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Hour with Randy Corrigan a brand new show about labor
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and worker issues. The host of the show is Randy Corrigan,
Secretary Treasurer and Principal Office and leader of Teamsters nineteen
thirty two, one of the largest public sector labor unions
on the West Coast, representing workers in government and non
sworn law enforcement personnel. Randy Corgan is a thirty year
Teamster who first became involved in the labor movement by
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volunteering his time as an organizer with.
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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 Corgan.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
We're back, listeners, longtime organizer, first time radio host, Randy Corgan.
Speaker 10 (06:23):
Here.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
This is the Worker Power Hour with Randy Corgan on
the Teamsters Local nineteen thirty two broadcast network, airing live
from Sam Bernardino.
Speaker 10 (06:32):
Good to have you back. This is I think two
or three weeks in a row.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I forget, I keep mixing up that one show that
we recorded the day before. But boy, before I get
into our normal run of the show, we had Jennifer
Abruso in the office yesterday and she did She was
only supposed to sit down and do a little recording
with us for about ten or fifteen minutes. That turned
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into fifty one minutes and we actually had to stop
it simply because she had to get somewhere else throughout
the day. And she did this phenomenal job of really
a kind of explaining the moment we're in with labor,
what workers have to do. Can't wait to roll this
show out later today. But and for those of you
who don't know who Jennifer Russo is, she is a
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former General Counsel of the NLRB that was terminated that
the administration terminated in January.
Speaker 10 (07:25):
Of this year.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
And you know, she's clearly an expert on labor, labor law,
advocating for workers. She worked at the NLRB for more
than two decades, almost three decades, obviously ultimately becoming the
General Counsel, which is the number one person in charge.
So for us to have her on property physically at
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the local union. She toured the place, was super impressed
with what we've done here with our membership, all the programs,
and the integration that we have with all the programs.
It was one of those days where we got to
drag around somebody super important that was really, I guess
impressed with the setup. And then I kind of did
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it on purpose. As an organizer, you always got to
ask someone to do something.
Speaker 10 (08:15):
And I pulled her in.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
In the last place we landed, was actually in this
studio and was explaining all the great things that we're
doing with our platform here and with the message and
with what we got going on as a whole, and
how we're communicating to not just our members but the
general public, and the branding we're doing with Think a
Teamster and educating the general public and our members on
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the integration and why it's important teams were advantage program
all that stuff. And then I said, well, will you
sit down and do a real quick show. And she
was tired, She had traveled all day from the East coast,
and then you know, she was here for a couple
hours and she still sat down and it only took
her literally, Hey, Mark it only took her a couple minutes, huh.
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Once she started getting her blood pumping, man, she was
it was great and I can't wait. Yeah, I cannot
wait to see this for all of you to see
the show tomorrow. And you know, it's not like she's
been to a lot of local unions to sit down
and have a conversation like that. So we really appreciate
her taking the time, uh to do that, and her
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taking the time to really give us her perspective. And
she was full of energy, articulate, on point, and most importantly,
she hit the hit the nail on the head as
far as what workers have to do. In other words,
just you gotta take they gotta take control. You're gonna
say something, mar.
Speaker 11 (09:39):
Yeah, she kind of took the show away from you
yesterday a little bit.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Good.
Speaker 10 (09:42):
That's what we wanted her to.
Speaker 11 (09:43):
Not not a knock on you, but for someone with
that amount of knowledge to be able to just get
it out on a roll and not even hiccup was amazing.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Yeah, And you could tell, you know, as as a
conversation went on, there was more stuff. She kept rolling
into something else that that provoked something she wanted to say.
She wanted to talk about and so it was great.
It was tremendous to have her in the building yesterday
and then obviously to get her on the show. You
will all witness the show. I think somewhere by the
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end of today we will have it out and released
as a separate podcast. Obviously it's not live, so we're
not going to integrate it into this show.
Speaker 10 (10:21):
We considered it.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
We considered maybe just putting it on the back half
of the show, but we'd already had guests, which we
have a really cool guest coming on the back half
of our show anyway, So I just wanted to give
everybody a quick update as to what happened. And again,
you should all be proud of the fact that we
were able to host her here.
Speaker 11 (10:39):
You got something to see her a little starstruck yesterday.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
I gonna lie, you know, I'm pretty critical of the board,
I'm pretty critical of the NLRB, and what impressed me
the most about her was that she had this great
spirit of like, this is what we got to do,
regardless of whatever challenge is that she's facing. Because you know,
she was very genuine, very genuine.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
And very much understood and empathetic to what workers need
to do. And the most important thing I heard her
say was the Nationally Relations Board was established to protect workers,
not corporations.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
Right.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
That to me, like, of course, I'm going to be
starstruck when I hear something like that, because there's an
entity that is actually trying to serve its purpose.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
Well, now you know she was fired. I mean, I'm
not knocking her because she was an amazing woman, but
in this administration that probably didn't fit the.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Mold, correct and and it clearly points out that that.
You know, she did a really good job of advocating
for workers over that four years. And you know, let's
let's let's call it like it is. If you voted
for the individual who's in office right now, for the
for you jit and you heard you heard the show,
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you listen to the show that's about to play here
in the next day, and how pro worker this person is.
You know, that's who should be heading still heading the
NLRB to make sure that workers are protected over the
next few years. So anyway, another subject for another.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
Day that we'll we'll cross.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
So last week's shows, as a quick recap, we were
joined by say Linda Bernard. She was she's the executive
director of the u c r i E. Labor Community Center,
to talk about the importance at work to prepare the
next generation of workers and educate them on their rights
on the job.
Speaker 10 (12:35):
And it was great, great conversation.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
A matter of fact, a lot of you commented on
the clips that were out there.
Speaker 10 (12:40):
At the u c r i E.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Labor Center, they teach students, you know, how to read
their pay stubs, recognize what rate wage theft is, and
some of you may be going, well, shouldn't anybody know
how to do that? No, man, A lot of times
these private sector employers make these pay stubs very, very complicated,
and there's a there's billions of dollars in wage theft
happening on a regular their basis because people lack the
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information that's needed for them to not only interpret the
paste of but secondarily enforce the rules that are on
the books. So anyway, it's also important for you know,
warehouse workers in the.
Speaker 10 (13:13):
IE to know this.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
They're a very vulnerable group of workers in the area,
and the UCRIE Labor Center is working with them and
work with them closely. So we really appreciate her coming on.
And also we were joined by Armando Atlanis, who is
the Secretary Treasur of the United farm Workers, to talk
about what's happening on the ground with the members being
intimidated by ICE agents and you know, sadly claiming the
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life of one already as a result of those rates.
And you were seeing some pretty crazy things happening right now.
I know, you know the news depending on which news
source you look at, there's actually a lot of things
that neither one of those news sources are gonna show.
You're seeing a lot of the farms are starting to
lock their gates and they're basically telling ICE you can't
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come on the property because they do have they're all
die documented workers. They know they're documented workers. You're not
just going to randomly come in here unless you know
what you know, unless you're after a criminal. We are
going to separate this conversation from going after individuals who
are criminals versus individuals who are just working and documented.
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You know, raiding an area that you have no idea
if criminals are there, to then search them out and
then arrest everybody and do the things that are going on,
you know, doesn't help the circumstances. If you know somebody
specifically to be on the property. That is, you know
a criminal has broken the law, then you'll have a warrant,
you'll be able to you'll be able to identify them.
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Police should absolutely identify themselves, make it known who they are,
who they're going to get, and let's get those those criminals.
Speaker 10 (14:45):
Out of here.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
But not these people that are doing this work, especially
not the documented people. Anyway, a lot of good conversation
about the way. I really like the most about that
conversation was this was we talked about how tough the
job is. You know, it's everybody. Armando did a really
good job. Obviously, it's been an industry he's been in
almost entire adult life, and he talked about how difficult
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those jobs are and the things that they're doing to
try to inform the public on how important those jobs
are and how valuable those jobs are. And quite frankly,
not a lot of people want to do those jobs. So,
you know, this balance that we have to strike in this.
Speaker 10 (15:23):
Space where policy and issues.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
In this space start to conflict with the politics of
the day. You know, it has to be separated, broken out,
and you have to have real good people leading in
this space to make sure that you don't have a
bunch of negative consequences too, So really thought it was
great to have Armando on the show. The next part
of our show, we're going to move into live shout outs.
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Those live shout outs are as follows. Give me a
quick second, okay, Jonathan Andrad At Andrad Sorry, Jonathan Andrad
AARMC Security, sand Cabrera, Anita, Vanessa and Lisa the clerical
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staff for the Rehab Department at AIRMC. Vicky Thompson, City
of Grand Terrace, joy Santos, ARMC HIM Department, Natalie to
Gleat Taglira boy I probably butchered that Miles is the
last name AARMC HIM Department, Katrina Loftis ARMC, I E
n T Clinic, u Are techs at AARMC, Amanda Montoya
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and AIRMC Nutritional Services. Krista Hunter at the AIRMC Nutritional Service,
Chas Kelly AARMC, Annabelle Fernandez, County of San Mardino Housing,
Mario Felix, SSS, Victorville Station, Eddie or TI's Law and
Justice OA Fontana Station. Pamela al Ma Reid at Barstow City.
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She's a Barstows Steward, Veronica Zam Sam Rano from West
Valley Detention Center, l Vin Jasmine Bauers health education specialist,
Public Health, Marcus Worel at A seven up and Fontana.
We have Andrea Palacios. We have Lauren.
Speaker 10 (17:14):
We have Jesse Turner Team, the Jesse Turner Team and
Cus D Team. Lauren.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Thank you for consistently listening. Gino Fire, we have Jason
and Mozelle.
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We also have said.
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Say A Duel, Chao Hurdi at aramc Lay Robinson, and
then at the we have this cb CSS Stewards, Trish Flores,
Crystal Olds and Zion Randolph, Zion and Randa and Zion Randolph, Rialto,
Tad Jason Nugent, Tad O two, Jonathan Guteris, I T D.
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Van g.
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The Lariba from Colton Westminster head Start in Ontario is
Kirk Garrison Crime Lab, Connie Botini Ralto Library, Susan Loftis
crime analyst, John Montesino from Victim's Advocate, District Attorney's Office,
Dinah Messias Paralegal District Attorneys. Sandra Reis Hernandez from the
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Assessor's office. Thank you for listening and live appreciate that
we also have Ryan Franken listening in and watching live.
And as a matter of fact, you know, for those
of you that are watching, I actually had four or
five texts just as I was firing up. I had
someone tell me before I got started, I needed to smile.
I also told somebody there's somebody said I needed to
do something with the camera. But I would like to
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get your feedback for those of you that actually do
look at the cameras when we don't have someone another
guest here, do we zoom in a little more or
do we stay zoomed out with with this, you know,
to where you can see the logo and the worker
power and all that stuff. I'm just curious, you know,
if you give me some feedback, great, If not, I
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prefer to be zoomed out as far as possible because
I just don't think I look good on camera. So
and I know most of you are actually listening on
the on the on the app, so if that's great,
you know, really appreciate that. And just as a reminder,
this is KCAA ten fifty one six point five FM.
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Next part of the show is our victories. Hopefully I
can find those. Oh no, I'm sorry, remember highlight my bad,
I'm moving around, Robert, You're supposed to throw something at
me and keep me on track.
Speaker 11 (19:38):
Right anyway, Robert, take his remote for the camera away.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah see, I got I got distracted by pushing this
button here right anyway, Member highlight Arrowhead Regional Medical Center
our AARMC. Impatient coder positions. Impatient coders code medical records
so that the counting can be reimbursed the most money
possible and ensuring there is precise billing and analytic compliance.
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And patient coders work in the Health and Information Management department.
We also have AIRMC Senior Office Assistant in healthcare. AIRMC
Senior Office Assistants work closely with doctors and clinicians to
get patient referrals approved so that they can start and
continue their therapy in the outpatient clinic. And so with that,
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I'm going to move over to some of our victories
around the local union. We've had a lot of As always,
each week, we have a lot of good stuff. An
EO complaint was filed for a member and successfully transferred
an employee back to a prior department per their request,
so the employee is at peace and happy to be
back at work, created a new member labor management group,
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collaboration within the local union, negotiated lesser discipline in lieu
of termination. There was a few of those actually came
in in a number of places, in a number of
locations where people may have made a mistake and maybe
deserve some level of discipline, but termination was excessive and
we were able to put them in a position where
they did not lose their job. Chino members attended the
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City Chino meeting with fifty percent of the membership in attendance.
Members did a great job at demonstrating worker power and
speaking up. City already showing movement in results of this action,
So keep up the great work there. One hundred percent
NEO new employee orientation sign up in Pomona. Big Bear
ratified their contract last night more than two to one.
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Great job to that group and congratulations big Bear being
the hospital Bear Valley Community Hospital, right, not Big Bear
of the city, Robert, This is actually Bear Valley Hospital.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
So the impaction there's an impaction issue being corrected. In
the Sheriff's department. Bargaining with an agency is going extremely
well with increases sign on bonuses and additional holidays. One
bargaining team members stated this is the best contract they've
ever done, and they're not done yet, so it's a.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
Great, great job there. We've received several.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Entries on the California span a Cockatt scholarship from our
members and their kids.
Speaker 10 (22:06):
Good luck to all the members.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
One of the things I want to point out to
everybody is, you know, our members do get a lot
of scholarships. As a matter of fact, I think our
members get more scholarships than any other local and it
isn't because everybody likes us more. It's actually because more
of our members actually put in for the scholarships than
I think everybody else does. Whenever we see we we
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see a big volume come in, and that is great.
We really like that. The committees love to see a
big response. They really enjoy seeing those things. Excuse me,
those those requests coming in to do the to do
the scholarships. So I've got some all right, yeah, yeah, no,
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I go. I'm reading some of the playback here because
I suggested on the on the on the camera anyway.
So it's one of these things that you try to
do live I've and you try to figure out is
this going to work? So what's the next part of
the show, Robert, what do I do next? What if
I forgot what I'm doing the Worker Power Hour News?
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What if I don't want to do it? That's okay,
my show. I can do whatever anyway. In Worker Power
Hour News, I'm just getting just figured i'd lighten it
up a little bit here and all of you can
be like, oh, what's going on anyway? Video game workers
and industry agree to an AI restriction in the new
labor contract in national Voting SAG after members approved the
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twenty twenty five SACK after an interactive Media agreement, with
a yes vote of ninety five percent ratifying the deal.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
The new contract.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Includes performer safety guardrails and gains around artificial intelligence, including
consent and disclosure requirements for AI digital replica use. The
contract also includes compounded increases in performer compensation at a
rate of over fifteen percent upon ratification. So congratulations to them,
and congratulations to them having a win in a space
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when it comes to AI.
