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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Worker Power Hour with Randy Corrigan, a
brand new show about labor and worker issues. The host
of the show is Randy Corrigan, Secretary Treasurer and Principal
Office and Leader of Teamsters nineteen thirty two, one of
the largest public sector labor unions on the West Coast,
representing workers in government.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
And non sworn law enforcement personnel.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Randy Corgan has a thirty year Teamster who first became
involved in the labor movement by volunteering his time as
an organizer.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
With the Teamsters Union at the age of twenty one.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Since then, he's helped thousands organize, mobilize, and achieve bargaining rights.
He accomplished this by spending countless hours with brave men
and women all over Southern California in their living rooms
on the picket line to bring workers towards victory. This
is the Worker Power Hour and now here's the host
of the show, Randy Corrigan.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
This is the Work of Power with Randy Corgan on
the Teamsters Local nineteen thirty two broadcast network aerin live
from Sam Bardino and this time we mean live. I
know last week you missed us as far as it
being an absolute live show. It was a new show,
but it wasn't technically live, so we had a little

(01:20):
fun with it. And I'm going to remind you that
we are live today. Longtime organizer, first time radio host,
sophomore radio host. Now, I guess we're in our second year.
And did you graduate?

Speaker 3 (01:33):
I did.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
I graduated from first time, but it's I can't say
longtime organizer, sophomore radio host. I got to say longtime organizer,
first time radio host because it sounds better.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
I think it'll just keep it as a tagline. Yeah,
longtime organizer. First.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
I can't think of a tagline of longtime organizer, first
time radio host that can stretch on for a long time,
but still so ounce good.

Speaker 5 (02:01):
First time radio host, you always have a you have
a cushion.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
For air there.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah, what's first time? Yeah, it doesn't necessarily have to
be a year. So yeah, I'm gonna stop defending myself here.
Long time organizer, first time radio host. That's the way
it is. Thank you very much for we've settled the debate.
Appreciate it anyway. Last week's show was a great show.
We were joined by Maggie Malouli. She's a communications director
for the Philadelphia a fl Cio. She talked about the

(02:28):
strike that garnered national attention there in Philly. You know
it's going to garner national attention when the when the
trash piles up on the mayor storstep and and and
you know all the fun aside, you know, seeing workers
just throw down and withhold their labor in a city
like Philly. Good for them, So proud of them. And ironically,

(02:53):
we had we had filmed or we had aired that show,
recorded it the day before, and then it got settled
the next morning. So I want to take credit for it.
Like they knew it was gonna error on our show,
so they settled the strike. That's gonna be my story.
They knew it was coming on the Worker Power Hour,

(03:13):
so as a result, they settled that strike that very
next morning. They had heard as a matter of fact,
we'd had an announcement out and we we were, you.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Know, floating it.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Anyway, I'm taking credit for something we obviously didn't do.
But it's fun I've learned in today's in today's environment,
you could say whatever you want. Man, you can just
take credit for things he actually didn't do, So we
might as well have a little fun on it. Anyway,
it was great to have her on the show. She
did a great job of explaining all the job classifications,
similar to many which we represent at the local and

(03:44):
it was really, you know, empowering to hear how these
workers are coming together and obviously showing and identifying how
underpaid many of them were and the requirements that were
coming with the job. So thanks for coming on. Really
appreciate you coming on, Maggie, and we really appreciate the
story that was told. We also were joined by Tricia Keeling,
an advocate with the Together for Redlands group, the advocates

(04:07):
for issues facing the Redlands residents of Redlands. We talked
about her advocacy, their advocacy as a whole on the
local level, their amazing grassroots campaign and how they are
taking on Redland School Board to stop the passage of
discriminatory policies. We actually have a lot of members and
staff members that are actually engaged with this group and

(04:28):
helping out and so more power to them. I really
appreciate her coming on the show and sharing her story
as well. And this is a reminder that you are
on CACAA ten fifty am and one oh six point
five FM. We are now separating our announcements because I'll

(04:51):
tell you again that we are going to be airing
I think it's next week on another radio station, and
so we're having to uparate so that they can cover
when we're airing on their radio station, they can cover
and make sure their call letters and numbers are identified
when we do the KCA. Of course, we always appreciate

(05:12):
the partnership and relationship with KCA that birthed our show,
and we appreciate that in many different ways, and you know,
will always be a great partner with KCAA ten fifty
AM one oh six point five FM. However, we are
growing and we're not going to turn away from that
potential growth and we're looking forward to it. In addition

(05:32):
to in August, we are going to be rolling out
Worker Power Radio and we're you are going to have
the ability to listen to music and some union content
twenty four to seven. You're gonna be able to stream
Worker Power Radio. We're we're working through all the programming
issues right now, obviously planning out how that's going to

(05:53):
work and making sure that the vast majority of time
is good radio, good music, and our tagline. I think
we've we've fallen, We've landed on worker power radio music
for working people. Or we may play with this a
little bit worker power radio the music workers listen to

(06:17):
something like that for workers. It's good music for people
working hard all day where they can tune in and
listen and then get a little bit of news, get
a little bit of information, get a little bit of
good information about about unions, about the Teamsters, and maybe
some content. Will toss in some content every now and then.
Do you want to add something here? Mark, I don't know.

(06:37):
I think you should have a contest named the network
good well, I mean obviously not.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
The network, but the slogan.

Speaker 6 (06:45):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, Well, we'll definitely take suggestions.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Anybody who wants to throw some ideas out there, we're
more than willing to.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Don't forget.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
You can always contact us at radio show at Teamsters
nineteen thirty two dot org. So if you want to
send in your suggestions, send them in there. And we
really are celebrating very wide listenership. It's getting bigger and bigger.
A shout out to Robert. Robert has been doing a

(07:14):
phenomenal job of taking small clips from the show with
our new camera here right, the camera that I'm complaining about.
It's a great camera, but you know, now I got
to go get some plastic surgery done on my face
or something. Anyway, Yeah, he's taking these clips and he's

(07:34):
sending them out into the social media world, and people
are obviously getting the taste of the clip and then
coming back and listening to more of the show. So
that's really helping a lot of people be able to
see some of the content or be able to connect
to the show on a right away. So Robert, great
job and making sure that you're getting the message out.
So the next thing I want to move on to

(07:54):
is our live shout outs. Listening live, we have lay
Robinson and Miira Cordodova from TAD. We also have Michael
Aragon from CFS. We have say Hedul Shower dowry Man
from ARAMC. I hope I did that one right and
I apologize if I butchered it. Elizabeth Dodo from Child Support,

(08:18):
Carla Oh. We had Carla on the show just a
couple of weeks ago from Public Guardians. Good to hear
you listening in live, Carla Benninger. We also have Kyle
Monsoon and Warren Pennington from the Desert Water Agency. Sorry,
I gotta scroll over here and make sure that I
get to the rest of these names here. From del

(08:44):
Roza TAD we have Tina Avolos Morgan, we have ITD.
We also have Karen Tinsley and John Guteris. We also
have Jeremy Lopez and Sandy Cabrera from ARAMC. I'm miss Tricia,
I Miss Trish Flores from ryal To to TAD. My computer

(09:04):
was not letting me scroll up far enough.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
I think it was.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
User error, not necessarily the computer's fault. Jeremy Lopez and
Sandy Cabarra maybe already said that. From Rmclissa, Lisa Vasquez
and Nony Thompson. We had her on the show, Ivan Cruz,
E W's and Oa's at TAD one for enduring and
being able to provide amazing customer service to all the

(09:30):
customers during the revamp. Also Fontana, Tad, Rhea Chrysellis and
TAD O two Jason Nugent. We also have all the
Way Out. I think in the Desert we had yet
been Needles. Katrina Cato with Public Health. She is covering
needles this week. Oh you are Cato, you are all

(09:53):
the way out there. Holy smokes, Krista Hunter and Amanda
Montoya and Chaz Kelly and then the GME department all
from AIRMC. Thanks for listening and live. We appreciate you
all listening and live, and we can see our live
listenership rising faster and faster, and let's keep it up.
And obviously, if you want to have your name mentioned,

(10:15):
or you want to be recognized or your department wants
to be recognized for listening and live, we will definitely
do a live shout out for you. So next part
of the show are member highlights. We want to recognize
the incredible work the mid managers at the City of
Sambordino do, who make the city function behind the scenes.

(10:36):
Their work often goes unnoticed, but they perform critical tasks
such as program and project management, policy implementation, budget oversight,
special projects, and other administrative duties. Here's just a few
we'd like to highlight today. Animal Service Manager. They plan
and evaluate the performance of assigned staff and review and

(10:58):
evaluate methods and and they meet with key staff to
identify and resolve potential issues. Police Dispatch manager. So now
you have all these dispatchers. But you also have a
manager that's got to obviously manage a very difficult job.
That's a you know, it's like having difficulty on top
of difficulty. They control and manage the work of police

(11:21):
communications staff. Participate in establishing and implementing operational plans, processes,
work programs, and initiatives to meet department goals and objectives.
Participate in developing and monitoring performance against the annual department
budget departmental budget. Obviously you got to do the financial
side of things. An associate planner, they plan, organize, conduct

(11:46):
research studies, and prepare reports for development proposals involving current
and long range planning issues and development applications such as
plot plans, subdivisions, and model home complexes. And I missed
some live shoutouts. By the way, I got Ryan Frankin
all the way out in the middle of the desert

(12:06):
in Arizona. Thank you Ryan, A retiree always listening in
live as well as I have Beatrice Garcia listening in
live as well. Thank you b for listening in live.
And I don't know if you're listening or watching us,
but I pointed at you if you if you're listening
in live the on the member highlights. The mid manager

(12:27):
of Sabardino, they just ratified their contracts, So check out
our social media and website for the details regarding that.
Congratulations to that group, and then I'm gonna move on
to some victories within the local union for us to
lay out a lot of good stuff going on across

(12:48):
the organization. City of Low Melinda, a productive day at
the bargaining table. Desert Water Agency another productive day at
the bargaining table. We had a good VA out on
a company campaign. So some organizers, volunteer organizers out knocking
on doors participating nineteen thirty two joined a whole lot

(13:08):
of picket lines in the last week and a half.
That was the Ready Mix strike line as well as
the Republic strike. I'll talk about that in the news
here in a few minutes at some point later on,
but really want to congratulate and thank our local staff
for getting out there and our volunteers helping Local twenty
five extend a picket line all the way from Boston

(13:32):
to Anaheim and help hold that line down. So also
last week finalized a grievance for a member in the
Nurse Supervisors Unit she was denied repayment for a license renewal.
A filed on behalf of that member and all others impacted,
and the reimbursement was for one hundred and twenty dollars
in the sideliner was generated to ensure that was going

(13:55):
to be corrected going forward. Worked with staff dispatchers to
change their break schedule. They are consistently working fourteen hour
shifts while numerous new hires are in training and asked
to incorporate a ten minute break at the fourteenth hour
into the last normally scheduled break to allow more time
away from the dispatched terminal to eat, make phone calls,

