
Speaker 8 (39:58):
And you have kicked up some Yeah, man, I tell
you do it. Such a great job. Again, Thank you
for your service and thank you for spelling out all
the things that you have done to help this great country.
Really appreciate that and appreciate that sacrifice. And so shifting
gears over to the what you're doing now and how
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you're impacting again, impacting your local community is you're helping
workers organize at Amazon. And we're probably going to jump
around a little bit here. But you know, you experienced
this pretty cool thing a couple of weeks ago being
up there in the chambers and participating in in AB
two eighty eight and then passing and kind of accelerating
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this and which for those of you that don't know,
that is a bill that we have really agitated, kind
of structured and pushed out. And it's what we call
a right to organize bill, And it's a bill that
is created to step in and make sure that workers
are represented, workers have a safety net legally if the
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federal laws decide or should say, you know, stagnate or
unable to protect. And and but I also don't want
to take away from the great work that you're doing
there at the airport. You know, more than a thousand
teamsters there. I know Amazon refuses to bargain, but whatever,
you guys are bargaining every day on the floor, you
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know you know how to shut it down if they
don't come to terms on something.
Speaker 14 (41:24):
You know how.
Speaker 8 (41:24):
To call them out of the of the office, call
the managers and supervisors out and say, hey, we got
this going on, we got that going on. We need
this fixed and that fixed. And I'll let you talk
about some of those details we've got. We definitely got
twenty minutes to do it, about eighteen minutes to do it.
And I also want to point out the fact that
you're famous, like you're in this video that what was
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it thirty million people have seen now as an over
thirty million now Mario, Like it's crazy, Like millions, tens
of millions of people are like, look at that guy.
I want to be just like him.
Speaker 14 (41:58):
It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 8 (41:59):
You're an inspiration because I'll.
Speaker 16 (42:01):
Hear I'll hear from people I haven't heard from in years,
and they'll say, hey, I saw your video. Hey what's
going on? Hey, great job with the Teamsters. Uh, you know,
just keep it up, keep it up. But uh but
back to this, uh, you know, being being a soldier,
you're you're you're fighting for a cause and uh and
it kind of translates to what we're doing now, you know,
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being with the Teamsters and and and being with Amazon.
Speaker 8 (42:26):
Uh.
Speaker 16 (42:27):
I I was always hoping that that the union would
would come in some shape or form, and and it
it isn't.
Speaker 14 (42:34):
You got to fight, You gotta fight, worker Pea.
Speaker 8 (42:37):
It doesn't just magically just as magic to happen.
Speaker 16 (42:41):
And as I saw this company just keep growing and growing.
I was really hoping, hey, wages would get better. They
didn't get better. They were taking things away. They took
away the stock plan, they took away v CP variable
comp program, which a lot of a lot of new
Amazonians don't know about. It was a bonus program ram
that if you're building uh performed well, you would get
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bonuses based off of uh safety, production and and and
saving of money.
Speaker 14 (43:12):
Uh. They took all that away.
Speaker 16 (43:14):
So so, uh about about when KSBD came to uh
you know, built and was going there was a group
uh trying to get the union going.
Speaker 14 (43:28):
And I'd hear it and I'm like, man, this sounds good.
Speaker 17 (43:31):
This.
Speaker 16 (43:31):
I got to get involved and I was signing the
petitions we were fighting for for better conditions out on
the flight line, uh fans inside the building.
Speaker 18 (43:44):
Uh.
Speaker 16 (43:44):
It was just a constant. It was neat to see
workers finally coming together and uh.
Speaker 8 (43:50):
And realizing, yeah, realizing the power they have.
Speaker 14 (43:55):
That's right. Ye.
Speaker 16 (43:56):
So so uh it's actually a year ago that we
actually went on that we that we really I saw
the worker power come to you know, a vision of
of us coming together was a year ago we went
on strike July of last year. And uh and now
now to think in December how much we've come to,
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you know, finally getting the majority and and being a
teamster shop and then still not them not recognizing who
we are is an insult and.
Speaker 14 (44:27):
Breaking the law. So uh, I'm just I just like
to say.
Speaker 16 (44:33):
That this bill when it was presented to me, and
and and and we're hearing about that the National Labor Board, Uh,
there was a member, will Cox, she was she was
sent out by the new administration. And now they can't
they can't fight for for a lot of the rights.
Speaker 14 (44:51):
That we we want.
Speaker 16 (44:52):
And uh so now McKenna, she's an assembly person out
of I think it's down in South LA. She's the
one who created this bill with many co ops.
Speaker 8 (45:06):
He's the original author.
Speaker 16 (45:07):
And and what she did now is hey, we're not
going to go with the National Labor Board anyway.
Speaker 14 (45:13):
It's going to be.
Speaker 16 (45:14):
A state run entity to to fight for workers. So
we have the right to organize and not be discriminated
against by employers.
Speaker 14 (45:24):
So this is what we've needed.
Speaker 8 (45:25):
What's feel like to be in a space as a
worker where you've got these elected you know, assembly people, senators,
you know all these people that are are in public office,
and they're and many of them are looking to you
to tell the story right and and they're helping obviously
advance the cause of of you know, this of these
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issues or this law policy. It's the best way to
describe it. And and behind you to say, we got
to change the rules to make sure you're covered, you're
taken care of. What's that like, what's that experience like
kind of being in that space. It's got to be incredible.
Speaker 16 (46:05):
It's it was neat because this is the first time
I've seen so many parts of this teamster fight, you know,
worker power. I mean, uh, getting a majority, uh, you know,
taking my Stewart class, getting an organ going to the
organizing classes and seeing everybody just so much involved in
how much important this was. And then to see that
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the National Labor Board didn't have our back. And now
this bill is going to open so many corridors for
not just Amazon, for all workers. Big corporations aren't going
to be bulling the worker around anymore. We're gonna they're
gonna have to listen to the say and if they
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break the law, you know, we've got the Attorney General
to to step in as well.
Speaker 8 (46:51):
And just remember one thing, you know, I know what
happens in this space is we we start to lean
into or we lean into electeds or we lean into
the board or whatever it is, and we say, hey,
you're gonna, you're gonna. You know, you got to do
your part. Remember, the most powerful tool you have is
withholding your labor, that exercising your first Amendment right, your
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protected concerted activity. And when workers in this country en
mass withhold their labor, they can they can accomplish anything.
And you're building towards that, you're actually agitating and educating
workers into the space because because regardless of what law
passes or doesn't pass, or what what what law is
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not being utilized properly, or what administration is in office,
that right's going to be there and will can be
the most powerful tool. And you've seen it firsthand. You've
seen it where matter of fact, I think you led
the discussion last year where the smoke was so bad
you guys shut the operation down because because Amazon wasn't
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respecting the working condition health.
Speaker 16 (48:00):
Correct, This was back in October. We had three fires
that surrounded the airport and the smoke was so bad
for almost a week. The air quality was horrendous and
they were still having workers work out there with a
mask that still didn't protect the respiratory, you know, their lungs,
their allergies, and.
Speaker 14 (48:21):
People were going to the amcare.
Speaker 16 (48:23):
They were filling up the am care and they didn't
want to They weren't going to change anything. We shut
them down for two days. And that's worker power. That's
the worker power that when when workers feel that they're
getting pushed wrong, you got to come together.
Speaker 14 (48:40):
It can't be just one. It's got to be you
all have to unite. And then we stood up to them, right.