Speaker 10 (24:09):
This is this next few years. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
There's going to be a lot of lot done in
this battleground. And I know some of you may be
listening in and saying, Oh, I'm good with this computer
doing my job. You know you better think about this, like,
as much as you're allowing AI to do your work
for you, you may turn back around and not.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
Actually have a job yourself.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
So kudos to all those groups that are fighting to
make sure that the AI that they have, or excuse me,
that the conditions that they have are protected when it
comes to AI, and they don't allow AI to infringe
on it anyway. Saturday Night Live v FX artists ratify
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their historic first union contract. Visual effects workers at Saturday
Night Live, SNL unanimously ratified therefore first union contract. After
successfully organizing in October of last year, the SNL VFX
workers begun contract negotiations in April, and this contract brings
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significant improvements including establishing a minimum wage scale, securing ongoing
health care benefits, offering annuity contributions, providing kill fees for
artists hired for projects canceled before completion, implementing a robust
grievance process, and creating critical artificial intendent intelligence and outsourcing protection.
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So great job, congratulations to them. And then Safeway workers
are poised to go on strike here in California. Most
of this I think is up in Northern California. Unionized
Safeway workers in Northern California set to go on strike
on July twenty six if they failed to reach an
agreement on contract negotiations. According to a statement from the
United Food and Commercial Workers Locals five eight and six
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forty eight, the union set it's bargaining committee members met
with Safeway representatives on July fifteen and sixteen, following the
union's membership voting to authorize a strike if necessary. Safeway
requested federal mediation. Does federalitiation mediation still exists? Did they
answer the phone or has that been cut to?
Speaker 10 (26:12):
Oh my bad?
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Anyway, But the two two days of negotiations, see, I'm
trying to be funny here, man, I trying to make
light of some tough stuff. Anyway, Safeway request scar sorry,
but the two days of negotiations were unsuccessful in reaching
agreements on wage increases and healthcare. The union said the
company clearly had no interest in addressing the issues important
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to our hardworking Safeway members in the high cost living
in Northern California. Union said, so, we'll definitely keep an
eye on that, and we have a guest that's about
ready to come on the show. I can actually hear
it connecting right now, So make sure we mute that please,
And why don't we take just a real quick break
if we can, so we can take care of this transition.
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So this is the work of Power Hour with Randy
Corgan on the Team Star's local nineteen thirty two broadcast network.
Mark let's do a thirty second break so we can
transition into our next guest.
Speaker 12 (27:13):
I'm Lillian Vasquez with Community Matters. There are many car
clubs and car shows throughout the Illan Empire. I visited
a car show in Yukaipa and spoke with David Avilov,
president of Past Pleasures car Club. He shared about the club,
its purpose and when it first began.
Speaker 13 (27:30):
Well, it's kind of a debate.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
We believe that.
Speaker 14 (27:32):
The first organized group was around nineteen seventy nine, but
more officially closer to nineteen eighty six or eighty seven.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
We gathered to.
Speaker 14 (27:41):
Help celebrate the Southern California car culture of the forties, fifties, sixties,
and seventies.
Speaker 12 (27:47):
David shared the types of cars you might see and
of course his pride and joy.
Speaker 14 (27:52):
We'll see all kinds of cars from early model hot
rods to a very very well appointed customer cars, all
mixing models.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
We have everything that's creating.
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I have a nineteen sixty six Chevelle Malibu, a yellow
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But everyone just brings whatever they have.
Speaker 14 (28:11):
There's several cars are under various stages of construction and restiration,
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Speaker 4 (29:00):
I'm We're back This is the work of Power Hour
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with Randy Corgan on the Teamsters Local nineteen thirty two
broadcast network, live from San Bernardino. We are joined now
by Glenn Cage. He is a former UAW official who
is now a TikTok influencer and is out there spreading
the news and all of the information and education and
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having fun with making sure that worker rights are being heard, understood, agitated, mobilized,
and we're really happy to have him on the show.
Speaker 10 (29:59):
Glenn, you.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Know, you're sounds like you're having a great time on
TikTok and you're you're making a big impact. You got
tens of thousands of followers, and you're spreading the word
when it comes to what us labor advocates do on
a regular basis, and you're using these platforms kind of
like you see here with us with our live radio
show and our podcast and all the messaging that we're doing,
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and you know, more labor people got to do this.
So thank you for coming on the show and thank
you for what you're doing. Why don't you take a
minute introduce yourself, Glenn, and talk about why you transitioned
to doing something like this.
Speaker 13 (30:34):
Sure well, I appreciate the opportunity to come on here
and help spread the message. I've been a union official
and held a number of different titles throughout my long
career as a union guy. I've been a financial secretary.
I've been a political director for the UAW they call
it legislative chairman. I was in charge of political action
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for everything east of the state capital and Missouri.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
That's all right, you got a plane flying over. I
got you, We got you covered life, no worries.
Speaker 13 (31:06):
I'm at the airport with my family and I I
had my timing set but I didn't obviously. But anyway, No,
everything you said is exactly true. We as union officials
and activists need to do a better job of informing
the general public that unions are not the leaches on
the employees or our members that were described as by
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a lot of people in elected positions.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
Yeah. Well, they're controlled by corporate America.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Yeah, they're controlled by corporate America's interest anyway, So you know,
how do we believe them?
Speaker 10 (31:39):
But you make a great point. Sorry for cutting you off.
Speaker 13 (31:42):
Yeah, no, you're exactly right, And for too long they
have controlled the narrative as we are. What we represent
what we bring to our membership, and it's got to stop.
And the only way it stops is by adjusting our
message and working with the social media.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Yeah, and and getting our message out and making sure
the general public understands why it's so beneficial to be
in a union number one and number two.
Speaker 10 (32:10):
You know unions.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
The last one hundred plus years, it's only been US
as an institution that's been consistently advocating for workers, workplace safety,
making sure that people have a living wage, good healthcare,
retirement vehicles. You know, at no point has Corporate America
been stood stood in line at conqueror stood in line
at Congress to pass something in this space. And I'm
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so excited to have you out there on TikTok, you know,
smashing the message.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
This is great.
Speaker 13 (32:39):
Well, I appreciate it. And that's kind of even a
funny story how that all got started. About three years ago.
I was on the phone with another friend of mine
who is a labor activist, and I was I was
on a rant. I was really going at it with him,
and I walked into the house and I happened to
have she was then a fifteen year old granddaughter visiting
from Nashville, Tennessee. And when I got off the phone,
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she came in and said, Papa, you need to put
that on TikTok. I said, that's all you kids, and
you're silly dancing and stuff like that. She said, no, no,
let me show you. So she took my phone and
downloaded TikTok and showed me a couple of political messages
and I thought, you know, I think she's onto something.
So she helped me set it up and get it going,
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and I've got almost twenty thousand followers. My videos have
been viewed over two million times. And it's always pro labor,
pro by American and it's not just that, but it's
also what labor unions bring to our communities, our economies,
and without a strong middle class supported by organized labor,
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the economy suffers.
Speaker 10 (33:47):
That is correct.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
And you know, what are the other interactions you're receiving
in terms of messages and comments on TikTok. You know,
I would assume you're receiving the same thing that we are,
which is this very positive. It's like think you I
appreciate you, or oh, it's great to see that message
out there. You know, I'm a union member over here,
and man, it's good to see us.
Speaker 10 (34:07):
In that space.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
You know, there's a lot of positive encouragement in there.
And you know, obviously corporate America may not want us
doing it, but we have to and we got to
occupy this space a whole lot more.
Speaker 10 (34:21):
Now that's no, you're good. We can hear you. I know,
we can hear the plane in the background, but if
you keep talking, we can hear it. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (34:28):
I feel horrible, but anyway, no, look, this is how
it works.
Speaker 10 (34:32):
We're in the labor movement. These things happen on the spot,
you know.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
And then you got your family and they were in
the car and they probably had to deal with this
for the last thirty years.
Speaker 10 (34:39):
You know, they all know, they get it. Man, we're
all in this together.
Speaker 13 (34:44):
My wife was talking about that this morning actually with
our daughter. We're we're in Wisconsin visiting our daughter. We're
at the Oshkosh hair show. Unbelievable timing on everything. But anyway,
I didn't want to miss this opportunity to speak with
you and you're public because these opportunities don't arise that often,
and it's important for us to get the message out.
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One of the things that I have done is I
had a few episodes where I do member, I talk
with a member, meet the member. I called it because
people here labor activists like me and I'm sure yourself
as well. When they hear us talk and they say, well,
that's Glenn. That's how else would you expect him to be.
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You know that that message gets old with a lot
of people. But when they hear from rank and file members,
people right off the plant floor, right out of the
cab of one of your trucks, talking about the impact
that belonging to the union is made on their lives,
it brings a whole new message to the general public.
And it's an important message.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
You know.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
And one of the things that we found by doing this,
to your point, is that we do the same thing
on our show. We always have, not always, but a
lot of times we have a member come on and
describe their job, talk about the importance of it, and
then the listeners, some of it the public, and obviously
some of it other members and some of them members
from other unions. They're like, I did not know that
that job classification.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Did that?
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Or I had no idea that they were teamsters. I
had no idea that those were union members.
Speaker 10 (36:15):
I had no.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Idea that every ounce of water that comes into my
community is protected by a union member or a teamster,
and every ounce of water that goes out because I
flushed the toilet is made sure by these union members
to be safe as it exits. And so every single day,
our members are saving millions of lives, making sure millions
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of people are safe every single day, and we just
have to explain it. And you know, they really the
members really enjoying the public, really enjoys hearing from them,
hearing from the worker, hearing their story and what they
do in the community and how they volunteer for football
and soccer and at the PTA, and they're they're involved
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in all these aspects. You know, Corporate America wants to
villainize the institutions of unions, but what they're really doing
is they're villainizing workers, because it's workers that make up unions,
not the leaders like myself who are elected.
Speaker 13 (37:11):
Now, you're one hundred percent right, And you know, the
corporations like to talk about capitalism and how we're a
capitalistic society. I get a little bit of hot water
from other union officials when I bring it up this way.
But organized labor unions are capitalists by nature. We are
a service representing organization, and our service that we provide
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is representation of our members, the companies employees the enforcement
of their contracts. Why should we not be able to
capitalize on the work that we do representing our members
to ensure that their companies are honoring the contracts that
they agree to and sign.
Speaker 10 (37:50):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
And when you use the term capitalism, there is no
problem that there's no there to have a social conscience
and have social programs within capitalism is perfectly fine. They
don't compete with each other. Like you absolutely can dial
nine to one one and make sure that somebody picks
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up the phone and answers it versus them saying please hold,
let me check to see if your membership subscription is
up to date before we find out whether or not
we got to dispatch the fire department. Instead a social network,
which is okay. Within capitalism, it's not competing. It is
working together to create an emergency service that needs to
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be there for the community. Like what's happened is the
political narratives in this country to try to villainize unions
has actually tried to make it a bad word or
not being able to educate the general public on it,
because again, corporations don't want workers to organize. They want
us to seem like we're something different than what we
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really are.
Speaker 13 (38:56):
Correct as usual. The one thing that I'd like to
also point out as when workers come together and join
a union or form a union and work for a
collective voice to sit down at the negotiating tables. One,
it's no different than these corporate associations like ALEX, the
American Legislative Exchange Council, the Chamber of Commerce. They all
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pay fees or dues or association fees to these organizations
to bring a collective voice to protect their interests, be
it in real estate with the National Realtors Association or
Small Business Association or whatever it is. Why is it
okay for them? But why are we look down upon
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as unions when we represent working people who generate the
wealth for the wealthy.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
You know, because it doesn't fit their narrative right. It's
all about villainizing unions and villainizing that entire system to
make us look bad.
Speaker 10 (39:55):
What do you to shift gears here a little bit?
Speaker 4 (39:57):
I'm going to come back to the points you just made,
but I want to shift gears. What do you find
is your best content? In other words, that most people
engage in they share we have a pretty good idea
what it is. And I also, as I do live
shout outs as the time goes on, I always like
to make sure as they're engaging. Here my wife is saying, Hey,
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a live shout out to your unicorn wife. Don't forget
that as well anyway, So, yes, my wife gets a
live shout out as well. She just made a point,
So love you, love you, yeah, anyway.
Speaker 13 (40:28):
Point is so quick on the topic of wives. Are
wives put up with so much?
Speaker 10 (40:32):
Yes, they did.
Speaker 13 (40:33):
When you're a union official, the calls at night, sometimes
you have to leave at night and take care of situations.
They put up with so much, and they certainly deserve
a shout out.
Speaker 10 (40:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
And you know what's amazing too, is the is the kids. Now,
all of my kids, my adult children, who every one
of them, experienced the labor movement as they were growing
up because they grew up in the union hall, they
grew up on organizing drives, they grew up on picket lines,
they grew up in this space us organizing workers.
Speaker 10 (41:00):
All of that is.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Carried into them into their future as well, and they
have great empathy for the workforce as a result of it,
regardless of the direction that they go in. It's such
a I love the fact that this movement has impacted
my family and other families in such a profound way
where it actually puts you in a space to just
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do the right thing right may I'm assuming your family
is the same way.
Speaker 13 (41:28):
Yes, absolutely, Unionism is generational. I'm third generation union Unfortunately
I have out of my three children, none of them
belong to the union. But every one of them recognizes
that every bicycle they peddled, every morsel of food they ate,
every pair of gym shoes that they received, was bought
and paid for by the sweat of my brown a
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union contract. But to get back to the point of
your question about what seems to be the most engaging
topics that I bring up, is anytime I talk about politics,
I get a lot of hate. I also get a
lot of positive feedback. The hate comes out and people
are constantly saying, well, unions only do nothing but support
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the Democrats. Unions or a tool for the Democratic Party,
which is one hundred percent not true. If you've ever
been involved in a union, you've ever been involved in
candidate screenings, Reading through the questionnaires that we send out
before making our endorsements, you would get a bit better
picture and a clearer understanding of how organized labor sits
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down and finally makes a decision to endorse candidates.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
And it's a pack committee that's usually made up of
rank and file members that make the decision to support
a candidate based on their position.
Speaker 10 (42:43):
Of labor, regardless of their party affiliation.
Speaker 13 (42:47):
Right, I think the question that we should be asking
isn't why do democrats or unions only support Democrats. It's
the question should be why don't all political parties support working.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
Well, it's interesting you say that because now you're seeing
they're all claiming to support working families like and you're
seeing a shift because there was some time where where
some parties just completely abandoned the worker and the message
and narrative as a whole. But you can see now
everybody is trying to say Now, whether they're doing it
(43:23):
or not is different, and they can be judged by
their policy decisions, not what they say in front of them, Mike,
but they're policy decisions. My point is is that. You know,
it's really important for us to make sure that we
have this conversation, engage it, and make sure that everybody
understands that. You know, everybody wants the worker to support them.
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You know, more than seventy percent of the population supports unions.
And on top of it, you know clearly this last
few election cycles, whether they be local or regional or presidential,
everybody's talking about what the worker needs. And now, you know,
we've got to really look at, well, what's their policy
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decisions as a whole, because your policy decisions as an
elected official are going to carry on for a very
long time after you and you're one hundred percent correct,
Like you know, I'm a labor advocate before i'm anything.