(14:16):
and distress before going back and finishing their shifts. So
after meetings with supervision and HR, the department agreed to
honor the dispatchers suggested break schedule and put out a
memo last week. Great job, no better group to advocate for,
and it's good to see that the team is always
making progress there. Employer recently approved a significant increase increasing

(14:39):
wages along with a new title. Made the argument for
member and received back pay for multiple pay periods. Helped
the member craft a message to to impact their ability
to promote so that's are are just quick victories, and

(15:04):
definitely want to give a shout out to all of
you that are are constantly participating in the activities at
the local union and engaging in the stuff that we do.
The next point I want to point out is a
fun fact, and this isn't one that's so fun. It's

(15:25):
actually one of those points that you have to point
out in history that has to do with labor that
is quite you know, sometimes disturbing.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
And the the name.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
Of this is the reper the rep excuse me, the
Repatriation re Patriation Act from nineteen twenty nine to nineteen
thirty six. You were going to be shocked when I
read this, like this is this is what happened to
people in this time. Matter of fact, actually, when you
look at it, we've actually noticed this has been happening

(16:03):
to people about every twenty years. It happened in the thirties,
happened in the fifties, again, it happened in the seventies,
happened again in the nineties, and it's happening today. But
a lot of the activity that's going on right now
is pulling up. We have to take a look at
some of this and kind of you know, point out

(16:24):
our history and point out some facts and the Repatriation Act,
which I think is crazy to even call it this.
You know, we all know that that given some things,
a label like this doesn't necessarily mean it's good. But
when the Great Depression hit the United States, it looked
for a scapegoat and founded in the Mexican community. Mass

(16:48):
roundups and deportation of Mexicans took place, with the excuse
that jobs would thereby be saved for real Americans. Barrios
disappeared at the as the racist cry sounded, get rid
of the Mexicans, send them home. They were called repatriation campaigns,

(17:09):
but seventy five percent of the children deported were actually
US citizens born here who knew nothing of Mexico. Parents
and children were separated for years, some forever. Back then,
the term Mexican was a label given based on the
color of someone's skin, and not the place of your
birth or legal status. They were identified as the enemy,

(17:31):
and some government officials came up with the banner American
jobs for real Americans. All of a sudden, Mexicans were
responsible for the economic problems of the nation, and the
government came up with a solution to port as many Mexicans,
not foreigners in general, only Mexicans. One of the main

(17:51):
reasons was because they were the closest to the border
and it was cheaper to deport them. Well, thousands and
thousands and thousands of people were caught up in that,
and thousands of families were caught up in that, and
it just you got to look back. We're going to
point to something that also happen at a later show
in the nineteen fifties. It's actually you're going to be

(18:12):
shocked at a later show when we bring this up
and we tell you what the label of that actual
government operation was. But so as you see these things
that are happening in America right now, which leads into
the news where farm workers call for a worker led
strike right now, and we're going to have somebody from

(18:35):
the farm workers on in the second hour to talk
about the strike that they're calling for July sixteenth through.
I think it's the nineteenth And I think that this
really ties into recognizing how is it that this cycle
keeps happening in America where we keep trying to villainize

(18:56):
a culture or villainize a group of people, and you know,
and we see these pretty crazy things that most people
clearly don't agree with. I get we got the policy
sort of debate that we can get into, but quite frankly,
we need to make sure that we're paying attention.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
To how.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
How we got to be careful not to repeat history
all over again, especially this act that was passed and
actually between nineteen twenty nine and nineteen thirty six, like
it was law. We got to go do this like so,
you know, we're not always kind, it's the way we

(19:41):
do things.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
So I think it's.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
Really important for us to you know, pay attention and
do the best that we can to not repeat the
past as much as we can.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
So with that, I think that.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
Leads us to a short break before we go to
our next guest, which I believe is Slinda Bernard, the
executive director of the UCR Labor Center, and looking forward
to having her on the show. Here briefly, will literally
take like a thirty sixty second break, mark, can you

(20:19):
take a break?

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Take us.

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(21:05):
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Speaker 6 (22:02):
In the low sixties.

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Speaker 6 (22:16):
We're back.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
This is Randy Corgan and the Worker Power Are.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
And the team serves Local nineteen thirty two Broadcast Network
live from Sambordino. We have a guest, and our guest
is shay Linda Bernard. She's the executive director of the
UCR Labor Center.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
Is that correct?

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Great, looking forward to you coming on the show. What
do you think?

Speaker 4 (22:44):
First of all, if you're the executive director of Labor Center,
you got our own Worker Power Are. We got our
own live radio show obviously, sure you see our billboards
and everything else we're doing. What we're trying to do
is really get the message out to the general public.
It's where they understand how important unions are to the
community and really just make sure that we can do
the best we can at pounding a good narrative because

(23:06):
you know, corporate America controls the narrative. We lose if
we control the narrative workers when So with that, you
want to introduce yourself, Shelnda.

Speaker 9 (23:14):
Yes, So, as you said, I'm the executive director at
the Labor Center, but I also come from labor. I
spent twelve years at the County of Riverside where I
was a member of SCIU seven two one and was
the regional vice president for the last six or seven
years there before I came over to uc Riverside, So

(23:35):
I understand what it means to have workers at the
table and make sure that workers are at the forefront
of a lot of what's happening in the world.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
So for listeners, have explained what the Labor Center is
at UCR, what it does.

Speaker 9 (23:49):
So what our Labor Center does is we do a
lot of community based research. We like to do a
lot of work within labor unions to give the workers
the power to take the information that we do research
on and use that for themselves. So we want to
put the power back to the workers to say like,
here are the industries that we want to look at.

(24:09):
Here's what's going on in the Inland Empire, which you'll
find a lot of is a lot of research around
and I come from the IE for years. LA is
always the example, or they'll tell you something that's happening
in Orange County or the Bay. But what we noticed
was we lacked those resources in the Inland Empire. And
so we're structured to really build worker power and to

(24:31):
raise the next generation of organizers at UCR, and that's
what we're there to do.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. The Inland Empire
is massive. It's big.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
It's actually a very large metropolitan area that gets ignored
because of the Los Angeles basin. We've got this tether
to the LA basin that we don't have our own
news channels, we don't have our own identity, we don't
have our own government centers, we don't.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Have all these things.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
There should be some level of separation, not because you know,
we feel entitled to it, but because it's big and man,
when I got to go to the National Relations Board
Region thirty one on the West Side, it takes three
and a half four hours to get across traffic and
let's say you are in uh, let's say you're in
Victorville or you're out in Locern Like you got to

(25:21):
you gotta go all the.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Way to the west side of LA.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
Or if you're in let's say Coachella, you got to
go to Region twenty one, which is on Figaroa down
in downtown LA.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
Right. Like, again, those are.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
Just labor buildings, but that is the same is true
with a lot of entities. And the Inland Empire needs
to build its own identity because of we have the
population four and a half million people.

Speaker 9 (25:47):
Yep, we do. People often forget when we're talking about
the Inland Empire. It's not one county, it's two. And
we stretch and we touch two states. We literally touch La,
we touch Arizona, we touch Nevada, we touched San Diego Impire.
Like we are very vast and very wide in the
low desert, the high desert, there's all these different things
and so very diverse, extremely diverse. So to tie us

(26:10):
all in with LA and we're like, what do we
always say, we're not La out here?

Speaker 4 (26:15):
Oh I just had somebody remind me we can't see
you because my little toy here.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
I made the mistake.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
There we go, thanks to the listener live texting me, going, Randy,
we can't see her. Hey, shame on YouTube in the studio, right,
we were all looking at her and we weren't looking
at the at the screen.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Here. Our apologies for not getting me on the camera.

Speaker 6 (26:42):
I don't control the camera.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yeah, but you're we're all passing blame here. Look at this.
I'm sorry for interrupting to you. We need to make
sure we got you on the camera.

Speaker 9 (26:53):
You're fine. Yeah. So that's one of the really important
things about doing work and doing research with in the
Inland Empire. What we typically were finding was that our
students at UC Riverside were getting their education here in
the Inland Empire. They were growing up in the Inland Empire.
But guess what it What do most of our.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Kids do somewhere else?

Speaker 10 (27:13):
Yep.

Speaker 9 (27:13):
And we're trying to find ways to show them there
are jobs here that you can work and you can
make good paying jobs here. And so that's what a
lot of our research and data likes to back up.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
Yeah, I really, you know, I couldn't agree with you
more that. And you guys issue a lot of reports, correct, Yes,
Like you know, I think you did the State of
Work report a few years back. That was one of
my favorites. Did a really good job of laying out
the type of work in the Inland Empire, how how
business has really gotten what they've wanted in this exchange,

(27:48):
but workers have not. And it's really it really spells
out the short changing of workers in the process as
well as you've done, you know, like the state of
education in the area. I believe you've done a number
of reports where you've tried to bring up an awareness
around that.

Speaker 9 (28:04):
Yes, we have. In our recent report, the State of Worker,
which honestly we just hosted here at your haul across
the way in June, we had a conversation about we're
used to looking at the different types of jobs in
the Inland Empire, but this one was more about the
workers in the Inland Empire, their education level, the types
of jobs that they were more frequently to go after,

(28:27):
and where they would fall in line. And what we
found was while the lower wage jobs, of course are increasing,
our middle class is shrinking. In the Inland Empire, it
was disappearing and so that is the biggest gap that
we're now seeing in the Inland Empire.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
I obviously believe that workers need to organize, organize a union,
and many of them need to withhold their labor in
that process. You know, I think we're at a point
where corporations are being so greedy that it's really going
to take some sort of labor disruption for an employer
to finally come around and pay a wage where a

(29:08):
worker can buy a home or they can buy goods
and services within the community. But you know, clearly you're
pointing to the fact that that that that American dream,
or that dream of what somebody believes should be good
for their families becoming more and more of a distant
vision versus it getting closer and closer as time goes on.
Isn't that what the studies are showing, Yes, it is.

Speaker 9 (29:30):
It's harder to buy a house. I live in the
city of Reno Valley where we are selling houses now
for eight hundred thousand dollars right at the end of
the day. If wages aren't increasing, how do we expect
this to keep up? How are we expecting our children
to be able to move forward and buy homes? And
what we're also finding is that you're having multiple families

(29:52):
living in homes to be able to make rent and
things like that.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
So and there's this, there's a there's a devaluing of
a lot of these jobs you're referring to, which is
a huge mistake, an enormous mistake, devaluing these important jobs
in our community and saying well, you know, they don't
need a college education, or they don't need this, or

(30:18):
they don't need that like that is part of the
reason why it's created a sag in those wages. On
top of corporations being extremely greedy.