Speaker 8 (48:44):
The cool thing about worker power is you don't also
have to wait for it for a bunch of stuff
to build up. You can. You can, you know, you
could have this one issue where it's important to the
group and you take the issue on and you start
to hold them accountable. Watch Shane, you all do that
at KSBD is beautiful. It is such a precious and
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beautiful thing to witness, regardless of Amazon's obstinates. Right, like
in the operation, when you're doing this, you can see
I mean, you know, you you watch the supervisors run
from you right.
Speaker 14 (49:16):
Literally like they have no they don't. They can't answer,
or they don't deal with it, and they run away.
They run.
Speaker 15 (49:22):
Aw.
Speaker 8 (49:23):
That's how powerful it is. It's incredible, and and it's
even more incredible to be sitting here with you and
having you share the story with everybody, you know, because
it's permanent.
Speaker 11 (49:35):
Now.
Speaker 8 (49:35):
Once the story gets in here, it goes into a podcast.
You know, it's obviously live right now, wheth tens of
thousands of people are listening over the radio and and
and obviously digitally and streaming, and you know they're watching.
Some people are watching us. You've been smiling in the camera,
right you know, so uh. But but it's also this
message is permanent, and it's why we love to have
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you all in this space is because then other other
workers here you and they hear what you're doing, and
they hear how successful it is, and they hear you know,
yeah sometimes you know, is it everything happens today And
it's like flipping a light switching you know, it's a
magic wand no.
Speaker 14 (50:13):
It takes things effort, it takes.
Speaker 8 (50:15):
And those are the most rewarding, aren't they?
Speaker 16 (50:17):
Exactly when it comes through comes to you know, it
comes it can be a vision that actually comes to reality.
And it's not just one person, it's it's many of
us that have culminated and gotten together and speak up
and listen, uh, you know, listen to each other's concerns.
Speaker 14 (50:33):
That's that's just one big thing.
Speaker 16 (50:35):
But the injustices that were being caused by other workers,
where a discipline on one worker is different from the other,
there was no there's no fair uh playing field. One
site does disciplinary issues.
Speaker 14 (50:53):
Different from another.
Speaker 16 (50:54):
And and we've tried, and we've had general managers that
you know, they try and bully us and and and
trying and push their their way that it may have
worked at another site.
Speaker 8 (51:06):
Biggest that's right, it's like kicking the sand bullies.
Speaker 14 (51:11):
We push it, we push it right back, We push
it right back.
Speaker 16 (51:15):
And and one thing I learned in my organizing class
were structured tests. I didn't know what a structured test was. Well,
guess what it's like poking a bear with a stick,
and we keep poking them. And one of the big
victories that we got was the third break Premium Amazon.
Speaker 8 (51:29):
Talk about it. Let's talk about how beautiful this is
incredible what you all did and and you changed the
policy through the whole company, right.
Speaker 16 (51:39):
Yeah, a year ago, Uh, several workers filed a complaint
about getting cheated on a third break working over ten
hours and they weren't giving people their breaks, and they
were entitled to their breaks, and we didn't know anything
about that, and we just kept working over that tenth hour.
Speaker 8 (51:56):
Uh, describe that that break that they're entitled to, that
they it's a lot that Amazon was ignoring.
Speaker 16 (52:02):
They were Amazon was completely ignoring the fact that they
they wanted you to do stay over that tenth hour
to accomplish, you know, extra task or or help out.
Speaker 14 (52:14):
Here and there.
Speaker 16 (52:15):
And and a lot of these workers weren't getting their
third break. There by law, they were entitled to their
third break, and and we keep we kept bringing it up,
and we had a group of them file a grievance
with the state and guess what they were at fault.
And now a year later, starting in the spring, it
was like March, everybody started getting paid out thousands of dollars. Yeah,
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not little thousands of dollars, not little checks to sum
ten ten grand, ten grand.
Speaker 14 (52:45):
And it was all on the app.
Speaker 16 (52:46):
But but you know what, to this day, they have
it on the app, so you can do it. But
they don't announce it at stand up and tell the
show associates, Hey, we owe you money. Go to the
go to the app, and we'll you know, submit claim.
They won't even do that.
Speaker 8 (53:02):
How does it feel to be part of a system
that that you agitated something that's putting tens of thousands
of dollars in your co workers pocket?
Speaker 14 (53:12):
We love it, We love it.
Speaker 16 (53:13):
And and the thing about it is people that were
not believers of what we were able to do, and
we and we tell them, you know, the teamsters helped
create this. We got together with the teamsters to get
you your money. We let them know and remind them
who helped them in the long run to get that check.
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And that's another way to you know, unite and and
bring more people on board.
Speaker 8 (53:41):
Yeah, and how did I got to because we only
got like six minutes left?
Speaker 14 (53:45):
But the.
Speaker 8 (53:48):
In December December nineteenth through the yeah, right December nineteenth
through the twenty second, twenty third, twenty fourth, twenty fifth,
you all watched workers just like you all over the
country do what you're doing. How how incredible was that
to watch Gosh, hundreds of millions of people in America
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watch you like because they were glued for three days.
It was the It was at the top of the
list when it came to whatever media analytics were there,
and and more people paid attention to that than any
story those first three days. It was Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
and it started to tone down on Saturday. But the
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point is is it had to be incredible to see
because you know, you guys are sharing videos of each
other and you're seeing each other what you're doing across
the country. But then you get to see it in
this electric space in the in the media where America
was behind you. What was that feeling there?
Speaker 16 (54:50):
We felt that we had we had, they had our backs,
and and that uh, the fact that it was during
the holidays where they're going to order their you know
they're ordering.
Speaker 8 (55:00):
Everybody's paying attention.
Speaker 14 (55:01):
They're paying attention.
Speaker 16 (55:02):
We're on the news in the morning, we're on the
news in the afternoon, we're on.
Speaker 14 (55:05):
The news in the evening.
Speaker 16 (55:06):
And it was neat to see all the delivery stations
popping up too and telling and testify that, you know,
their testimony as far as them saying what's going on
and what's.
Speaker 8 (55:15):
Yeah, standing there on a pick and line talking about
what it's like to be an Amazon employee. Well, Amazon says, oh,
those aren't our employees in an Amazon uniform, in an
Amazon van, coming out of an Amazon facility with Amazon equipment.
Speaker 16 (55:29):
And to have an Amazon spoke person say, oh, they're
not employees. Yeah, And you know, it was on the
news and and I'm glad she went on there because
it made her look like a fool exactly.
Speaker 8 (55:41):
And and the entire few days they finally realized that
they couldn't get in front of that message because it
was ridiculous, like, you can't, people aren't buying it.
Speaker 16 (55:52):
But but one of the things I've noticed over the
course of a year, more than a year, is is
union as a you know, it happening. It's happening everywhere
and and and that's where that's that's a beautiful thing
to hear it in the news, to hear everybody fighting.
And it was a year ago, uh in July, I
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remember Disneyland. Disneyland was on strike. They hadn't had an
they hadn't had a contract, and they were going to
go on strike their workers. They ended up getting their
contract and it was like it just said started steamrolling,
you know, but ge ge uh the metal mechanics from
ge we're fighting too, Boeing. You just started hearing all
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all these things going on and everyone's talking union. But
but AB two eighty eight, it's something we need, we
desperately need, and to see this side of it was
a totally different picture of the puzzle that we need
to get that that power.