I know you are as well. I've actually supported we've
as an organization, we have supported Republicans running for positions
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over not only Democrats, but former elected officials within labor
that ran in a position and still supported the Republican
over them, just because that Republican had absolutely been on
board with supporting labor issues, had been on board on
policy issues, and we weren't just going to jump ship
(44:52):
and go, okay, well there's this labor candidate, So we're
going to abandon the relationship we have with this individual. Again,
it has nothing to do with their political party, has
to do with the decisions that they made for the
workers we represent and the workers we seek to represent.
Speaker 13 (45:09):
Absolutely correct. In fact, in the state of Missouri, we're
going back about twenty years, we had a Democrat from
rural Missouri that refused to support collective bargaining for the
state workers in Missouri, and we quit endorsing him and
endorsed his Republican opponent because she came out stood with us,
literally stood with us and said I have full support
(45:32):
for collective bargaining for the state workers in Missouri, and
she got our endorsement and she won, and we didn't
ever hear from the Democrat. Again, I don't care who
they are. That's correct, support work in families. We're on board.
Speaker 4 (45:45):
That's correct, and that you know, and it really bodes
well that we should have a labor party. We clearly
don't have a labor party right now, but at some point,
you know, when you see the popularity of labor and workers,
there really should be one. We can have another discussion
regarding that later. I actually had someone on my show
a couple different times where we've discussed this and kind
of gleaned out what.
Speaker 10 (46:05):
It would take to have a labor party.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
But with that, what's the content that you feel like
gets the most traction, most reaction. I know I kind
of asked you this earlier, but let's double down on it,
and I'd like to take a couple of minutes to
talk about what you see exciting everybody. And because what
we believe is I'm not running a show where I'm
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provoking conflict. What I'm doing is I'm running a show
where we're educating and we're explaining, and we're just slowly
kind of walking everybody through the vastness of labor from
the last two hundred years and how important all that
information is because it has been lost, and then connecting
the dots to today and how it's important today. So
what is it that you feel is garnering the most
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attention when you're discussing labor issues on your show.
Speaker 13 (46:54):
Yeah. I think probably the first video I did it
went viral that had almost two hundred thousand hits is
one in which I talked about the nation's economy was
never into shape. It's in when general Motors was our
number one private employer, and I didn't really even get
into who I was. The noise of the jets got away.
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I'm a former union president of the United A Lot
of Workers Local twenty two fifty, financial secretary at Unit
A Lot of Workers Local one thirty six. At one
thirty six, we built the Dodge Ram trucks in fent, Missouri,
and at twenty two fifty we built Chevy Colorado GMC
canyon in the Chevy's full size vance. So we bet
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that's where I come from. And before that, I was
an electrician in construction in the IBW for almost twenty years.
So I've been around a long time and I've done
a lot. But back to the point that you're asking,
our nation's economy was never into shape. It's in when
General Motors was our number one private employer. Now it's
either Walmart or Amazon, depending on who's doing the hiring binge.
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And when you take all those eighty thousand dollars year
auto assembly jobs out of the economy and you replace
them with thirty or forty thousand dollars year Walmart or
Amazon jobs, you lose the economic stimulus on fifty thousand dollars.
You also lose that income tax, and that income tax
is what builds roads, bridges, funds our schools, that's what
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funds our first responders. The whole community suffers when you
lose that kind of job income.
Speaker 4 (48:28):
And the sales tax revenue generated by the purchasing power
correct exactly.
Speaker 13 (48:33):
I mean it is a huge hit to the economies.
And when I had a few people come out with
some negative talk about the UAW, those jobs are so
easy a monkey could do them. Stuff like that, nobody
deserves eighty thousand dollars a year. And then I did
a breakdown on the labor cost per vehicle and that
just sent people through the roof. Not many of them
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believed it, but it's one hundred percent accurate. The labor
costs per vehicle now is about five percent. And I
say now because of the last two contracts where UAW
made some pretty decent economic gains. But we had to
strike for forty days in twenty nineteen and for forty
six days in twenty and twenty three to achieve these
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economic gains.
Speaker 4 (49:20):
But the corporate execs will say, if you got to cut,
you gotta cut labor.
Speaker 10 (49:24):
It's the it's in that five percent, Like, what about
the ninety five buddy?
Speaker 13 (49:28):
Right, You guys have seen the same things that we
have seen. General Motors said they had no more money
on the table. This contracted in twenty twenty three, forty
six days strike put the members through hell and they
lost billions of dollars because they were being singy with
the pocketbook. Said they could not give us any more money.
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Our members went and they voted to ratify the contract
by a very slim margin. A few months later, General
Motors turned around and gave out six billion dollars stock buybacks.
They had the money, they had it hidden in the drawer,
in the couch or something, and they could be paying
their workers a fair wage, but instead they choose to
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do stock buybacks. You guys saw the same thing with
Yellow Freight and the pensions and stuff.
Speaker 10 (50:16):
Yeah, so let me let me point to something. You
pointed out the two.
Speaker 4 (50:19):
Biggest employers, which is Walmart and Amazon, And so let's
use Amazon as an example and an Amazon driver and
just do a comparison to a UPS driver. A UPS
driver is delivering in every neighborhood in America, right, and
in any neighborhood, almost any neighborhood that they're in, they
can afford to buy a home in that neighborhood. But
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an Amazon driver cannot afford to buy a home in
any neighborhood in America, any neighborhood. Like we've done the
math already. This is a shocking statistic. So now if
you work for Amazon, if you go to work for Amazon,
you're there for let's say the first couple of years
or whatever it is like, or you're there for a
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long time, which is very rare because you can almost
not find anybody's been there, you know, more than five
or six years, regardless of even those statistics. Find me
somebody that works anywhere in Amazon that can that can
buy a home in a neighborhood, like those numbers are
so so so small. The statistic on a driver is
they can't. And then if you work anywhere within the
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Amazon corporation, so they employ more than a million workers,
Now all those General motors workers could afford to buy
homes in the neighborhoods that they worked in. Every single
one of those General Motors workers could could could whether
it be GM or Ford or any of that from
that era, that time that you're referring to they could
afford to buy a home, goods and services in that
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neighborhood period. But that is not the case now with
Walmart and with Amazon. And let's use Amazon specifically, because
you could use a direct comparison to a UPS driver
making and delivery right alongside that Amazon delivery on the
same doorstep many times. What a absolute contrast. And it
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is a reality gut punch.
Speaker 13 (52:11):
It certainly is, and it highlights more than anything, why
when unions are charging and I don't know what the
dues structure is with the team stirs with the UAW,
it's two and a half hours away just per month.
Speaker 10 (52:24):
It's roughly the same for US.
Speaker 13 (52:26):
Okay, So when you break it down, that two and
a half hours per month is enabling through the contract
and collective bargaining agreement, enables your drivers to be able
to buy homes and pretty much any subdivision that they
deliver in. Whereas the non union driver thinks that they're
saving that too, and by saving that two and a
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half hours, they're going to become wealthy. It doesn't work
that way. Then you start throwing in healthcare, benefits, pensions, annuities, and.
Speaker 10 (52:57):
Well they're non union.
Speaker 4 (52:58):
They don't even have those things correct.
Speaker 15 (53:02):
You know.
Speaker 13 (53:02):
One of the things that people need to remember. I've
got a nephew. When he was a very small child,
he had some some kind of tear duct issue and
he constantly had tears, and they wanted to get it fixed.
My brother in law at the time worked at Rock
Cory was non union, and they could not afford They
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could not afford to have the surgery to fix it,
and he had no health care. So eventually I was
able to talk to a guy at the Operating Engineers.
Brother in law went to work for the Operating Engineers.
They were able to get my nephew the surgery he
needed before he started kindergarten, and everybody was happy with it,
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and it cost him almost nothing out of pocket. Unions
are to make the difference.
Speaker 10 (53:48):
You know.
Speaker 4 (53:49):
On that note, some of the best stories I have
of my career have always been where I have a
father that comes to me, you know that I've known,
let's say fifteen, twenty twenty five, however many years that
they worked at this place, or a mother that comes
to me, you know that they worked there for X
amount of time, and they explain a story just like
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you just said, of a severe health crisis with their
child or family member that they were able to get
through and then in the end not have medical bills
as a result of an extreme situation and then realize
the weight of that. You know, it's for us. Those
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are priceless stories. In other words, that's what this is
all about. This isn't you know Amazon or these big
corporations that the corporate America that's running a muck right
now wants to kick that responsibility to the worker and say, well,
after ten thousand dollars, you're going to pay the bill
above that, right or you know, there's a cap on
your healthcare costs for this and for that and the
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plan that you got, and on top of it, you're
paying you know, fifty percent of the premium or thirty
percent of the premium or whatever it is.
Speaker 10 (54:59):
It's all over place.
Speaker 4 (55:00):
The point is is as a labor advocate that you
you know you are, those are our most rewarding stories
when we hear individuals explain how their family is healthier
now because of forward thinking bargaining good health care that's
paid for by the employer. Making sure that the future
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is secure in your most difficult times.
Speaker 13 (55:27):
Absolutely, I think a perfect add on to that. My
father passed away in twenty sixteen from pancreatic cancer. He
left the ib Thank you. He left the IBW in
nineteen ninety one after working there for I think it
was like thirty two years. My mom passed away last
(55:49):
January from COVID, but she continued to live on my
dad's health care head Excellent health Care. Still received his
pension and that was the union difference for her. Had
she been kicked off during COVID when she first contracted
the disease, who knows how much longer she would have had.
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But because of the healthcare provided by the IBW and
my dad's years as paying dues to the IBW, my
mom lived as comfortable of a life as she could
until she finally succumbed to the disease. And I can't
be more grateful for the time that we did have
with her thanks to the IBW and her pension.
Speaker 4 (56:33):
And thirty years have the same stories, more than thirty
years of drawing in that system. You know, thanks for
sharing that story. And we only got a couple of
minutes left to really appreciate you getting that in. But
I do want to just shift and we close up
on you know, as a as a Teamster local union.
We have fifteen thousand members here at Teamster's Local nineteen
thirty two in sam Ardino, California. And what do you
(56:55):
think you being a TikTok influencer, being from labor and
seeing what we're doing. We have a live radio show,
obviously a podcast you understand. You know, we have billboards
and buses and you know, we were pounding this narrative
in the area. We got relationships with forty school districts
where we're helping teach in the schools. They're coming here
for career days where we have over forty high schools
(57:18):
coming here and many employers showing off their jobs where
kids that aren't going to go to college or connecting
to these potential jobs. We've created this system where we're
fully integrating and then we're also talking about it by
running ads, by being on the air, by making sure
we're on AM and FM radio, by you can stream it,
you can connect to it, you can listen to it
later in your car, and a podcast. What do you
(57:39):
think of what this union is doing, what our members
are doing here at Teamsters nineteen thirty two. Being a
longtime advocate like you are, and we got too many.
Speaker 13 (57:47):
You're leading. You are on the cutting edge of social media,
of society, of the cultural changes, and if we as
union officials failed to evolve with the car cultural changes
and societal changes, We're never going to make it. We
will cease to exist. I'm going to close it up
by with two things real quick. First of all, in
(58:09):
twenty nineteen UAW one on strike. I was president of
the local Teamsters president and for our truck delivery that
was delivering the cars and vehicles was on the stage
with us at midnight when our members walked out. He
came up. He stood up, and he pounded the table,
and he promised not one vehicle would leave that plant
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on a Teamster driven rig. And he stood by it.
And because of the support of the Teamsters were in
the support of our members, we were successful in a
forty day strike. The other thing that I'm going to
say is that we have to change with society. We
have to recognize the technology that's available to us and
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do exactly what you're doing. Man, I can't be more
proud to have had any opportunity to be on this show.
And talk with somebody who is on the leading edge
of these changes. I think every local, whether it's United
Autoworkers or a building trade of the Teamsters, should be
followering the pattern that you all are setting. You're blazing
a trail everybody needs to emulate.
Speaker 4 (59:12):
Thank you very much. We got thirty seconds. I just
want to tell you we really appreciate that. We're going
to share you on our platforms. Please share us on
yours if you want me to come on and let's
do something on your platform.
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Speaker 10 (01:04:57):
We're back.
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This is the work of Power Hour Brandy Corgan on
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from Sam Bordino, and we have James Bites back on
and he's wearing an interesting shirt.
Speaker 10 (01:05:12):
I thought that I would zoom in on him real
quick here.
Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
Oops, that's that's the wrong way. See, that's what's cool
thing about this about this there he is?
Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
What's up? James? Looking at you?
Speaker 10 (01:05:23):
Everybody, you've been out, You've been out eating and checking places.
Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
Out or yeah, yeah, all over the ie. I'm trying
to hit every city if I can.
Speaker 4 (01:05:34):
All right, so we have a date, a solid date,
August fourteenth, where you all are going to land on.
Speaker 10 (01:05:41):
A particular location.
Speaker 4 (01:05:42):
Have you figured out what the restaurant is that you're
gonna the team stir a bandaged restaurant that you're gonna hit.
Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
Yeah. We talked about it a little bit, and I
wanted everyone to experience the very first restaurant that I
reviewed when I came on the show, Johnny Russo's. So
I figured that would be a good point.
Speaker 10 (01:05:59):
Well there you go.
Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
Oh, good place to start that way, everyone could see
what I was talking about and help help them out too,
because they're a really good little restaurant.
Speaker 4 (01:06:07):
They are, and and and again. When they were on
the show, they talked about how they what they make fresh,
all the different different things on the menu. We should
give them a little bit of heads up, how big
how many people you think we're going to have show up?
You think, Mark, we should get a little bit of
like an RSVP list. But we also need to make
sure people are truly committed. Don't let don't do this
thing where he orders more food and it ends up
(01:06:29):
blowing up.
Speaker 11 (01:06:30):
I would like to do ten fifteen just to start out. Yeah.
Speaker 10 (01:06:33):
Yeah, that way we.
Speaker 11 (01:06:34):
Don't overwhelm and we don't have the food issue because
you know Johnny will go out of his way.
Speaker 10 (01:06:40):
To he sure will, and he sure will.
Speaker 11 (01:06:42):
And I heard they opened up a back section.
Speaker 10 (01:06:44):
There's a did they? So don't tell people there's a bar.
Then we won't be able to control.
Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
No, definitely, come there's a bar, all right?
Speaker 10 (01:06:55):
Well?
Speaker 4 (01:06:57):
August fourteenth, Johnny russos in in Banning. It's on the calendar.
Is there a time?
Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
And then we decided about six thirty.
Speaker 10 (01:07:05):
You guys got to make this definitive.
Speaker 3 (01:07:07):
It's six six thirty. That way, people get off of work,
go home, pick up the family, and join us for dinner.
Speaker 4 (01:07:12):
Okay, you're gonna captus at twelve fifteen people correct. Okay,
So let's start an RSVP list. Who are they going
to contact?
Speaker 11 (01:07:21):
Abom contact me?