Speaker 9 (30:28):
Yes, and there's also this attitude of the Inland Empire.
Doesn't cost very much to live. The housing is cheaper,
rent is cheaper. Everything is cheaper in the Inland Empire.
And we know, and we have the data to support
that's not true. We also know that at a time
it was cheaper. Then everyone left LA everyone left Orange

(30:49):
County because they got priced out. And what's it done
to the inline empired cent Our price is up, So
we have to get back to centering the worker. At
these conversations, I'm very much like you when it was
time to go on strike. I tell everybody it's gonna hurt.
But how are So are you going to make them
respect you and listen to the workers and make sure
that the workers have a seat at the table.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yeah, you know you're obviously seeing our tune here. So
question for you. How can the public get involved to
help you?

Speaker 9 (31:17):
They can look us up on social media at the
Inland Empire Labor Center. They can also help us with
We have our event coming up on August fifth, which
is our end of the year celebration where we take
our students who have spent eight weeks in a fellowship
at different labor unions and community based organizations learning about
organizing and come and just celebrate them. They can also

(31:41):
just follow us on social media and see the type
of work that we put out and what we do,
and that's the easiest way to do it. We do
a number of trainings from know your rights, immigrant rights,
how to read a paid I'm sorry a pay stub,
to spot wage theft. That's actually something we do with
a lot of our students that is really helpful and
we sit there and go, can you see where the

(32:02):
wage theft is?

Speaker 6 (32:04):
You?

Speaker 9 (32:04):
Can they tell you to go buy a uniform without
giving you the money for the uniform, And we do
that and it's a really popular program that we run
with our students.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
So you mentioned the IE Labor Center, which is different
than UCR.

Speaker 9 (32:16):
Correct, Yes, so we're house within UCR, but we are
a separate entity. We are there to serve the work
of the people, which is not always in alignment with
uc Riverside that would love the business School and not
too excited about us, Well, yeah, you know, of.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
Course, the it's always interesting, you know business, the business
environment or you know, corporate environment, like they will capitalize
on every holiday in America, right for retail. But they
certainly didn't line up to in Congress to get it passed.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
Right now.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
They were on the opposite side saying no, no, no,
no as well as they they opposed every rule or
law ought to protect workers or the end or the community.
But let's say it's our groundwater or whatever it may be.
Corporate America, big business, the business interests. Show me when

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they put a rule on the books to help workers out,
Like give me one example in two hundred and forty
nine years that they led that they said, this is
going to help working people. They opposed every rule that
workers or movements of workers or movements of people fought
and pushed for, they opposed every single one of them,

(33:33):
and then you know, try to obviously take you know,
take it to take advantage of what those things are
once they get past.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
But then the flip side is, you.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
Know, it's like, oh, you can't put you can't put
rules on us, right, Like, if you just let us
do whatever whatever we want, We're we're going to take
care of everybody who works for us. Yeah, And I
don't believe them.

Speaker 9 (33:55):
I don't believe a word of that. You know, everybody
wanted the everybody wanted this country to be ran as
a business, and we're seeing what's happening when you run
this country as a business. Currently, people are losing their jobs.
They're not telling them how they're gonna retrain them or
what jobs are coming back. They're just you know, we're
just gonna cut what they've determined is waste. And I
don't think people or jobs are waste.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
Look, I love this debate, Like it's not a debate
with us obviously, but with others where we get into
the space of you know, they just said, just let
us do We're gonna do right by everybody. If you
look at two hundred and forty nine years of history.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
They have not been good. Like whenever you just you
give them free reign, they they are.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
Really really bad and they've got a horrible track record. Obviously,
the first one hundred year started out with slavery clearly yeah,
like they thought it was okay to own labor period like,
clearly wrong. Then the next almost one hundred years there
were no rules on the books. It wasn't until nineteen

(35:03):
thirty four that any rule to protect workers finally landed
in law at some place, and they have railed against
it every sense. It's not even been one hundred years
of that. So, you know, the business community, as much
as they say we got to run the government like
a business, I'm sorry, but you got a terrible track record.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
That is actually not what you're supposed to do.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
Running the government like a business means that you're running
something for profit. And you can see in the healthcare industry.
By running the healthcare industry for profit, you're killing people. Yeah,
straight up, right. So now, if you want to run
the government for profit, then you're not doing it for
the people. You're doing it for someone else's benefit. And
when you really look at the amount of tax subsidies

(35:52):
and tax incentives and redirect of tax revenue, discretionary tax
revemen being pulled out of every local community, which is
the billions of dollars in every small community here.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Seeing all that money being.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
Extracted out business is just taking money out of the system. Now,
I'm not targeting small business owners like the mom and
pops up and down Main Street. Matter of fact, I
was having this nice little debate with a small business
owner here recently who's kind of fallen into the trap
of Corporate America messaging and narrative, and I pointed out

(36:25):
all the huge tax breaks that these big businesses in
their city get in that person's city, and I was like,
see the millions of dollars that this company.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Got in tax breaks.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
What they should what that city should do is instead
of giving it to those big corporations and those big businesses,
if they're going to give away that money, take it,
break it up, and give it all the small business owners, right,
give it's all the small business or give it's all
the mom and pops. I mean, these mom and pops
are trying to compete on a level that's already difficult.

(36:57):
Then they have to compete with billions of dollars in
tax money being pulled out of a local economy and
then trying to claim, oh, no, we're the good guys.

Speaker 9 (37:09):
Yeah, And that's often what I see is the problem.
I mean, I know you do a lot of work
within organizing Amazon, but I mean Jeff Bezos, just like
I know Jeff Bezos and his wife spent how much
like that. There's no shortage of give me.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
Six million dollars, No one's counting, yes.

Speaker 9 (37:27):
And he needed to get a shot through a certain area.
So they just dissembled the bridge and was like, you know,
that's nothing right. So I always look at people like,
if you really think that business people and billionaires in
particular care about us, how do they treat their workers.

Speaker 4 (37:41):
So let's use Amazon as a quick example. I've been
actually using this example. Everybody's blown away by it. So
you take an Amazon driver versus a UPS driver. A
UPS driver who makes a delivery in every neighborhood in
America can typically afford to buy a home in almost
any one of those neighborhoods. Yeah, an Amazon driver cannot
buy a home in any neighborhood in America. In any neighborhood,

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they're not paid enough money to buy a home.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
Period.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
That is that is an absolute slap in the face
when it comes to this point, right, Yeah, like win's
enough enough.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
Like somehow that person is celebrated for that.

Speaker 9 (38:28):
Yeah, because that's all part of the American dream that
they've sold us on, which is we should all attain
to do this thing of becoming a millionaire or a
billionaire and you don't need to worry about people. I
always think that when I think about workers and I
think about just the people in general, profit over people
is a real thing. And that's what that shows me

(38:49):
with Amazon, it's profit over people. And just like we've
talked about with the government, power to the people, we've
seen we've somehow forgotten that and that's what's gotten left behind,
especially in the Inland Empire.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
So how do we turn the tide for workers in
the IE? Obviously, you know, we could say what all
workers need to do across the country. We don't have
control over that, but we got a little say in
that space in the IE.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
What do you say, what do we gotta do to
turn the tide?

Speaker 9 (39:14):
We really need to start continuing to build on workers' solidarity.
We need to continue to build at crossroads and intersections
where we can, whether that's environmental justice and immigrant rights justice,
and those intersections of us working together, I think will
actually start to build this in the Inland empire. I'm
also a big believer in boycotting things that are not

(39:37):
helpful to us, So I don't have a problem like
I've been boycotting Target now we're going on seven months
after they got rid of their diversity programs. And I'm
a big believer in the best way to get to
the billionaire millionaire class in certain business owners is to
hurt their pocketbook pocketbooks economically.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
I couldn't agree with you more.

Speaker 4 (39:57):
But that's why I think we got to take an
step further, and we got to get into massive strikes
where we're withholding our labor on a large scale. I
know the farm workers today just called for not the
farm workers, but the workers themselves. Not necessarily the union
called for a massive strike. But the workers are saying

(40:18):
enough's enough, like you can't be doing what you're doing.
We actually have a guest coming on the show later.
I'm gonna get into more detail on this, but workers
are saying, hey, we got to withhold our labor and
The point is is that your point of big business
doesn't pay attention until their pocketbook is affected.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
And so if people.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
Don't go to work for not just a day or
a few hours, we're gonna have to shut some things
down for a long period of time. And it's gonna
have to be weeks where it's a hard sacrifice. It's
going to be tough for a lot of people. But
we're gonna have to withhold our labor for a long

(41:02):
enough period of time that it starts to correct this
situation that's going on right now.

Speaker 9 (41:08):
Yes, and I'm fully in support.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
Say we start in, we shut the ie down.

Speaker 9 (41:12):
We should, We honestly should do that, and I can
affect the whole try we can. But we have to
prepare them for that, because I always tell people it's
never gonna be easy. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt
when I went out on strike. It hurts. But the
point is, it's the greater good that we're concerned about,
and the greater good is what we're pushing for.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
Yeah, and and and clearly, when workers get to a
point where there's nothing to lose, then there's nothing to
lose anymore. So not as well, just withhold the labor
in mass right, Yeah, and corporate America better be careful.
They're they're moving in that direction like rapidly, a lot.

Speaker 9 (41:48):
Faster than I thought they would. But I always remind
people there are always more of us than there are
of them.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
You know, when I'm talking to workers and we're strategizing
on what they can do and what power they have,
one of the things I always explain to them is
if you're looking at because they always use it, as
they usually context, this is a war like, oh, at
war with a company, And you know, sometimes that's true
and sometimes it's not. But they if I say, look,
we're going to use the example of war, and you're

(42:15):
going to tell me that this is a war with
your employer, you already won because you completely have infiltrated
the battlefield. You you one percent control the operation. You
you you know how to do everything, and if you
all get together, you can actually completely cripple the company.

(42:35):
So you've you've already won the war. You've just not
exercised your ability to do it.

Speaker 9 (42:41):
Yes, that's a good analogy. I've never thought about.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
It like that.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
Well, you learned it on the worker power, Yes, I did. Look,
I'm really leaning into this as much as I see.
I'll give you an example to the TSA workers. My
personal opinion, if I represented the TSA workers, I would
have demanded everybody go on strike the next day. Yeah,
you're going to strip away the collective bargaining rights of
all of them.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
Then we're not going to work. Like I'll tell you
right now.

Speaker 4 (43:08):
If they try to take away collective bargaining from the
members I represent anywhere in the jurisdiction I represent, I'm
going to tell them the next day, don't.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
Go to work.

Speaker 4 (43:16):
We're putting a picking lineup withhold your labor. Make them
realize how powerful is it. And the other example would
be in Utah. They stripped away everybody's the Utah legislature
stripped away public sector workers' rights to bargain. Imagine if
that following Monday, no police officers, no firefighters, no public employees.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Went to work.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
They would fix that problem within a day. Well yeah,
otherwise it'd be a run on the bank.

Speaker 9 (43:44):
It's true. You saw how quickly they fixed the issue.
In Philadelphia. People were tired of their trash piling up,
and they came to the table and they figured it
out within a week.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
They sure did amazing. What a little bit of trash
wud do?

Speaker 9 (43:55):
Yeah, So I think workers have to push the limits.
It's what I tell our students and our fellows, which
is you have to be willing to push the limits.
You have to be willing to sacrifice something to get
whatever that is done.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
So what's it going to take? I know I keep
asking it, but how do we turn this tide?

