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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Treacherous conditions. There are still five campers and one counselor
missing from a girl's camp in Kirk County, where twenty
seven girls and counselors died. Over eighty five million are
dealing with the threat of potential severe storms in the
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are all likely to see heavy rain and strong winds.
A flood threat in the region is expected to last
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until tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, heat advisories are in place for
over fifty million people from the Carolinas to the Northeast.
President Trump is said to meet with Israeli Prime Minister
of Benjamin Netanyahoo again today. Speaking during a cabinet meeting,
Trump said that they're going to talk exclusively about the
Warren Gaza. The President said they got to get that solved.
Trump's Special envoy, Steve Whitcoff, said they're hopeful to have
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Speaker 2 (00:54):
They met with a New York federal judge via teleconference
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signal the convicted music mogul is no longer seeking that.
The judge said he'd get back to both sides in
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Welcome to the Worker Power Hour. With Randy Corrigan, a
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the largest public sector labor unions on the West Coast,
representing workers in government and non sworn law enforcement person now.
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Randy Corgan is a thirty year Teamster who first became
involved in the labor movement by volunteering his time as
an organizer with the Teamsters Union at the age of
twenty one. Since then, he's helped thousands organize, mobilized, 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, Randy Corgan.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
We're back Randy.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Corgan and the Work of Power Hour on the Teamsters
Local nineteen thirty two broadcast network. Longtime organizer, first time
radio host. I like that intro music.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
I think we're going to stick with that. That's good.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
It's like a nice run you feel like you're running
down a road, excuse me, a runway. Ready to fly
or take off or get rolling or do something entertaining
or fun or exciting.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
You like that? Now I do on you. It grew,
it definitely did. It's a nice intro. All right.
Speaker 9 (07:14):
Well, I can't say live today because we're actually filming
and Aaron are actually recording this the day before. So
my live status is so if you're listening right now
and you think it's live, I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (07:30):
We do CHIV. We did it the day before.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
I just I have to be somewhere tomorrow and needed
to wanted to make sure we got a fresh show
and we got a really good lineup.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
I just we don't have live.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
Shoutouts today because we're not actually airing this one live.
But we definitely have a full agenda, have some guests
coming in and all the normal good stuff that we
do on the show, and we we're excited to We're
going to be launching here pretty soon worker Power Radio.
You're going to be able to access music, news shows.
(08:04):
There's gonna be a nice spattering of content where you
can just hit a link, and Worker Power Radio will
be twenty four to seven for you. Most of the
time it will be music, so we'll have you can
do requests for genres of you know, you made, like
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a certain style of music or type of music, and
then we'll encapsulate some news in their little clips and
then we'll do some shows, maybe do some some best
of or something. But we're having a good time with
this format. We feel like we're gonna we're gonna have
even more fun. And what other local union has our
own radio twenty four to seven radio network where you're
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gonna be able to connect, Actually nobody does. We're gonna
we're gonna be the first one to launch this. We're
gonna hopefully roll it out in August, have have it
lined up to where the music's ready and to where
if you're at work and you want to listen into
some cool music, you.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
Just hit on it now. You can't fast forward or anything.
Speaker 9 (09:03):
It'll be you know, it's not that we're not that
tech savvy yet, but it'll be a good mix of
good music and then you'll get you'll get some mixed
content in there every now and then. Just another platform
format we're trying to build out to build the connection
to everybody. I'm really excited about that should be a
lot of fun. Let me do a real quick recap.
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It is July ninth, and let me recap July second show.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
We had gaspar Dias on.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
Our very own nineteen thirty two gaspar Das from the
Amazon Air Hub KSBD and Sam Ardino.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
Boy. He was great. He nailed it. He did such
a great job.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
As a matter of fact, we sent the clips out
on social media. His clips were far greater than all
the other ones. Clearly lots of people want to hear
from an Amazon worker and or him, and he just
does a great job of articulate what's going on. He
talked about the lobbying he did in Sacramento for AB
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two eighty eight, which recently passed, talked about his work
that he's doing with his coworkers at KSBD. Just he does,
his energy comes out and most importantly, we thanked him
and we do appreciate his service to our country. He's
a veteran served in the National Guard. He walked through that,
talked about the twenty one years, the different things that
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he was deployed on, the different things that he participated
in from nineteen eighty nine until his twenty one years
of service ended, and then he talked about his job
at Amazon and what he's doing with his coworkers and
how inspiring that is to occupy that space. So great,
great job, Gaspar really really really thought you did a
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magnificent job of bringing that message home. We're also joined
by Carla Benninger. She's a Sambardino County guardian, and she
talked about her job and the role of what her
and her co workers do playing you know, guardian, not playing,
but acting as guardian and making sure that those that
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can't really care for themselves in a way of you know,
the managing their money, their their care, hospital care. And
she walked through the challenges of that job. What you know,
it's one of those jobs that you really don't know
about unless either you or somebody's going through something extremely challenging.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
And to hear the things.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
That her and her co workers have to deal with
is pretty pretty powerful, and I really appreciate her coming on.
She did a just a great job of explaining, you know,
a lot of different stories to situations and explaining the
intricacies of the job and how she got into the job.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
So great, great job. Really really appreciate it no.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
Live shout outs today, so I can't go through all
the live shoutouts. As I said earlier, for those of
you that are listening live, thank you for listening live.
Stay listening live. And this is a not a repeat show.
This is a fresh show, so you can hang on
and listen because we are this is the first time
it will air. Will be the time that you hear it.
Even though we recorded it yesterday, we won't release it
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until y'all.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
Think it's supposed to be a live show again.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
Have some commitments that got to be in multiple places
at the same time, and I'm like, all right, let's
just let's just do the show a day ahead of time,
and then we'll PLoP it in and make it seem
as if it's a close to being live or it's
a fresh show.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
I guess it's how you call it.
Speaker 9 (12:39):
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Also a reminder to download the KCAA app and the
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Speaker 8 (12:51):
If you want to reach our radio show.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
You can also contact us at radio show at Teamsters
nineteen thirty two dot org. Yeah, I combined Apple and Google.
Did you hear that oople, that's an oop.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
That was funny.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
I know, I caught it, and I kept going and
then I was like, I'll come back and make a funny.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
I saw you guys giggling on the other side of
the studio. It sounds like a comick. I thought I was.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
Making up a name or something there. All right, So
the next part of our show is member highlights. I
think this is this is one of those parts of
the show where we highlight how great Teamsters are. And
you know, part of the think of Teamster campaign is
making sure that everybody knows all the great jobs our
members do. And this week's highlight is we want to
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recognize the incredible work that Teamster's Local nineteen thirty two
members do at Bear Valley Community Hospital. From er clerks
and respiratory therapists to imaging texts and surgical staff, these
essential healthcare workers joined our union family to fight for
better wages, job protections, and a stronger voice on the job,
and they're doing just that. Their commitment to patient care
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and workplace dignity is what the labor movement is all about.
Keep up the great work, and so the Bear Valley.
For those of you listen in from a distance and
not sure where Bear Valley Community Hospital is, it's actually
in Big Bear. Many people, no matter where you live
in America, you will know where Big Bear is. It's
actually the community hospital located in the mountain communities that
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Big Bear is in the center. There's a few little
towns kind of around it. But the hospital there, they
are now teamsters, and so if you go into the er,
if you're going to be in the hospital up there,
or obviously those in the community that need to go
into the hospital, they're being handled primarily by teamsters and
making sure that they are taking care of us. Always,
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we appreciate all of our members that do work within
the community, but specifically in healthcare and times of need.
Teamsters are there to make sure you are cared for
when you're at your weakest, sometimes at your most challenging times,
or you are in a crisis or an emergency. A
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lot of times it's a teamster there to make sure
you're okay, and so we appreciate those teamsters that do
the work at Bear Valley Community Hospital.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
And just as a reminder, last week's show, I discussed
the Big beautiful bill that's not so beautiful. And one
of the issues that we identified is the Medicare cuts
are actually going to affect that hospital. We can see
that the Medicare cuts will affect the funding mechanism of
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Bear Valley Community Hospital, so we will keep you posted
on what that means and how that's going to affect
the workforce in addition to the services. We know that
some of the hospitals on the list that have been
sent over could eventually excuse me, could eventually face closure
as a result of these and we want to make
sure that we're in front of it, and we're going
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to ask you to they potentially advocate in certain circumstances
and situations, and we'll be mobilizing behind that. So the
next part of our show is I last week, I
didn't get to all the victories within nineteen thirty two,
all the great work that's being done here on a
regular basis.
Speaker 8 (16:24):
I think I'm going to have a little overlap.
Speaker 9 (16:26):
So there's a couple things that may have covered it twice,
but it's no big deal. When you do some good stuff,
it's okay to repeat yourself. A number of things all
over the Local Union clearly, we represent more than sixteen
thousand workers in the Inland Empire at various agencies, the
County of sam Bardino and a bunch of companies that
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we've organized, and our staff is just a phenomenal job
of making sure that each and every day there are
issues being resolved being taken care of. And if you're
listening in, you are non union and you're just hearing us,
and you're trying to understand these things that I'm talking about.
The advocacy that's happening on a daily basis when you're
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in a union environment, a lot of times just really
goes unnoticed. And so what we're doing is we're talking
about that, and we're explaining some of these details a
lot of times that really get missed. We're not saying
names or given specifics to out certain certain situations that
people may be embarrassed by or may not want others
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to know, but we're giving details so that everybody could
hear what really goes on when you are talking about
advocacy when it comes to union representation.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
And so we were.
Speaker 9 (17:48):
Able to negotiate a separation agreement securing an extended salary
and health coverage while waiving at seventeen excuse me, a
seven five hundred dollars medical debt, So saved somebody, clearly,
you know more than seven thousand dollars in that process.
As a member Steward meetings providing tools to navigate the
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ADA process and identifying just cause violations and analyzing past
practice when no formal policy exists. So clearly Steward's engaging
in a process to better advocate for their coworkers. The
Desert Water Agency first round of negotiations has begun, so
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good luck to them. We'll keep our eye on that
and be keeping you up to speed as to what's
going on, as well as the Lomo Lina negotiations continue
to move forward. A diehard Kaiser member reviewed the new
ETNA plan that the trust Fund offers and saved by
moving away from the Kaiser plan, and you're talking about
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moving into a PPO is able to say, four hundred
and twenty dollars a month in his pocket, So again
we like sharing these little stories. That's a significant amount
of money when you think about it. Also, negotiations and
preparations for CFS managers, A class and cop study being
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done in addition to recognition for Big Bear Hospital. There
is well that was again the Bear Valley Hospital. There's
new classifications that are being recognized. The City of Banning.