Speaker 14 (56:55):
I I right now.
Speaker 16 (56:56):
It's it's in the Senate and it's in their committee.
Uh right now they're doing the check the fiscal impact. Uh,
the Appropriations committee. They have to do their part of it.
And Uh, I really feel it's it's going to go through.
We've got Republicans on board, and that's the most.
Speaker 14 (57:16):
It's got to be a bipartisan thing. I'm i'm.
Speaker 8 (57:18):
It's about workers. It's not about your your political party.
Speaker 16 (57:21):
It's about the worker being treated and paid fairly. And
uh and that's what we want. I think it's respect
above all. Workers want to be respected. And uh, Amazon
they try and sugarcoat this and sugarcoat that. Now we
see right through them. We see right through them, and
we call their bluff every time at KSBD.
Speaker 14 (57:40):
And and how we feel is.
Speaker 8 (57:43):
Stay close to the mic. You're getting fired up. That's
all right, man, I love.
Speaker 16 (57:45):
This how uh how I how I see it? And
I tell them, I said, it's like a big pine tree.
We're a big pine tree and Sambordino and we're gonna
knock this tree down. And when this tree falls, the
whole state's gonna hear, the whole country's gonna hear, and
all these other Amazon sites are gonna they're gonna want
a piece of it. Just like we talked about this
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upt third break premium that everybody that didn't believe they
were gonna get.
Speaker 14 (58:11):
They're getting big checks.
Speaker 8 (58:13):
Yes, they are telling you so great work. Just got
you know, a very short period here until we got
to go. See the cool part about our show is
we can do anything we want with it except for
the top of the hour top of the hour, because
we've got this cool logo behind us. We've got to
break for that period of time for NBC and make
sure that they run their news. But you know, whether
it's knocking on doors, helping workers organize, you have been,
(58:34):
you know, speaking to other workers, You're at functions, events,
community events, helping within the community, and obviously going to Sacramento.
You're you're agitating this space in such an incredible way, Gaspar,
you and your committee and all the workers out there.
You're such an inspiration to millions of workers, and it's
a testament to see a video that you're in that's
(58:56):
you know, now, twenty thirty million views recognizes that other
workers are following your lead. So great job, great work.
Let's get you back on the show here pretty soon.
I got about thirty seconds. Anything you want to say
in fifteen seconds.
Speaker 16 (59:08):
Hey, you know what, we got to recognize places that
aren't union. So if they're not union, don't shop at them. Okay,
that's my bigger They got grocery outlet they just opened
up here, non union spot over here, don't go there.
Speaker 8 (59:20):
Yeah, use the team servantage at it. I'll show you
where to go. Make sure that you go to all
these places as much as you can. Gaspar, thanks for
coming on. Really appreciate all the work that you do.
And thank you to all those Amazon workers that are
out there smashing, making an impact and inspiring millions of
other workers across the country. Appreciate you coming on the show,
to sharing your story and talking about all the different
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ways that you're making an impact. This is Randy Corgan
and the Worker Power Hour. I am a longtime organizer,
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Welcome to the worker Power Hour with Randy Corrigan, a
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Office and Leader of Teamsters nineteen thirty two, one of
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representing workers in government and non sworn law enforcement personnel.
(01:06:52):
Randy Corgan is a thirty year Teamster who first became
involved in the labor movement by volunteering his time as
an organizer with a teamser usion at the age of
twenty one. Since then, he's helped thousands organized, mobilize, and
achieved bargaining rights. He accomplished this by spending countless hours
with brave men and women all over Southern California in
their living rooms on the picket line to bring workers
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towards victory. This is the Worker Power Hour, and now
here's the host of the show, Brandy Corgan.
Speaker 8 (01:07:29):
Randy Corgan and The Worker Power Hour KAA ten fifty AM,
one six point five FM and the Teamsters nineteen thirty
two Broadcast Network. You know that song wants to put
me to sleep. That's not like the other one. The
other one comes in and you're charging.
Speaker 13 (01:07:42):
It's like, but it got your brain going.
Speaker 8 (01:07:44):
Yeah, that's true. Got me gone. I see some some
on my phone here, some are you. You're texting me
and commenting on some of the things I said at
the top of the hour. Thank you very much. I
appreciate the feedback. My amazing wife said that I was
not did what did she say? I gotta, I gotta
put this in here. It's pretty funny. She's laughing. You
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don't look fat or old. I think I do on
this camera. But anyway, we got a new camera here, Carla.
I'll get to you and this a quick second. But
we got this new camera and it's got such good detail.
I like want to go back to the old camera
where it's a little fuzzy and you know, you're all
the imperfections I have or we have.
Speaker 14 (01:08:27):
You know, you need a filter.
Speaker 8 (01:08:29):
Yeah, oh yeah, I need a pretty filter. We can
get that and just put it over.
Speaker 18 (01:08:32):
The front of it or the little animals you know.
Speaker 8 (01:08:35):
Oh there you go. That's a good idea. Well that's
not because these these guys might be a little too creative.
Speaker 13 (01:08:42):
Is that what we call a randy emoji?
Speaker 8 (01:08:44):
No, we're not doing that. No, thank you anyway, Hey,
Gaspar was wasn't he great?
Speaker 14 (01:08:49):
Like man? He nailed it.
Speaker 8 (01:08:51):
He nailed it. You know, he does such a great
job of telling the story. You know, first of all, again,
thank you for your military services. Twenty one years in
the military obviously, then working at Amazon as long as
he has, helping workers at Amazon, leading again, leading people
in their community in a positive way, helping the workforce
(01:09:11):
get to a better space. And and he he's really
good at speaking in front of a crowd. He's really
good at articulating what workers are doing, and also you know,
leading them into you know, a space where workers are
sometimes reluctant. I obviously don't think they should be reluctant,
because it's our first Amendment, right, it's our it's our
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freedom to assemble to protect a concerted activity, and our
ability when it comes to collective bargaining and utilize those rights.
The average workers not exercising enough right now, and we
got to do more of that. And and he's just
a great representative of that, especially taking on one of
the biggest corporations in the world and inspiring his co
(01:09:54):
workers to chip away and do some of the amazing
things that they have done. There at case, which is
the airport here in Samardino, and inspiring thousands of other
workers in other parts of the country. It's just been
really fun to watch them. He did a great job
on the show. Really appreciate you coming on. And so
now we're being joined by Carla Banninger. Is that correct? Bandinger? Banger?
(01:10:16):
I'm sorry for butchering your name. It's not you know,
I used to be better at pronouncing names, and I'm
just I've just got bad at it and that's not
as good. So my apologies. And you work for your
a deputy public guardian. Correct, Yes, and I got to
get you just a little closer that money. Okay, good, No,
you're you're good, and you're good. We'll turn you up
and then we'll get you closer at the same time. Anyway,
(01:10:38):
that is an interesting title that I'm sure most people
don't know. You work for the County of Samardino, and
you do what is a very very important job and
resource for the local community. So I'm going to turn
it over to you and I'm gonna let you kind
of describe your job.
Speaker 18 (01:10:55):
We are sworn officers of the court, so our job
is to protect the gravely disabled and the high risk
members of our community. So there are two types of conservatorship.