Speaker 10 (44:14):
Like?

Speaker 4 (44:15):
I think, We've got to keep agitating, We've got to
keep educating. Obviously you can see, you know, we've got buses,
we've got billboards, we've got a radio station. You know,
we obviously are doing what we're doing here right now.
I don't know if you know. We're on Monday through Friday.
And what we're doing is trying to agitate everybody else
in labor into this space to do the same thing.
And I challenge the Inland Empire Labor Council, which you're

(44:37):
obviously a part of, right to do the same thing.
They need to have billboards, they need to be on
this show. They need to have their own time slot.
We can host them on the show. We can get
for very minimal cost per week per month. We can
have our own time slot. My goal is to eventually
have a radio station that is one hundred percent labor

(44:58):
all day long, not workers, that they can tune in
at any point to hear different perspectives other unions, other organizations,
other coalitions that are actually partnering to help labor.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
And it's a we're.

Speaker 4 (45:11):
Gonna have to take this holistic approach to really move
into community as a whole. I don't know, I'm starting
to get all fired up on this and asking what
people can do and hopefully you can help do that.

Speaker 9 (45:23):
Yeah, So I think we have to continue to educate.
We have to continue to listen because I think listening
to people is very important to gauge where everyone is.
And we have to keep pushing pushing back on their
narrative that they're spinning out there about about labor and workers,
because you know, the attitude is you guys can be
lazy or if we we can't afford to pay you

(45:45):
these things. We have to start pushing back on that
narrative and we have to get people really honestly pissed
off about it.

Speaker 4 (45:51):
Well, I'm gonna I know, we don't know each other
very well.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
We do know of each other. But and I appreciate
all the work that you do.

Speaker 4 (45:59):
I just going to push back a little bit simply
because although I agree with what you're saying, I also
think that sometimes we're our own worst enemy in labor too.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
And I'll give you an example.

Speaker 4 (46:11):
Like those of us that are pushing aggressively, the rest
of labor needs to listen. They're not participating completely, they're
not engaging.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
Where are they?

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Let's go? It's time.

Speaker 9 (46:25):
But you know, especially because you run a labor union,
that we do sometimes operate in silos, and we also
only worry about our members, And so there has to
be that conversation which is the point of Labor Council
where everyone's sitting down and that one, two, three meetings.
I sat on their executive board for a few years. Also,
that's where these conversations have to happen about how we're

(46:46):
going to push the narrative. The same way I tell people,
you have to push your electeds. You have to bend
them to your will, whereas they've been used to bending
us to their will and that's no longer the game plan.

Speaker 4 (46:58):
Yeah, So when you push and you're pushing on your peers,
sometimes they turn away from you.

Speaker 9 (47:04):
And that's why sometimes in labor we're like a big
family where we've just got it right. We just got
to keep pushing each other.

Speaker 8 (47:10):
Right.

Speaker 9 (47:10):
They can't quit because they said no a few times.
You know, it takes a few months or a few years,
a few decades, it does, it does. But we also
can't keep ignoring the conversation.

Speaker 4 (47:21):
We won't, which is why we're doing what we're doing.
And again, I'm not trying to self grandize here or
pat myself on the back. What I'm doing is I'm
trying to challenge as an organizer. I've always I've always
learned that if I kind of pushed the envelope and
try to ask an organization to move along a little
bit or workers, that they that you will quickly see

(47:41):
who's willing to kind of rise to the occasion and
who's willing not to write. And so you know, again,
the reason I kind of did that was, Hey, I
need your help helping me press the rest of labor
and the inland empire to do these similar things for
us to continue to move in this space and be
as aggressive as possible. Hey, and if I'm missing boat
on something that's not aggressive enough, man, let me.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
Know that, you know.

Speaker 4 (48:04):
Yeah, well I'll be there to learn and figure out
what we got to do a little different. So anyway,
I just I'm just venting a little bit of what
we can do to help move the labor movement a
little more too.

Speaker 9 (48:14):
Yeah. So no, I'm like you, I'm very much out there.
I'm very much aggressive. I'm very much like let's go
and let's go. Now, if you mentioned a strike, I'm
probably the first one on the line because that's the
funnest part of my life.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
I love pig of life.

Speaker 4 (48:25):
Man, everybody here that's seen me on a bigot line,
I love you know what I what I love about
a pick of line is you you see firsthand the
raw situation where the workers have control.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
Yes, the workers have control. It is theirs, it's theirs, yes,
And that's.

Speaker 9 (48:42):
And that's the ultimate goal, is to show the workers
that the power lies within you. And that's why I
think the conversations have to continue to happen. And even
though it sucks, because we're a family. Hey, if one
of us is injured, we always say this, if one
of us is injured, it's an injury to all of us.
And we have to push them to prove that that's
a real thing.

Speaker 4 (49:01):
So we got to wrap up this segment in a
few minutes. Anything you want to just kind of, you know,
say or talk about I've said to me asking a question.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
To provoke it. What is it that?

Speaker 4 (49:15):
What you'd like to What message would you like to
get out? You obviously have got a lot of history
and labor. You've been connected to SEIU seven twenty one,
obviously the Labor Council, other aspects of the labor movement.
You're participating, you're active again.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
I'm just throwing things out here.

Speaker 9 (49:32):
So the one thing I think I always think about
when we talk about our center is we're always looking
at everyone to tell us what can help them. We
don't come up with our research projects on our own.
We get our research projects from our community partners, from
our different unions and community groups. They tell us what
they're looking for, and that's what we're here to do.

(49:52):
We're here to service, to service you all the best
that we can to do that and move it forward.
Because we understand our documentary, our research provides the resources
that you all need when you're going into a contract negotiation,
when you're going into the federal government or the state
government trying to prove a point, and that's what we're
here to do.

Speaker 4 (50:13):
Couldn't have said it better myself. Really appreciate the work
that you do at the IE Labor Center as well
as the UCR Labor Center and being the executive director.
I think there's a lot of potential here in the future.
I think workers are more ready to be militant than

(50:34):
I've ever seen them before. Now obviously get to see
this from a front row seat because I happened to
be the national director on Amazon, which is the most
militant approach to taking on any corporation in America right now,
it is beautiful to see workers responding like they are recognizing,
you know, we just got to do something about this.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
And it's not going to get.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
Any better because most of the workers when they went
to work for that company, they are looking for a
job within a few days. And the Inland empire is
full of those jobs. You and I both know, especially
being around the IE so long, and me and lifelong
resident have been extremely disappointed the exploitation of workers in
these warehouses and these production facilities. These have turned into

(51:21):
sweatshops that everybody has has has degraded for you know,
for hundreds of years, and now they're literally right underneath
our nose here and those jobs have been devalued. Workers
are ready to do something, they just don't know what
to do. They're not sure. And what we found is
this sweet spot is that once the workers go, oh,

(51:46):
I have the legal right to do that, yeah, it
becomes intoxicating for them. Matter of fact, this morning, this morning, workers,
I haven't been able to check my news feed yet.
I'm assuming it's already been out, isn't that right, Robert,
the demand for recognition in industry regarding more drivers that
have demanded Amazon respect the majority. You haven't seen it yet. Okay,

(52:08):
maybe it came out early right now, It wasn't supposed to,
but based on what I was told, that was at
supposed to happen this morning. My point is is once
workers know that they have that right to do it,
they're exercising it. They're jumping in and they're getting with it.

Speaker 9 (52:21):
Yeah, and as they should. As they should. I think
workers are always ready to move, but you don't know
what power you have until you know it, which is
why we do those trainings with our students before they
leave you see riverside and tell them, like, these are
your rights? Do you know how to walk on the boss?
We literally train them how to walk on a boss.
That's a skill set I never knew till I was
a social worker.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
That's the lack of information that workers have at understanding
what their rights are is by design again not being
taught in school. And as a result, workers are less
likely to be militant because they're not sure what they can.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
Do and what they can't do.

Speaker 4 (52:57):
They think there's actually a large percentage of workers that
think being in a union is actually illegal or striking
is illegal, which is crazy because because withholding your labor
at work and going on strike is actually tied to
the First Amendment. With the First Amendment argument freedom of
speech and freedom assemble is what convinced Congress in nineteen
thirty four to pass the Protected Concerned Activity Act under

(53:20):
the Wagner Act, like all labor laws enshrine that which
was borne out of the First our First Amendment right.
And it's crazy that generally everybody's not been educated on that.

Speaker 9 (53:31):
No, and that's the other side of it, is like
this is a lot about education and just educating people
because for the longest. I was told unions were bad,
and then I got in one and I was like, well, no,
it's actually the only way that I know to get
my contract negotiated properly.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
Unions are the only organization over more than a one
hundred years that have advocated for affordable health care, for retirement, vehicle,
for safety on the job, for a great work environment,
and reasonable paid to be able to We're the only
consistent advocate in that space, and we have been villainized.
I do have to wrap up. I only have thirty

(54:07):
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I'm Lily and Vascoz 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 Avila,
president of Past Pleasures car Club. He shared about the club,
it's purpose and when it first began.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
Well, it's kind of a debate.

Speaker 14 (58:29):
We believe that the first organized group was around nineteen
seventy nine, but more officially closer to nineteen eighty six
or eighty seven. We gathered to help celebrate the Southern
California car culture of the forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies.

Speaker 7 (58:45):
David shared the types of cars you might see and
of course his private joy.

Speaker 14 (58:49):
We'll see all kinds of cars, from early model hot
rods to very very well appointed custom cars, all mixing models.

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We have everything that's creating.

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I have a nineteen sixty six Chevelle Malibu, the yellow
one here my pride and joy.

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But everyone just brings whatever they have.

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There's several cars are under various stages of construction and restiration,
and we enjoy seeing them and seeing the progress every
month that they bring. It's just a wonderful event and
it's a nice family friendly. We've have bubblegum blowing contests,
hula hoops, blimbo contests. It's just a wonderful family event

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and we encourage everybody who has a car, don't have
a car, come over here and enjoy the camaraderie that
we have again celebrating the Southern California car culture.

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You don't have to have a car in the show.

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Spectators and car enthusiasts are encouraged to check out the classics.

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It's free to attend.

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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, Fortunnity, It matters.

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Principal Office and leader of Teamsters nineteen.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
Thirty two, one of the largest public sector labor unions
on the West Coast, representing workers in government and non
sworn law enforcement personnel. Randy Corgan is a thirty year
Teamster who first became involved in the labor movement by
volunteering his time as an organizer with.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
The Teamsters Union at the age of twenty one.

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Since then, he's helped thousands organize, mobilize, and achieve bargaining rights.
He accomplished this by spending countless hours with brave men
and women all over southern California in their living rooms
on the picket line to bring workers towards victory. This
is the Worker Power Hour. And now here's the host
of the show, Randy Corrigan.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
We're back.