We have a report that made the argument for and
received back pay for fifteen pay periods worth of bilingual
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pay for a member in the Banning Police Department. Also
at Sunline Transit helped a member craft a message that
allowed him to negotiate a higher level benefit when he
was being offered a new position. At the City of Asparia,
worked with a few members to make a connection with
a city council member so that we can discuss how
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important healthcare is to working people. And it's one of
the things sometimes council members don't understand. They are in
charge of the city employees and getting them to understand
the importance. And sometimes you'll see that when it comes
to healthcare. Other bargaining units, though, the employer will essentially
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take a position that some people's healthcare I guess is
worth more than others, or some employees are more important,
so they have more healthcare or less health care provided
for them, as far as the premium is concerned, our
position has always been the same and it will always be
the same that one hundred percent of an employee's healthcare
should be provided by the employer, period And you know,
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sometimes we can't always achieve that goal, and sometimes the
group's not always willing to walk off the job to
make that happen, but we definitely ask them to. Sounds
to me like that's the process happening over there in Asperia.
Confire we've got some great results. PERB has ruled in
favor of the merger on June twenty third, so negotiations
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are going to begin the last week of July. On
December twenty sixth of twenty twenty four, forty six members
of the Emergency Service Dispatchers of Sambordino County Association voted
to merge with nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
The group of call.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Takers, dispatchers and supervising dispatchers are employed by Confire, a
joint powers authority in Sambordino County that provides EMS and
emergency communications services twenty four to seven three sixty five
for the communities of Apple Valley, Big Bear, Chino Valley, Colton,
Low Melinda, Montclair, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Redlands, Roalto, Running Springs,
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San Manuel, and sam Brandino County and Victorville. So congratulations
to them. It's now official. Even though we had been
representing them in an unofficial capacity for the last few months,
PERB has now finalized that and ratified and approved ruled
in favor of the merger being official. So a great, great,
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great victory there. A Retiree Club for nineteen thirty two
is in its beginning stages. The survey has been sent
out to determine everybody's schedule and great starting participation. The
local nineteen thirty two staff is looking forward to future
meetings with retirees and get them into action.
Speaker 8 (22:36):
You know, retirees can be very powerful.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
They can help knock on doors, help phone bank, help
get the message out. A lot of them really are
participating over a long period of time. You know, there's
a lot of experience there and helping them advocate for
the future is really really important. And may I remind
you you are listening to KCAA ten fifty am one
oh six point five. Also, the nineteen thirty two Hispaniccoccus
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created a children's book, Sophia and Matteo Outsmart the Ice
Monster to calm kids stress over the fear of their
families being taken. The book focuses on actually teaching kids
about the Fifth Amendment while using today's current issues that
are happening in the United States. Great book, a lot
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of fun. It's good to see a stressful situation turned
into something very positive. And I will say this, the
reason why you hear me doing the call letters separately
the radio identification is we are going to be we
will be carried on another radio station in the low
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desert here pretty soon in the next couple weeks, and
so we have to break up some of the things
that we say so that when it airs on the
other radio station that we're going on that it'll be
able to they'll be able to put their call numbers
and letters over the top of what we're saying on
this show. And it's good to see that our message
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is broadening out, getting wider and wider, more and more
people listening to us. So that's obviously some great news
to come. The Women's Committee just completed a very successful
La Sparks game just a few days ago. Great attendance.
Bus was packed and full. Everybody had a great job
and it was a great game. Went down to the wire.
The Sparks ended up losing, but it was great to
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see everybody participating in that.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Good job.
Speaker 9 (24:37):
Our Fontana members are highly involved and in the loop
of their city politics. They recently attended a Boba event
with Jesse Armandaris. Jesse, who was from Fontana on the council,
is now a Board of supervisor and obviously everybody has
maintained a good relationship to make sure that the advocacy
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is in the right space. Plenty of City of raw
To members attended the city council meeting. Apparently they came
out in big numbers. Great job, Appreciate all the work
that you're doing out there and hopefully the Route To
members are listening in at some point. And again, you
don't have to listen in live. We'd love if you
listen in live. There's a lot of good interaction that
comes with it. But what also happens is is you
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can listen to the podcast. You can listen to the
podcast on a few different platforms, or you can listen
to on the on there's a website that it sits
on our on the nineteen thirty two website. What's cool
about this show is that we have more than half
a dozen platforms for people to listen. You can listen
to it, stream it live, you can listen to it
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through the app. You can listen to it from the
radio station that we're airing from live, or you can
then listen to the podcast in various forms. You can
listen to it on iHeart. I think we're on iHeart
Radio as well. There is a ton of platforms to listen,
and we love to feedback that we're getting from all
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those different platforms out there, and we love the growth
that comes with it. In Worker Power Our News, the
Southern California grocery Workers for UFCW reach a tentative labor deal.
Members of Local seven to seventy of the United Food
and Commercial Workers Union had previously authorized a strike if.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
A deal could not be reached.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
So no specific details have been proposed or released yet,
although excuse me, none have been released that we're proposed,
and although the union officials said it includes higher wages
and additional pension contributions, improvement in health and welfare staffing,
just didn't give specifics. A lot of times that you
want to do is you want to wait until that
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information gets to the members first so that they can
vote on it and not get clouded by everybody's opinion.
I have seen the best deals be doomed by misinformation
and troubled by that.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
But it is what it is.
Speaker 9 (27:03):
Something else in news, you're actually we're going to have
a guest come on here in about five or ten minutes,
and this is related to this strike out of Philadelphia.
This is this part of the news is talking about.
You know, I've actually seen some pretty some pretty nasty
comments that people have made when it comes to the
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trash workers in Philadelphia. And you know, some people would
would argue that that workers in the trash industry don't
deserve fair wages. But that's not something that they would say.
Nor if your trash isn't being picked up for a
few days, you're probably going to be in a situation
where you start to quickly appreciate how important that job is.
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And so negotiations resume between Apsome District Council thirty three,
Mayor Parker's administration. On it's actually day six now of
that strike. Representatives for the striking AFSME District Council thirty
three and Mayor Cherrell Parker's administration sat down for another
round of negotiations Saturday, of the ongoing labor strike. It's
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another opportunity for us to sit down, hopefully this is
a quote, It's another opportunity for us to sit down.
Hopefully we make some progressive movement from where we've been.
DC thirty three President Greg Boulware said before heading into
the building where the talks were taking place. Later today,
we'll be joined by Maggie Maluli, spokesperson for the Philadelphia AFLCIO,
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to explain what's happening on the ground.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
And so.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
I understand there's a lot of trash piling up and
residents are supporting the striking workers on a very large scale.
Concert venue events are being canceled in solidarity of the strike,
and so you're seeing a community what appears to wrap
itself around these workers, and as they should, especially in
the city of Brotherly Love. We really appreciate workers in
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every city, and the reality is worker power comes when
the community engages in this process in a very meaningful way.
So we look forward to having her on the show here.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
Shortly.
Speaker 9 (29:24):
The Faster Contract Act, a Republican proposed landmark shift in
labor negotiations, is gaining steam thanks to our General President
and our administration. Here at DPLA at the IBT in Washington,
d C. They've done a great job of building out
some policy that would force employers to the table much
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faster than they currently do under the National Libor Relations Act.
It's a bipartisan so far. It's Senate Bill eight four four,
also known as the Faster Labor Contracts Act, and it
was introduced in March of twenty twenty five, as labor
relations matters continued to stagnate before the quorumless National.
Speaker 8 (30:05):
Labor Relations Board.
Speaker 9 (30:06):
This new bill is starting to gain attention for its
potential to one turn labor contract negotiation rules on their
head in a positive way in the United States and
to substantially improve the bargaining position of unions. The bill
was introduced by Republican Senator Josh Holly from Missouri. This
is where our ability to reach over the line and
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make sure that there's a bipartisan effort, and it'd.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
Be great to see this act pass.
Speaker 9 (30:34):
And again I want to commend our General Executive Board,
our General President Sean O'Brien. In addition to the DPLA,
under Sunshine McBride and her whole team that have really
been pushing Senators and congressional leaders to ultimately pass something
that the entire labor movement will should get behind here
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very soon as soon as we're able to get to
the right space, and hopefully September, right before everybody kind
of gets back together, right Robert and DC wants they
kind of get back together and start making these decisions,
they'll be even more support behind it. And so with that,
we're going to take a quick break and then come
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back with Maggie Maluli, who is the communications director of
the Philadelphia AFL CIO. This is Randy Corgan and the
Worker Power Hour.
Speaker 8 (31:27):
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Speaker 9 (33:34):
This is Randy Corgan and the Worker Power Hour Teamsters
nineteen thirty two broadcast network. We're joined by Maggie Malouli
from she's the communications.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
Director at Philadelphia AFL.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
SOO looks like we have you on the screen. Maggie,
Welcome to the show. Welcome to the Worker Power Hour.
Speaker 12 (33:57):
It's great to be here. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 9 (33:59):
What do you think think we got our own radio
show here. We've got a ton of platforms and it's
called the Worker Power Hour, and we're having a lot
of fun with this. This is and we really appreciate
you coming on to talk about what's going on there
at that strike and and we'll get into that in
a second, but I just like to brag about the
fact that we got our own radio network and we're
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on multiple radio stations in addition to we you know,
we have a lot of fun guests on and we
just talk about promoting unions and how unions integrate with
not only the general public, because obviously it's going over
the airwaves, right. And just so you know, today we're
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not technically live because we're recording a day early because
I have a conflict tomorrow, so we'll be live tomorrow recorded.
But normally I love the brag of the fact that
we have a live radio show, and and and you know,
it's it's kind of tough to run a live show,
but actually we're running today like it is live.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
So welcome Maggie to the show.
Speaker 9 (35:01):
And do you want to introduce yourself and talk about
what's going on there in Philadelphia?
Speaker 12 (35:05):
Yeah, I mean, like you said, my name is Maggie Maloley.
I'm the Communications and Training director for the Philadelphia Council
a f L CIO. I'm also a Teamster. I'm a
member of locally talk about being a teamster and the
great power.
Speaker 8 (35:21):
But well, I didn't know that you're a teamster. Huh
oh yes.
Speaker 12 (35:25):
Yeah, yeah, we organized about two years ago.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
Okay, So at the a fl CIO, the staff is
our teamsters. Yes, oh that's great man. That's well, this
is the tank of Teamster program.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
So thank you. Another great teamster out there doing some
great work.
Speaker 12 (35:45):
Yeah. Yeah, But you know, we like to say in
Philly that Philadelphia is the center of the universe, and
right now it really does feel like it. With you know,
DC thirty three being on strike, they've essentially shut down
the city in a way. They've been on strike. This
is we're entering week two now, and they've been at
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the bargaining table I think two or three times since
the strike was called last week, and unfortunately, it looks
like there's little progress on the administration side in terms
of reaching a deal that reflects these workers immense value
to the city. So while this is all going on,
you know, we're trying to help out do whatever we
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can to keep their folks fed and supported. On the line.
Speaker 8 (36:32):
Well, I'm not.
Speaker 9 (36:33):
Sure what we could do this far away, but you
tell us and we're in let us know what we
can do. You know, I don't know if you are aware,
but we have a bus that we have a really
nice bus that seats almost fifty passengers, and I can
tell you right now, I'm going to get calls right
away saying let's.
Speaker 8 (36:50):
Get on the bus and go to Philly. I always
get those calls.
Speaker 9 (36:55):
As soon as we talk about some dispute that's happening
somewhere else. Workers are members want to get on the
bus and get rolling. But one of the bargaining units.