One is probate, which is what most people are familiar with,
which is, you know, Grandma starts getting a little off
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and she can't take care of herself and she's not
paying her bills. A doctor may recommend to the court
to have her evaluated for maybe Alzheimer's or dementia. A
bank may reach out because they are noticing fiduciary issues
where someone's taking money out of the account. So the
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court points an investigator from Department of Aging and Adult
Services who goes out and investigates and makes a determination
if that person meets the qualifications, and if so, the
court says, okay, is there a family member or someone
who would like to take care of this. If not,
we are basically last resort and we are appointed. At
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that point, we take over everything for that person, their
medical their finances, taking them to appointments, buying them groceries,
talking to them on the phone, all of that. With
a probate, they can determine if it's going to be
person or a state or both, which means either just
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taking care of them their physical person or their finances.
Or if we're going to do both. The other type
of conservatorship, which most people don't know about is the LPs,
which is Lannerman Peters short, and that is for people
who are deemed gravely disabled. They cannot provide for their shelter,
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their food, or their clothing. They generally have a mental disability.
It can be schizophrenia, it can be bipolar, it can
be anything like that, and they can't care for themselves.
In that case, they appoint us through psychiatrists. They evaluate them,
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and then they say, okay, you guys are now in
charge of them. With them, we are one hundred percent
over everything. We place them where they're going to live.
We manage their finances, apply for all their medicaid, medical
pay their bills, buy their clothing, go with them to
doctor's appointments, sign all documents for them because all of
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their basic rights are removed because they cannot understand what
they're doing, so they don't want to take medication because
they may think it's poison. So it's working with them
and working with professionals to take care of them. So
from the point we're given conservatorship of that person until
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either the conservators ends because they start taking their medication
and they can do better or they pass away. We
are in charge of them, and it's our job to
be respectful and care for them and treat them like
human beings.
Speaker 8 (01:14:15):
What an incredible responsibility. In addition to you know, I'm
assuming most people don't know that this resource is out
there until the need is there, right, And thank you
for describing that important role within the community and how
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much value it brings to those in need, because clearly
a lot of cases you have individuals that are in
need that don't even realize they're in need at that
particular moment, right, and there are challenges that are happening
around them that they're unable to manage or conquer or
deal with. And you know, I just thank you very
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much for what you do. I think that that is
that's just got to be an incredibly challenging profession, but
also rewarding in some ways because you know that you're contributing.
You know you're helping. You know that you're slowly pushing
the ball down the field, You're you're moving the needle.
You know, whatever expression you use, you know you're you know,
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whether it's just that one appointment or making sure the
medication is taken, or starting to evaluate the financial situation
and make sure that bills are paid so that the
lights don't get turned off or the water gets shut down,
right that sometimes, you know, we do get to that
point in our life where that's that's missing. But you
also deal with children sometimes too, correct.
Speaker 18 (01:15:41):
No, we only deal with adults only. Yeah, so if
it was a child, it would be a guardian. Okay,
a little bit different. We deal with only with adults
for eacheen and up. The only other population we kind
we do deal with it's called murphy and those are
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people who were deemed incompetent to stand trial and they're
convicted of a serious crime.
Speaker 8 (01:16:13):
Yeah, some serious.
Speaker 18 (01:16:14):
It's a very serious crime, and they are generally sentenced
to Patent or Metro or Tascadero U and when they're
being released, there are points where it's determined they are
still gravely disabled. So we are now conservators over them.
So you deal with a population that can be a
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little more dangerous, yeah.
Speaker 8 (01:16:39):
And you know you're you're really protecting the community in
an unsung way, and people just really don't realize how
important that role is in those particular situations. So again,
thank you, and thank you for describing it so well.
What else would you like to talk about as far
as describing your job, Just the.
Speaker 18 (01:16:59):
People who do it, the people who are the deputies,
your peers, My thank you. Yes, my peers. They have
such a passion in their heart for this, and you
have to because you have to care for people. We
work twenty four hours a day, seven days a week,
so one of us is always on call. We work
on a rotation, so you can get a call at
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three o'clock in the morning that one of the conservatives
took a fall. They're in the hospital. You need to
sign consents, you need to understand what's going on. You
go pick them up, you take them to appointments, you
do all these things. If you don't have that passion,
you're not going to like what you do. And it's
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you're not gonna be happy about it. You're not gonna
be happy when you get twenty phone calls in one
day from the same person asking the same question because
they just don't understand. And my peers, it's amazing. I
hear them just being so kind and so considerate to
everyone they deal with, and that is amazing.
Speaker 8 (01:18:01):
I love your lanyard, make it happen, Stay positive, like
you know, work hard. That's that's a great message. Like
you know, obviously you have to have that positive attitude
and you have to be extremely patient to do what
you're doing. Obviously, as you're describing this, some of us
that have less patience probably is good at handling it.
(01:18:23):
But also something that I think that our current society
and our social norms are missing, empathy is having great
empathy and recognizing that, you know, we have to be
empathetic to other struggles even if we don't understand them sometimes.
Speaker 18 (01:18:39):
Yeah, and it's one of my peers recently had to
take this sweet little lady out of her home. She
couldn't stay in her home any longer. But she had cats,
She had three cats, and those cats were her world.
And you know, the normal thing would be we're going
to call animal control and we're going to you know,
see what we can do with these animals. But she didn't.
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She took them in, She had them take it, got cages,
took them to a groomer, had them groomed, found homes
for them, you know, so that she the lady would
feel better than just sending them right.
Speaker 8 (01:19:17):
Yeah, Yeah, the the person who had the cats recognizes
and gets to hear how the cats are taken care of,
and there's no worry of oh they got put down
or something like that. Yeah, that's great. That's a great
story of taking that extra step, going beyond the normal
call of the job and just making and being empathetic
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to the circumstances and what can I do to kind
of help out? What else do you got as far
as some good stories or funny stories.
Speaker 18 (01:19:46):
So I actually have a really sweet story. I had
a gentleman who came from patent and he was placed
at a board and care, very very sweet man. And
I would go to this board and care every week
because I had a large clientele there, and he knew
what day and what time I would come and he
would be waiting outside for me and he'd take my
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briefcase and carry it upstairs. He was just the just
the sweetest man, That's the only thing I can say.
And I had to take him for his social Security interview.
So myself and another deputy we got him in the
car and we took him and he went and on
the way back, we was like, do you want a Starbucks?
And he was all excited. He's like, yes, I want
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a tea. So we got him a tea and we'd
take him back. And like I said, I keep saying
sweet man, because he was a very sweet man. I
the next day, by coincidence, I got a phone call
and it was from his sister. Now this gentleman had
been in pat in twenty years and the family didn't
know where he was. Oh wow, and so the sister said,
(01:20:51):
I don't remember exactly how she found us. And I said, well,
let me talk to him and see if he wants
to see you, because you don't know the backstory.
Speaker 8 (01:20:58):
Correct, You have no idea what you're what the circumstances are.
Speaker 18 (01:21:01):
So I go the next day and I talked to
him and I tell him, look, your brother and sister
would like to know if you'd like to see them.
And he was super excited. Yes, I want to see them.
Went back, called them, they made arrangements. They flew from
up North down here they went and saw him and
it was so sweet and those moments whenever you can
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see that reconciliation and make someone that happy. This is
someone they hadn't even talked to in twenty years. And
unfortunately he passed away, but in the six months that
he had he was able to be involved with his
brother and sister. So those are the things I think
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that all of us as deputies look for.