Speaker 4 (01:02:06):
This is the Work of Power Hour with Randy Corgan
on the team Sir's nineteen thirty two broadcast network, Aaron
Live from San Bernardino. Don't forget tune in live, listen live,
but you always listened afterwards up the podcast. But I
got to give a I got to give a live
shout out. That's happening right now. My daughter is flying

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back from studying abroad. She's actually in an airport listening live,
and she texts Dad, I'm listening live too, So thanks, kid,
Really appreciate it. Appreciate you. You know, she's been flown
like eight or nine hours, landed on the ground and
it's going to tune in versus versus catching some naps.

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So really really appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
Kid.

Speaker 4 (01:02:52):
Appreciate A number of my children actually listening live or
listen to the show after the fact, so they somewhat care.

Speaker 3 (01:02:59):
What Dad does.

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
Anyway, I also have to there's a couple of things
I want to announce. There's a back to school drive
happening for Yeah, my daughter just text me packs, so
I love you too, kid. Anyway, back to school drive
for the KSBD parents. Those are the workers at the
at the airport for Amazon and sam Ornandino. And there's

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a donation box up in the front here at the
lobby for you to drop off backpacks, binders, pens, pencils, folders, papers,
and more.

Speaker 3 (01:03:33):
We do it.

Speaker 4 (01:03:34):
It's a third annual back to school drive for those workers.
Clearly they unionized last year. Amazon is refusing to negotiate
big corporation like that. Apparently, you know, Viso supposed to
spend fifty six million dollars on his wedding, have fifteen
yachts and something that flies them to the moon or something.

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Yet you know, doesn't want to pay people, you know,
decent wages and working conditions anyway. So we're we like
to do things like this and help them, you know,
raise funds or resources, especially for those in need that
have kids. So this back to school drive really important
and we really appreciate that. The other thing I want
to point out is to save the date. It's a

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sponsor appreciation night. Join the Inland Empire sixty six ers
for a fun night of baseball on Saturday, July nineteenth,
twenty twenty five for Superhero Night, character appearances, face painting, giveaways,
and more. Enjoy five complementary tickets for anybody connected to us.
You have to be part of you know, obviously you

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have to be a member of the local union. Imagine
that a, So, is the game on the nineteenth or
is the game on the twenty eighth?

Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
Mark? Should be the nineteenth? Yeah, Saturday, the nineteenth.

Speaker 4 (01:04:56):
Okay, well here there's another date here, but we'll just
make sure it's clear it's July nineteenth. It's this Saturday.
As I was reading Ford Oops, think about it. Five
tickets for free, you just got to and the concessions
are actually not that expensive there. It's actually it's a
really good time. Every member I know that has gone

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there and participated in these events really enjoys it. And
if you look over into right field you get to
see the big old Teamster banner there that we sponsor,
making sure that we're again part of that community. So
and as part of our Teamster Advantage partnership, that's where
we built our relationship with the Inland Empire sixty six
ers as well as more than a thousand small businesses

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throughout the Inland Empire. You know, we take great pride
in participating in more than twenty six chambers of commerce.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
Throughout the IE. We what we're doing.

Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
Is we're educating the small business community. On union members,
they typically make more money than non union and they're
going to contribute more, and we want to make sure
that that small business survives and participates and people make
good money and can support their family and take them
to soccer practice or baseball practice or whatever it is,

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and then obviously have a have a decent way of life.
And we're proud of this relationship that we've built with
the with the small business community. And today we have
a two for we have we have somebody on. We
have Nicole on, who is part of Notary Max plus
correct Nicole absolutely, and she's also a member of the local,

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so she's a member and you get to representer's member.
But she's also Teamster Advantage Partners, so she's participating in it.
And I love these scenarios because because it's a two
fur for us and now we get to celebrate not
only the fact that you're a member and you participate
in your union, but you you know, you got a
little small business on the side and you're trying to

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you know, do a little extra this and that, and
we want to promote that for free. You know, everybody
else charges. So pull that mic a little bit closer
to you, don't be shy.

Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
That's right, that's right.

Speaker 4 (01:07:02):
Okay, the you know, the small business community needs this
kind of stuff, and especially if we're able to broadcast
like we are, or we're able to get out to
our thirty plus thousand households, it's nothing but help. So
why don't you tell us about your small business, Nicole,
and thank you for coming on.

Speaker 16 (01:07:18):
Thank you guys for inviting me to come on. I'm
the Code Scales and I started my notary business back
in two thousand and six, so I've been in business
for many years. I have a specialty with notarimax Plus,
which is my company, notarymaxplus dot Com. Is one of

(01:07:41):
my specialties is a state planning, so making sure that
families don't go to probate when they're family member transitions.
It's a lot of headaches to go and deal with
courts and lawyers.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
And it was such a nice thing you said, they transition. Yes,
that's a good way to describe it.

Speaker 16 (01:08:04):
Right. Well, you know, I'm a Christian and that's one
of our there you go languages. We transition, right, we
go to heaven right, hopefully that's right, Okay hopefully yes,
Well I believe that, and so yeah, that's my company.
One of the I've been in a notary mortgage loan

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officer also, and I've been doing that since twenty seventeen
and notary since two thousand and six. And I started
to have a passion for working with elderly, you know,
just making sure that their affairs are in order. I
don't know what it is. It came on me, and
I've been helping people. I've been sharing this information in

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regards to why you need to have a plan, because
if you don't have a plan, somebody else will have
one for you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
Yeah, and you're going to leave a mess bind, that's right. Yeah,
you don't want to do that.

Speaker 16 (01:09:04):
The best gift you can give your family is your
affairs in order.

Speaker 4 (01:09:07):
That's very true, right, Don't let them, don't let them
stress out or fight, right, Yeah, but there's some people
that actually are like, no, I want them to fight
after I'm gone.

Speaker 8 (01:09:15):
No.

Speaker 16 (01:09:15):
Yeah, Well some are like that, that's their prerogative, right, It.

Speaker 4 (01:09:19):
Actually is right, that's the crazy part, right. We can't
force them to have their affairs in order. Right.

Speaker 16 (01:09:24):
So I am I'm a member of Teamsters, and I
also work within the county and I've been an entrepreneur
for years, and so my goal is to help thousands.
My goal is to be a blessing for thousands. And
the way I can do that is provide them a
service that is ethical, that is going to be done quick,

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fast and friendly.

Speaker 4 (01:09:51):
You got to have some pretty incredible stories, like being
in this space for sounds like almost twenty years, right, right,
So I've.

Speaker 16 (01:09:58):
Been estate planning, specially for over fourteen years. A company
I am partnered with is out of Coasta Mason, And yes,
I've had some interesting stories. So one of them was
I was servicing a client out in Corona and two
of the sisters were present while father was signing his

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declaration of trust, his will, his power of attorney, his
advanced health care directive, his trust certification because he had
his own property. And it got a little ugly quick,
and you're sitting right there and I have to say,
hold on, see these are stories.

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
I like, this glimpse into something you normally wouldn't see. Right.

Speaker 16 (01:10:43):
You thought they would be on best behavior, you know.
And so one sister started saying something to the other
sister snide, you know. And Dad is trying to keep
everything cool and say, okay, we'll talk about that. And
when she leaves and the one sister that wouldn't stop,
and next thing you know, they're at it, and I said,

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I have to excuse myself because I will now be
a part of this. And they were tussling a little
bit and I had to step out and they had
to come and get me, and we finish up the
process so Dad can finish sign of his documents or
it wasn't gonna get done.

Speaker 10 (01:11:17):
Wow.

Speaker 16 (01:11:18):
But you know, we want to prevent those type of things, right, And.

Speaker 3 (01:11:21):
That's what Dad's trying to do there. Dad's literally trying
to prevent them from fighting.

Speaker 16 (01:11:26):
And right, well they're fighting before, right.

Speaker 4 (01:11:30):
And Dad's probably thinking, hey, man, I'm not gone yet, right,
I get to decide.

Speaker 16 (01:11:35):
Right. So with my program that I help people with
is making sure that they have the revocable trust, reversed, update, changeable,
and we call them living trusts because there's a lot
of documents in a portfolio that you use while you're living, right.

Speaker 3 (01:11:53):
Right, what is there? What else do you do?

Speaker 4 (01:11:55):
Because I know you said it's notary max plus and
a lot.

Speaker 16 (01:11:59):
More right, So a document preparation, you know, also helping
people with getting their affairs in order at their home,
so I assist them in that way. I found a
passion also helping people with sometime making those phone calls
that are difficult social Security to the VA office, you know,

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helping them look at their mortgages, things like that. So
my main thing is that I want to make sure
that people are secure and they're securing their assets for
their families, so their families do not have to go
to probate. That's the main thing. And anything over let's
just say, in California, properties over fifty thousand, it's going

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to go to probate if it's not in a living trust, right,
if your deeds have not been processed at the counter
recorder's office, they're going to go to probate. And so
your family is sitting around.

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
Trying to figure out what to do, right, and we could.

Speaker 16 (01:13:02):
Have taken care of our business, you know, while we're able,
while we're cognitive, not incapacitated, because when people become incapacitated,
now you have to deal with attorneys and making sure
that you're in charge of certain paperwork, right.

Speaker 3 (01:13:20):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:13:20):
A couple of weeks ago, we actually had a public
guardian on the show that obviously, when someone's deemed incapacity,
incapacitated and they don't have anybody to do it for them,
then a public guardian, a deputy public guardian is appointed
to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:37):
We actually had one. Carla was on the show just
a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (01:13:40):
And that's about the job that that's a county job
as well.

Speaker 3 (01:13:44):
Well.

Speaker 16 (01:13:44):
See This is one of the things that I share
with families is when we turn when we're born, usually
a family member would get birth certificates, social Security cards
for that person that was born, and then when that
child becomes sixteen, we usually do a party, get a car,

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get a driver's license. Right. But we don't think that
anyone over the age of eighteen needs to have a
will portfolio because at eighteen, you're an adult. Parents can't
come in, girlfriends can't come in, wives can't come in
and take care of your affairs if you become incapacitated
because you're an adult. So at the age of eighteen,

(01:14:32):
it's the best time is that we will now make
sure that our family has all those other great things.
But also let's sit down and take care and change
the mindset of families that we're going to make sure
you have a will portfolio.

Speaker 3 (01:14:47):
With a nice gift right, right, with.

Speaker 16 (01:14:49):
A will a power of attorney.

Speaker 3 (01:14:54):
This is something that is our gift.

Speaker 16 (01:14:56):
Grandparents can give it as a gift, right because you
know what I mean, make sure that when they go
off to college that they have those documents if they
have to travel, that they have these documents that are
in place. So no one has to make decisions on
that person's behalf right. So as if we become adults,
we already have the mindset of teaching our families and

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changing that and that's what we need to have more of.

Speaker 4 (01:15:24):
Well, Nicole Man, I learned something new today. Thank you
very much. I've just got a couple of minutes left here.
Is there anything you want to close on? And what
a great story. Thank thank you for pointing it out.
I know you didn't give names or anything. I'm just
visualizing that scenario and what happened, and you're like, exit
stage left.