What types of workers are engaged in this labor dispute
in Philadelphia.
Speaker 12 (37:07):
Yeah, So Philadelphia is pretty interesting in terms of the
municipal workers who run the government. We have four municipal unions.
We have the police, the firefighters, and then we have
appsme DC forty seven, which represents what folks call the
blue or i'm sorry, white collar jobs, and then DC
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thirty three, which is who's on stripe right now, and
they represent a ton of different workers. I was actually
to name them all to see if I could do it,
but I don't think I can. So they represent nine
one one dispatchers, crossing guards, library assistants, folks at the
water treatment center, our streets department, which is different than
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the sanitation department, and the folks who run the rec centers.
So right now we're in the middle of a heat
wave in all of the city. Pools and rec centers
are pretty much closed, which is another you know, big
sticking for the stripe. Right now, it's so hot and
it smells like God, that's.
Speaker 9 (38:09):
Less than the monthly rate that you're paying for the trash.
I mean, that's more than a monthly rate. These are similar.
Speaker 8 (38:14):
Jobs to what we represent a union in nineteen thirty.
Speaker 9 (38:18):
Several vergencies there, and I guess people are trying to
capitalize on it all.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
Get your trash through.
Speaker 9 (38:23):
We have multiple trash very classification whether it's in the cities.
Speaker 12 (38:29):
Yeah, it's a real shame because that's our members of
public and really obviously very like you know.
Speaker 13 (38:35):
It's.
Speaker 12 (38:37):
There's just so much misinformation around union.
Speaker 8 (38:41):
You know when Donald nine one in Philadelphia, it's a union.
Speaker 12 (38:44):
Striking, nobody wants to go on strike.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
It's very much that it's never taken lightly.
Speaker 9 (38:51):
It's not I know we but the reality is is
anybody that's behind it that's a very mee that's like
to happen, will probably attest to there's a lot of
elected officient need to make from the group myself before
they because that's super Thank you for pointing that out.
Speaker 12 (39:09):
I think, yeah, it's a very valous that you bring
up the nine one one.
Speaker 8 (39:12):
You know, we utilize the day that wold their labors,
but we also.
Speaker 12 (39:17):
Don't get as.
Speaker 9 (39:19):
You know, we don't overstep that boundaries either. We just
have to know we have that right and use it.
That's the right time there.
Speaker 12 (39:27):
And she said, it really does. One you considered the
whole majority will eventually your members are which is just
an insane way above that.
Speaker 8 (39:37):
Of a message.
Speaker 12 (39:38):
Just some of them. Yeah, barely getting the average gallery
for in particular, imagine thousand dollars. It's trying to rob
so these there are no workers who are exploited.
Speaker 8 (39:50):
I mean, I got to get ane, but I know
what's going to happen.
Speaker 9 (39:54):
We're going to have some one is everybody making lemons
off them and they are.
Speaker 12 (39:59):
Well you should ask here is there an answer.
Speaker 8 (40:02):
I can't wait to hear.
Speaker 12 (40:03):
Her cabinet, which is the largest cabinet of Philadelphia.
Speaker 8 (40:07):
You just just making because.
Speaker 12 (40:09):
Well beyond the dollar and they have all the majority
of them have gone you significant and I'm sure the
last war last year. I'm sorry, but these workings are
like barely.
Speaker 8 (40:22):
When you get to a point.
Speaker 12 (40:23):
Like meanwhile, Philadelphia has required in the works work the
city of Philadelphia.
Speaker 9 (40:30):
Kind of minimize Yeah, how do you live in the
city of Philadelphia On forty six thousand year, I was just.
Speaker 8 (40:36):
Going to ask that where are they living?
Speaker 12 (40:38):
Yeah, right now there's currently which I will say that
I believe are.
Speaker 8 (40:44):
They providing housing that goes with it? And you're making
forty six.
Speaker 12 (40:47):
Can you're shaking your head? So yeah, that and haven't
turned for work? No, it is one.
Speaker 8 (40:54):
I mean, spot me a three bedroom bathroom bad?
Speaker 9 (40:57):
You know, I guess today forty six K year my
balance itself like some one want to put.
Speaker 12 (41:03):
Up at the airport doesn't and so about you know
the mayor has to work tomorrow, forced to. Yes, yes,
there is a bunch of.
Speaker 8 (41:13):
Differ volunteering there.
Speaker 9 (41:16):
It's understandably so you know we we we get that.
Speaker 12 (41:19):
The housing, yeah, I can't speak to on the same specific.
I don't know the unfolding planting which since the manager
strikeing employ program was there about one hundreds of managers
who are But if you think about the credits for
requirements that are required to be bounces, everybody shifts exactly
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nearly two thousand dollars a day. You can't say.
Speaker 9 (41:45):
It's another job that gets taking for granted because I
mean to say water treatment.
Speaker 8 (41:50):
That means they are doing.
Speaker 12 (41:54):
Right like they.
Speaker 9 (41:55):
Take granted modern day that you learn on a faucet
are just magic, and you really appreciate coming on.
Speaker 8 (42:03):
The show and goes away. The reality is clearly infrastructur munications.
Speaker 9 (42:09):
There's all these people to make sure full Adulphia water sale.
Speaker 8 (42:13):
So you know, history has shown us the millions of people.
Speaker 9 (42:16):
Isn't it good to see the public general public is
feeling way than you know in today's day. We take
the same right, So you're describing these circumstances. Of course
the supervisors can't work a lot. Those managers are going
to have to do. It's that they work to make
up for what everybody else. You're here's the Yeah.
Speaker 12 (42:36):
We actually said that for a private to figure out
like what the comparison is in terms of what they're
paying the managers to work twenty four to seven, and
it comes out to around two thousand dollars a day.
And when you do that math per week, they are
paying two point six percent more just to keep these
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supervisors on the clock than what they would be paying
the workers if they met a DC thirty three's most
recent wage proposal. So they're spending more money just to
have people who are not trained and familiar with systems
kept inside these buildings. Sleeping on cots, working insane hours.
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It's just it's really just a whole bunch of you know,
like we say this all the time in labor. Your
money reflects your value to the company. And you know,
like they would rather just pay folks two point six
percent more a week than pay the union workers who
are trained and efficient at doing this work their jobs.
Speaker 14 (43:37):
You know.
Speaker 9 (43:38):
Yeah, sounds like a breakdown in their approach. You know,
like clearly the employer is jumping over a dollar to
save a dime, as we would say.
Speaker 8 (43:50):
You know, I hear the trash is piling up too.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Yeah, yeah, this is where.
Speaker 9 (43:56):
We appreciate trash workers, right, Like you know, again, a
system where you put it in a bag and then
it goes in the container and it just disappears, right,
disappears like.
Speaker 8 (44:05):
You don't have to think about it anymore. You know
that that.
Speaker 9 (44:08):
This is this is only the last you know, fifty
seventy five years. That water disappears the way it does,
that that trash disappears the way it does. These systems
have been built and we take it for granted on
a daily basis until there's no one there to pick
it up, and then all of a sudden we realize
how much waste we're going through. Right, So what's going
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on with the trash is the mayor's trash piling up
at their house.
Speaker 12 (44:35):
So I don't know what's happening, yes, but I will
say that the kids, as I'm referring to the folks
on like Reddit and x and all of that, have
started calling the garbage piles the Parker.
Speaker 8 (44:49):
Piles the piles nice.
Speaker 12 (44:52):
In reference to the mayor Chrelle Parker her last name.
They've also have started calling her the garbage mayre, you know,
with all the trash piling. Yeah, but essentially, what the
city has done is they've you know, and now it's
like sixty or so locations across the city for folks
to take their trash too, and they are having managers
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and non union sanitation workers come in and remove this trash.
But the kicker is, you are only allowed to take
your trash to these disposal sites once a week and
on your specific trash day. But there isn't anybody like
checking or managing this, you know, They're just there in
the middle of the streets. And so I've seen pictures
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where it's entire like city blocks essentially that are just
filled with garbage. And you know, the administration is pushing
this narrative saying that, you know, we're picking up the
trash every day, disposing of it, but there's really no evidence.
Speaker 8 (45:49):
Maybe they're taking it over to another neighborhood and dropping it.
Speaker 12 (45:51):
Off right exactly exactly, you know.
Speaker 9 (45:55):
And some people will push back and say, oh, you
got to do your jobs. I can't believe you this happen. No,
this is These are the things that have to happen
for people to realize the appropriate value of the worker,
whether it's being put on hold at nine to one one.
As much as you don't want to have anybody hurt
by that, the same is true with trash. You you
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you know, it's a dangerous job. It's actually a trash somebody,
a trash driver, somebody works in trash. It's far more
dangerous than being a firefighter, far more dangerous than being
a police officer. It's actually in the top five, I believe,
of most dangerous jobs in America. And so the reality
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is that that job should absolutely be valued, and you
know what, you got to let it pile up so
that the whoever's in charge recognizes your value and you know,
I always find it funny those that may rail on
the other side of the argument. You let their trash
pile up, and all of a sudden, it's like.
Speaker 8 (46:57):
I'll do anything to get rid of this stuff. Yeah,
because they don't want to be shuttling it over to
the dump.
Speaker 12 (47:03):
Yeah. I I you know, in the community Facebook groups
that I'm in, I've seen people like offer to pick
up their trash and dispose of it for them, and
they are paying like seventy five dollars one hundred dollars,
which is way more than what these workers are getting
paid allurly to go and do like entire city blocks.
Speaker 8 (47:22):
Yeah, that's less than.
Speaker 9 (47:23):
The than the monthly rate that you're paying for the trash.
I mean, that's more than the monthly rate for your
paying for.
Speaker 8 (47:28):
The trash probably to get picked up.
Speaker 9 (47:31):
But you know that sense of urgencies there, and I
guess people are trying to capitalize on it.
Speaker 8 (47:35):
I'll get your trash.
Speaker 12 (47:36):
For you, yeah yeah, I mean you can py the.
Speaker 8 (47:38):
Trash disposal companies coming out of nowhere.
Speaker 12 (47:42):
Right, Yeah. And it's it's a real shame because the public,
it really seems like, is standing behind these workers and
their strike. But there's just so much misinformation around scabbing
and like what it means to stand with union workers
at this time. A strike isn't easy. Nobody wants to
go on strike. It's very much a last resort. As
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I'm sure you're aware.
Speaker 8 (48:03):
It's never taken lightly either.
Speaker 9 (48:05):
I know we sometimes say you gotta do this, you
gotta do that, But the reality is, is anybody that's
behind agitating that strike to happen.
Speaker 8 (48:14):
As you will probably attest to, there's a lot of.
Speaker 9 (48:16):
Thought put in it from the group itself before they
make that decision.
Speaker 8 (48:20):
So thank you for pointing that out.
Speaker 9 (48:22):
I think it's a very valuable lesson to say, yes,
you know, we do utilize the right to withhold our labor,
but we also don't take that you know, we don't
overstep that boundary either. We just have to know we
have that right and use it at the right time.
And it sounds like it's the right time there in
Philadelphia right now.