Speaker 8 (01:21:49):
Making their final days much easier, more peaceful, and less
complicated and less conflict or you know, less stress, you know,
at least mensing it. Obviously not making it stress free.
But the reality is is you know that's that. That's
again an amazing story. How long have you done the job?
Speaker 18 (01:22:09):
Two and a half years, so not a long long time.
Speaker 8 (01:22:14):
But what drove me into this.
Speaker 18 (01:22:17):
I started at the county with the Sheriff's department, and
I worked over here at CDC in booking, and I
always worked graveyard because it was more interesting and.
Speaker 8 (01:22:26):
Yeah, definitely that's a grave describe it. Graveyard shift on
at the sheriff's departments, more interesting, exciting.
Speaker 18 (01:22:36):
Yeah. And one night, Sam Bernardino, PETI brought in a
twenty two year old young man for elder abuse of
his grandmother and they gave me the report to read.
I will not go into what all that report said,
but it was disgusting. It was terrible, It was horrible,
(01:22:57):
and I my thought was, who protects these people? Who
is out there looking for them, looking out for them,
making sure this doesn't happen. And so I went home
and I did research, and I found out I needed
a degree in sociology. So I went back to college
and I went part time, and I spent ten years
(01:23:19):
getting a degree. And once I got my degree, I
kept applying at the office of the Public Guardian until
I think they just got sick of me.
Speaker 8 (01:23:27):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 18 (01:23:28):
Persistently they were like, okay, just fine whatever.
Speaker 8 (01:23:32):
Yeah, Wow, that's an increasible I always love hearing these
stories of what thrust people into their current role in
understanding there's like an incident or situation where they want
to help or do better, and then you know clearly,
you know, you worked for the Sheriff's partment, worked for
the county, and you were unaware that this other job
(01:23:56):
was there, you know, in the system. And that's just
a really good story. I appreciate you sharing.
Speaker 16 (01:24:02):
That with us.
Speaker 18 (01:24:03):
Yea's incredible. The nice thing is law enforcement Sam Barnadino,
PD Sam Barnadino, Sheriff. They help us a lot because
sometimes our conservatives will elope So now they're out on
the streets and they're not safe. And we can't go
up and grab them and put them in a car.
(01:24:24):
We don't go hands on with them. And so if
we find them, we will reach out to law enforcement
and I will say, they are really wonderful for us.
It's more like corral them into our car, or corral
them into your car, and let us get us get
them over to a facility to get them stabilized again
(01:24:45):
and get them back on their medication. And when we
call them, they're they're always like, okay, we will help you.
Speaker 8 (01:24:54):
Well, yeah, I'm assuming that the officers is happy that
that he or she is not having to deal with
it first themselves. They actually have somebody that's got the
lead on this and they're helping corralate versus taking responsibility
from the first incident. Right, So yeah, interesting, that's that's
that's that's great. What again, what a what a powerful,
(01:25:14):
powerful story this is and and an explanation of a
of a job that I would say ninety nine point
nine percent of people just have no idea exists. And
again it just goes to show how important these roles are.
And also, you know, our think a Teamster campaign that
we have out there is is all about awareness. Is
(01:25:35):
really trying to get the community to understand how important
all of you are in each of your particular jobs
and roles. Uh for for for many many reasons, and
you know, appreciate you coming on the show and kind
of sharing. What is there anything else? You got a
big long list there. It looks like, well, I do
some things to check off.
Speaker 18 (01:25:55):
I didn't know if you were going to ask questions
or and so I wanted to make sure I had
all the information and.
Speaker 8 (01:26:02):
Well, what question did you want me to ask?
Speaker 14 (01:26:03):
Well, no, I.
Speaker 18 (01:26:08):
Just like to understand that we are bound to the court.
So we are fiduciary. So once a year we have
to file accountings with the court. Any property we have
to file with the court that we've taken possession of.
When someone passes away, we take care of disposition, working
(01:26:33):
with the family. If they have no family, we take
care of all of that. So there it's a pretty
detailed job. Probate. Once they are under probate, as a
someone who maybe has Alzheimer's or dementia, it's they don't
have to go back to court. That's kind of a
one and done when they are LPs.
Speaker 8 (01:26:53):
And then you carry it from there.
Speaker 18 (01:26:54):
Correct, Yes, yes, when they're LPs, they go back every
year and they're re evaluated to see if the conservatorship
should continue or if they're doing well enough with their
medications and understanding their condition that they can be taken
off conservatorship.
Speaker 8 (01:27:10):
So you've probably got some good stories or experiences where
people have have rebounded, moved in that direction and been
able to you know, create that balance and take care
of themselves.
Speaker 18 (01:27:21):
Yeah, and that's a nice thing. We had a We
have veterans also, so sometimes we have veterans.
Speaker 1 (01:27:28):
That will have.
Speaker 18 (01:27:30):
PTSD PTSD but they call it like I don't want
to say a relapse, but like it becomes acute, and
so they may have to go into a facility for
a while and they I've had two of them that
have gotten off conservatorship once they've gotten their medications, figured
out what they need, get them stabilized, and get them
(01:27:52):
you know, situated around. Those are always good. There's a
lot of programs for them. The VA offers a lot
of really good support. So those are positives. Unfortunately, the
sad part is the recidivism. You do have people who
get off conservatorship that are doing well and they fall
(01:28:16):
back into I feel good. I'm taking my medication. I
don't think I needed it, and they stop doing it,
and then it's cyclical, and then they end up getting
picked up and taken back into a psych facility where
they're deemed gravely disabled again. And those are the sad
ones that you see those same people again.
Speaker 8 (01:28:34):
And many of you listening may not realize that you
know your neighbor or your neighbor's parent or grandparent, or
you know, there's a lot of people that sometimes get
into this space. It's closer to us than we realize.
Sometimes it's just not everybody's gonna not everybody's gonna talk about.
Speaker 17 (01:28:50):
It, right.
Speaker 18 (01:28:51):
And I think there's a stigma with mental illness that
a lot of times drives people not to seek help
because unfortunately society he looks down on that. If someone
had diabetes, you wouldn't shame them for getting insulin. I
look at it the same way. If you have something
going on, it can be temporary, it can be permanent.
(01:29:13):
It's a chemical imbalance. It's not something these people want,
and giving them compassion is a big thing because nobody
would choose that life.
Speaker 8 (01:29:25):
Yeah, Like it's interesting you say that because you know
it goes back to the point I made earlier is
that socially, you know, I would say the first you know,
we're coming on two hundred and fifty years of our country,
and I would say the first couple hundred years, we
weren't very empathetic in this space. So we don't have
a long track record of handling this as a people
(01:29:49):
very well. And I'm proud of the fact that the
teamsters in this local represents literally thousands of people in
the space when it comes to mental health with the community,
and one of the things that sticks out to me
is those that occupy that space and do the jobs
like yourself, have a level of compassion that not only
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should everybody have within a society or a community, but
it also is it's one up a little bit too.
It's actually got there's even more there, and it's pretty
common among most of you in that I can't say
everybody is. There's always bad apples here and there, but
the reality is is that sort of compassion and approach
to trying to help one another is just an amazing thing.
(01:30:34):
Thank you very much. Like you're taking care of the
most vulnerable people in our society, and sometimes we kind
of miss that in our social exchange are heated whatever
it is, from time to time. And so this show,
the purpose of it is to in many ways, of
all the things that we do with it, is to
(01:30:55):
share this too. And it's okay, like it's actually okay
to kind be warm and fuzzy with this kind of stuff.