Speaker 10 (01:07:22):
Have them contact Mark? Mark? What's your cell phone number?
Speaker 11 (01:07:24):
Nine oh nine six seven seven zero two nine zero,
ask for Randy Corgan.
Speaker 4 (01:07:29):
I mean Mark, Now, you can write it on the
bathroom wall. It's every bathroom wall, it's recorded, it's live.
We heard all this. Everybody's got your number now, and
we're gonna write it on every bathroom wall.
Speaker 10 (01:07:41):
You know what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (01:07:42):
We're just gonna put the phone number on the billboard
to RSVP. Yeah, on the billboard.
Speaker 3 (01:07:47):
Yeah, that'd be good. Yeah yeah. Well again, it's a
really great restaurant. I really did enjoy it. The lasagna
was amazing. So I'm hoping everyone could experience it and
enjoy and word of mouth get them, get them some business.
Speaker 10 (01:08:01):
Okay.
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Speaker 10 (01:09:31):
Make sure that you use them.
Speaker 4 (01:09:32):
And they're always at our car shows, right, ConA Ice
comes does our events.
Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
Right, I've seen them.
Speaker 10 (01:09:37):
Mark, you're not paying attention, Mark, I've seen them.
Speaker 11 (01:09:40):
That's because I just gave my phone number out on
the radio and it's blowing up.
Speaker 10 (01:09:44):
You can wait. We're running a show, not playing on
your phone.
Speaker 11 (01:09:49):
We already have three people lyning. All right, I'm ConA
Ice does showed up to the car show all.
Speaker 4 (01:09:53):
The We're issuing him a warning letter, Robert, make sure
he gets a warning letter for being distracted driver. I'm
going through I'm going through right now. I'm going through
driving school online and I'm in the distracted driver section.
Speaker 10 (01:10:07):
That's why I said that, Yes, did you get a ticket?
Speaker 3 (01:10:12):
Did you?
Speaker 10 (01:10:13):
Yes? I did.
Speaker 4 (01:10:14):
I normally don't speed. You know, I'm usually pretty good
about it. But this day I came in hot.
Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
What's hell?
Speaker 15 (01:10:21):
This morning?
Speaker 10 (01:10:22):
You saw me come in hot this morning?
Speaker 11 (01:10:24):
Really coming from the guy who got everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
Easily everybody's usually passing me on the freeway going Randy,
what are you doing over in a slowly like what
you Well, its usually on the phone and I'm talking
and I'm doing stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
How fast did they say allegedly you were going?
Speaker 4 (01:10:39):
I don't pay attention to my speed A lot of
times if I'm on the long thing, I just set
my cruise control so I don't have to worry about
driving too slow. Maybe I got a ticket for driving
too slow.
Speaker 11 (01:10:49):
Maybe you should ask Robert how fast he goes.
Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
We already know how fast Robber goes. We already know that.
When we went to Needles. We know he's lucky he
didn't go to jail. That's what he's Yeah, of course
he did because of how fast you were driving, driving
like one hundred and fifty miles an hours crazy.
Speaker 10 (01:11:04):
I can't believe that car does that. That's nuts. He
came in hot man. I should have had wings on
that thing.
Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
The fact that he saw a judge Jesus.
Speaker 10 (01:11:12):
All right, James, who you where you've been lately?
Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
What?
Speaker 10 (01:11:15):
What's the what's.
Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
The banded hitting? I got challenged to do ice cream
for the summer, so I actually, uh, how much three
ice cream shops in one day, and what how do.
Speaker 10 (01:11:28):
You do that? Actually, I hit four spots in one day.
Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
Total. This is all done in one day.
Speaker 10 (01:11:35):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
And it just happened the day after the last show
that I was on, we had Brewsters ice cream. Yeah,
So it just so happened that I had to have
something taken care of about in the Ontario Rancho area.
So I'm like, let's make a couple of pit stops
since I was out there. First, I had to have lunch,
So I stopped by Taco Hut and they're a ranch Cuckamonga.
(01:11:58):
They're off a Foothillo levard.
Speaker 10 (01:12:00):
Taco huts not ice cream.
Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
I know that. Had to have lunch first, I needs
something for the cream to sit on.
Speaker 10 (01:12:05):
My bad, I'll shut up.
Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
And so they offered twenty percent off really good Chimmy
Chunga's burritos. That's really good. You've been there, yeah yeah yeah.
Now me and Mexican restaurants, I always judge it by
their Chile I love.
Speaker 4 (01:12:18):
I believe that's one of the best judges of a
Mexican restaurant.
Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
So if I go to a Mexican restaurant for the
first time.
Speaker 10 (01:12:25):
Or if it's tender, got great flavor, and it's.
Speaker 3 (01:12:27):
Not too fatty.
Speaker 10 (01:12:28):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:12:29):
Yeah, so you're there. So they had really good chili butt.
I had that. They had offered it in a chimmy chuonga.
So I tried that out.
Speaker 10 (01:12:36):
You say, you say it correctly, I say, chill a
by day.
Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
You try, you try, I.
Speaker 11 (01:12:43):
Mean we have it recorded, we can just play back.
Speaker 3 (01:12:45):
Yeah, so chive.
Speaker 4 (01:12:47):
I purposely mess it up now because it irritates my wife,
like you know, She's.
Speaker 10 (01:12:52):
Like, you don't say it like that, let me order
for you. I'm like, I'm a white guy. I'm supposed
to mess it up.
Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
But you're trying. The thing is that you try. So
they're off for twenty percent off. They're off Foothill. They
also have several locations right after that. Brewster's Real ice
Cream wasn't that far away. They're also in the city
of Ranch Cucamonga. They offered ten percent off. But I
think during the summer that we're doing or July at least,
we're doing twenty percent off. Now it's a storefront. You
(01:13:22):
can look in you see all the ash cream machines going.
It was really really good. I was actually surprised on
how smooth and creamy the ish cream really was. I
know they said they bring a milk milk from uh Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania,
so you could really taste a quality. And they also
do a lot of fun stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:13:40):
Isn't it crazy The milk from Pennsylvania is better than
the milk is rested right down the street, is it? Well, yeah,
a lot of milk is this pastor is done here
in California.
Speaker 3 (01:13:49):
So, but that was really good. They also do fun
things like I think on Thursday, bring your own banana
to get fifty percent off of banana split.
Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
No kidding, yeah, oh my gun, I just I'm in
now Tomorrow Thursday, I'm gonna have to race back for
I got to be in Needles tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (01:14:08):
Actually bring your own banana.
Speaker 3 (01:14:12):
I think that's what it was. I hope I got
that right now.
Speaker 4 (01:14:15):
But yeah, it's bring your own banana on on Thursday
and you get fifty percent off a banana split.
Speaker 3 (01:14:22):
That's what I pretty sure I read. I'm hoping that
I'm right now, guys, Brewsters, do you guys hear me?
Speaker 10 (01:14:29):
I'm sure we'll get corrected real quick if this is
not right.
Speaker 3 (01:14:32):
And uh so they also have speciality.
Speaker 4 (01:14:35):
Can you call can you Robert, can you call them
real quick and ask him if this is true, so
that by the time he gets off the show, we
can answer this question, cause I'm pretty sure I gotta
know if if you bring your own banana into into
Brewsters on Thursdays, you actually.
Speaker 3 (01:14:53):
A banana split.
Speaker 10 (01:14:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (01:14:56):
Yeah, so that's interesting.
Speaker 10 (01:14:59):
I think I've never good idea it is, but I've
never heard of that.
Speaker 3 (01:15:02):
You know, they're also doing the thing where they you're
you're below the counter. Uh you get a free scoop? Yes,
so that was in there. I didn't see anybody try that.
I was thinking about trying.
Speaker 10 (01:15:13):
What did you get? Which? Which flavor did you get?
Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
I got cheesecake and I also got Reese's peanut butter cup,
so that is quite the difference.
Speaker 4 (01:15:24):
Yeah, yeah, I I one of the things I used
to like to do is the coconut pineapple. Not there
but thrifty coconut pineapple and then what's that chocolate malted
crunch because that's too completely different.
Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
Yeah, we upset each other.
Speaker 10 (01:15:38):
Yeah, they totally offset each other.
Speaker 3 (01:15:40):
Yeah. Well thrifty is ash cream is awesome too. Yeah. Yeah,
but uh so we tried that it was really good,
very light and airy creamy. I really recommend everyone to
give it a shot. Splush now out this summer, uh
going forward. I also wanted it's true.
Speaker 10 (01:15:55):
Yes, Robert checked on it. He called just checker Robert.
Speaker 4 (01:15:59):
I was thinking, if this isn't true, they know they
think they're being punked right now when they're when someone's.
Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
Going, I know I read it right, But then I
started doubting myself after I said it. I'm like, this
is I know, it's kind a really good deal right
because it's like it's a great deal being true.
Speaker 10 (01:16:12):
And somebody just somebody just put in here. I've done
it before, bringing your own banana, and it's only on Thursdays.
Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
Only on Thursdays, so please please go check them out
on Thursdays. Get a I'm definitely here banana. Also all
the places that I'm mention, if you guys could like
let them know that you heard it on the radio
show that what they know Team Shirts are working for
every single way, that would be greatly appreciate.
Speaker 4 (01:16:35):
Everybody needs to bring their banana in on Thursday and say.
Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
Take pictures and submit them. That's that's what I want
to see.
Speaker 10 (01:16:43):
Say. I want my banana split. I heard it on
the show anyway.
Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
So stop number three of the day was I'll minute,
it's in French a minute. It is an ashcream shop
in Redlands.
Speaker 10 (01:16:56):
I have not been there.
Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
It's off citrus. They offer ten percent off now. They
make the ice cream right then and there. They use
liquid nitrogen, so they just throw it in a mixture,
throw the liquid nitrogen in there and spin it and
freeze it right then in there. So it it tasted
really good, but I felt like the flavors as when
you mix it in the mixture for a few hours,
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that the blend the flavors mix wasn't quite there for me.
It was still really good. They had to line out
the door. They actually had people that were off from
out of town. They moved out of town. They came
back just for the ice cream for that day. And
I had an avocado flavored ice cream, so it was avocado.
Speaker 10 (01:17:37):
Would have never picked honey avocado flavored ier.
Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
It was really good, was it? They also vegan flavors.
Speaker 10 (01:17:43):
I love avocado, but I just would not think doing it.
Speaker 4 (01:17:46):
The only thing that I think's like asparagus flavored ice
cream or something.
Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
Yeah, the avocados, but I.
Speaker 4 (01:17:52):
Had deep fried asparagus the other day. My son took
took us to a place by his house, and I'd
never had this lightly battered asparagus.
Speaker 10 (01:18:02):
Man, it tasted so good.
Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
Was it like a tempora ish? Yes? Yeah, that's good.
Oh it was so good, real good.
Speaker 11 (01:18:08):
Hey, James, Yes, sir, do you let him know that
you're doing the tape?
Speaker 16 (01:18:11):
James?
Speaker 3 (01:18:12):
No, No, No.
Speaker 10 (01:18:13):
We're gonna get him a shirt. James bits back. We
got to get him a polo.
Speaker 4 (01:18:17):
It says, James's got the team to go on it.
Hopefully someone's listening and they'll get that taken care of.
Speaker 16 (01:18:21):
Well.
Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
I don't want to because I don't want to be like, like, hey,
make his food extra whatever.
Speaker 11 (01:18:27):
Don't you don't want their food critic service.
Speaker 3 (01:18:30):
No, I think it just should be the everyday guy
treatment rights.
Speaker 10 (01:18:34):
That's true. That's good point. Don't let him know.
Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
If I could have a like, I'm thinking about getting
cards made saying that listen to that afterwards. Yeah, after
I pay the bill. Oh, there you go, they're like, hey,
listen to the show for the follow review or whatever
the case is.
Speaker 10 (01:18:48):
That's a really good idea.
Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
So that way, Oh, either we really did a good
job or oh crud, see what happens. But that's what
I got. Would be pretty good, just so they know.
That way they can listen to the show after the fact.
Speaker 11 (01:19:03):
Maybe they don't want to come on.
Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
Yeah, that would be good too.
Speaker 10 (01:19:08):
I like this all right, what else you got, James?
Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
Right? The last stop was Uh, had made ice cream
in Redlands as well. They're off of Redlands Boulevard. Also
really good ice cream.
Speaker 17 (01:19:20):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
They're known for their what they call raspados shaved ice
So they have vanilla, your traditional bubble gum and things
like that. They also have a palettas, which is just
your typical Mexican popsicles like coconut, coconut, almond, pineapple, pineapple, uh,
you know, and.
Speaker 10 (01:19:40):
Strawberry all that stuff. The strawberry, yeah they yeah, the
strawberry is typically really creamy and.
Speaker 3 (01:19:46):
Yeah, but they also make like toasty locos and other
like little treats apart from ice cream.
Speaker 10 (01:19:53):
Oh yeah, they got they got a full on counter there, right.
Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
Yeah, yeah, it's clean.
Speaker 4 (01:19:59):
And yeah, I can't do that, like you know, put
to heene all over it and all that. Like I was,
I don't understand it's ice cream like this isn't a beer.
Speaker 3 (01:20:09):
It's not well, not only on ice cream, but I
mean you could have it with your fruit. It's really
good on fruit.
Speaker 10 (01:20:13):
Like once again, you.
Speaker 11 (01:20:15):
Don't put on fruit.
Speaker 10 (01:20:17):
Come on, I don't want to ruin the fruit. Having
good water.
Speaker 11 (01:20:20):
That's how we used to sell.
Speaker 10 (01:20:22):
Okay, well put it on fruit. Like why you're supposed
to eat fruit and you're not supposed to ruin it
with some chemical or some salt or something, and that
makes it bad for you.
Speaker 3 (01:20:32):
You never put a block a bottle and a pine.
Speaker 10 (01:20:34):
And a No, I've seen people do that.
Speaker 3 (01:20:37):
Or you know what is it called drunken watermelon? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (01:20:40):
Yeah, right, you take our cherries, you know, you soak them?
Speaker 11 (01:20:43):
Yeah, you know called house party.
Speaker 10 (01:20:45):
Right, that's what we did when we were or that's
what other people did when they were teenagers. You didn't
do it, No, it was it was good. M sorry,
my mic was on anyway. I would never partin and
stuff like.
Speaker 3 (01:21:00):
That, so let me truk on. It was pretty good too.
Speaker 10 (01:21:03):
I believe you guys try to treat me like this
on your show.
Speaker 4 (01:21:06):
Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna cut MIC's off now. I'm gonna
I need to get a little button thing here reckon. Yeah, yeah,
bring some Brussels sprouts to the Robbert. See how that
works out for you.
Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
You don't like Brussels spruce Brussels sprouts.
Speaker 4 (01:21:20):
I can't stand the smell of them. I am not
I am not a picky eater, but I could tell
you there's two. There's a couple of smells that I'm like,
Oh my god, about liver and onions.
Speaker 10 (01:21:29):
That's the other one. It's horrible. You know, I was
forced to eat that.