Speaker 12 (48:42):
It really does, especially when you consider the fact that
the majority of DC thirty three's members are making just
slightly above poverty rate wages. Some of them are barely
you know, getting by the average salary for sanitation workers.
In particular, as I believe, forty six thousand dollars a year.
So these are already workers who are exploited. This is,
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you know, the predominantly black Municipal Workers union, and.
Speaker 8 (49:09):
Is everybody making the Mayor's office.
Speaker 12 (49:13):
Well, it's funny you should ask, is there an answer?
Her cabinet, which is the largest cabinet that Philadelphia has
ever had, is making well beyond one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars each and they have all the majority of
them have gotten significant.
Speaker 1 (49:29):
Rat Are you over here?
Speaker 9 (49:31):
You can us over there, and it's all about getting
We only have sixty seconds.
Speaker 8 (49:36):
I have to go to the man.
Speaker 12 (49:37):
Philadelphia has requirement that the municipal work the municipal workforce,
you have to live in the city of Philadelphia.
Speaker 8 (49:46):
Philadelphia. I was just going to ask where are they,
where are they living?
Speaker 9 (49:52):
And so if they're working for the municipality in which
they're living in, how you know, are they providing housing
that goes with it and you're making forty six k
Like obviously you're shaking your head.
Speaker 8 (50:03):
No. So the answer to that is.
Speaker 12 (50:04):
No, No, they're really not. It is.
Speaker 9 (50:07):
I mean, spot me a three bedroom, two bathroom, bad
and you know, I guess the forty six K year
might balance itself out somewhat, but anyway, no.
Speaker 12 (50:17):
It doesn't. And you know, the mayor has just within
the most recent budget has come up with this thing
called a Home Initiative, which is a bunch of different programs,
you know, meant to fix the blight that is, you know,
affecting Philadelphia housing. I can't speak to the full specifics
of it because I just don't know the plan inside
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and out. But she has since come out since the
strike saying that this program was intended for DC thirty
three members. But if you think about it, the credit scores,
the income requirements that are required to be a part of.
Speaker 8 (50:53):
This program, it bounces everybody exactly.
Speaker 12 (50:56):
Exactly, like you can't say this isn't pull yourself up
by the bootstrap scenario, because the cards are stacked against
these folks. They are doing the essential work that makes
Philadelphia run, but they are you know, they can't even
afford to live here.
Speaker 8 (51:12):
Yeah, that's that's crazy.
Speaker 9 (51:14):
So really appreciate you coming on the show. We still
have a little different time California. You clearly you know
you're the communications director for the Philadelphia AFL cio.
Speaker 8 (51:27):
So you're immersed in labor.
Speaker 9 (51:30):
Isn't it good to see these fights be supported by
the general public? You know, I think the general public
is feeling that same thing in the same way you're
describing these circumstances where people can't afford to actually live
in the city that they work in because the employer
is Here's the incredible thing is if you work for
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a private sector employer, you can live anywhere. But this
actually sounds like there's a municipal code that has you
working in the jurisdiction that you're living the jurisdiction that
you're working in, and so you are bound to it,
which is good. I actually like that. I think it's
great if you're connected to the community that way. But
you know, forty six thousand a year, I mean, I
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don't care where in Pennsylvania you're at. That's tough to
live by. I mean, you could be all the way
out in western Pennsylvania. That's still not going to work. Right, So,
how is this happening these workers? I mean, this is tough.
This is no wonder they're on strike, and no wonder
they're letting the trash pile up.
Speaker 12 (52:31):
Yeah, it's you know, it's really interesting. Philadelphia is a
union town, and we are really proud to exist in
the landscape in which we exist in. But you know,
there's just there's just so much I don't know if
it's blissful ignorance or what it is, but people just
don't understand the people who they see every day, who
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are doing the work that makes their lives easier. And
I think that as we are putting you know, faces
to statements and really trying to introduce the public to
the workers who are who are doing the work, people
are really sympathizing with them. People are fed up with
the cost of living crisis. People are also in their
own careers, you know, not seeing the raises and cola
(53:18):
adjustments that union contracts often come with. So people are
just frustrated. And when they see somebody who you know,
is genuinely hard working and who is doing the work
that makes Philadelphia run, they feel for them. We have this,
we have the stereotype of Philadelphia being real, like angry
and crazy and like bitter sports spirit. Yeah yeah, and
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that's it. Like Philadelphia. You can say what you want
about us, but we really do look after our own
We really care about our own people, and we really
want to see the best for everyone. Like that's what
it is.
Speaker 8 (53:55):
Is that fund that that you can donate to? Can
you yes? Talk about it real quick and we'll yes.
Speaker 12 (54:02):
So DC thirty three just put together a strike fund
with Better World I will is it better if I
just put in the chat? What's the best way to
get that link to you?
Speaker 8 (54:12):
Can you? Can you spell it out right now? Or
what they what they go to? Yeah, so we'll send
something out.
Speaker 9 (54:17):
Well literally, we'll send out like a notification out to
everybody in conjunction with this, with this uh, with the
show going out.
Speaker 12 (54:28):
Yeah, so the email is I'm not sorry, The link
is apps me a f SCME thirty three period, BetterWorld
dot org, slash campaigns, slash thirty three dash strike got you.
Speaker 9 (54:48):
We got that, So we can go back and yeah,
if you could, if you could just text that link
over to our comms person here at the local, then
what we'll do is we'll get it out, we'll share
it and then we'll try to help raise some money
for this great strike. So anything else you want to
cover on that, I just want to shift gears and
talk in general labor here for a second before we
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close out the top of the hour.
Speaker 8 (55:12):
Is there anything else you want to talk about before
we shift?
Speaker 12 (55:15):
I just know that I've spent a lot of time
with the folks on the line in my role as
a trainer too. I've also been helping them get ready
and get strike prepared. So I've really built a relationship
with these workers, and I can tell you how much
it means to them to have so much support, and
you know from everybody, they really came into this fight
as the underdogs, but it really seems like the tides
(55:37):
are turning in their favor. So I appreciate you for
giving me the opportunity to talk a little bit more
about what's going on here in Philly.
Speaker 8 (55:45):
Man.
Speaker 9 (55:45):
We really appreciate you coming on because it's you know,
that's the purpose of the show.
Speaker 8 (55:50):
In our think a teamster campaign.
Speaker 9 (55:52):
I don't know if you're aware of all the platforms
we run here at the local, but we have billboards,
we have buses, we have electronic billboards where we run
the message and we talk about all the great jobs
our members do in the community. In addition, we use
those billboards and we need to put pressure in the
area too, got it. Yeah, So they are multifaceted, and
just the fact that everybody knows we have so many
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billboards that we use as as as a marketing arm.
Speaker 8 (56:17):
They also know that we could use.
Speaker 9 (56:19):
Those to, you know, to affect certain things that we
need to affect in the particular region. So you know,
we always want to use them as a positive. But
but you know, we obviously have the radio show, and
you know, we have our Teams Star Advantage program, and
we have all these platforms. But we are having a
lot of fun with this radio show, and we're at
this live radio show, and we're now we're now going
(56:40):
to be on even more networks here pretty soon and
growing out. And it's really just you know, connecting the
dots of what workers do and telling the stories and
talking about small business in the community and how all
these things connect and and you know, we're just having
a great time with it, and people just love to
hear the stories of what workers do and how they're
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advocating for their local community or you know how powerful
these jobs are. You clearing the snow and snowstorms, you know,
making sure people have food at the appropriate time, and
you know, answering the call when nine one one happens
you know, there's all these you know, really really important jobs.
So what do you think of what Local nineteen thirty
two is doing. You know, you're work at an AFL CIO,
(57:22):
you know, organization, So you know, we're a little art
as union. Sometimes we're all a little archaic and our approach,
but we're we're proud over here that we're doing some
fun stuff. That's why we love having people from other
parts of the country on to kind of listen in
our and our members and the community alike, because it's
not just our members that are listening to the radio,
it's it's over the airwaves.
Speaker 12 (57:41):
So you know, what do you think, Well, you guys
have you're really making me want to not send my
boss this interview because he's going to want to start
a radio show I want to do.
Speaker 7 (57:53):
That's what we want.
Speaker 9 (57:54):
We'll carry him on our on our radio stations.
Speaker 12 (57:58):
Yeah, yeah, I think. You know. I'm twenty five, so
I feel like I experienced the media a little bit
differently than some of my older colleagues, and I really
do believe that you have to reach folks wherever they are.
And so that's the twenty minutes that they're spending driving
to work every morning on the radio. Then that's how
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you do it. Or you know, we've done targeted ads before.
So whether or not you're targeting veterans to union veteran
jobs here, you know, you have to meet folks where
they are. And the more ways that you are doing
it's the more effective your messaging is.
Speaker 8 (58:31):
Well, good, get your boss on a call and let's
get them on the show.
Speaker 9 (58:35):
He or she, Hey, president, let's get him on the
show and let's talk about how to You guys can
start your own show. And you know, we can area
over here, you can air us over there, and you know, again,
it's all about getting the message. We only have sixty
seconds until I have to go to the mandatory break
because we are at NBC Studio. But I just you know,
let's get them, get them on the show, and let's
(58:57):
talk about it. Because what I'm trying to do with
this platform is adate more unions to occupy it to
where we're just getting the message and the narrative out
to the general public. The general public is embracing it.
We have forty five seconds. What do you got to
say in closing?
Speaker 12 (59:12):
Yeah, I mean just building off that point. If the
other side has this media echo chamber that they are
using the craft out of. We need to build our
own right and if we have effective communicators like yourself
telling our story, that's all the better. And I think
that's what we need to do. We need to be
relatable and down to earth with people.
Speaker 8 (59:30):
Thank you, Maggie. Thank you, Maggie.
Speaker 9 (59:32):
Maggie Maluli with the she's the communications director of the
Philadelphia afl CIO. Thanks for coming on talking about the
strike there in Philly. This is Randy Corgan and the
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We're back, Brandy Corgan here in the Work of Power
Hour on the Team stursa night to thirty two broadcast network,
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Speaker 8 (01:05:34):
Samar and Deco.
Speaker 9 (01:05:35):
This time we're actually recording a day early because we
didn't want to skip a show. But as usual, yeah,
I think I think we've settled on the music. I
know I keep talking about that, but I like that
run in with that music.
Speaker 8 (01:05:47):
It's it's got a nice fast pace to it.
Speaker 9 (01:05:49):
Last week Mark decided to play something that was a
little slower on the second half. And if you're going
to have a slow and a fast, it's the second
half that should be fast and the first half should
be slow, because you know, wake yourself up after talking
endlessly for sixty minutes straight. Anyway, So boy, that was
Maggie was great, Like that was good to and it
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was great to hear. I didn't realize that she was
a teamster, that the Philadelphia a fl CIO staff organized
and are part of a teamster local. I forget which
local she said six. There's a lot of six hundred,
six and seven hundred locals in the area. But that
was great to hear. Was it six twenty three that
she said? Anyway, The point is is she's a teamster
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and she's the communications director and there's a strike in
Philadelphia where workers to do the same thing we represent
here in the Inland Empire, pick up trash nine on
one dispatchers making sure that that that when you flush
your toilet, water goes by by. Like very important workers
(01:06:57):
are withholding their labor right now out in the in
the city of brotherly Love, and good for them. I
hope that they get everything that they're fighting for. And
shame on those those elected officials who are not settling
this and getting the issue resolved. Our next part of
the show, we are joined by Tricia Keeling. Is that correct,
(01:07:19):
Tricia Keeling? She is with Redlands advocacy group a nonprofit.