And this is the big guy here, the bald, rough
and tumble guy trying to be I guess a little
on the soft side here. I just have learned, especially
the way I grew up, is in these moments, you
got to recognize them and you got to thank people
(01:31:17):
because you have no idea who you may be impacting someday.
And I think those that took care of us when
we were most vulnerable as kids to make sure that
we had a decent future. And so someone like you
taking that compassion, I just got to appreciate it to,
you know, use this microphone to say thank you. And
I think more people should say thank you.
Speaker 18 (01:31:40):
I don't expect to thank you, I honestly and truthfully
do not, but you get one.
Speaker 8 (01:31:47):
What else do you want to cover? We're gonna go
to break here in a minute.
Speaker 18 (01:31:50):
But you touched on something about the history that we've
had dealing with mental illness, and that's why they have
that LPs law where if there has to be a
procedure on someone who is LPs, we have to go
to court and explain to the court what they're going
to do if if they're going to put them under
general anesthesia, if they're going to get a filling or
(01:32:11):
something like that. We still have to have the forms
filled out, know exactly what's going to happen, but anything
with general anesthesia has to be heard by a court
because there were very horrible things done to people who
were in mentally yea, lobotomies, that was like the minimum
of things being done.
Speaker 8 (01:32:32):
So experimentation, yeah, shock therapy History channel you can see.
Speaker 18 (01:32:37):
Something shock therapy is actually a good thing. It gets
a bad rap because of it the way it was
used before, but actually, if you have somebody who's catatonic.
I'm not a doctor, I'm not a therapist, I'm not
a clinician. I'm speaking from experience. Using it along with
medication can make a huge difference. I had a client
(01:33:01):
who was catatonic for almost a year and they did
do shock therapy. We did have to go to court
get a court order and we had to get it.
It was an experimental It was not experimental, absolutely not,
and we had to go back every three months and
they had to show progress and it helped her. So
now she'll talk with you and things like that.
Speaker 8 (01:33:20):
But yeah, you got something.
Speaker 13 (01:33:24):
I have a question. What exactly is catatonic.
Speaker 18 (01:33:28):
Where you don't communicate and you just kind of sit
and stare at a wall.
Speaker 13 (01:33:32):
You still function to a degree.
Speaker 18 (01:33:35):
You don't want to eat, Okay, you have to be
coaxed to eat, bathe do any You.
Speaker 8 (01:33:43):
Appear to be conscious, but you're not. But it's that
in between.
Speaker 18 (01:33:47):
It's almost like if someone like you talked about a lobotomy,
how they just like don't have a personality. They're not
going to respond to you. Yeah, kind of just do
that whole staring off into space, don't even acknowledge that
you're in the room kind of thing. And it happens
a lot whenever. This person was allergic to certain medications
(01:34:10):
they could have given her for this, and they so
they couldn't do it. So it was kind of you know,
trying to figure it out. And then the shock therapy
along with a certain medication which I don't remember. The
name of was what they used.
Speaker 8 (01:34:24):
Oh wow, interesting.
Speaker 18 (01:34:25):
Now she's off the shock therapy now, but within that
year there was a huge difference. It's so, I mean,
so people go, oh, shock therapy, they think of the
crazy movies were.
Speaker 14 (01:34:38):
Yeah, so that's what I.
Speaker 8 (01:34:41):
Worked. Yeah, well, Carla, thanks for coming on. Anything else
you want to cover? Did you catch everything?
Speaker 18 (01:34:48):
I think so.
Speaker 16 (01:34:52):
It's you.
Speaker 18 (01:34:54):
We touched on the the Murphy's So it's, like you said,
providing necessary support so they're not inappropriately or identify ly institutionalized.
So just because they have a mental illness does not
mean they belong in an institution. You know, it's not
(01:35:16):
what we want to do. We want to provide them
ways to integrate. They may not integrate the way you
or I would, but that might be where they're at.
You know, this is their happy place and they're good
and they're perfectly happy. One of my guys loved to
get They get P and I Personal and incidental money,
and he would walk up to the Walgreens and figure
(01:35:38):
out what they remember the pac Man games from.
Speaker 8 (01:35:43):
Yeah, so they have.
Speaker 18 (01:35:44):
Like miniatures of them, desktop versions, So he would go
down and figure out which one he was going to buy,
and he would go back every day and look at
it every day. Every day. He'd walk back and forth.
And then when I would give him his P and
I money, he would be all excited and he would
go back and he would buy it, and he would
bring it and he would show it to me, and
then he had a little shelf and he would put
him on there. Another one that loved legos, So many legos,
(01:36:07):
but that's their happy place. They may be forty years old,
but this is where they are.
Speaker 8 (01:36:12):
That's where they are, right. Yeah, Well, thank you very
much for what you do, Carlo. We really appreciate. We've
been joined by Carla. She is a deputy Public Guardian
with sam Bardino County. She clearly has approached this profession
in a very compassionate way and has an amazing story
of what kind of drove her into there, and we
really thank you for the work that you do. This
(01:36:35):
is Randy Corgan and the Worker Power Hour CACAA ten
fifty AM, one oh six point five FM and the
team Sirs, nineteen thirty two Broadcast Network. We're going to
do a quick break and we'll be right back. Take
it away.
Speaker 11 (01:36:48):
While still so still has been so still has.
Speaker 8 (01:38:00):
All right, work a power out. That's a heavy conversation.
That was heavy for all you listeners. Man, you got
to appreciate how difficult that job is. Holy smokes, this
is where you really got to think a teamster, right like,
that's a teamster job. I'm so proud to be a
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teamster today and so proud to represent a job like that.
Speaker 13 (01:38:27):
My goodness, that's a perfect example of why we need
certain public employees right there.
Speaker 8 (01:38:32):
Yeah, you know, it's it's it's crazy how you know,
people get into this rhetoric of you know, oh, you
got to slash this and slash that and dah da
da da and and you know, we're obviously running into
some of that right now. But the reality is is
imagine not having those people to do that job that
(01:38:53):
she just described right now. You want to talk about
a negative impact for people, Man, she did a beautiful
job of describing an incredibly difficult set of circumstances and situation.
Speaker 13 (01:39:04):
More like a guardian angel.
Speaker 8 (01:39:06):
Yeah, absolutely, they should call him the deputy public Guardian Angels.
I'm with you on that. So I'm gonna shift gears
here again. Thank you Carly for coming on and and
telling your story and before I shift gears. I'm gonna
show you this for those of you that watch, I'm
gonna show you some cool stuff.
Speaker 17 (01:39:23):
Here.
Speaker 8 (01:39:24):
I get to.
Speaker 4 (01:39:26):
Our camera.
Speaker 8 (01:39:27):
Boom, that's me, that's Randy, that's where that's that's the
camera when I guess, I'm only I'm talking and I
don't have a guest, which is what we'll be on.
And then this is the camera view if we have
if we have two guests, we can catch two guests.
You can see in the chair like that chair is
a little out of the way there. And then and
then this this this interesting camera view of of Marky Pooh,
(01:39:53):
Marky Pooh Live. Look at him. Now for those of
you that don't know what Mark looks like, now you
get to see exactly what it looks like.
Speaker 14 (01:39:59):
He's all right, they're gonna wish they never saw that.
Speaker 8 (01:40:02):
That's funny.