Speaker 3 (01:21:35):
I don't have that problem with the smell of liver
and onions. I can't stomach it.
Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
Do you know how many people that are listening right
now are shaking their head like I am right now,
They're going, oh that smell?
Speaker 10 (01:21:45):
Like, nah, no, you like liver and onions.
Speaker 3 (01:21:49):
I like the smell. I can't eat it. I've tried
too dry. I couldn't eat it. Myke dog loves it.
Speaker 10 (01:21:58):
Yeah, we should go back to riddle that one back.
Speaker 11 (01:22:03):
So hey, maybe I'm going to heen and fruit at
this point.
Speaker 10 (01:22:07):
Yeah, so that the teena fruit. Let's just talk about
that real quick, like that's amazing. I know everybody likes it.
I just can't. I just if I'm.
Speaker 4 (01:22:14):
Eating watermelon, I'm eating orange or you know whatever it is.
It's like, you know, I like, I love fruits. I
like a lot of vegetables. I just don't like Brussels
sprouts and broccoli anyway.
Speaker 10 (01:22:24):
You know that. But when you put the tena, I
mean you're making fruit not good for you.
Speaker 15 (01:22:29):
Right.
Speaker 10 (01:22:30):
Look, I'm a healthy person here, can't you tell super healthy?
Speaker 11 (01:22:34):
Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
Super healthy? I mean so am I longtime eater, first
time radio.
Speaker 11 (01:22:38):
Gay Randy drinks a lot of green tea.
Speaker 10 (01:22:41):
Right, Okay, what else you got, James?
Speaker 3 (01:22:45):
You know you know the history of the ash cream Sunday.
Speaker 10 (01:22:48):
I think you're gonna tell us.
Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
And I was just asking just because I wanted to know.
Speaker 10 (01:22:52):
No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
Well, when soda was invented, it was considered as addictive
as alcohol and beer. So around the Bible Belt they
outlawed to sell of alcohol and soda on Sundays. So
when people go to the mount shops or they would
go to the pharmacists that they sell ice cream and
all that good stuff and sodas, they were not allowed
(01:23:15):
to sell all that stuff, so just on Sundays, just
on Sundays. So they're like, well, why don't you just
give me the stuff that you put in the soda,
meaning the ice cream and whipped cream and the topians
without the soda. Hence the ice cream Sunday was born.
Speaker 10 (01:23:30):
Interesting did you learn that in the History Channel.
Speaker 3 (01:23:33):
Unwrapped Food Network.
Speaker 11 (01:23:36):
I was gonna go with the food that built America?
Speaker 10 (01:23:38):
Are that one?
Speaker 9 (01:23:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:23:41):
All right, well, James really appreciate you coming on the show.
And why don't you do a real quick reminder to everybody.
You were a sam Bardino County employee and you were
on our bargaining committee. Here, you're active, you're steward you.
Speaker 10 (01:23:53):
I think I saw you went to the Sparks game. Huh.
Speaker 3 (01:23:55):
I did go to the Sparks game. As a matter
of fact, that was a little controversy with that too.
Speaker 10 (01:24:00):
Oh yeah, I heard, did you? Yeah? I heard you
had to change your shirt?
Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
Yeah shirt something, Yeah, I had. It was similar. It
was one of it was a Teamster shirt from the
Hispanic Caucus, the new one that they came out. I
don't know I'm allowed to say it on Yeah, So
I was wearing that and then like radio Yeah. So anyway,
it wasn't horrible, but then they asked for volunteers to
bring out the flag in the center of the court
(01:24:24):
for the national anthem, and I was one of the
people that I got picked and they took a look
at the shirt and they're like, hey, you need to
cover up. So I did.
Speaker 10 (01:24:32):
That's good, that's good.
Speaker 4 (01:24:34):
Yeah, But I mean I saw could you complied, you know,
so you could stay and not get thrown out of
the stadium.
Speaker 3 (01:24:38):
Part of me wanted to fight it, of course, I
really wanted to, like, you're gonna censor me, Well, I'm
holding this flag, but I'm like, I'm not here for
imagine that the irony in that. Yeah, So it's kind
of like, I'm not here for me. I'm here with
the team shirts. I don't want to make anything look bad.
So I put it on. Granted I'm a three X guy,
and they gave me an extra large.
Speaker 10 (01:25:00):
Did you put it off?
Speaker 3 (01:25:01):
Yes, and it had to be over the other shirt.
So now that's now an extra layer some like sausage
casing all day.
Speaker 11 (01:25:10):
Oh, I'm glad you said it.
Speaker 10 (01:25:12):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 3 (01:25:13):
I'm hoping there's pictures. I'm pretty sure there's pictures somewhere
out there. But I'm like, I'm so uncomfortable, like I'm
holding the flag. The corner of the flag. They're having
me wave it up and down, and I had a
hard time moving all.
Speaker 10 (01:25:24):
Right, James, thanks for coming on. What's your job title?
Real quick?
Speaker 3 (01:25:28):
I'm a scale operator for the county.
Speaker 10 (01:25:30):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (01:25:32):
Pretty much? You bring in your cars to the landfill,
we weigh them, take your trash, weigh them out. Charge
you pretty easy, psy.
Speaker 4 (01:25:41):
So I got some again, Thanks for coming on. Really
appreciate you doing James bites back. You went a little
bit further than I was expecting you to go, but
that's okay. We're having fun with the dialogue. So I
just got to do some real quick IBT news here
because we have we have Dan Osborne, a Senate candidate
at a Nebraska coming on the show here in about
(01:26:02):
five minutes or so, and he is an independent running
and I would like to try to get through some
of this news in case that conversation with him goes
really well and ends up going a lot longer. Hey, Mark,
just say you know that we just lost the NBC logo.
See he's over there playing on his phone again. Now
(01:26:25):
that's that's a second warning letter in the same day, Robert.
Speaker 11 (01:26:27):
Next week they'll be an operator, Right, yeah, we're we
James opening.
Speaker 10 (01:26:34):
James, do you want to you want to apply?
Speaker 3 (01:26:35):
Sure? Why not?
Speaker 4 (01:26:38):
In IBT news chemicals, you know you were gonna you
were gonna be shocked by this. This is unbelievable chemicals
released on striking air gas workers. Last week, air Gas
released unidentified chemical agents on striking Teamsters at multiple locations
nations wide. The incidents, which occurred in facilities in both
Illinois and New Jersey, were potentially deliberate and coordinated attacks
(01:27:02):
meant to intimidate, threaten, and harm workers exercising their federally
protected rights.
Speaker 10 (01:27:06):
This is this is.
Speaker 4 (01:27:07):
Where you know corporate America has lost its mind, like
like let's let's let's just release chemicals on people on
a picket line. I mean, it's it's just nuts that
we're here. One quote from one compost. One incident might
be an accident, but two in different states, it's really
hard to believe, said Juan compos director of the teamsterss
(01:27:28):
Tank Hall Division and Teamster's International Vice.
Speaker 10 (01:27:31):
President at Large.
Speaker 4 (01:27:32):
And I agree with one new or one hundred percent
correct on this air Gas again a quote from him,
air Gas knew exactly what it was doing looks like
a targeted attack on workers standing up for their rights,
and we're going to make damn sure they're held accountable.
You're right, want anything you need for us to help
in that space. It's incredible And and those pickets have
(01:27:52):
actually now been extended extended to a whole bunch more
locations because of it. It's like, all right, well, you
want to release you know, gas on everybody, Well guess
what we're gonna do. We're gonna give you even more
opportunity to release more gas. So we also had Pollard
Banknote workers joined Teamsters. Hey, Mark, just letting you know,
I can hear them coming through the thing, so I
(01:28:13):
don't know if we can mute that as they're coming
on before we get him to join. As we close
up this part of this segment of the show. Anyway,
workers at the Pollard Banknoight have voted overwhelmingly to join
Teamster's Local three thirty seven. The group of workers, including
press operators, machine technicians and assistants, and folder operators and assistants,
produced lottery tickets that are used by several states and countries.
(01:28:36):
Before this campaign, it seemed like enthusiasm and our plant
was hanging on by a thread. But now by joining
the Teamsters, it lit a fire under us and it's
been a breath of fresh air, said Jeremy Hilton, a
ten year maintenance tech and proud new teamster of night
excuse me of three thirty four. Being a teamster means
the world to my co workers and myself. We run
(01:28:59):
this shop twenty four seven and now we can work
together to make sure we are compensated fairly for it. Then,
as I said earlier, the Teamsters expand a nationwide strike
against air Gas. I am assuming it's because they released
chemicals on them while they're on a picket line, and
now you're going to have to find it on multiple
you know, in multiple locations. The Teamsters have extended their
(01:29:22):
nationwide strike against air Gas, with hundreds of workers honoring
picket lines at over fifteen facilities in eleven states. The strike,
led by air Gas teamsters in Cleveland and New Jersey,
now include extended pickets in California, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri,
New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island. Air Gas
(01:29:42):
is a quote air Gas has failed to treat their members,
our members with the dignity and respect they deserve, Sedjuan Compost,
director of the Teamster Tank Hall Division and Teamster International
Vice President at Large. This expansion could have been avoided
if the company had simply bargained in good faith. Instead,
air Gas as chose to stall, provoke, and disrespect its workers.
(01:30:03):
Now they're facing a full court press. We will win
the contracts our members have deserved, end quote. And also
they release chemicals on them while they're on the pigot line.
So at the end of the day, man I will
keep you posted on what's going on with the air
Gas workers and the extension of pickets all throughout. We
are going to go to a quick break. Can we
(01:30:26):
just do thirty seconds please, Mark, instead of it being
two minutes. This is the Worker Power Hour with Randy
Corgan on the Teams STIRS nineteen thirty two Broadcast Network,
airing live from sam Bordino.
Speaker 10 (01:30:37):
Take it away, Mark, we're back live.
Speaker 4 (01:31:32):
This is the work of Power Hour with Randy Corgan
on the Teamsters Local nineteen thirty two Broadcast Network, aerin
live from San Bernardino. Well that was great, James again
doing a nice little tour of hitting all these locations
I love how he describes the food and of all
of our Teamster Advantage partners, and he describes what he's doing,
(01:31:52):
where he's going. And you know, he doesn't just go
to one, he goes to multiple.
Speaker 11 (01:31:55):
He covers a lot of ground.
Speaker 10 (01:31:57):
He sure does.
Speaker 11 (01:31:57):
He's excited about it, and it's it's good for the program,
you know what.
Speaker 10 (01:32:01):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (01:32:02):
This idea came out of the membership meeting floor, somebody
listening to the show participating saying, hey, we should we
should go out and have somebody go visit. And I said, well,
why don't you do it? And then now we pull
him on the show and we're exchanging and and you know,
talking about how good the food is or what the
services are at a particular location of these more than
(01:32:23):
thousand small businesses the part that participate in our network.
And so I'm going to transition to the next part
of our show. We are joined by Dan Osborne, who
is a Senate candidate in Nebraska, and he is let
me fix my camera here so that you know, it's
one of one of these cool things in technology. What
do you think, Dan, No, I like it, Yeah, Hey,
(01:32:47):
you know, really appreciate you coming on the show, and
you know, this.
Speaker 10 (01:32:51):
Is the Worker Power Hour.
Speaker 4 (01:32:52):
This this Teamster's Local nineteen thirty two. I don't know
if you've you've done a lot of research on us,
but we got over fifteen thousand members in the re
and you know, we've got a very big digital following,
very big social media following.
Speaker 10 (01:33:05):
We have a live radio show with podcasts.
Speaker 4 (01:33:08):
And you know, we have billboards and buses and you know,
we're we're doing everything we can to get the community
connected to how powerful unions are for their community, not
just how powerful we're off for our own self interest,
but for the collective interest of the community as a whole.
Our small Business network is connected to over a thousand
small businesses. We're in over over thirty chambers of commerce
(01:33:31):
in the region. We're on the board of directors from
multiple chambers. We're participating in the space. We're working with
forty school districts and high schools that are coming and
doing career days with us once a year. And you know,
what we're trying to do is get people to understand
the unions aren't a bad thing. Unions are very very
good for our economy. They're very very good for our community.
(01:33:51):
And we make sure that goods and services not only
are delivered, but also you know, in this area, if
you dial nine one one, it's a teamster who answers
the phone and make sure that you're taken care of,
make sure that the fire or the police are dispatched.
And when you show up at a hospital, in a
lot of cases, it's a teamster that's receiving them at
the emergency room.
Speaker 10 (01:34:11):
That are our members.
Speaker 4 (01:34:12):
And so we're proud of the fact that we're helping
take care of this community every day. We really appreciate
you engaging in this space. And boy, you have done
one heck of a job of splashing as an independent
because you know, labor is tagged as only supporting Democrats,
which isn't true.
Speaker 10 (01:34:31):
We support we support candidates that support workers. Period.
Speaker 4 (01:34:36):
You could call yourself the Johnny Joe Party, you can
call yourself whatever party you want. At the end of
the day, if you're supporting workers and your policy support workers,
we're going to help get you elected. And from what
I understand, thank you for your service in the navy.
You are a veteran in the Navy. We appreciate that service.
Thank you for making sure that our country is safe
(01:34:58):
and with that, I'm gonna let you in introduce yourself
before I get into some questions. Thanks for coming on
the show and joining the Worker Power Hour.
Speaker 15 (01:35:04):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 10 (01:35:05):
My audio, Yes you're good, we can hear you perfect
good good.
Speaker 15 (01:35:11):
Yeah, you know. I My name's Dan Osborne. I'm currently
running for a United States Senate in Nebraska as an
independent candidate with a labor platform, for sure. But I
kind of wanted to touch on what you said about
being in the Navy in San Bernardino. I cut my
teeth snowboarding in Big Bear, California.
Speaker 4 (01:35:32):
Oh really, we have a camp up there in Big Bear,
one hundred and sixty acre camp are kids. We just
had like six hundred kids go through camp through this
whole summer. The last week is this week. We partner
with a camp up there up in Big Bear.
Speaker 15 (01:35:46):
I love that. I love that that. You know, I
have such fond memories of being a young guy, and
you know, my friends we were from California and they're like,
have you ever been snowboarding before? I'm like now, and
they're like, all right, well you need to go over
to the Bunny Slope and I'm like I'm not going
with the Bunny Slope.
Speaker 10 (01:36:03):
I'm going with you guys.
Speaker 15 (01:36:05):
And they're like, we're going to the Black Diamond. And
I said, I said, well, I'm going with you then,
and they're like, no, you don't want to go to
the Black Diamond. You need to go over to the
Bunny Slope, the Blue, the Blue Slope. I came around,
I think it was blue, and I'm like, no, I'm
going with you guys, and they're like fine, you know
they I wouldn't take no for an answer. It took me,
I think two hours to get down that mountain. I've
(01:36:26):
never been more store in my entire life than I
have been at Big Bear, California. And then and then
they had me drive home back to San Diego. That
my ship was stationed in San Diego and that was
not safe either. I was so tired, but I made
it out of line.