Speaker 8 (01:07:23):
Is that correct?
Speaker 13 (01:07:23):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (01:07:25):
And and why don't you introduce yourself real quick? You know,
this is the Worker Power Hour. We have a live show,
or we have a show that broadcasts over the radio in.
Speaker 8 (01:07:34):
Addition to a podcast and everything.
Speaker 9 (01:07:36):
I actually get upset when people call it a podcast.
I'm super sensitive because because I'm like, no, it's a it's.
Speaker 8 (01:07:41):
A live radio show.
Speaker 9 (01:07:42):
So today we're running it like a live show even
though it's being recorded. We're not doing an editing or anything.
So so if you do say something bad, mark over,
there's got to push the button to dump the last
six seconds today. I guess you're right, we can go
back and clean it up.
Speaker 11 (01:07:59):
Now.
Speaker 8 (01:08:00):
We're not going to do that, like we still got to.
Speaker 9 (01:08:02):
We're literally like at the same time we're starting and
we're making it feel like it's a live show. Anyway,
enough of me rambling on, Trisha, why don't you introduce
yourself and talk about what you're on the show for.
Speaker 14 (01:08:11):
Yeah, my name is Tricia Yealing. I'm from a community
organization called Together for Redlands. I'm the director. We've been
organizing in Redlands and surrounding areas, mainly around our school
board and the issues that have happened there. We do
things like advocate for transparency within the government, their local
(01:08:36):
government wor civic watchdogs. We have been really on the
ground opposing some really divisive policies that the school board
is trying to pass right now. Like many other areas
in southern California and cross the nation, our school board
we lost a couple of seats in the school board
(01:08:57):
and now we have like a far right conservative board
that's trying to pass a number of policies.
Speaker 8 (01:09:04):
So like, what what's now? Here's what's interesting.
Speaker 9 (01:09:07):
I hear these I always hear these stories about, you know,
don't tramp on my first Amendment. But then turn around
and you get into a space like a school board,
and then I want to take things out of a library. Right,
That's interesting, Like, isn't that quite the contradiction and platforms?
Speaker 14 (01:09:26):
It is one because this is the exact same policy
they passed in an area called Chino Chino Sheina Hills.
It's also in the Inland Empire, and right now, Redlands
Unified has a policy like if you don't want your
child to read something, you can call the district and
call the library and they will make sure that your
kid cannot take that book out. But right now they're
(01:09:47):
trying to make a policy and they're doing a final
vote tonight on it, so that a number of books
will be pulled if anybody complains about them, if they
if they're considered perverse in any way, with no definition
on what that is, so they will pull the book automatically,
then they will look at it. We kind of know
(01:10:11):
which way this is going to go, and it's going
to cost our district like thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars.
They did something similar. They pulled nine books in twenty
twenty two and reviewed them under the current policy, and
it cost the district twenty thousand dollars just for nine books.
And we know that it's going to be exponentially worse
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than that.
Speaker 9 (01:10:33):
Yeah, and I remember some of those Some of those
things were at Clement Middle School, right, Yeah, Yeah, I
remember seeing the misinformation. Correct, people went to the microphone
and straight up light about like it's it's always interesting,
you know, I think in modern politics the truth doesn't
(01:10:54):
seem to matter anymore. So the reality is is you
know there's a good thing in Redlands, is there are
a lot of people that are on the right side
of this issue. Clearly not enough when it came to
the voters, as we've clearly had to live with and
want to live with for a while. But you know,
I have an interesting take on this. Some of you
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may say, oh, why was this have to do with labor?
Speaker 8 (01:11:18):
Well, has everything to do with labor.
Speaker 9 (01:11:20):
My son, who just a few years ago graduated high
school and he sends me this text message while he's
in high school. I think he was a senior at
the time where the book was calling the history book
or excuse me, his government book was calling unions a cartel,
a cartel. And I mean imagine that book us going
(01:11:43):
to the school and saying that book needs to be bounced,
right like, like, oh no, that's I'm assuming we run
up against a pretty big headwind there, right.
Speaker 8 (01:11:53):
And quite frankly, when you really look at labor and.
Speaker 9 (01:11:59):
How the story is told in school, school boards control
curriculum or influence it dramatically. School Boards can make sure
that labor is taught in the right way, But the
discussion around labor has really been pulled out almost completely
because corporate America. Again, this ideology is ingrained to make
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people think that unions and labor that it is a cartel.
Speaker 14 (01:12:30):
Yeah, and that's even actually a word that's used now
by the Chino Board president, who is very influential in
this area around school board.
Speaker 8 (01:12:39):
She calls who is the cartel?
Speaker 14 (01:12:41):
She's the cartel, like the Sacramento cartel, which is like
Tony Thurman is the superintendent of school.
Speaker 9 (01:12:47):
Those people are the furthest from the cartel. Though you're
talking a guy that grew up in a rough neighborhood.
I kind of know the difference. Tony Thurman is not
the cartel. He's actually a really great guy.
Speaker 14 (01:13:00):
He's wonderful.
Speaker 9 (01:13:02):
Yeah, good to people, man, he really you know, Tony's
in that space because he really wants to help kids,
you know.
Speaker 8 (01:13:08):
Anyway, Yeah, no, I was going to say to you.
Speaker 14 (01:13:10):
Another thing we do is we do support the union
to the teachers' union in the district, and they've been
fighting these policies as well, because a lot of these
issues will come down to them and what does that
mean for their jobs if they are now So there's
a book banning policy. There's also a flag banning policy
where they're going to determine what a teacher can have
(01:13:31):
on the classroom walls and their classroom and how much
space do they get, and like what happens if they
just put up a pride flag anyways, even though that's
against the rules that are coming up. And then another
one that they're trying to do is something called in
notification policy. It is pretty much similar, almost exactly to
(01:13:52):
the policy in Chino that caused a lawsuit from the
state Attorney General Rob Manta. They will be asking teachers
to force out students to their parents, and then that
gets put on the teacher.
Speaker 8 (01:14:05):
How do you do that? How like that is?
Speaker 9 (01:14:08):
You know, I've known a lot of teachers in my time,
and I mean, imagine trying to even judge that situation.
Let's let's forget what the responsibility is first, how do
you thrust yourself into judging that?
Speaker 14 (01:14:22):
It really is putting yourself, it's putting the government into
your family's conversation. It really is ironic.
Speaker 8 (01:14:29):
Yeah, I thought I thought the whole platform was to keep.
Speaker 9 (01:14:31):
The government out right exactly, Yeah, no, no, not right now.
Speaker 14 (01:14:37):
Yeah, It's it's pretty cut and dry. We're hoping they
don't pass that one. We were hoping they don't pass
any of these. It's probably going to happen, and we'll
just have to switch gears from there once once the
decision is.
Speaker 8 (01:14:51):
Made that that school board meeting us tonight tonight. Yeah,
and I'm assuming you have people lined up to come
in and speak about it.
Speaker 14 (01:15:00):
We have people coming at four. We have people that
will line up two hours before the meeting. Down the streets.
There was five hundred Is this that Clement too, No,
this is at the smaller boardroom.
Speaker 8 (01:15:10):
Oh okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 14 (01:15:12):
We had five hundred speaker cards turned in at the
last meeting, most of which like against these policies. They're
not popular.
Speaker 9 (01:15:21):
That doesn't matter, Yeah, I know, Like this is where
you get a handful of people that are elected. And
this is you know, again, a lot of people overlook
a city council position, or a school board or water board,
these elected positions, local politics have a lot more influence
(01:15:43):
than we realize. And this is why, again it's important
for everybody to pay attention to those things.
Speaker 8 (01:15:52):
Make sure you look all the way down the ballot.
Speaker 9 (01:15:53):
What happens is in big general elections, you know, whether
you got a governor or a president election is people
have a tendency not to look at the other stuff
down ballot, and it's important for all of us within
our local community to pay attention to these things. Is
tedious as they may seem, they're not. Local policy impacts
(01:16:16):
our life a lot more exactly than federal policy does
or state policy.
Speaker 14 (01:16:21):
It's like my shirt says, vote local is it is
the best way to have an impact on your community,
the people around you in the most easiest to grasp
way is to get involved in your local politics. And
that's sadly, we saw a lot of people didn't show
up or like you said, didn't vote down ballot. One
of the extremist board members, I will say she only
(01:16:44):
won by one hundred and ninety seven votes in a
district of twenty thousand people, so it was a very slim,
slim slim win.
Speaker 8 (01:16:54):
So yeah, and you.
Speaker 9 (01:16:57):
Know that's where a few more door knocks, more people participating,
a few more people paying attention to what the issues are.
But also we have to be careful of you know,
we have to recognize I said this earlier that the
truth in modern politics. Man like Facebook, social media, they've
(01:17:18):
kind of created this space where the truth gets gets
left far behind.
Speaker 14 (01:17:25):
It's amazing, Like I'll sit in the same room with
people at these meetings, and I'm like, what did you
take from that? Oh, my gosh, it's yeah.
Speaker 9 (01:17:33):
Well, and also some people thrust themselves in because they've
got they've got another agenda to run, and that agenda
isn't necessarily and what's in the best interest of the constituents.
Speaker 14 (01:17:45):
But that's seriously, what's happened in school boards is that
a lot of these issues are not popular at the
state legislation level, so they push them through school boards
so they can try to get the conversation going and
move things further to the right in a lot of
ways and get them more acceptable. So like the the
(01:18:07):
parental notification that was first seen in Sacramento, it was
it wasn't even looked at. Then we saw it in
a local school district chain.
Speaker 8 (01:18:14):
The cartel rejected it, did they did?
Speaker 9 (01:18:18):
I found it funny that that group is called the
cartel in any way, shape or form, because they're they're
very you know, they're not They're not rough and tumble
at all, right, not somebody I could see carrying a
gun or you know, doing Gestapo tactics or like that.
(01:18:39):
You know, you know, Look, the teamsters were familiar with
being called you know, the cartel or the mob or
you know, all this stuff. And it's it's funny because
one of the things I've always told people is a
way to kind of list the stigmas is if I
was in the mob, these people I don't like, I
just have them whacked, right.
Speaker 8 (01:18:58):
They just get them whacked.
Speaker 9 (01:19:00):
And if the cartel and Sacramento, if it was really
the cartel, right, then they would just have these board
members whacked, right Like. Obviously I'm not advocating any of that.
The reality is is I'm trying to make light. Yeah,
and I'm just you know, doing an example of exaggeration
to say, come.
Speaker 8 (01:19:18):
On, they're just trying to use these words to then
run with them. Put it on Facebook.
Speaker 9 (01:19:25):
Get somebody who makes a decision based on fifteen seconds
of something that they read, and then all of a sudden,
you know, you wake up one day and things are
very different than what you thought you were fighting for
or what the issue was.