Speaker 3 (01:15:41):
Let me know when you work it out right. But
you know, really appreciate you coming on the show.

Speaker 4 (01:15:45):
Also appreciate the work that you do as a public
employee in the Probation Department. I believe you are a
law and Justice officer office assistant and and and then
a tea partner. So hopefully this helps you in your
entrepreneurship and anything you want to close.

Speaker 16 (01:16:07):
On, you know, let's make sure that we sit down
with our families. I want to leave with that and
we start having the conversations. Sometimes we don't want to
have the conversations. We have blended families that come together.
We don't want to have the conversations. We have families
that are fighting. We don't want to have a conversation.
We need to start having the conversations of what you

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want to do with your assets when you transition.

Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
Thank you for the advice.

Speaker 4 (01:16:32):
It's actually very very good advice, and you know one
that not a lot of people put enough time into it.
And if you have any questions regarding that, we know
to call you Nicole. And your number is nine oh
nine nine to one three three three three six.

Speaker 3 (01:16:48):
Is that correct?

Speaker 16 (01:16:49):
That is correct?

Speaker 4 (01:16:50):
And obviously you could be reached on our Teamster Advantage app.
Get into the app, try to find what is MBP
and it's correct, MVP Notary max plus Notary max plus.
And with that we're going to take a quick break
for us to transition. This is Randy Corgan and the
Worker Power are the nineteen thirty two broadcast Network Aaron

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Live from Sammordino, Take it Away.

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Mark.

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PCAA ten fifty AM, NBC News Radio and Express one
of six point five FM. Reconstruction of the Mount Vernon
Avenue Bridge across the BNSF rail yards in San Manardino
is nearly completed. The original eighty six year old bridge
was closed in twenty twenty over concerns of earthquake vulnerability

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and was demolished. The reconstruction has reconnected the southern and
northern sections of San Bernardino's West side. The bridge is
a vital link for residents, visitors, students, and businesses. A
ribbon cutting is planned on August twenty third. A two
and a half month long investigation has cleared football Hall
of Famer John Alway of anydoing in a golf cart

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accident that killed his longtime agent Jeffrey Sperbek, sixty two,
died April thirtieth of injuries he suffered four days earlier
in Lakita. Sheriff's investigation have termed the incident a tragic
accident with no evidence of criminal activity or intent. Sperbek
reportedly fell from the golf cart that Elway was driving.

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The California Department of Education says a number of students
experiencing homelessness rose by almost twenty thousand in twenty twenty four.
This is the highest rate of student homelessness in a decade.

Speaker 6 (01:18:33):
The numbers vary widely among school districts.

Speaker 7 (01:18:36):
Students are considered homeless if they lack a regular and
adequate nighttime residence. This includes those who are living on
the streets, in shelters, in motels, in cars are doubled
up with other families due to economic hardship, whether in
the Illin Empire. About the same as yesterday, with highs
in the high eighties and overnight lows in the low sixties.

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For NBC News Radio KCAA ten fifty am an Express
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eure up to date, casey AA, keeping California alert and aware.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
This is the Worker Power Hour.

Speaker 4 (01:19:21):
Was Randy Corgan on the Team series nineteen thirty two
Broadcast Network.

Speaker 3 (01:19:26):
We're Back. Nicole's great.

Speaker 5 (01:19:31):
She had a lot of great information.

Speaker 3 (01:19:32):
Yeah, yeah, she's great. He's a very good reminder of
what we need to do.

Speaker 6 (01:19:37):
I would I love to have been in that room
watching those sisters fights.

Speaker 3 (01:19:39):
Oh oh boy, I can I could just imagine.

Speaker 5 (01:19:42):
I wouldn't want to be dad and go to sleep
with one of them in the house.

Speaker 3 (01:19:48):
I'm sure Dad had a had a few words to
say afterwards. I'm sure.

Speaker 10 (01:19:55):
So.

Speaker 4 (01:19:56):
In Worker Power Hour News, I think the first thing
I alluded to earlier in the show. Show is Amazon
drivers in the City of Industry joined the teamsters. Just
this morning, a majority demanded recognition on Amazon and their
delivery service partner in the City of Industry. I believe
it's called Metro, a delivery service partner there, and congratulations

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to that group. I'm going to see if I can
pull it up and actually see the number of drivers
in that as I'm reading here. Sorry, I'm just trying
to skim through this and see if I see a
number pop out at me.

Speaker 3 (01:20:30):
I don't see a number.

Speaker 4 (01:20:31):
I'm assuming it's somewhere between sixty and one hundred and
twenty drivers at that location, So congratulations to them.

Speaker 3 (01:20:37):
Typically the DSPs are about that size.

Speaker 4 (01:20:39):
And you know, it's another one in a list, a
long list of those that have done this, and you're
going to see more in the near future doing that
this very same thing. Workers are being fed up, you know,
as I pointed out earlier, a worker at Amazon, a
driver at Amazon cannot afford to buy a home in
the neighborhoods they're delivering, but a UPS driver typically can.

(01:21:00):
I'm not going to say a UPS driver can buy
a home in any neighborhood day to live in delivering.
But it's a majority, if not almost any neighborhood they
deliver in that they could afford to buy a home,
and there's just a handful of neighborhoods they can't. And
you know, that's the model that that companies need to
get connected to versus versus this. And and I really again,

(01:21:21):
I appreciate my daughter texting me and telling me she's
listening to Live. I was actually wondering I was following
her because I know that she was leaving Europe and
was hopping on a plane. She was studying abroad for
a few months, and was just kind of following. You know,
that's what dads do, right, And and to see that

(01:21:42):
she she wanted to listen to the show, so which
means she's she's on the East coast right now. So
she added up, it's five there, Oh Dad's show must
be going on, so let me connect. We it's not five,
it's now six, but she knows what time the show
is on, so anyway, I don't know. It always makes
a makes a father proud. So thanks Kied once again.
Sorry to beat that drum, but we got to do that.

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Winner when we have pride and what our kids do.
In other news Worker Power news, we have District Council
forty seven and Parker, which is the mayor for Philadelphia,
reach a tentative agreement and asked me. District Council forty
seven and Mayor Cheryl Parker the administration have reached attentive

(01:22:27):
agreement on a new contract, avoiding the potential for another
municipal workers strike in the span of a month. They
just ended their eight day strike last Wednesday morning before
our show aired because they knew we were going to
bring the heat to them, right anyway, It'd be great
to get to that level at some point. It'd be
awesome that if we had so many labor unions, as

(01:22:52):
I talked with Shay Linda here a few minutes ago,
that had shows too, and we had a labor like
network radio network where it was twenty four hour labor
news shows different unions all day, and that millions of
people listen to it, to where you were able to

(01:23:14):
mobilize people quickly. You know, it'd be awesome if.

Speaker 3 (01:23:18):
We really did. So it's okay to dream.

Speaker 4 (01:23:20):
It was great if we had that, So it's okay
to dream and That's what I dream of, is that
we turned this really cool, fun platform into a powerful
message for workers that we can check Corporate America or
any employers overreach and what they're doing wrong. The next
news article, many of you may have seen this as

(01:23:42):
a California farm worker who fell from the greenhouse roof
during a chaotic ice raid has died. A farm worker
who fell from the greenhouse or the roof during a
Kadok ice raid this week at the California Cannabis facility
died Saturday of his injuries. Elena's fifty seven, is the

(01:24:02):
first known person to die during one of the administration's
ongoing immigration enforcement operations. You send you Dura Alena's niece,
and the Union UfW confirmed his death. So a very
sad day. Really feel for the family it's had to
deal with that, and it's unfortunate that the situation turned.

Speaker 3 (01:24:24):
The way it did. But you know it's clearly when
these things happen, it creates a lot of chaos.

Speaker 4 (01:24:30):
People start running, and you know, you know, we'll talk
a little bit more about this when the farm Worker
staff member comes on here shortly and fills us in
on some of the things that are currently happening right now.
Some other news that I think you'all need to pay
attention to. This one's got me very very concerned, and

(01:24:52):
that is North Carolina Rep. Mark Harris and Tennessee Senator
Marsha Blackburn revealed on Tuesday in The Daily Caller that
they will each introduce the National Education Association Charter Repeal
Act in their respective chamber, So one will be introduced
in Congress and one will be introduced in the Senate.

(01:25:14):
The bill aims to revoke the federal charter for the
largest teachers union in the country. The authors say. Now,
the authors say, I got to keep from busting out
laughing when I hear this, when I read this, The
authors say that they want to eliminate the union charter
due to partisan politics over education. Of anybody right now

(01:25:41):
to claim they want to do something like this because
of partisan politics. Oh my, and you want to do it.
You want to eliminate the charter of a national union.
You want to take a position to put into law
to get rid of n EA. Insane? You got something

(01:26:02):
you want to What are you doing? Oh, you're getting
ready to dump me. Now I'm not, I promise I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna make I just I am
shocked at this, this whole Oh well, we want to
eliminate the partisan part of this. In a day like today,
you got some values. Really holy smokes, and quite frankly,

(01:26:26):
if you want to talk partisan, almost half almost half
of the teachers that are part of NEA are Republicans
and almost half are Democrats. So like, this ain't about
partisan politics. This is about you gunning for for for

(01:26:46):
collective bargaining and trying to villainize teachers, probation workers, nine
one one, dispatchers, all these public employees that make sure
that this country and your community is taking care of
every single day. Look, the guy that runs TESLA, I'm

(01:27:09):
not going to say his name. He gets eight billion
dollars a day in tax money, credited incentives, some sort
of give back. Eight million. I'm sorry, did I say billion?
My apologies, it's eight million, I said a day.

Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
A day.

Speaker 4 (01:27:29):
That's crazy that it's eight million dollars a day. It's
like ninety two dollars a minute or something like insane.
But I want to attack teachers. I want to attack
all these other people who are making sure that our
community thrives. Am I going to say every teacher is great, No,

(01:27:50):
but I can tell you most of them are, and
they love their kids, and they love what they do,
and they're doing the best they can to take care
of their community. With that in the news, the Teamsters
expand and IBT News the Teamsters expanded national strike against
Republic and the striking teamsters at Republic Services this week

(01:28:14):
are dramatically escalating their war against the waste giant by
extending picket lines to Los Angeles and a mayor landfill,
a major landfill in Ohio. The strike forced by Republic
Services will now impact over two million Los Angeles residents.
In Youngstown, Ohio, Trucks and trains carrying twelve million pounds
of trast per day from New York to New Jersey

(01:28:34):
will be unable to unload at the nation's largest one
of the nation's largest landfills. So congrats to those workers
and good luck.

Speaker 3 (01:28:41):
Also.