Speaker 10 (01:36:45):
Leave it to our friends to put us in a
tough spot. Huh.
Speaker 15 (01:36:47):
Yeah, that was my big bear. But anyway, you know,
back to politics, Yeah, I haven't always been a political person,
you know. It really wasn't until I led the strike
as a president of BCTGM Local fifty G against Kellogg's
here in Omaha, Nebraska that, you know, really opened my
(01:37:10):
eyes to the way our world is run by corporations
and special interest I really, I really saw that first hand.
And you know, that's why I'm running for United States Senate.
I want to I want to be a voice for
the working person. I want to uplift all workers, not
(01:37:30):
just union but all workers to the point where, you know,
I have three kids of my own, and my oldest daughter,
she's twenty two, she's you know, I set my kids
down this time. You know, I said, hey, you know,
you know, maybe we should run this cycle against US
Senator Pete Ricketts. He's a he's from a billionaire family
(01:37:52):
and this and that they own a baseball team. You know,
I'm like, do you really think these are the people
that should be governing us in our daily lives? And
my kids were like no, because they are so concerned
about the fact that they won't be able to be homeowners.
I think it's the average age of Americans now to
(01:38:16):
be homeowners is thirty eight years old. Since nineteen sixty five,
you know, the price, the meeting price of a home
has almost doubled if you include inflation with that, you know,
compared to when they were buying homes then. And I
know it's a lot harder for kids these days than
(01:38:37):
it was for I'm assuming you're roughly the same age
as me, But.
Speaker 10 (01:38:43):
For what would make you assume that? Dan, I just
get it, get out.
Speaker 15 (01:38:51):
I can't see you too well on the screen, but
you know, you certainly don't look like you're nineteen.
Speaker 10 (01:38:58):
I am not.
Speaker 4 (01:38:58):
Like.
Speaker 15 (01:39:02):
So we're close. We're very close.
Speaker 10 (01:39:04):
We are.
Speaker 15 (01:39:05):
I'm fifty now. I just turned the big five.
Speaker 8 (01:39:07):
Oh.
Speaker 15 (01:39:07):
But yeah, so these kids these days are so concerned
that that. I mean, because being a homeowner, that's like
the beginning stages, right of a personal wealth.
Speaker 10 (01:39:20):
Or establishing a base for your family.
Speaker 15 (01:39:23):
Yeah, your family. It's the first stage to secure retirement.
Everything that goes into being a homeowner in the state
that you have, you know, in your little plot of
land in this world is something that's super important. And
it's just, you know, that's part of the American dream.
And I feel like it's dwindling, and these kids are
(01:39:43):
feeling it. And I talk to them every day. I
talk to a lot of kids every day. I go
to universities, I go to community colleges, and I talk
to these kids and they're afraid, and you know it,
with the advent of social media and everything that goes
in with these phone and everything else that they have
to deal with these days, to add that into their
(01:40:05):
strife is disturbing. And you know, guys like Pete Ricketts,
my opponent in Nebraska, guys like that people. Okay, I
want to backtrack for just two seconds. Less than two
percent of our elected officials in both the House and
Senate come from the working class.
Speaker 10 (01:40:23):
Right.
Speaker 15 (01:40:24):
They don't know what it's like to put Christmas on
a credit card. They don't they don't understand. So how
could they legitimately, you know, cost laws and sign on
to legislation if they if they really don't truly understand it.
So that's that's what I'm all about. That's what we're
trying to do here in Nebraska. You know, in twenty
(01:40:44):
twenty four, we got forty seven percent of the vote
coming out of nowhere as an independent, And you know,
I really truly just just want to make a difference
in people's lives.
Speaker 4 (01:40:57):
I think something that you said early on in this
conversation is you talked about how you recognized corporate America's
control over America and I'm assuming that that is related.
I'm making some assumption. Seriously, tell me if I'm wrong.
You know, you worked in the Kellogg plant, which is
what you would call a brand, an American brand, right,
(01:41:19):
you were thinking Kellogg, you know Cereal, and you know
all the things that Kellogg owns. It's this this brand
that has this recognition to it, and you you what
I'm what I'm gleaning from what you said is that
going through that strike and recognizing the greed that Corporate
(01:41:41):
America has and their values and how they approach things.
I mean, sometimes they will crush anybody in their pursuit
to you know. And my stick that I've always said,
or I've been really saying recently, is, you know, Corporate
America's had two hundred and forty nine years to show
it how responsible it is in America, and it's not
(01:42:05):
had a good track record in those two forty nine
Like you literally can only look at a sliver of
a couple decades where they were somewhat responsible. Outside of that,
they've been pretty bad. They're back to some old bad
habits that really concerned me. And so I'm just saying,
is that something that really stuck out to you that
when you got into this labor dispute, you got into
(01:42:26):
the strike, and then you saw this what is considered
a great American brand, just try to crush everybody talk
about that if that's if that was the case, Yeah.
Speaker 15 (01:42:36):
One hundred percent. You hit the nail on the head.
And what a lot of people don't know. Yeah, I'm known,
you know, locally for the strike, you know, as a president.
What people don't know is, for twenty years, I worked
twelve hours a day, seven days a week, just trying
to make the company profitable. I would get on grassroots
teams and you know, try to do whatever I could.
(01:42:59):
I was a industrial mechanic there for twenty years, just
trying to make the trying to make them money because
I understood, and the unions understand. When they make money,
we make money. Everybody's happy, right. But what a lot
of people don't know about this strike is that during
COVID we were working, we were working seven days a week,
(01:43:19):
we were working twelves, we were working sixteen's and there's
four plants under the umbrella, the master contract around the
country that we're working these hours. And at one point
in time, fifty percent of our workforce was forced quarantine
and or sick due to COVID. You know, everybody has
(01:43:39):
their COVID stories. But what happened was is we made
them record profits. They went from nineteen billion to twenty
one billion dollars profit that year, and the CEO gave
himself a two million dollar raise and a big pat
on the back. You know, the board enriched themselves, the
stockholders enriched themselves, and that's fine. That's capitalism. You know,
(01:44:01):
we could talk about capitalism being you know, it's it's
a it's a it's a great, it's I think capitalism
is good, but unchecked capitalism is dangerous.
Speaker 4 (01:44:10):
Capitalism is great, it just got to have a level
of social responsibility exactly.
Speaker 15 (01:44:15):
And so where we're at right now is unchecked capitalism. Anyway,
So Kellogg's, you know, made these record profits, and I
felt like as president of my union, you know, our
our contract expired that year, and I figured it was
going to be a no brainer. We'd get a little
sliver of the pie, you know, considering we're the ones
who who you know, they made this money off of
(01:44:35):
our backs. Well, instead, they sat at the negotiation table
from us and they said, we're going to take your
health insurance. We're going to take the cost of living
adjustment from you, which is our only form of wage
increases designed to keep us even with inflation. I don't
need to tell your audience about COLA. And then we're
going to implement a two tier weight system with no
(01:44:55):
path for a lower tier employee to go to the
upper tier. So we had no choice but to go
out on strike. They knew what they were doing, and
in the two weeks that we negotiated with Kellogg's, I
think we spent maybe ten hours. As soon as any
of those three items got brought up, they would walk out.
So they knew what they were doing. They wanted us
to go on strike. We felt we were on the
(01:45:16):
right side of history. We called their bluff and we
went out on strike for seventy seven days and we
won a contract. You know, it wasn't amazing, but we
weren't asking for anything, is the crazy thing. We just
wanted to keep what we had, what we earned for
like the last fifty years.
Speaker 4 (01:45:32):
I remember when you were on strike. I mean I
don't remember you being on strike, but I remember the incident,
and I remember thinking this, like corporate America, like they
just can't help themselves. Right, This is where they get
into this space, they lean into it and they really
lose their mind, which is clear what they are right now.
Like in twenty twenty, obviously the onset of COVID, all
(01:45:55):
of a sudden started to value the jobs that we're
talking about right now that had been devalued you you know,
with a narrative for a long time, because corporate America
wants to devalue them to pay them less, even though
they're making plenty of money and they can afford to
pay good wages. They then want to devalue them publicly
or with a narrative so that they can drive something
(01:46:18):
like you just said, which is a strike, and then
make you look like you're greedy workers.
Speaker 10 (01:46:21):
And the reality is is.
Speaker 4 (01:46:24):
Even in twenty twenty one, not even completely out of
the COVID dust, right, they're still dealing with you know,
the effects of that. Immediately, the greed turns on trying
to claw back whatever they thought they could and continuing
to devalue important jobs. A so called great American brand,
(01:46:45):
A great American brand devaluing jobs, and what we can
see over the last thirty years in the labor movement
is that corporate America has won the devaluing of jobs
and gotten workers to start to fight with each other
and ah, well, their jobs as important as my job.
And then we're as a result, we're not collective in
our approach quite as much. What's happening now is their
(01:47:07):
greed is forcing us to be a little bit more collective.
And you know, it's good, not the good, The greed's
not good, but it's good that we are being collective
in our approach because it's great to see individuals like
you running for office that are inspired by a labor
fight and we're like, wait a minute, if I got
to go through this, then millions of other people are
in the same boat. We got to bring a stop
(01:47:29):
to this somehow. So thank you for jumping into the
space to make a difference.
Speaker 15 (01:47:35):
Sure, yeah, absolutely, you know, I feel like it's just something.
It's my duty. The same way I signed up for
the United States Navy and then after that I signed
up from the Nebraska Army National Guard. I was a
nineteen kilo on an Abrams tank. It's just it's just,
you know, I do what I feel is right. Sometimes
(01:47:56):
there's things bigger than us. It's bigger than me, it's
bigger than my family, it's bigger than you. And this
is you know, we gotta we got to steer our
ship right right now, and it's going off course, and
we need the way the framers of our constitution intended
this whole thing to be. Right. You come from your farms,
you come from your factories, you do a term or two,
(01:48:17):
and you know you rule because you're you're you're from
the people. And that is what we're missing right now.
We are in career politicians where millionaires working for billionaires,
and that that is the essence of the problem in
this country. And hopefully I can represent a solution to that,
(01:48:38):
and hopefully people can get behind it. And you know, dang,
let's let's just win this thing. Let's get some wins
under our belt and and and really bring workers into
the forefront of the conversations. Again, that's what we're missing.
Speaker 4 (01:48:53):
Well, what's what's good though, is we can see that
the electeds are all trying to kind of It's funny
because I just had a similar conversation with an earlier
guest on the show on the on the first half
of the show, and you know, all the electeds want
labors vote or they they want workers vote. You know,
there's we're starting to see now that the elected officials
(01:49:16):
realize that they've got to connect to workers. Now they're
in some cases they're saying the right thing. It doesn't
mean their policy is doing the right thing.
Speaker 8 (01:49:23):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:49:23):
And now those are obviously two different subjects. But the
reality is it's easier for you to stay connected to
the policy for workers if you were a worker like yourself,
being a mechanic and a Callogg's factory for you know,
a couple of decades, and like you said, working twelve
hours a day. You're not some fat cat sitting around
some fat cat union officials sitting around. First of all,
(01:49:44):
none of us are that, regardless of what they perceive
us to be. That's just some narrative and a cartoon
that somebody has painted no different than supposedly where the mob.
You know that the movies have depicted us to be
because you know, funny story or I always say here.
Speaker 10 (01:50:00):
On the mob.
Speaker 4 (01:50:01):
Thing is if you know the teamster's the mob this night,
If I'm the mob, then I'm just gonna have the
boss whacked.
Speaker 9 (01:50:06):
Right.
Speaker 10 (01:50:06):
Let's just let's just.
Speaker 4 (01:50:07):
Knock them out of the picture, and I don't have
to worry about this anymore, and I'm gonna get whatever
deal I want. Right, clearly that's not there. I haven't
whacked any bosses, you know, in my time. So at
the end of the day, those narratives, right, that's okay.
You know, that narrative controlled by corporate America can be
(01:50:27):
beat by workers like you occupy in elected positions to
set policy because what we learn in the in labor
is we learn a consciousness that's different than what we're
hearing on that TV every day or in that social
media feed.
Speaker 15 (01:50:46):
Yeah, yeah, that's it. And you know, there's there's a
couple of things. There's there's a reason why people like
us don't run for office because we don't have the
billion dollars, We don't have the or millions that we
can step away from our job. So just today I
was you know, there's a heat wave going across the
country and certainly Omaha is affected as well. I was
(01:51:07):
on a roof all day fixing a roof unit, getting
an office cool back down. There was a Thermo store
that went bad, and you know, we had troubleshoot it
and figure it out. And you know that's what I'm
doing still every day while running my campaign.
Speaker 10 (01:51:23):
Well, here're the irony in this. I got to point
this out.
Speaker 4 (01:51:25):
You're on the roof in the heat, direct heat, direct sun,
fixing the very air conditioner that's cooling an office potentially
for some corporate people to stay nice and cozy. Well yeah,
and I'm again obviously exaggerating the point. It may not
have been for them, But the reality is is you're
on that roof doing that hard work.
Speaker 10 (01:51:45):
It could just be office workers. I got you.
Speaker 4 (01:51:47):
I'm just I'm just contrasting how hard this work is
because the narrative is is we're all a bunch of
lazy people.
Speaker 15 (01:51:56):
Right yeah, and you know our voice doesn't matter in
our opinions don't matter because we don't have a fancy
Harvard or Stanford education. You know, some of the most
intelligent people I know have very mechanical minds, and you
know they like myself. I was going to college when
(01:52:18):
my wife got pregnant with my first daughter, Georgia, and
you know, I knew I had to go get a job.
I just had to go into the workforce. I needed
insurance because having a baby is crazy expensive and it's
it's even I mean, this was twenty two years ago.
Now my daughter's twenty two, and like, it's ex potentially
(01:52:41):
harder for these kids, these ages that are having kids
to make it and to buy houses and to you know,
earn a wage that that you know, they can get
by with. And that's exactly what I want to do.
And when we have to talk about anti trust and
anti monopoly laws, we have to level the playing field
for our workers, both in union and non union workforce.
(01:53:04):
That's how we do it. It's the Dollar Generals of the world.
You can drive by in any town in Nebraska and
I don't know how much time we have cut me off,
but you know, you could drive by any town in
main street in Nebraska and there will be a Dollar
General at the end or beginning of the town, depending
on which direction you're coming from. And mom and pop
stores are boarded up because they can't compete. They can't
(01:53:24):
buy the same goods as dollar General can and sell
it for cheaper. And there's one person or two people
employed at the Dollar General. And that's our rural country
right now, and it is set up for them to
succeed and for the little guy to fail. We're seeing
it with our farms, We're seeing it with our ranchers.
(01:53:45):
It's all consolidating right now, massive numbers of small farms
and ranches or filing for bankruptcy, and it's being corporate consolidated.
Speaker 4 (01:53:57):
To your point of home ownership, to your point of
home home ownership, this is your point of corporate America's greed.