Speaker 14 (01:19:38):
The messaging is short on purpose, you don't have to
think much with it.
Speaker 9 (01:19:42):
Yeah, and it's almost like, you know, people have fallen
into this trap of not taking the time. The example
I would give is is, you know, people knocking on
your door. Like, we have this tendency who's knocking on
my door? Getting all upset? Take the time.
Speaker 8 (01:19:58):
I get it.
Speaker 9 (01:19:59):
The days there's a lot going on. We're busy. I'm
a very busy person. Just the other day, at someone
knock on my door.
Speaker 8 (01:20:04):
Listen.
Speaker 9 (01:20:05):
There was a guy salesman on something solar. I already
have solar, and I listened to him and I explained, oh,
you know what. After talking to him, I said, look,
I'm always going to listen to someone who's out knocking
on doors. That's your hustling. Yeah, you're trying to communicate.
Why have we built a society or we're falling into
the trap to be mad at who's knocking on my door.
(01:20:26):
Even if you're on the opposite side of a position,
that doesn't mean I have to listen to everything you
got to say. But at least at least engage talk understand, right,
don't just you know, look through the window.
Speaker 8 (01:20:40):
Ah, you know, I don't want to talk to anybody.
Speaker 9 (01:20:43):
And again that opens the door to knocking, having communication,
understanding where something is coming from, and finding more common ground.
Right now, we're so polarized, we're not finding that common ground.
Speaker 8 (01:20:57):
What do you think a good common ground would be
on this space.
Speaker 14 (01:21:01):
What I've found most people understand at the at the
heart of it is that, for instance, these policies, right,
they're going to cost us a lot of money, right
and right now, like schools are already underfunded, We're going
to see a huge loss in funding this year in
California in our schools, and we're going to be spending
(01:21:22):
money on these sorts of like culture war issues rather
than like classrooms and field trips and books. So that's
the one thing I think most people understand is that,
you know, people generally do want to help kids, right,
and they want to help out their community, but they
want their money to go to something meaningful.
Speaker 9 (01:21:41):
So right has there has the district done a feasibility
study on what the cost impact of these things are
yet before its voted? Is there there's no mechanism that
forces that.
Speaker 14 (01:21:55):
I don't know, I could just base it off of,
like the same actions that have taken place in areas
is like Temecula and Chino, They've they've had almost the
exact same happen, same things happen Temecula. How to recall Orange,
how to recall Chino? Has cost. I think they somewhere
north of one point nine million dollars in legal fees
(01:22:18):
in the last two school years. So litigating some of
these issues.
Speaker 8 (01:22:23):
Yeah, that's not good for the district.
Speaker 14 (01:22:25):
It's a lot of crans.
Speaker 8 (01:22:26):
Yeah, it's a lot of books and a lot of books, right,
that's a few teachers.
Speaker 14 (01:22:29):
Right, it's an arts program.
Speaker 9 (01:22:32):
Yeah, yeah, some some activities, extra curricular activities.
Speaker 14 (01:22:36):
That's a lot of stuff, right, And that's I think
most people can see it that way.
Speaker 9 (01:22:41):
So anything else you want to cover, we've got, Like,
I think you got a hard stop here in about
seven eight minutes, Okay, uh no.
Speaker 14 (01:22:48):
I'm just encouraging people. Like in general, our goal is
to get people involved. I think the more people get
involved in any kind of local politics, the more they
see things for what they are. Either way, we will
meet with you, We'll talk with you on both sides.
We just want people to get involved and to do
what's best for the kids in this community and around us,
(01:23:08):
and support our teachers and staff too.
Speaker 7 (01:23:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (01:23:10):
I think that's the attitude of engaging and having the conversation.
You know, you can have a situation where where we
disagree fundamentally, right, and you know, we maybe adamantly on
the opposite side of an issue, but at least have
the conversation and understand. I think in today's society we're
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polarizing to a level in which we're just not even
listening to the other side to find common ground. It's
either okay, well I win by two votes, so I'm
going to take everything to the extreme this way or
that way versus a How do we lead by a consensus?
How do we lead by what's good for the community,
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where we all work together and we find some commonalities.
It takes work to do that. It takes a lot
of work, have to listen. I would ask the question,
how can people help? What can they do to help
to get involved?
Speaker 14 (01:24:06):
So you can find us on Instagram at Together Underscore
for Underscore Redlands. We have a website Together number four
redlands dot com. We're at every school board meeting in
Redlands and that also it's not just Redlands. It covers
parts of Highland Mentone, Forest Falls, even Loma Linda and
(01:24:28):
even a portion of San Bernardino. So it's a huge
it's a pretty big district.
Speaker 8 (01:24:32):
That's a large deal.
Speaker 14 (01:24:33):
Yeah, geographically, So we're at every every board meeting, we
bring pizza, We feed people, We make sure people are
like cover, you know, taking care of in line with
water and and help if needed. And that's one way
we will be hopefully our goal is to if we
can't get these board members, so listen to us, we
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will be trying to flip some of the seats and
get the board back.
Speaker 8 (01:25:00):
Being twenty six, yeah, twenty twenty six a year and
a half.
Speaker 9 (01:25:03):
Yeah, anything else you want to close on.
Speaker 14 (01:25:06):
Or no, just thank you for having me and Susan.
Speaker 8 (01:25:10):
Is there anything you'd like to add.
Speaker 13 (01:25:14):
This whole time, so many difficult.
Speaker 8 (01:25:21):
I don't believe you, Susan. I know, I was like,
I got to do this more often with Susan in meetings.
Speaker 9 (01:25:27):
I got to have a microphone and set up this
way and I don't ever jumping in and anyway. Obviously
we're having fun with it. But anything you'd like to add, Susan.
Remember it's live radio.
Speaker 14 (01:25:39):
By the way, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's scary. It is scary.
Speaker 9 (01:25:47):
Well, we appreciate you coming on the Worker Power Hour
and discussing what's going on. I know that a lot
of our staff, a lot of the community, a lot
of the people we represent have been engaged in this
process with you and have been, you know, trying to
help get the message out, and in a lot of ways,
many of us have been, you know, really shocked by
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the misinformation or the straight up lies that are being
told to agitate and get people worked up. And so
when I see people worked up on these issues every
now and then, I always on the surface say, well,
I agree with you if that were the truth, right,
And they usually kind of look at you and go,
what do you mean. It's like, okay, well, first of all,
(01:26:29):
let's let's break down the truth. And then I always
lately I've been using this, so is what we see
on Facebook or what we see in the political theater
lately is it true? Right? And I go, you can't
cherry pick right now, like just because it fits your
narrative this moment, only what you like to hear is true?
Speaker 8 (01:26:50):
Is that really? You know?
Speaker 9 (01:26:52):
Actually there's a there's a phrase for it. I read
about it the other day. It's named after some author
from many years ago. But you know, you can't cherry
pick the truth out of something that you know, the
sources not truthful most of the time to begin with.
So anyway, in these debates that I've been having with
people lately, I've said, yeah, based on the way you're
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explaining this narrative, I agree with you. The problem is
most of what you're saying is that's not true. And
then when you try to drill down on the truth,
that's where you get to find out if somebody is
reasonable or not, or if they're seeking information to support
the position versus seeking the information to make a good decision.
(01:27:37):
There is the difference. Modern politics has moved into a
space where people are seeking information to support something they've
already decided notion that's correct, not seeking information to help
form an opinion or to help understand what's going on.
(01:28:00):
And I think that our modern news and our modern
political you know, climate should we should all be just
taking that step back, going okay, let's let's take a
step back, let's really put the facts on the table,
let's sort that out. Let's take a little bit of
time to do it. Now, Well, I don't have enough time,
(01:28:20):
so I'm just going to vote this way. No, no, no,
no no. That's how a society makes a lot of
bad decisions, even if it may be in my individual
favor that time. Oh, chalk up the win, not really,
because the next time you go around, you could definitely
be on the losing side if the right information is
not out there. I think we really got to figure
out how we do a better job of cleaning this up.
(01:28:41):
So I really appreciate you coming on the show and
appreciate all of our members that are engaging in this
process with you trying to help advocate and bring a
safe space and transparency and you know, save money as
well as make sure you don't have some crazy wonky
policy that doesn't belong. And I always find it funny,
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I know, Uh, I forget what city here in southern
California it was a library, not a school library, but
a library where there was a fight over what.
Speaker 8 (01:29:09):
Was is a Huntington Vach Beach and they just lost.
Speaker 9 (01:29:12):
Yeah they lost. It's a library. Yeah, Like I remember
as a kid. Look, I'm not trying to make this
thing go crazy here, but I remember as a kid.
I was a young you know boy, teenager, and I
was like, yeah, amazing what you could find at the library, right,
like like any correct, That's what I'm getting at, right
like like at the library, like you, it's a resource
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for all these different things. That's why you have guardrails
and certain rules and stuff like that, Like, but you
don't pull out things that you completely politically disagree with,
matter of fact. That's what it's there for for everybody
to learn how to manage. That's the freedom of speech. Yeah,
(01:29:54):
that's where you learn our differences. That's where you learn
how to regulate yourself as an individual to make sure
that you're making good judgments versus being manipulated by a
lack of information. And I think that's where it's kind
of where this whole argument lies, right.
Speaker 14 (01:30:12):
Yeah, And it's also just like finding out for yourself things.
Like one of the rumors that always get spread is
like teachers are teaching this in the classroom, and I
always say, please spend some time in your kids classroom please.
Speaker 9 (01:30:23):
Wells will tell you over and over again, like you know,
on both sides of the aisle, teachers.
Speaker 8 (01:30:30):
Will go easy.
Speaker 9 (01:30:31):
Yeah, this is not true, Like, come on, these are
not things that are going on in the classroom that
you were that others that are not teachers that are
saying that. So you know, again, sorting it out, get
the information, make good decisions. Sometimes you're gonna have to
hear things you disagree with. There's nothing wrong with listening
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to the other side. You know, if we get into
a space where we just don't listen to the other
side anymore at all, you know, it's going to be
a lot of fistfights, you know, at Thanksgiving dinner, right,
it's happening now, and I'm just skidding.
Speaker 8 (01:31:10):
Well again, Tricia, thanks for coming on.
Speaker 9 (01:31:12):
Really appreciate your work with the Redlands Advocacy Group, the
nonprofit there in the region and all the work that
you all are doing. And again we appreciate all of
our members that are participating in this. That's why we
had you on the show. We know that this is
a lot of work that you're grounded in and you're
really doing a good job of just educating the public
on doing and having good public policy. And you know
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with that this is the work of Power Hour with
Randy Corgan on the team. STIRS nineteen thirty two broadcast
network Mark take Away for a quick break.
Speaker 10 (01:31:46):
I'm Lillian Vasquez with Community Matters. There are many car
clubs and car shows throughout the Illan Empire. I visited
a car show in Yukaipa and spoke with David Avilov,
president of Past Pleasures Car Club. He shared about the club,
it's purpose and when it first began.
Speaker 8 (01:32:03):
Will it's kind of a debate. We believe that.