Speaker 4 (01:28:42):
You don't go on strike and take it lightly. At
the end of the day, they're obviously fighting for something
that we all can respect and make sure that not
only we have dignity on the job, but affordable healthcare
and make sure that those plans are good robust plans,
and they're not settled yet, so that strike is still ongoing.
And in a few minutes here, I'm going to have

(01:29:03):
Armando from the United farm Workers on and as soon
as I wrap up this next piece of news, so
hang tight, we're gonna we're gonna bring him into the show.
He's gonna pop in under the screen where we split
it here in a second. But really really appreciate Armando
coming on from the United farm Workers. We'll talk about
what's going on there. Bus Workers at George Bush International

(01:29:25):
Airport join the Teamsters. Bus workers at the George Bus
intern Continental Airport excuse me, the George Bush intern Continental
Airport in Houston have voted unanimously to join Teamsters Local
nine eighty eight. The new Teamsters work for the joint employers,
which is trans Dev, Transportation and RIM Services, and provide

(01:29:45):
transportation for the airport's rental car center. Teamsters play an
integral role in the operations of one of Texas's big
busiest airports. Robert Melee, who happens to be a friend
of mine, president of Local nine to eleven, excuse me,
nine eighty After years of stagnant wages and false promises.
These workers saw what other transdev workers were getting as

(01:30:07):
teamsters and decided it was time to get what they
deserved as well. So this victory would not have been
possible without or determined new members and the strong partnership
with the International Union's organizing departments. So congratulation to those workers,
those bus drivers at George Bush Intercontinental Airport. A little
history here for you. I helped organize a nationwide unit

(01:30:30):
thirty some years ago for the mechanics. Many of them
worked at that actual airport, so I was actually out
working at it was actually Hobby International Airport when before
it was called George Bush Airport many many years ago.
So as an organizer, as one of the many things
that I did and always have a fond memory of

(01:30:50):
helping workers get to a better place. Those mechanics are
still Union to this day. They were Continental Airlines, they
are now been merged with United and again it's a
good relationship with them. So with that, I have my
next guests on, which is Armando alanis the Secretary Treasure
of the United farm Workers, and it looks like we're

(01:31:12):
going to be having him split the screen and I
will take care of what this looks like here, so
none of you actually text me. Armando, thanks for coming
on the show, and thank you for Jordy. What do
you think we got our own live radio show. It's
not just a podcast. It's actually a live radio show.
So you're live on the air. Be careful what you say.

Speaker 3 (01:31:31):
We would have to dump you.

Speaker 4 (01:31:33):
And you know, we're really excited about, you know, getting
this sort of message out to the general public. Yeah,
I'll move it over in a minute, Robert, Armando, go
ahead and introduce yourself. Thanks for coming on.

Speaker 5 (01:31:43):
Oh, thank you so so much for having a good morning,
good afternoon. My name is Armando Elenis. I'm the Secretary Treasury,
noted farm workers and just excited to be in the show.
And I see that. Congrats on being a live show
versus just a podcast.

Speaker 4 (01:31:58):
I appreciate you labeling get like that because sometimes people say, oh, Ran,
you got a podcast, and I'm like, zip it, Yes
we have a podcast, but we have a live show
first and then it turns.

Speaker 3 (01:32:09):
Into a podcast. So thank you for recognizing that, Armando.

Speaker 4 (01:32:12):
It's actually it's a lot of fun running a live
show because obviously we get the radio where you know,
obviously Am and FM radio and where we hit a
very large area in the Inland Empire, which as you know,
is a big metropolitan area. And you know, we know
a lot of people are just listening and we're just
trying to make sure that we're connected to the community.
We know, working people listening to that show or at

(01:32:34):
least listening to the radio on their way to and
from work.

Speaker 5 (01:32:36):
So definitely, yeah, and especially in these times, you know,
communicating with folks into what's happening in the ground or
what's happening with everything across the country right now, especially
under this administration, it's really important.

Speaker 3 (01:32:51):
Yeah, And we got to meet people where they are.

Speaker 4 (01:32:53):
As far as communications are concerned, some people use the radio,
some people it's digital, some people it's you know, and
some people.

Speaker 3 (01:33:00):
Still do the newspaper. I actually love the newspaper. Just
started to find one, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:33:04):
But in communications you have to try to figure out
how to meet people where they are. You know, some
some people will only do things through an app on
their phone, they search it out that way, or you know, they.

Speaker 5 (01:33:16):
They well believe me, I'm I'm a huge believer or that.
And especially with the NTI farmworkers and and the workers
that we deal with whether they be you know, microworkers
and that are that are here or or or they
be you know, guest workers that are coming from other
countries to do the work here. You know, we're we
very much are very much aware of that, and so

(01:33:38):
we're always figured out trying to figure out how we're
going to how to meet people where they're at, uh
irregardless of technology, and sometimes where can they be most
comfortable being able to talk freely? Uh you know, because
some of some of the farm workers are obviously living
on the grower property and and sometimes it's it's almost
like as if they were like on a plantation some

(01:34:00):
type where everything is controlled in terms of who can
who can come in, who can go out? What, you know,
what can they what can exactly they do. So it's
so I'm very much aware of that.

Speaker 4 (01:34:11):
Yeah, let's not let's not run this over. Let's let's
let's actually unpack what you just said. And I think
that not a lot of people realize the dynamic that
you just referred to, Like like there is this shift
that's moving back into a space like you just described,

(01:34:32):
where people believe no one works and lives in these
conditions anymore, And that couldn't be further from the truth.
You just described that people that are guessed, you know,
they're they're allowed to work there, right, They've been asked
to come to work, and they're legal there of a
sort of legal status or not a citizen, and they're

(01:34:54):
living on the property of where the farm is doing
very very difficult work, extremely hard work. And then there's
a control over how they come and go, where many cases,
where they use the restroom, you know, where they where
they congregate, where they where they eat. Kind of unpack

(01:35:19):
a little bit of that so that our listeners can
fully recognize how hard it is to work in those conditions.

Speaker 5 (01:35:28):
Oh no, it's it's I mean, I'm dealing with and
I'm not sure where you're you know, like you said,
you're in an empire, but uh, we're dealing with workers
across the country, whether it be in California, Oregon, Washington,
New York, and you can you could purposely almost drive
by and all you see is, for example, an orchard

(01:35:52):
and the housing is very deep inside the orchard, and
and where people are just totally unaware that they have
maybe one hundred people living inside an orchard where they're
being housed. And and for somebody sometimes to be able
to visit those workers, they have to request permission in advance.
They have to name exactly who they're going to talk to,

(01:36:14):
how long they're going to be there, and and so,
and it's it's really scary for some folks because you know,
you know, and so therefore, you know, for workers to
be all, say, hey, I want to talk to somebody,
they really can't, you know, because and then the boss
will sometimes have you know, cameras and things of that

(01:36:35):
nature where they're they're really monitoring exactly who goes in
who goes out, uh, and they're they're telling them what
they can do, what they cannot do, and they pack
them in, you know, whether it be you know, for
the room sixter room, you know. And I've seen situations
where workers are in like an warehouse type of situation
where they're they may have you know, bunk bunk beds,

(01:36:58):
and workers are are lining up blankets to just get
some type of privacy as kind of as a privacy screen.
And if they wanted to go to the restroom, you know,
the restrooms maybe are going to be outside, you know,
where you know, you want to take a shower, you
got to go outside, you know, in the elements, and
run back to put clothes back on. So it's a

(01:37:19):
it's a I mean, it's really not the best top
of situation.

Speaker 4 (01:37:25):
Hey, listeners, that we are not talking about a movie
from nineteen twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:37:30):
We are talking about what.

Speaker 4 (01:37:32):
Is happening in twenty twenty five today. This is happening
right now. Is this is a repeat of what had
happened in this country that many of us you know
or not us, but our predecessors said this is not
acceptable to do. And it is literally happening as.

Speaker 3 (01:37:53):
We speak right now.

Speaker 4 (01:37:55):
And I think it's really important for our listeners to
try to sympathize and respect that how difficult this is.
And and then you add this other layer that's going
on with the ice rates. But most importantly, I think
it's it's or not to put importance on one of
the other.

Speaker 3 (01:38:14):
But I think the first showcase is.

Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
This is the condition that these growers think is acceptable.

Speaker 5 (01:38:23):
Oh and they and you know, and then within that
ice if you look at the rhetoric where they're saying, oh,
we want to have a legal workforce, uh, and what
they mean is, you know, well, we want to have.
We want to be able to, you know, bring more
guess workers, which is okay in one sense, but without

(01:38:43):
the protections because they actually want to eliminate the housing.
They want to eliminate some of the protections that the
very few protections that they have h you know, the
growers are trying to figure out how they can eliminate that,
and they'll use code work like it's too cumbersome, the
program is too compdicated. But what it really means is
I just don't want to pay and I don't want

(01:39:04):
to provide the few basic things that we have to provide,
and so you know, and with that comes control. So
I think it's it's you know, it's really it's really
insane in terms of you if you're ever to when
you look at it, like would you live in those
conditions having to be there, you know, being away from
your families for eight ten months away, eight to ten

(01:39:26):
months away, you know, and kind of pocketed in a
space where you really have no control. And then if
you want to go somewhere, well, you know, there's no
transportation because you've got to rely on on the grower
providing a van maybe once a week and go to
the store, right, And what.

Speaker 4 (01:39:43):
Most people don't realize and correct me if I'm wrong,
if I misspeak legally here that not all states protect
the worker right to organize for farm workers. In other words,
when the National Relations Act was first written, they actually
wrote out farm workers because of the tobacco industry and
a number of other industries. They said, no, that industry

(01:40:07):
does not deserve the right to collectively bargain or be represented.
And many states, now California obviously has a farm Worker Act,
but not all states do, and so like like this
isn't like, well, these workers can just go organized. In
some states, they literally there is no rule for them

(01:40:27):
to organize.

Speaker 5 (01:40:29):
That's correct. I mean there's currently there's only actually three
states in the country that that give farm workers the
right to organize, you know with you know, Hawaii actually
was first, and then California, and now New York has
an acted legislation that gives farm workers the right to organize,
and so and and yeah, it all stems it actually

(01:40:49):
stems from from from racism because at the time, at
the time when these laws were being made NRA A
uh and others. Uh. Reality is a lot of the
farm workers, especially in the South happened to be black,
and so the Congress members at the time could not
fathom giving black workers the same rights as white workers,

(01:41:12):
and so they literally said, no, this will not apply
to agriculture, this will not apply to domestic employees. And so,
you know, the right to organize, the right to overtime,
a lot of the things that we take for base
for granted. You know, the right to have you know,
workers compensation. All these things that we just kind of
take for granted were written out way back in the thirties.

(01:41:38):
And so you know, the UfW and other organizations have
to basically have been fighting state by state to try
to you know, give these farmer give workers those rights.

Speaker 4 (01:41:51):
Yeah, thank you for spelling that out, And forgive me
for not realizing it.

Speaker 3 (01:41:56):
Was only three states.