If you use Amazon as an example, an Amazon delivery
driver cannot afford to buy a home anywhere in America period,
delivers in all these neighborhoods. But a Ups driver who
delivers in all the neighborhoods of America could buy a
(01:54:18):
home in almost any of those neighborhoods. Not everyone, but
almost any of them. And we've done the math to
find an Amazon driver, to find a neighborhood that an
Amazon driver can buy a home in, and it doesn't
exist mathematically. So the reality is is your point is
spot on, and the dollar general at the end of
(01:54:38):
the street or the beginning of the street. The corporate
America is wanting to starve everybody out, take every penny out,
because they in their defense is we want to, oh,
we want to we want to make sure that the
shareholders have their piece of the pie, right, and the
reality is is the executives are the biggest shareholders and
it's just an end to round for them to put
(01:54:59):
more money in their Yeah, people that are in four
to one k's and some investments, But then you look
at the amount of money that the average person, which
is about fifty six thousand dollars in their four one
k across the country, Like, it's not like they got
hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars invested in their
four on one case. Working people don't have a lot
and they're not getting a lot of that shareholder value
(01:55:20):
that again is being recirculated back into their pockets. I've
only got three minutes here before the end of this
show because you'd asked for the timing, so I'm letting
you know, and I really appreciate you making that point,
and I just want to make that point. And man,
you getting forty six point five forty seven percent of
the vote says that working people, that your residents, that
people in your.
Speaker 10 (01:55:40):
Area see it just like we do.
Speaker 4 (01:55:42):
It's just now a matter of getting them to get
out and vote and make sure that a person like
you gets into the Senate and can help set policy
to help workers for generations.
Speaker 10 (01:55:53):
What do you got to close on?
Speaker 15 (01:55:55):
Yeah, now, I appreciate that, and I appreciate your show,
and you know, hopefully everybody listening takes a little something
from each thing. You know, I did. I did two
hundred public events in Nebraska, and I went and met
people where they live, where they worked, whether they were
farmers or worked at the local hospital or school, whatever,
(01:56:18):
went and talked to them and listened to their trials
and tribulations of their lives. And what I found that
we have in common with everybody. I don't care what
side of the aisle you land on, left, right, blue, red, Independent,
whatever other party is there are what we all have
(01:56:39):
in common is that we're just people, and we're all
we're all Americans at the end of the day, and
we're just trying to get through this life. We're trying
to navigate this planet and our little spot on the
on the globe, and we want what's best for our
kids and for our families. And you know what we're
seeing right now is is a government and a two
(01:57:02):
party doom loop that's just trying to pit us all
against each other. You know, we have a lot more
in common than the media lets on to believe.
Speaker 10 (01:57:11):
And you know, there's a lot more for us to
agree upon than fight about. That's correct, exactly, And.
Speaker 15 (01:57:15):
I think the core of that is our work, right
we are, our families come first, But who we are
and who we spend the most amount of time with
is probably our co workers.
Speaker 16 (01:57:25):
Right.
Speaker 15 (01:57:25):
We spend a lot of time at work. That's how
we identify ourselves where and the people in Nebraska, I'm
sure just like the people of California, hard ass workers,
good working people. I just want write what's for their kids.
We all have some different ideas, but at the end
of the day, that's what we have in common. That's
what we need to focus on.
Speaker 4 (01:57:44):
Dan, really appreciate you coming on. Dan Osborne running for
Senate in Nebraska. Really he's also a union advocate and
he's Huskers and then that too, right let as strike
in twenty twenty one understands the trials and tribulations of
corporate America and how how how they can be especially
(01:58:06):
in moments like that. Thanks for coming on the show.
Really appreciate you being with us. And I'm just gonna
spend the last couple of minutes of our show. Again,
if you want to say, by real quick, we got
you and when we're going to cut you off.
Speaker 10 (01:58:17):
Dan one last word.
Speaker 15 (01:58:19):
No thanks, thanks for thanks for listening to me, Ramble,
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (01:58:22):
You didn't You did a great job. Thanks for coming
on the show. Thank you, and for all you listeners
out there. This is what we need.
Speaker 10 (01:58:31):
We need more and more of our active people.
Speaker 4 (01:58:38):
You have a guy here who got engaged with a
labor dispute and then is running for office because he
saw how much corporate, how bad corporate America is running
this independent So congratulations to him.
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We're back, listeners, longtime organizer, first time radio host, Randy Corgan.
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Here.
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This is the Worker Power Hour with Randy Corgan on
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from Sam Bernardino.
Speaker 10 (06:32):
Good to have you back. This is I think two
or three weeks in a row.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I forget, I keep mixing up that one show that
we recorded the day before. But boy, before I get
into our normal run of the show, we had Jennifer
Abruso in the office yesterday and she did She was
only supposed to sit down and do a little recording
with us for about ten or fifteen minutes. That turned
(06:57):
into fifty one minutes and we actually had to stop
it simply because she had to get somewhere else throughout
the day. And she did this phenomenal job of really
a kind of explaining the moment we're in with labor,
what workers have to do. Can't wait to roll this
show out later today. But and for those of you
who don't know who Jennifer Russo is, she is a
(07:18):
former General Counsel of the NLRB that was terminated that
the administration terminated in January.
Speaker 10 (07:25):
Of this year.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
And you know, she's clearly an expert on labor, labor law,
advocating for workers. She worked at the NLRB for more
than two decades, almost three decades, obviously ultimately becoming the
General Counsel, which is the number one person in charge.
So for us to have her on property physically at
(07:49):
the local union. She toured the place, was super impressed
with what we've done here with our membership, all the programs,
and the integration that we have with all the programs.
It was one of those days where we got to
drag around somebody super important that was really, I guess
impressed with the setup. And then I kind of did
(08:11):
it on purpose. As an organizer, you always got to
ask someone to do something.
Speaker 10 (08:15):
And I pulled her in.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
In the last place we landed, was actually in this
studio and was explaining all the great things that we're
doing with our platform here and with the message and
with what we got going on as a whole, and
how we're communicating to not just our members but the
general public, and the branding we're doing with Think a
Teamster and educating the general public and our members on
(08:40):
the integration and why it's important teams were advantage program
all that stuff. And then I said, well, will you
sit down and do a real quick show. And she
was tired, She had traveled all day from the East coast,
and then you know, she was here for a couple
hours and she still sat down and it only took
her literally, Hey, Mark it only took her a couple minutes, huh.
(09:01):
Once she started getting her blood pumping, man, she was
it was great and I can't wait. Yeah, I cannot
wait to see this for all of you to see
the show tomorrow. And you know, it's not like she's
been to a lot of local unions to sit down
and have a conversation like that. So we really appreciate
her taking the time, uh to do that, and her
(09:22):
taking the time to really give us her perspective. And
she was full of energy, articulate, on point, and most importantly,
she hit the hit the nail on the head as
far as what workers have to do. In other words,
just you gotta take they gotta take control. You're gonna
say something, mar.
Speaker 11 (09:39):
Yeah, she kind of took the show away from you
yesterday a little bit.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Good.
Speaker 10 (09:42):
That's what we wanted her to.
Speaker 11 (09:43):
Not not a knock on you, but for someone with
that amount of knowledge to be able to just get
it out on a roll and not even hiccup was amazing.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Yeah, And you could tell, you know, as as a
conversation went on, there was more stuff. She kept rolling
into something else that that provoked something she wanted to say.
She wanted to talk about and so it was great.
It was tremendous to have her in the building yesterday
and then obviously to get her on the show. You
will all witness the show. I think somewhere by the
(10:13):
end of today we will have it out and released
as a separate podcast. Obviously it's not live, so we're
not going to integrate it into this show.
Speaker 10 (10:21):
We considered it.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
We considered maybe just putting it on the back half
of the show, but we'd already had guests, which we
have a really cool guest coming on the back half
of our show anyway, So I just wanted to give
everybody a quick update as to what happened. And again,
you should all be proud of the fact that we
were able to host her here.
Speaker 11 (10:39):
You got something to see her a little starstruck yesterday.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
I gonna lie, you know, I'm pretty critical of the board,
I'm pretty critical of the NLRB, and what impressed me
the most about her was that she had this great
spirit of like, this is what we got to do,
regardless of whatever challenge is that she's facing. Because you know,
she was very genuine, very genuine.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
And very much understood and empathetic to what workers need
to do. And the most important thing I heard her
say was the Nationally Relations Board was established to protect workers,
not corporations.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
Right.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
That to me, like, of course, I'm going to be
starstruck when I hear something like that, because there's an
entity that is actually trying to serve its purpose.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
Well, now you know she was fired. I mean, I'm
not knocking her because she was an amazing woman, but
in this administration that probably didn't fit the.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Mold, correct and and it clearly points out that that.
You know, she did a really good job of advocating
for workers over that four years. And you know, let's
let's let's call it like it is. If you voted
for the individual who's in office right now, for the
for you jit and you heard you heard the show,
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you listen to the show that's about to play here
in the next day, and how pro worker this person is.
You know, that's who should be heading still heading the
NLRB to make sure that workers are protected over the
next few years. So anyway, another subject for another.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
Day that we'll we'll cross.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
So last week's shows, as a quick recap, we were
joined by say Linda Bernard. She was she's the executive
director of the u c r i E. Labor Community Center,
to talk about the importance at work to prepare the
next generation of workers and educate them on their rights
on the job.
Speaker 10 (12:35):
And it was great, great conversation.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
A matter of fact, a lot of you commented on
the clips that were out there.
Speaker 10 (12:40):
At the u c r i E.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Labor Center, they teach students, you know, how to read
their pay stubs, recognize what rate wage theft is, and
some of you may be going, well, shouldn't anybody know
how to do that? No, man, A lot of times
these private sector employers make these pay stubs very, very complicated,
and there's a there's billions of dollars in wage theft
happening on a regular their basis because people lack the
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information that's needed for them to not only interpret the
paste of but secondarily enforce the rules that are on
the books. So anyway, it's also important for you know,
warehouse workers in the.
Speaker 10 (13:13):
IE to know this.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
They're a very vulnerable group of workers in the area,
and the UCRIE Labor Center is working with them and
work with them closely. So we really appreciate her coming on.
And also we were joined by Armando Atlanis, who is
the Secretary Treasur of the United farm Workers, to talk
about what's happening on the ground with the members being
intimidated by ICE agents and you know, sadly claiming the
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life of one already as a result of those rates.
And you were seeing some pretty crazy things happening right now.
I know, you know the news depending on which news
source you look at, there's actually a lot of things
that neither one of those news sources are gonna show.
You're seeing a lot of the farms are starting to
lock their gates and they're basically telling ICE you can't
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come on the property because they do have they're all
die documented workers. They know they're documented workers. You're not
just going to randomly come in here unless you know
what you know, unless you're after a criminal. We are
going to separate this conversation from going after individuals who
are criminals versus individuals who are just working and documented.
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You know, raiding an area that you have no idea
if criminals are there, to then search them out and
then arrest everybody and do the things that are going on,
you know, doesn't help the circumstances. If you know somebody
specifically to be on the property. That is, you know
a criminal has broken the law, then you'll have a warrant,
you'll be able to you'll be able to identify them.
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Police should absolutely identify themselves, make it known who they are,
who they're going to get, and let's get those those criminals.
Speaker 10 (14:45):
Out of here.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
But not these people that are doing this work, especially
not the documented people. Anyway, a lot of good conversation
about the way. I really like the most about that
conversation was this was we talked about how tough the
job is. You know, it's everybody. Armando did a really
good job. Obviously, it's been an industry he's been in
almost entire adult life, and he talked about how difficult
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those jobs are and the things that they're doing to
try to inform the public on how important those jobs
are and how valuable those jobs are. And quite frankly,
not a lot of people want to do those jobs. So,
you know, this balance that we have to strike in this.
Speaker 10 (15:23):
Space where policy and issues.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
In this space start to conflict with the politics of
the day. You know, it has to be separated, broken out,
and you have to have real good people leading in
this space to make sure that you don't have a
bunch of negative consequences too, So really thought it was
great to have Armando on the show. The next part
of our show, we're going to move into live shout outs.
(15:48):
Those live shout outs are as follows. Give me a
quick second, okay, Jonathan Andrad At Andrad Sorry, Jonathan Andrad
AARMC Security, sand Cabrera, Anita, Vanessa and Lisa the clerical
(16:08):
staff for the Rehab Department at AIRMC. Vicky Thompson, City
of Grand Terrace, joy Santos, ARMC HIM Department, Natalie to
Gleat Taglira boy I probably butchered that Miles is the
last name AARMC HIM Department, Katrina Loftis ARMC, I E
n T Clinic, u Are techs at AARMC, Amanda Montoya
(16:32):
and AIRMC Nutritional Services. Krista Hunter at the AIRMC Nutritional Service,
Chas Kelly AARMC, Annabelle Fernandez, County of San Mardino Housing,
Mario Felix, SSS, Victorville Station, Eddie or TI's Law and
Justice OA Fontana Station. Pamela al Ma Reid at Barstow City.
(16:55):
She's a Barstows Steward, Veronica Zam Sam Rano from West
Valley Detention Center, l Vin Jasmine Bauers health education specialist,
Public Health, Marcus Worel at A seven up and Fontana.
We have Andrea Palacios. We have Lauren.
Speaker 10 (17:14):
We have Jesse Turner Team, the Jesse Turner Team and
Cus D Team. Lauren.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Thank you for consistently listening. Gino Fire, we have Jason
and Mozelle.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
We also have said.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Say A Duel, Chao Hurdi at aramc Lay Robinson, and
then at the we have this cb CSS Stewards, Trish Flores,
Crystal Olds and Zion Randolph, Zion and Randa and Zion Randolph, Rialto,
Tad Jason Nugent, Tad O two, Jonathan Guteris, I T D.
Speaker 10 (17:52):
Van g.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
The Lariba from Colton Westminster head Start in Ontario is
Kirk Garrison Crime Lab, Connie Botini Ralto Library, Susan Loftis
crime analyst, John Montesino from Victim's Advocate, District Attorney's Office,
Dinah Messias Paralegal District Attorneys. Sandra Reis Hernandez from the
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Assessor's office. Thank you for listening and live appreciate that
we also have Ryan Franken listening in and watching live.
And as a matter of fact, you know, for those
of you that are watching, I actually had four or
five texts just as I was firing up. I had
someone tell me before I got started, I needed to smile.
I also told somebody there's somebody said I needed to
do something with the camera. But I would like to
(18:39):
get your feedback for those of you that actually do
look at the cameras when we don't have someone another
guest here, do we zoom in a little more or
do we stay zoomed out with with this, you know,
to where you can see the logo and the worker
power and all that stuff. I'm just curious, you know,
if you give me some feedback, great, If not, I
(19:03):
prefer to be zoomed out as far as possible because
I just don't think I look good on camera. So
and I know most of you are actually listening on
the on the on the app, so if that's great,
you know, really appreciate that. And just as a reminder,
this is KCAA ten fifty one six point five FM.