Speaker 13 (01:32:05):
The first organized group was around nineteen seventy nine, but
more officially closer to nineteen eighty six or eighty seven.
We gather to help celebrate the Southern California car culture
of the forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies.
Speaker 10 (01:32:20):
David shared the types of cars you might see and
of course his pride and joy.
Speaker 13 (01:32:25):
We see all kinds of cars, from early model hot
rods to very very well appointed custom cars, all mixing models.
Speaker 8 (01:32:35):
We have everything that's creating.
Speaker 13 (01:32:37):
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 just
a wonderful event and it's a nice family friendly. We
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have a bubblegum blowing contests, Poula hoops, blimbo contests. It's
just a wonderful family event and we encourage everybody who
has a car or don't have a car, come over
here and enjoy the camaraderie that we have again celebrating
the Southern California car culture.
Speaker 10 (01:33:15):
You don't have to have a car in the show.
Spectators and car enthusiasts are encouraged to check out the classics.
It's free to attend. 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
Yucaipo Boulevard. For communitying matters, I'm Liian Bosigos.
Speaker 12 (01:34:03):
Eighteen.
Speaker 6 (01:34:50):
All right, we're back.
Speaker 9 (01:34:51):
This is the work Power Hour with Brandy Cordon and
the Teamsters nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 8 (01:34:56):
Broadcast Network, airing live.
Speaker 9 (01:35:00):
From sam Urtino most of the time, just not today,
We'll be we'll be recorded today.
Speaker 8 (01:35:05):
One day in advance.
Speaker 9 (01:35:07):
For those of you that are avid live listeners, we
really appreciate you. We really do appreciate you listening live.
When you do, I try to pay attention to those
analytics and see how many of you are listening on
the app or listening on the radio, or listening you
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know through you know some of you that go through some.
Speaker 8 (01:35:30):
Of the the.
Speaker 9 (01:35:32):
I think it's kick and some of the live streams
where you can see the video, I'm actually surprised at
how many people do that because I get I do
get a lot of comments, and when I say things
or do things on the air, it's it's fun.
Speaker 8 (01:35:44):
So we appreciate you.
Speaker 9 (01:35:45):
And if you want to have fun tomorrow treating it
like it's live, I will be in another meeting that
that's again that's why we're having to record the show early.
But if I can respond to them, I will and
I'll have some fun with you in that meeting. Hopefully
that meeting's done by then, but it is, it is
two hours away, and I will not be able to
make it back in time to actually do a live
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show anyway. With that, let me get into some more news,
some more Worker Power Hour news.
Speaker 8 (01:36:15):
Or IBT news.
Speaker 9 (01:36:17):
Teamster's local night Excuse Me teams is Local three ninety
six votes overwhelmingly to authorize the strike in Republic Services.
Now there's already a strike in Boston with Republic Services,
and so it looks like Republic is starting to dig
in and guess what. It looks like they're going to
have more disputes across the country. And in a decisive
move to demand fair treatment and a strong first contract. Recently,
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organized workers at EQ Environmental Services, which is a Republic
Services institution, have voted overwhelmingly to authorize the strike. These
essential workers, represented by Teamsters Local three ninety six, are
responsible for the safe transport of hazardous materials across southern California.
The strike authorization vote sends a clear message to public
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services team Stairs are united and prepared to take action
to secure the fair wages, benefits and working conditions they deserve.
So Victor, let us know if you need anything. He's
a principal officer at three ninety six. We actually had
him on a show probably about a year ago. I
forget how long ago it was, but he was on
the show, did a really good job. As a matter
of fact, we found out he actually worked in a
radio station when he was younger, so he could actually
(01:37:22):
come on and fill in for me and host the
show if I'm missing.
Speaker 8 (01:37:26):
But I know he'll actually be in the meeting with
me tomorrow, so he can't do it tomorrow, We'll both.
Speaker 9 (01:37:30):
Be there, and so we know that you know, the
Republic Services Group, strong group. We can't wait to see
that get resolved. But in the meantime, if that has
to throw down, guess what workers are going to have
to withhold their labor. And that's where we are in
America right now. I think that workers have to understand
(01:37:51):
that these corporations are only going to see things one way.
They're going to blow through legal stop signs and caution
and all that, and they're just corporate.
Speaker 8 (01:37:58):
America's got its way right.
Speaker 9 (01:37:59):
Now, and the only thing that's going to stop them
or work as a backstop will be will absolutely be
the only thing that will will will be the backstop
is going to be workers withholding their labor.
Speaker 8 (01:38:14):
And and and we don't take that lightly. I know.
I say that a lot.
Speaker 9 (01:38:19):
The reason why I say it a lot because I'm
trying to educate everybody on exercising it at the right moments.
I think that not enough people know that they can
do it, so the judgment of when to utilize that
tool is not fully the potential is not fully reached
because if you don't know, it's that powerful of a tool.
(01:38:42):
And clearly, those in a union environment typically already know
that that's a tool. But ninety plus percent of the
population in America is non union, and because it's non union,
you know, they don't know that that they have that
right for the most part. So you know, we'll pay
attention and report back to what's going on in that space,
(01:39:05):
and we'll make sure that you are up to speed,
and if a picking line's coming near.
Speaker 8 (01:39:11):
You, we will help get you notified.
Speaker 9 (01:39:14):
On on where you can go, what you can do
to help out with those striking workers.
Speaker 8 (01:39:21):
The next thing in.
Speaker 9 (01:39:21):
IBT news is the us UPS violates the Teamsters national
contract with a plan for buyouts. United Partial Service is
expected to unveil an illegal plan later this month to
buy out full time employees represented by the Teamsters, a
corporate scheme that will directly violate the union's national contract
protecting three hundred and forty thousand delivery drivers.
Speaker 8 (01:39:43):
The multi.
Speaker 9 (01:39:45):
Billion dollar Company Drivers Voluntary Service Plan, which is DVSP,
which UPS has not yet publicly disclosed, would offer cash
to drivers to initiate early retirement or quit their The DVSP,
likely to be announced to workers in the coming weeks,
would leave most drivers without quality health insurance if they
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retire under the program, and would undermine UPS's own legal
commitment to create twenty two thy five hundred more jobs
under the new teams or contract. In addition, anytime you're
going to put something like that together, you got to
negotiate it with the other party ahead of time. And
so shame on them for moving into the space, and
kudos to the organization for pushing back and not just
(01:40:29):
you know, saying yeah, sure, do whatever you're going to do.
It's it's one of those things that you know, it
sounds like a good thing on the surface, but you know,
maybe somebody makes a decision and ends up costing themselves
their healthcare, the retire rehealthcare in the future. Sorry, everybody,
(01:40:51):
I gotta text somebody something right now. Anyway, Teamsters ratify
a contract at Tyson's Local five seventy seven members that
Tyson Foods IF Amarillo voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new
four year collective barnament. Now, this is the same group
that voted to go overwhelmingly to go on strike. Did
they end up going on strike? Robert, do you remember
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the Tyson group in Texas and Amarillo, Texas. Yeah, they
authorized it so clearly they overwhelmingly have ratified the contract.
This victory is what Texas Teamsters are all about, coming
together as one, so we can fight for a better
life for ourselves and our families, said Al Brito, president
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of Local five seventy seven. Let this be a lesson
to everyone else in the meat packing industry. If you're
not happy with work, it doesn't have to that doesn't it.
If you're not happy with work, it doesn't have to
stay that way. You can win a better future with
a teamster contract. So congratulations to them. It's good to
(01:41:56):
see that they got resolved. We really, you know, obviously
love to see workers organize, do something about it, and
then you know, memorialize that in a union contract where
they're able to change their future and change their future trajectory.
I've been doing this job long enough now where I've
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helped workers occupy this space and get into a union contract, organize,
fight for a union contract, and then now see them
many years later retire and so to see at the
time that they pull the trigger to retire, that they
recognize how much different their life is because they decided
(01:42:43):
to do that. So a great job in those workers
working for Tyson Foods in Amarillo, Texas. And you know,
Amarillo is not that big of a town, and it's
it is in the middle of nowhere. I don't know
if anybody's driven by it on the forty but and
you know, I there's a little town just before it
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that It's called Shamrock, Texas. And I actually have a
funny little story about Shamrock, Texas. On a on a
Saint Patrick's Day, a Saint Patrick's Day many years ago,
I was driving back from Oklahoma family Evna had to
go to and I pulled into Shamrock, Texas on Saint
Patrick's Day, drove by right after the Saint Patrick's Day
(01:43:28):
parade had finished up, and actually witnessed a rainbow. And
so some people may think that sounds random. Why are
you telling me this Saint Patrick's Day happened to go
into Shamrock, Texas and see a raindo so a rainbow?
So I kept driving around trying to find that pot
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of gold at the end of the rainbow. Obviously I
could never get to the to the to the rainbow
end to find the pot of gold. But I just
I felt like it was a great omen and it was.
It was kind of cool, and it's a cool little
town and it reminds me of of of the movie cars.
It really looks like the movie Cars. For those of
you that haven't seen it anyway, you're gonna say something, Mark.
Speaker 8 (01:44:10):
Did you get rained on? No?
Speaker 9 (01:44:12):
No, no, not a lot just sprinkled. It wasn't bad
were the heavy rain was on the other side. It
was obviously in spring, so.
Speaker 15 (01:44:20):
Let's get some wicked spring storms.
Speaker 8 (01:44:22):
They do.
Speaker 9 (01:44:23):
But it was really cool again seeing a rainbow Shamrock, Texas.
I know, obviously it's a big impact on me. Maybe
everybody listening doesn't care.
Speaker 8 (01:44:32):
I just thought it was I should have played the
lottery that day anyway.
Speaker 9 (01:44:36):
In other news, yeah, I should have played the lottery
that way at that day. But you know, wherever i'ld
have played the lottery, guess what I wouldn't have. I
probably wouldn't have been able to collect because you got
to be a resident of that state, right is that
the rule? No, you can you can play lottery anywhere. Yeah,
but you gotta collect. You gotta drive back and get
(01:44:56):
and pay their taxes.
Speaker 8 (01:44:59):
Just look, I have know issue with that home money.
I'll pay the tax.
Speaker 15 (01:45:03):
But you know, you can play anybody's lottery, all right.
Speaker 9 (01:45:07):
So I have a teams to advantage profile to read
we we one of the things that we do with
our teams to advantage programs. We have profiles on a
lot of our our partners, and we don't always get
one in here. And obviously with the show not being
on Wednesday, ass moving it around, we couldn't get a
Team Servantage partner.
Speaker 8 (01:45:27):
We don't necessarily have to always have one in here.
Speaker 9 (01:45:29):
But what we want to definitely do is always read,
you know, at least a profile. And and I actually
this is I have an interesting story with this one
Rotlo Chevrolet in Fontana. So so, mister and missus Rotlo,
you used to actually come in and get gas at
the mobile gas station I worked at on the corner
(01:45:49):
of Fonte excuse me, on the corner of Sierra and Foothill.
Speaker 8 (01:45:54):
And so I remember obviously Rotl.