Speaker 13 (01:40:04):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (01:40:04):
And so we got a new toy that we get
to play with here and we get to have fun.
So we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna I can zoom in.
Watch see I can zoom out. So we're you know,
I just have a little bit of fun here, you know.
Let me go back to Nope, not that one this
view right there we go. That's what I'm on right now. Yeah,
(01:40:25):
we had some people complain that the camera wasn't good enough,
so we got a new camera. And want to think
are tech people for making that happen and improving another
little improvement to the show and having some fun with it. So, hey,
everybody's paying attention to it in the news right now.
This is the big news item, the big beautiful bill.
(01:40:46):
Oh my god, I don't know what is beautiful about it.
It is clearly big, but there's not a lot of
beauty in this situation. You have a situation that's cutting
Medicaid by over eight hundred billion dollars. And for those
of you that don't know, there's a million a million
people that depend on in the Inland Empire. And this
is a spot where you get to we can showcase
(01:41:10):
the fact that corporate America is getting what it wants.
I'm a little disturbed by the fact that we have
a situation where millionaires and billionaires are improving their financial
position or continuing and increasing their tax credits, or they're
they're escaping the responsibility of paying taxes. Cuts taxes for
(01:41:33):
the top one percent of income earners and continues breaks
for those that are at the very very top, that
are not in the one percent but maybe in the
five percent category, and which you know, obviously the rest
of us are not in and then essentially takes it
out of the pockets of the most needy, some of
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the people in which Cardinal just described, where where they're
dependent upon medicaid and they're dependent on Medicare, and they're
dependent on that system, and to pull money out of
that system. To me, people promised in this previous election
that they weren't going to do this. They promised that
(01:42:17):
they weren't going to cut these types of resources, and
boom first opportunity. Within a few months, you've got corporate
America leaning in and prioritizing padding their pockets that are
plenty padded and taking it literally out of those that
are most needy. And you know, when we think about
(01:42:40):
the over seventy one million people in America that are
dependent upon medicaid in the US, why would we cut them?
You know they're going to say, oh, there's waste, and
there's this, and there's that. Okay, well, let's let's approach
the waste and let's discuss things to be more efficient,
not just gutting it. And where is how do we
(01:43:03):
defend how does anybody defend the fact that one percent
continues to get tax breaks. And so people will argue, oh,
what's this have to do with labor? Has everything to
do with labor, like it has everything to do with workers.
It has everything to do with somebody who who's worked
their whole life, who's on Social Security at the end
(01:43:25):
of of you know, obviously they've they've retired, they're on Medicare, Medicaid,
they're utilizing the benefits that quite frankly, they've paid for
for the most part, not just through their tax dollars,
but the deductions in their paychecks of the entire time
that they worked. And then now we're shortening the promise
for them. And I'm just very disappointed on how this
(01:43:47):
negatively impacts them. And what it's doing now is it's
showing an importance for retire remedical and and yeah, corporate
America got what it's got what it wanted by gutting retiremedical.
Fifty years ago, most workers had a form of retiremedical.
Today it's a rarity. And the reality is is their
(01:44:11):
argument was, oh, Medicare Medicaid is there at sixty five
to provide the benefits that are necessary, and now you
cut that back, and so things are going to be
more expensive. Services are not going to be paid for,
and many of the benefits that are in play for
those working people because I'm assuming obviously statistically it's not
(01:44:36):
one hundred percent but ninety plus percent of those that
are on these benefits, we're working for a very long
period of time. And now, you know, Corporate America sits
at the table and says, oh, it's too expensive to
provide retire medical it's too expensive to have you know,
(01:44:58):
these types of benefits are hundred percent paid healthcare. Whatever
may be their argument. This now shows even more why
it's important to have a union contract and to have
not only a pre sixty five retiree medical but a
post sixty five supplement to make sure that where Medicare
Medicaid falls short, that there is a wrap around to
(01:45:21):
help take care of the health of somebody who is
you know, obviously in their in their more than sixty five.
And so, you know, what do we do with this?
Speaker 14 (01:45:32):
Now?
Speaker 18 (01:45:32):
What do we do?
Speaker 8 (01:45:33):
It's for those of you that voted for this administration,
you need to reach out and have a conversation. It's
important for you to engage this conversation. And I know
that we have had members over the last few days.
As a matter of fact, I heard a voicemail this afternoon,
early this afternoon of a member specifically who had reached
(01:45:55):
out to a few senators, the Senator in Alaska and
the Senator in and was really pushing to make sure
that the position was advocated for. And the reality is is,
you know, they voted in favor. Some people have voted
in favor of this that was opposite of what they
(01:46:16):
promised to deliver when it comes to what promises were
made in the last election cycle. And so if you
voted for the current administration, it's up to you to
hold them accountable. And as these things happen, and I've
been told by many that did vote for your current
administration that you know, I didn't know they were going
to do this, or I didn't know they were going
(01:46:37):
to do that. I didn't know it was that far. Well,
some of us actually tried to explain to you that
this is what was going to happen, and now that
it's happening, you have got to hold them accountable. We
all have to hold them accountable. And I'm not just
dumping the responsibility on those that voted for them, but
there is a higher level of responsibility because in this space,
especially when it comes to public employees, and you see
(01:47:00):
the attack on those jobs and the constant barrage of
saying that jobs like Carla does are a waste of
money and that these people are not doing anything and
they're getting rich on government, on the government dying on
tax dollars. Well, the people that are getting rich on
tax dollars are people like the one who wants to
(01:47:23):
go to Mars. I'm not going to mention his name,
who's getting millions of dollars every single day in tax
subsidies to run around and act like, you know, a
jerk all the time and that and that's somebody who's
the richest man in America or one of the richest
men in America. Misses individuals in America who's getting billions
(01:47:44):
of dollars and then turning around and saying unionized workers
don't have this right, or or government workers are abusing
the system. When you really evaluate this, who's really abusing
the system. And I just got to say this big,
beautiful bill is pretty and ugly. And you know, seeing
some of the testimony that is going on at the
(01:48:05):
Senate in Congress right now, where you have individuals speaking
about what's specifically in this bill, I get that the
average person's not unpacking this. I will say that there's
one positive that I can extract that that happened that
was removed from the bill just a couple of days ago,
(01:48:26):
and that was the Teamsters. You know, we specifically advocated
that the AI moratorium was taken out of this bill,
and and there was something in the bill that stated
states wouldn't be able to regulate how it affected your job. Clearly,
(01:48:48):
we have already sponsored bills to prevent AI from negatively
impacting your work and negatively uppacting your ability to do
your job, or in a lot of ways, making your
job more dangerous because you're taking let's just use the
biggest example on the on the freeway is taking a
human operator out of a tens of thousands of pound vehicle.
Speaker 14 (01:49:11):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (01:49:12):
You know, the reality is is the good thing is
is that that did get pulled out. Now, when you
look at the totality of this bill, and this isn't politics,
This isn't like like policy argument over the d's and
the rs. This is just looking fundamentally at at you.
You see conservatives that are that are saying we shouldn't
(01:49:35):
be we shouldn't be continuing to give this sort of
tax relief. In other words, we should be paying down
the debt. Why are we adding to the debt while
still cutting the same services that we're discussing right now.