Speaker 4 (01:41:58):
I knew it was a small number, but oh my goodness,
Like what a learning opportunity this is for all of
our listeners to recognize, like, one of the toughest jobs
you only three states legally protect its right to organize. Now,
I always believe, regardless of the rules, workers can organize

(01:42:20):
and if we withhold our labor, we can shut down
whatever we need to shut down because that's exactly how
we had laws. We created laws to begin with, because
if we're afraid to actually exercise that right, then we
never have a right to exercise. And my point is
is is workers are going to have to be very
assertive in this space. And clearly, you know, under literally

(01:42:41):
under the gun in a lot of cases, or under
this pressure that the employer or boss or cameras now
that have created this sort of pressure situation where workers
are like, look, I'm on a guest status here or
I'm just here trying to work, and a lot of times,
if not almost all the time, they're completely exploited.

Speaker 5 (01:43:03):
No, that's right, that's right. And and look and like
you said, a lot of these workers are legally here,
but unfortunately, the fear level is so high that you know,
they're really don't feel like they have the right to complain,
although feel like they have the right to ah to
say anything, because for a lot of the employees, they

(01:43:26):
know that if you know, if they say something, they're
not coming back, they're not bringing them back, right, and
so you know, that's you know, that's and that's a
huge amount of income that they're that would be losing
for their families. Uh, it's just like you know a
farm worker here, uh, you know that's undocumented, or a
farm worker here that's unable to just they're not able

(01:43:47):
to just jump to another farm and and move on
as easily as as some would think. So unfortunately they
put up with a lot, a lot of conditions, They
put up with a lot of abuse and so and
that's what we're trying to change.

Speaker 4 (01:44:00):
Yeah, I say we unpacked this for a second, and
we just have this quick talk. Like there are some
people that say, ah, you know, policy wise, get them
all out of the country. There shouldn't be anybody here.
Clearly that's not something I believe in or union stand for.
But let's just hypothetically unpack that logical or illogical argument.

Speaker 3 (01:44:21):
As we would see it.

Speaker 4 (01:44:22):
And and for those of you that may be listening
that think that that's okay, you run everybody out, no
one's gonna do this work, and then you don't get
your produce, or you don't get the work done, and
you're now complaining that you don't have this or it's
significantly more expensive because the supply and demand situation has

(01:44:46):
cost it to where whoever's importing it from another country
is rising the cost dramatically, and there'll probably be some
tariffs on it as well. And now all of a sudden,
you're paying more for you know, a bucket of strawberry
than you are for stake, or you're paying significantly more
for some things that you're not used to having to

(01:45:06):
pay more for. And that's the reality of where that is.
And and so regardless of what side of the policy
you may be on, Uh, the reality is is this
is what's happening is just not good for these workers.

Speaker 5 (01:45:20):
No, and you and you know, the thing is we
do have to care because what most people don't realize
is these are the workers, like you said, either they're
picking the strawberries or for now, like right now near
the Inland Empire. Uh, you know, the table group season
is almost wrapping up. What most people don't realize. Hey,
before you pop, you know that that table grape in

(01:45:41):
your mouth. Understand this. It was a farm worker hands
that actually picked the grape, packed it, put it in
a little baggie, and then put it in a little
box so that that box could be taken to a warehouse,
a cooler, a cooler somewhere, and it goes to the
supermarket the you know, the grocery clerk you know, takes
out the bag, he puts a nice puts it makes
a nice and pretty on the on the grocery aisle,

(01:46:04):
and then the consumer goes and buys the little the
bag of grapes. Well, in that whole entire process, the
only person that touched the actually touched the grape was
a farm worker, you know. And then and and and
there was nothing done that they weren't washed, they weren't
cleaned all the the you know. And so you know,
you're taking a grip and you're putting it right in
your mouth. Well, if we're not caring about what happens

(01:46:27):
to those farm workers, and it's the same process with
table grape, the same process with table grapes. The last
hands that touch that fruit were farm workers' hands. And
so we need to care about what happens. And the
reality is also that there's not like people are lining
up to do the work that the workers do, you know.
And and so you know, I think workers themselves, farmerkers themselves,

(01:46:50):
say hey, you want to work in agriculture, come on down.
There's plenty of jobs, there's plenty of opportunity. But they're
not there there. They simply aren't. They are simply coming.

Speaker 4 (01:46:58):
I say, we get these elected officials that are making
some of these crazy decisions to go out in the
in the farms and actually do the work, you know,
have them do it for just a week, Like why
don't you do the work for just a couple of
days and experience what and go sleep in those quarters
that you talked about, you know, be in that environment.
Don't get to your little comfy spot. Recognize what these

(01:47:21):
people are living through every single day.

Speaker 5 (01:47:24):
Actually, I would just say, hey, come and pick for
a day because I've you know what I've been out there.
I've taken I've taken uh you know, news producers, I've
taken news anchors. I've taken uh you know, also some
elected to come out and after a couple of hours,
they're dying. They're dropping likes with air conditioning. Yeah, they're like,

(01:47:45):
oh my god, I said, or if and if they
are able to say, they're you know, they're like they
just can't keep the pace of like, look, if you
want to make some money, you got to go fast,
and so you know, and you know, try to pick
in tomatoes. Right now, the tomato crop just started, you know,
and picking those tomatoes, and you watch those workers are
and you think most people are thinking, oh, that's unskilled labor. No,

(01:48:07):
it's not. If you got to know exactly what you're picking,
you got to you know, you got to know exactly
what how to remove the stem, how to do that,
you know the particular work, and be fast. So it's
it's skilled labor. Do we need to improve the conditions,
of course we do.

Speaker 4 (01:48:23):
Look, there is a skill to working hard all day
long in the heat under difficult circumstances. I don't care
what anybody says. Every job requires a skill, including that job,
which quite frankly, they have a skill that most people
don't have because they can't sit out in the heat

(01:48:45):
for ten, twelve, fourteen hours, they're not going to be
able to do that. Most people that would, out of
their mouths say that's unskilled work, don't even understand what
skill is.

Speaker 5 (01:48:57):
Yeah, no, come on down and try it and try it,
and me, it's unskilled and and you'll see right away
the dexterity the movements that they have to make. Uh,
you know, it's it is skilled worker and and and
it takes it's it takes a lot to learn.

Speaker 3 (01:49:11):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (01:49:11):
It takes a long time for it to learn. This
is a skill that's sometimes handed down from a generation
to the next generation, and and they teach one another
how to make sure that they're maximizing their movement, saving
their body, staying hydrated, and making sure that they don't
you know, obviously die in a very difficult situation.

Speaker 5 (01:49:31):
And so you know, I would challenge anybody to come
on down. But you know because right now, unfortunately, you know,
our community, uh especially farm workers are being terrorized. You know,
they're being labeled as criminals. You know, before they they
were deemed essential. Now they're being deemed criminals for the
simple fact of wanting to provide for their families, wanting

(01:49:53):
to work. You know, as like, so, I don't know,
I don't where where is the criminal the criminality of
actually working and try to provide your family and do it.
And actually, in honest day's work.

Speaker 3 (01:50:03):
Man, you hit the nail right on the head.

Speaker 4 (01:50:05):
What five years what we look from July of twenty
twenty and how much everybody was appreciating how essential these
workers are to five years later people calling them criminals.
And I actually believe that a vast majority of Americans
don't think that. I actually believe that listeners don't think

(01:50:27):
the ignorant sort of stuff in which we're having to
deal with. Unfortunately, that that is being twisted and politics
are being played and people are being convinced of something
in a lot of cases that's not true. The reality is,
if you just break this down to the work that's
being done, how difficult it is.

Speaker 3 (01:50:45):
And I think the.

Speaker 4 (01:50:46):
Point you were trying to make is there are plenty
of these jobs available if you'd like to come down
and check them out, right, Like, if you want to
come try to figure out how to do especially if
you're so darn critical of it. So you know, we
don't see all those people that are running their mouths
lined up to fill those spots.

Speaker 3 (01:51:02):
Right, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:51:04):
No, And we've actually I remember years back, we ran
a campaign saying, you know, actually we call it take
our jobs. He said, take coming, come on down, take
our jobs. And the workers are saying, if you think
it's so easy, if you think that you can do it,
And we had about a million people indicating that they
were interested and doing something inquiring about how to do
the work. Twelve people actually showed up and with on

(01:51:27):
day one, they were asked, what, what's what do you think?
They're like, Oh, yeah, I'm out of here as soon
as I can. I'm out of here.

Speaker 3 (01:51:33):
That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:51:35):
Well, hey, we just got a couple of minutes left.
Really appreciate you coming on the Worker Power. I really
appreciate you coming on the show. Is there anything else
you'd like to cover in this last couple of minutes.

Speaker 5 (01:51:45):
Again, I just want to thank everybody for listening and
keeping you know, keep in mind all those farm workers
that are out there harvesting the fruits, especially as the
temperature right now over one hundred degrees. But yet they're
working out there and under the under the threat of
being you know, picked up, under the threat of being terrorized.
But yet you know, they're they're going to work because

(01:52:06):
they really don't feel like they have a choice. You know,
they don't have the safety net, they don't have the
you know, they don't have that luss that that's that
money to stash away where they can say, oh, I
can just stay home, you know. So they're really literally
risking every day going to work and not coming back
home to their families and their kids for the simple
fact of wanting to be able to work.

Speaker 4 (01:52:28):
Armando, thank you so much for coming on the show.
Thank you for your advocacy. And please thank.

Speaker 3 (01:52:35):
All those workers for their hard work. I know you
do that.

Speaker 4 (01:52:39):
We're just trying to, you know, have the energy run
through you. We really do appreciate the hard work that
you just spelled out. We appreciate the work that they
do every day and and and we want to thank
you for for advocating for them on a on a
regular basis. We have been joined by Armando Elenis, which
is the Secretary Treasure of the United farm Workers. Appreciate

(01:53:01):
you coming on the show. You have been on the
Worker Power Hour. Thanks again, Armando.

Speaker 3 (01:53:05):
Let me wrap you.

Speaker 4 (01:53:08):
So what are we doing to build worker power in
the inland Empire? I think that this this this last
segment really shows us like how difficult some of this is.
You guys got to mute him real quick or actually
close him out so perfect. Anyway, we're building worker power

(01:53:30):
in the inland Empire. And how are we building worker power?
We're talking to our friends, We're talking to our neighbors.
We have the billboards, we have the buses, we have
to think of Teamster campaign. We have the radio show,
we have something great coming, which is going to be
Worker Power Radio coming here pretty soon too. At the
end of the day, it's about communicating, educating, and getting
other workers to join in this space. I'm excited about

(01:53:51):
this platform. I'm excited about what the potential is and
what more we can do. And even in the face
of some of these very difficult situations, we can actually
do something about it.

Speaker 3 (01:54:01):
And what we can do.

Speaker 4 (01:54:02):
About it is participate, get involved, educate, mobilize, agitate, be
militant and convince other workers to withhold their labor.

Speaker 3 (01:54:10):
And how can you do that.

Speaker 4 (01:54:11):
You talk to your friends, you talk to your family,
you talk to your co workers, you organize a union,
you build worker power. This is Randy Corgan. This is
the Worker Power Hour on the Teamsters nineteen thirty two
broadcast Network, airing live from Sambordino. Longtime organizer, first time
radio host. Signing off, Take it Away,
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