Speaker 9 (01:45:57):
I remember the two of them when they would come
into the gas station. And so it's cool to kind
of read the profile here because they've actually been around
since the year I was born. So Rotolo Chevrolet has
been around since nineteen seventy one. And what other dealers
can say that, like, how long have they been around for?
(01:46:20):
Fifty three years now or fifty four depending on what
time of the year. Great family, like they were. They
were very family oriented and anchored in Fontana. And I
know the Rotolo family has actually since sold the dealership
to I think the Capricio family, who has a dealership
up in Yes, it's fifty three years or fifty four.
(01:46:41):
I know you're trying to count over there, depending on
which if it's if it was established before the state.
Speaker 8 (01:46:48):
Or after the state.
Speaker 9 (01:46:50):
You saw whatever, I saw you doing it. In nineteen
seventy Mariano Rottolo bought Eddie Malone Chevrolet from General Motors
and opened Rotolo Chevrolet in May of seventy one. So
it's fifty four years. I just answered the question. He
was sole owner and operator until nineteen ninety five, when
his daughter Marie purchased stock in the corporation and became
(01:47:10):
partner and dealer operator. Mariano took the position of chief
executive officer and Marie became president. We strive to be
the best dealership around. We ask questions, we listen, and
we are always looking for ways to improve.
Speaker 8 (01:47:24):
We are also very involved in the community.
Speaker 9 (01:47:27):
Mariono was a member of the Rotary Club of Fontana
for fifty years and was even president from sixty eight
and sixty nine. The team at Rotolo Chevrolet Incorporated would
like to welcome you to our dealership in Fontana, where
we're confident you'll find the vehicles you're looking for for
a price you can afford. Come and check out our
full selection of new Chevrolet vehicles, or get a great
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deal on a reliable pre owned model. No matter which
vehicle you decide on, our professional finance team will help
you settle with a competitive financing or lease plan.
Speaker 8 (01:47:59):
And I know a lot of people that have.
Speaker 9 (01:48:04):
Bought vehicles from Rotolo Chevrolet on the Team Star advantage program,
including you Mark as he's raising his hand over there.
So when you're looking for quality auto maintenance and repairs
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drive train repairs. Since an appointment today, schedule an appointment today,
(01:48:27):
or purchase parts from us to handle maintenance and repairs
on your own. Lots of folks in Fontana count on
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and we look forward to living up to our reputation
every day. Stop in and see us today or contact
the staff for any questions. Teams for advantage pricing. If
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a Suburban five hundred, a Tahoe five hundred, a Traverse
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that's off Tracks one thousand dollars, Trailblazer one thousand off.
And if you're in the market for a Corvette twenty
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twenty five Corvette, that's five thousand dollars, but that excludes
the ZR one.
Speaker 8 (01:49:15):
So anyway, just thought i'd do a little read on
that and.
Speaker 9 (01:49:22):
Really really oh, if you're gonna call, please ask to
speak to James Speaker. Speaker enough sbi CCA and the
Internet Department to receive the discount. So again, appreciate the
partnership the Team's advantage program. More than a thousand small
businesses that we have in the network. We're proud of
(01:49:45):
that relationship that we built in over twenty six chambers
of commerce throughout the area.
Speaker 8 (01:49:50):
We appreciate the partnership. Is he gonna say.
Speaker 15 (01:49:52):
Something, Yeah, those prices are as of January sixth, are
June sixth, so they're very very very current. And they'll
also add any manufacturer rebates to those prices. Oh wow,
so they'll add they'll add on what they can on.
Speaker 9 (01:50:08):
I've heard of some really really good deals coming in
on the Teamster Advantage program. I've heard some people not
like them either, and I just say, well, just move on,
like you tried, you took a shot, you know, go
somewhere else, like you know, all we can do is
is try to help. And you know, I've I've heard
stories of you know, like eleven twelve thousand dollars people
have made huge, huge, you know, significant dents into the
(01:50:32):
into the overall price of something, especially if they're trying
to blow it out. They got old inventory, they got
to move it. It's it's it's great to see that
we can help in that space. You know, before I
bring up this last subject that Robert's going to help
me with this, there's some other stuff going on. He's
flagging me, screaming at me and stuff. But I do
want to cover a couple of things real quick. We're
going to do Kathleen and I are going to do
(01:50:53):
another video here very soon where we talk about the
post open enrollment County employees. We had gotten so much
positive feedback from the open enrollment we did, excuse me,
the video we did during open enrollment after the first
week of explaining a lot of things that were going
(01:51:15):
on in and around the benefits that we were You
know what we're going to do is we're going to
do a video at the conclusion because man am I
disappointed at some of the misinformation people put out there. Now,
for those of you that put misinformation out and you
took down your Facebook posts, thank you appreciate that. First
(01:51:37):
of all, I don't like the fact that you put
misinformation first, But second, I'm in a space right now
where we have built a retiree medical component affordable healthcare.
Speaker 8 (01:51:53):
First of all, it was affordable healthcare.
Speaker 9 (01:51:55):
And driving down the cost of the premiums and trying
to improve the plans to match the participants a lot better,
which I believe we have been successful at. Then we
were able to build a retiree medical component, an early retiree,
and then a post sixty five. And now that you
have these cuts to medicare, that post sixty five is
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even more important. The post sixty five benefit that supplements
Medicare is even more important now because you know, it's
almost prophetic that we were able to get that up
and run and rolling. And many people that push back said, well,
why does it matter. I'm going to you know, at
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sixty five, I'm going to be on medicare. Well, have
you looked at what medicare doesn't cover? Have you looked
at how much it changes? You know, how much is
your deductible when you show up or how much is
your copay?
Speaker 8 (01:52:53):
And how much is this? And how much is that?
Speaker 9 (01:52:56):
And you know a lot of times people again make
decisions without the information. And when when open enrollment began,
you know, open enrollment was like twenty twenty one days
twenty one days long. It ended up being an additional week,
so it was almost a full month. So there's plenty
of time to work through a lot of challenges. And
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we understand that, you know, nobody likes change, but if
you don't encourage change, you get taken advantage of. And
the Trustees decided to eliminate the option of blue Shield
and Kaiser first and foremost because Kaiser's just not been
(01:53:39):
a good partner with wellness and Blue Shield was a
better partner, but many of their plans were restricted in
a sense that their packages you got to buy because
it's like a fully insured plan. And as a result,
those same plans are available to the members through the
counties plan, so they were duplicated either by the Trust
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Fund or by the county, depending on who had created
the plans first. Most of the plans we had created
first and the county duplicated. However, there was two plans
that we had duplicated when we first initiated the fund.
And my reason for bringing all this up is that
myself and Kathleen and Kathleen, as you've heard me say
(01:54:24):
many times, Kathleen Brennan, our president, is phenomenal. We spent
countless hours over the last month, primarily in the first
three weeks of open enrollment, just dispelling misinformation.
Speaker 8 (01:54:37):
And what I was.
Speaker 9 (01:54:38):
Really shocked by was people's rush to judgment, to be distrusting. Yeah,
I am, I am taking back on that one, and
I am. You know, no one else advocated, no one
else advocated over the last thirty years to bring down
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the cost of health care because it was continually rising
until we built the system to fix it. And then
on top of it, no one else built the system
to create a retiree medical component an early a pre
sixty five in addition to a post sixty five, and
those things were all accomplished, not without challenges, not without challenges.
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And so we're going to do a video, do a
podcast like this where we explain some of the things
that happened, because we're extremely disappointed in some things that
the county did and others did, and the missteps that
were made by some individuals in this space. And then
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all of a sudden people wanted to take it out
on us, and I'm just, you know, gonna I'm gonna
really lean into this and ask you not to do
that again in the future, because the amount of work
that's gone into trying to create these pathways that nobody
else was willing to do. You know, some of the
things that people said just unacceptable. It's just unacceptable. And
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I've had to check some people and say, look, you're
not going to talk to us that way. You're not
going to talk to me that way like you're talking
to the people that actually put the work in to
make it happen. You know, it's not acceptable. We wouldn't
allow anybody to talk to you like that at work.
Don't talk to me that way either, So I understand
people get frustrated, but that doesn't give them an excuse
to actually take it out on the very people that
are making your health care more affordable and giving you
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a pathway when it comes to retiree medical because less
than five percent of the population has that option that
you have now if you were arguing about this space,
So with that, we are going to do that here
pretty soon. And we got a few minutes here, like
four minutes, three minutes, Robert, you got some stuff there
you want to comment on it?
Speaker 8 (01:56:43):
Can we can riff off? Thanks for jumping in here, Robert.
Speaker 16 (01:56:45):
Yeah, no, it's hard to follow after that. But yeah,
So I mean to go back to what I was
going to talk about was the Team's union as a whole.
I mean, you just mentioned less than five percent. That
could be probably less than that because it's you know,
not everyone has even if you have an union contract,
has retire in medical. So that's super on point. But
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the Teamsters union on a whole is taking on giant
corporations like Costco. The news that you just went over
with Air Gas and Tyson ups and then Amazon, right,
this week is Prime Day or it's Prime week, Prime
week actually, yeah, And so it's pretty it's pretty cool
that we work for an organization and that we represent
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members who are part of this large yeah, taking on
some of the greediest corporations. And I saw an article
that I thought I just mentioned that it was talking
about how the Teamsters are taking on these like giant corporations, right,
and it's true that not only is it ups Amazon,
which article I think it was on like The Independent,
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which is a fairly like, you know, center right type
of article or news organization, but and you know, I
think it it just goes to what we always say
on the radio show, where you always say and the
radio show about worker power, that really the team Seris are,
in my opinion, of forced to be reckoned with not
only on the local level but nationally.
Speaker 9 (01:58:08):
And we're the most militant organization out there right now.
I know a lot of organizations want to claim that
they are, but no one's putting their money where their
mouth is. And you know, if you just use the
Amazon as example, our militant approach there is as militant
as it comes. On a scale that is unheard of.
So thanks for pointing that out, and you're right, I
am with you. I am just as proud to be
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part of an organization that is that active. And I
appreciate our general President, our general executive board making sure
that we we have a pathway like that and supporting
the direction that doesn't come easy, and that's that comes
with policy that they're creating within the organization to make
sure that we're all encouraged to move in a very
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aggressive fashion. So I got to close the show out,
and we're building worker power. This is this is you know,
a space in which we're we've got this thanking teams
to and we're building out a message to think a
teamster all across the Inland Empire. And you see it
on our billboards and our buses, you see it on
the radio show, and you know, more and more people
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are listening, more and more people are seeing. And what
can you may ask, what can I do to build
worker power? Which you can do to build worker powers.
You can talk to your friends, you can talk to
your family, you can talk to your neighbors, and you
can organize a union and get worker power at your location.
Make sure you know you have the right to withhold
your labor, to demand your employer do better, provide you
great healthcare, have a retirement vehicle, and make sure that
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you can retire in dignity.
Speaker 8 (01:59:34):
At a later date.
Speaker 9 (01:59:35):
With that, this is the Worker Power Hour with Randy
Corgan on the Teamsters Local nineteen thirty two broadcast network,
live from Sammordino most of the time.
Speaker 8 (01:59:45):
Take it away, Mark.
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