And so just because the AI moratorium clause was pulled
out of the bill, I mean, I'll take that as
(01:49:57):
a success. Yeah, But if you can't come at me
with fifty negatives, take one negative out of it, and
then try to do a victory lap right now, I'm sorry,
you just can't. You shouldn't have put it in there
to begin with. They were trying to stuff it in.
And kudos to everybody, including myself, that got on the
horn and called a lot of Senators to try to
(01:50:18):
push back on that item in addition to a lot
of other items that were impactful to us. You know,
thank you for doing that, and I really appreciate you know,
we're just going to have to do more of that advocacy,
calling our state representatives, calling our federal representatives, calling our
(01:50:40):
US senators, calling our congressional leaders. It's important for us
to engage in this process and describe to them what
the average person thinks about a bill like this. And
those of you that are calling your senators, those of
you that are actually calling your congression leaders, keep it up,
(01:51:02):
keep doing it. Let's make sure that we keep the
pressure on. And for those of you that did vote
for the current administration, remind them, Remind them that this
wasn't what you signed up for, this isn't why you
(01:51:22):
elected them. I don't know if they're going to listen
to you, because corporate America again got what they wanted,
and it's important for us to remind them that they're
not good. They're not good stewards of this country. A
lot of times. As a matter of fact, if you
(01:51:42):
go back on a two hundred and forty nine year history,
you guys have heard me say it a whole bunch
of times. They have been bad players for most of
that time. They have been responsible for killing a lot
of people. They've been responsible for lots of bad policy,
and it's only been working people that rise up and
push better policy to protect our communities and protect workers
(01:52:02):
and to protect this space to where we can actually
afford to buy a home or you know, buy goods
and services, and make sure that there's a decent working
class that's viable to our local community. So again, you
got to engage this process, make sure that you're part
of it, make sure that you're getting involved and engaged. Also,
(01:52:24):
the Department of Labor announces that they're deregulating some policies
to some more bad news coming from this administration. Where
there's union it's being eliminated. Is union protections for farm
workers on H two A visas, minimum wage and over
(01:52:48):
time for healthcare home healthcare workers, affirmative action requirements for
apprentice apprenticeships. These are all things that labor has participated
in creating and being part of for a bunch of
different reasons. And I think that these things are an
absolute mistake. And again, we got to hold our electeds accountable.
(01:53:09):
We got to make those phone calls, we got to
write those letters. We've got to make sure that we engage,
we knock on doors, and we vote, and we make
sure that we change the future so that we don't
repeat some of these mistakes. With that, I'm gonna shift
into some more news and kind of give you an
update on what's going on in general around everywhere other
(01:53:30):
than the big Beautiful Bill. Supposedly the big Ugly's called
the big Ugly Bill. That's how I want to phrase it.
Worker Power News, we got reps for Philly's largest blue
collar worker union walk out on negotiations AFTS ME District
Council thirty three, the union, which represents workers employed in
the city functions such as sanitation, the water department, police dispatch,
(01:53:54):
street maintenance. Sound familiar to everybody listening. Sounds like people
we represent. They do the same thing that we do
over there in that big city of Philly. Anyway, They
set to walk off the job on Tuesday after the
union stated that it's been negotiating with the city for
several months and has been unable to reach an agreement.
Union leaders said they want more money, more job security,
(01:54:15):
and more substantial health benefits for all of the members.
So we're going to keep a close eye on what's
going on over there, and I hope they have to
shut it down. Okay, there's an update on Philly in
front of me right now. The trash isn't being picked up.
Judge rules members need to need to go to work.
(01:54:36):
They need to go back to oh because the oh,
the city, so they're actually already on strike, right, yeah, Oh,
I'm sorry your trash is piled up. Oh it's terrible.
And now because the trash is piled up at the
judge's house, you got to go back to work. See,
the absence of labor when we withhold our labor catches
(01:54:57):
people's attention. I'd love it. Thank you for the updates there,
this is this is I love this part of the story.
I'm sorry the trash is piled up, like like, honestly,
I don't care. I'm obviously being sarcastic. Let the trash
pile up. Uh, and and and and make sure everybody
comes to an amicable agreement. Don't overreach. You know, it's
good to be fair, but the reality is is, uh,
(01:55:19):
those workers have decided, you know, and hey, when are
we going to have a city here in the Inland Empire?
Walk off the job? You know, I've been asking opening it.
At some point we get to let the trash pile
up on some judges doorstep. Yeah, it's so funny, Like
we've got this system where you turn on the water
it's automatic. You know, trash goes away by bye. You
know you flush the toilet, it goes away by bye,
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and and and then everybody panics the minute no one's
there to do their job right, Like, that's the power
we have, that's work or power. That's what we were
describing over and over again. So I mean I would
I would ignore the judge. I'd be like, nah, we're
all sick. Now, we got sick. We were off of
the day and we caught the flo everybody caught the
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fluke because we're hanging out together at some picnic or something.
I don't know. Again, you could be creative and lean
into this and have some fun with it. Sounds like
they've caught everybody's attention. Probably need to do a little
bit more. But good for them, really, really really good
for them. Marin County reaches a tentative deal with more
unions as labor negotiations continue. Marin County in negotiations with
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all ten labor groups that represent over two thousand county workers.
The agreements include costs of living adjustments up to eleven
percent over three years, as well as continued healthcare and
other benefit enhancements. Tenetive agreements have been recently been reached
between Marine County Board of Supervisors and the Sheriff's Staff
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Officers Association, as well as the International Association of Theatrical
Stage Employees Local sixteen, the Probation Managers Association of Marine
County Management Employees Association. So it's looked good to see
some of that stuff is getting done Marin County. For
those who don't know, it's just above San Francisco. It's
a little teeny county. It's actually a very wealthy county.
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There's a lot of money in that county. People make
a ton of money. Stuff's very expensive up there. I
guess I'm button up against the end of my show here,
I've just got a couple of minutes left, and I
want to close the show by I had cut off
earlier in the show. I'd cut off the report on
what's going on nineteen thirty two. I was on the
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wrong pages, and I'll have to give an update next
week and finish this long list of all the great
stuff that's been happening in the local. My bad, I'd
put it in the wrong spot with that. What do
I got, Mark? I got two minutes? Two minutes? Well,
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been a great show. I really really love the energy
that Gaspar brought on the show, and I think that
he as well as Carla, really empowers what worker power
means to us, what the Teamster think. A Teamster program
in the IE means. We have buses, we have billboards.
We are trying to make sure that the community understands
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how important these jobs are, in addition to how important
it is to protect workers like Gaspar and the workers
at the Amazon facility. And you may ask yourself, what
can you do to build worker power? What you can
do to build worker power is you can talk to
your neighbors, talk to your friends, talk to your family,
and you can organize a union, have a union contract.
That's how you solidify worker power. Worker power is built
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in the process of doing that, but it also comes
to a It solidifies at the moment that you have
a union contract, and then you got to keep that.
You got to stay engaged, and you got to stay
part of the system. So our thank of Teamster program
is rolled all out, in addition to our Teams to
Advantage program and all the other great things we do,
including this live radio show that turns into a podcast.
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So I want to appreciate and thank all of you
for listening. Appreciate you joining us and recognizing that I
am a longtime organizer, I am a first time radio host.
This is Randy Corgan and the Worker Power Hour signing
off KCAA ten fifty AM one oh six point five
FM and the Teamsters Local nineteen thirty two broadcast network
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airing live from San Bernardino. Take it away, Mark, see
you next week.
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