(19:24):
Next part of the show is our victories. Hopefully I
can find those. Oh no, I'm sorry, remember highlight my bad,
I'm moving around, Robert, You're supposed to throw something at
me and keep me on track.
Speaker 11 (19:38):
Right anyway, Robert, take his remote for the camera away.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah see, I got I got distracted by pushing this
button here right anyway, Member highlight Arrowhead Regional Medical Center
our AARMC. Impatient coder positions. Impatient coders code medical records
so that the counting can be reimbursed the most money
possible and ensuring there is precise billing and analytic compliance.
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And patient coders work in the Health and Information Management department.
We also have AIRMC Senior Office Assistant in healthcare. AIRMC
Senior Office Assistants work closely with doctors and clinicians to
get patient referrals approved so that they can start and
continue their therapy in the outpatient clinic. And so with that,
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I'm going to move over to some of our victories
around the local union. We've had a lot of As always,
each week, we have a lot of good stuff. An
EO complaint was filed for a member and successfully transferred
an employee back to a prior department per their request,
so the employee is at peace and happy to be
back at work, created a new member labor management group,
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collaboration within the local union, negotiated lesser discipline in lieu
of termination. There was a few of those actually came
in in a number of places, in a number of
locations where people may have made a mistake and maybe
deserve some level of discipline, but termination was excessive and
we were able to put them in a position where
they did not lose their job. Chino members attended the
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City Chino meeting with fifty percent of the membership in attendance.
Members did a great job at demonstrating worker power and
speaking up. City already showing movement in results of this action,
So keep up the great work there. One hundred percent
NEO new employee orientation sign up in Pomona. Big Bear
ratified their contract last night more than two to one.
(21:29):
Great job to that group and congratulations big Bear being
the hospital Bear Valley Community Hospital, right, not Big Bear
of the city, Robert, This is actually Bear Valley Hospital.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
So the impaction there's an impaction issue being corrected. In
the Sheriff's department. Bargaining with an agency is going extremely
well with increases sign on bonuses and additional holidays. One
bargaining team members stated this is the best contract they've
ever done, and they're not done yet, so it's a.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
Great, great job there. We've received several.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Entries on the California span a Cockatt scholarship from our
members and their kids.
Speaker 10 (22:06):
Good luck to all the members.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
One of the things I want to point out to
everybody is, you know, our members do get a lot
of scholarships. As a matter of fact, I think our
members get more scholarships than any other local and it
isn't because everybody likes us more. It's actually because more
of our members actually put in for the scholarships than
I think everybody else does. Whenever we see we we
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see a big volume come in, and that is great.
We really like that. The committees love to see a
big response. They really enjoy seeing those things. Excuse me,
those those requests coming in to do the to do
the scholarships. So I've got some all right, yeah, yeah, no,
(22:49):
I go. I'm reading some of the playback here because
I suggested on the on the on the camera anyway.
So it's one of these things that you try to
do live I've and you try to figure out is
this going to work? So what's the next part of
the show, Robert, what do I do next? What if
I forgot what I'm doing the Worker Power Hour News?
(23:13):
What if I don't want to do it? That's okay,
my show. I can do whatever anyway. In Worker Power
Hour News, I'm just getting just figured i'd lighten it
up a little bit here and all of you can
be like, oh, what's going on anyway? Video game workers
and industry agree to an AI restriction in the new
labor contract in national Voting SAG after members approved the
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twenty twenty five SACK after an interactive Media agreement, with
a yes vote of ninety five percent ratifying the deal.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
The new contract.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Includes performer safety guardrails and gains around artificial intelligence, including
consent and disclosure requirements for AI digital replica use. The
contract also includes compounded increases in performer compensation at a
rate of over fifteen percent upon ratification. So congratulations to them,
and congratulations to them having a win in a space
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when it comes to AI.
Speaker 10 (24:09):
This is this next few years. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
There's going to be a lot of lot done in
this battleground. And I know some of you may be
listening in and saying, Oh, I'm good with this computer
doing my job. You know you better think about this, like,
as much as you're allowing AI to do your work
for you, you may turn back around and not.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
Actually have a job yourself.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
So kudos to all those groups that are fighting to
make sure that the AI that they have, or excuse me,
that the conditions that they have are protected when it
comes to AI, and they don't allow AI to infringe
on it anyway. Saturday Night Live v FX artists ratify
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their historic first union contract. Visual effects workers at Saturday
Night Live, SNL unanimously ratified therefore first union contract. After
successfully organizing in October of last year, the SNL VFX
workers begun contract negotiations in April, and this contract brings
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significant improvements including establishing a minimum wage scale, securing ongoing
health care benefits, offering annuity contributions, providing kill fees for
artists hired for projects canceled before completion, implementing a robust
grievance process, and creating critical artificial intendent intelligence and outsourcing protection.
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So great job, congratulations to them. And then Safeway workers
are poised to go on strike here in California. Most
of this I think is up in Northern California. Unionized
Safeway workers in Northern California set to go on strike
on July twenty six if they failed to reach an
agreement on contract negotiations. According to a statement from the
United Food and Commercial Workers Locals five eight and six
(25:53):
forty eight, the union set it's bargaining committee members met
with Safeway representatives on July fifteen and sixteen, following the
union's membership voting to authorize a strike if necessary. Safeway
requested federal mediation. Does federalitiation mediation still exists? Did they
answer the phone or has that been cut to?
Speaker 10 (26:12):
Oh my bad?
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Anyway, But the two two days of negotiations, see, I'm
trying to be funny here, man, I trying to make
light of some tough stuff. Anyway, Safeway request scar sorry,
but the two days of negotiations were unsuccessful in reaching
agreements on wage increases and healthcare. The union said the
company clearly had no interest in addressing the issues important
(26:34):
to our hardworking Safeway members in the high cost living
in Northern California. Union said, so, we'll definitely keep an
eye on that, and we have a guest that's about
ready to come on the show. I can actually hear
it connecting right now, So make sure we mute that please,
And why don't we take just a real quick break
if we can, so we can take care of this transition.
(26:57):
So this is the work of Power Hour with Randy
Corgan on the Team Star's local nineteen thirty two broadcast network.
Mark let's do a thirty second break so we can
transition into our next guest.
Speaker 12 (27:13):
I'm Lillian Vasquez with Community Matters. There are many car
clubs and car shows throughout the Illan Empire. I visited
a car show in Yukaipa and spoke with David Avilov,
president of Past Pleasures car Club. He shared about the club,
its purpose and when it first began.
Speaker 13 (27:30):
Well, it's kind of a debate.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
We believe that.
Speaker 14 (27:32):
The first organized group was around nineteen seventy nine, but
more officially closer to nineteen eighty six or eighty seven.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
We gathered to.
Speaker 14 (27:41):
Help celebrate the Southern California car culture of the forties, fifties, sixties,
and seventies.
Speaker 12 (27:47):
David shared the types of cars you might see and
of course his pride and joy.
Speaker 14 (27:52):
We'll see all kinds of cars from early model hot
rods to a very very well appointed customer cars, all
mixing models.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
We have everything that's creating.
Speaker 14 (28:04):
I have a nineteen sixty six Chevelle Malibu, a yellow
one here my pride and joy.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
But everyone just brings whatever they have.
Speaker 14 (28:11):
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 have bubble gum blowing contests,
hula hoops, limbo contests. It's just a wonderful family event
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and we encourage everybody who has car, don't have a car,
come over here and enjoy the camaraderie that we have
again celebrating the Southern California car culture.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You don't have to have a car in the show.
Speaker 12 (28:44):
Spectators and car enthusiasts are encouraged to check out the classics.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
It's free to attend.
Speaker 12 (28:49):
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 Yakaipo Boulevard. For community
it matters.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
I'm We're back This is the work of Power Hour
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with Randy Corgan on the Teamsters Local nineteen thirty two
broadcast network, live from San Bernardino. We are joined now
by Glenn Cage. He is a former UAW official who
is now a TikTok influencer and is out there spreading
the news and all of the information and education and
(29:46):
having fun with making sure that worker rights are being heard, understood, agitated, mobilized,
and we're really happy to have him on the show.
Speaker 10 (29:59):
Glenn, you.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Know, you're sounds like you're having a great time on
TikTok and you're you're making a big impact. You got
tens of thousands of followers, and you're spreading the word
when it comes to what us labor advocates do on
a regular basis, and you're using these platforms kind of
like you see here with us with our live radio
show and our podcast and all the messaging that we're doing,
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and you know, more labor people got to do this.
So thank you for coming on the show and thank
you for what you're doing. Why don't you take a
minute introduce yourself, Glenn, and talk about why you transitioned
to doing something like this.
Speaker 13 (30:34):
Sure well, I appreciate the opportunity to come on here
and help spread the message. I've been a union official
and held a number of different titles throughout my long
career as a union guy. I've been a financial secretary.
I've been a political director for the UAW they call
it legislative chairman. I was in charge of political action
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for everything east of the state capital and Missouri.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
That's all right, you got a plane flying over. I
got you, We got you covered life, no worries.
Speaker 13 (31:06):
I'm at the airport with my family and I I
had my timing set but I didn't obviously. But anyway, No,
everything you said is exactly true. We as union officials
and activists need to do a better job of informing
the general public that unions are not the leaches on
the employees or our members that were described as by
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a lot of people in elected positions.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
Yeah. Well, they're controlled by corporate America.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Yeah, they're controlled by corporate America's interest anyway, So you know,
how do we believe them?
Speaker 10 (31:39):
But you make a great point. Sorry for cutting you off.
Speaker 13 (31:42):
Yeah, no, you're exactly right, And for too long they
have controlled the narrative as we are. What we represent
what we bring to our membership, and it's got to stop.
And the only way it stops is by adjusting our
message and working with the social media.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Yeah, and and getting our message out and making sure
the general public understands why it's so beneficial to be
in a union number one and number two.
Speaker 10 (32:10):
You know unions.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
The last one hundred plus years, it's only been US
as an institution that's been consistently advocating for workers, workplace safety,
making sure that people have a living wage, good healthcare,
retirement vehicles. You know, at no point has Corporate America
been stood stood in line at conqueror stood in line
at Congress to pass something in this space. And I'm
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so excited to have you out there on TikTok, you know,
smashing the message.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
This is great.
Speaker 13 (32:39):
Well, I appreciate it. And that's kind of even a
funny story how that all got started. About three years ago.
I was on the phone with another friend of mine
who is a labor activist, and I was I was
on a rant. I was really going at it with him,
and I walked into the house and I happened to
have she was then a fifteen year old granddaughter visiting
from Nashville, Tennessee. And when I got off the phone,
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she came in and said, Papa, you need to put
that on TikTok. I said, that's all you kids, and
you're silly dancing and stuff like that. She said, no, no,
let me show you. So she took my phone and
downloaded TikTok and showed me a couple of political messages
and I thought, you know, I think she's onto something.
So she helped me set it up and get it going,
(33:25):
and I've got almost twenty thousand followers. My videos have
been viewed over two million times. And it's always pro labor,
pro by American and it's not just that, but it's
also what labor unions bring to our communities, our economies,
and without a strong middle class supported by organized labor,
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the economy suffers.
Speaker 10 (33:47):
That is correct.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
And you know, what are the other interactions you're receiving
in terms of messages and comments on TikTok. You know,
I would assume you're receiving the same thing that we are,
which is this very positive. It's like think you I
appreciate you, or oh, it's great to see that message
out there. You know, I'm a union member over here,
and man, it's good to see us.
Speaker 10 (34:07):
In that space.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
You know, there's a lot of positive encouragement in there.
And you know, obviously corporate America may not want us
doing it, but we have to and we got to
occupy this space a whole lot more.
Speaker 10 (34:21):
Now that's no, you're good. We can hear you. I know,
we can hear the plane in the background, but if
you keep talking, we can hear it. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (34:28):
I feel horrible, but anyway, no, look, this is how
it works.
Speaker 10 (34:32):
We're in the labor movement. These things happen on the spot,
you know.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
And then you got your family and they were in
the car and they probably had to deal with this
for the last thirty years.
Speaker 10 (34:39):
You know, they all know, they get it. Man, we're
all in this together.
Speaker 13 (34:44):
My wife was talking about that this morning actually with
our daughter. We're we're in Wisconsin visiting our daughter. We're
at the Oshkosh hair show. Unbelievable timing on everything. But anyway,
I didn't want to miss this opportunity to speak with
you and you're public because these opportunities don't arise that often,
and it's important for us to get the message out.
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One of the things that I have done is I
had a few episodes where I do member, I talk
with a member, meet the member. I called it because
people here labor activists like me and I'm sure yourself
as well. When they hear us talk and they say, well,
that's Glenn. That's how else would you expect him to be.
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You know that that message gets old with a lot
of people. But when they hear from rank and file members,
people right off the plant floor, right out of the
cab of one of your trucks, talking about the impact
that belonging to the union is made on their lives,
it brings a whole new message to the general public.
And it's an important message.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
You know.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
And one of the things that we found by doing this,
to your point, is that we do the same thing
on our show. We always have, not always, but a
lot of times we have a member come on and
describe their job, talk about the importance of it, and
then the listeners, some of it the public, and obviously
some of it other members and some of them members
from other unions. They're like, I did not know that
that job classification.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Did that?
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Or I had no idea that they were teamsters. I
had no idea that those were union members.
Speaker 10 (36:15):
I had no.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Idea that every ounce of water that comes into my
community is protected by a union member or a teamster,
and every ounce of water that goes out because I
flushed the toilet is made sure by these union members
to be safe as it exits. And so every single day,
our members are saving millions of lives, making sure millions
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of people are safe every single day, and we just
have to explain it. And you know, they really the
members really enjoying the public, really enjoys hearing from them,
hearing from the worker, hearing their story and what they
do in the community and how they volunteer for football
and soccer and at the PTA, and they're they're involved
(36:58):
in all these aspects. You know, Corporate America wants to
villainize the institutions of unions, but what they're really doing
is they're villainizing workers, because it's workers that make up unions,
not the leaders like myself who are elected.
Speaker 13 (37:11):
Now, you're one hundred percent right, And you know, the
corporations like to talk about capitalism and how we're a
capitalistic society. I get a little bit of hot water
from other union officials when I bring it up this way.
But organized labor unions are capitalists by nature. We are
a service representing organization, and our service that we provide
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is representation of our members, the companies employees the enforcement
of their contracts. Why should we not be able to
capitalize on the work that we do representing our members
to ensure that their companies are honoring the contracts that
they agree to and sign.
Speaker 10 (37:50):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
And when you use the term capitalism, there is no
problem that there's no there to have a social conscience
and have social programs within capitalism is perfectly fine. They
don't compete with each other. Like you absolutely can dial
nine to one one and make sure that somebody picks
(38:12):
up the phone and answers it versus them saying please hold,
let me check to see if your membership subscription is
up to date before we find out whether or not
we got to dispatch the fire department. Instead a social network,
which is okay. Within capitalism, it's not competing. It is
working together to create an emergency service that needs to
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be there for the community. Like what's happened is the
political narratives in this country to try to villainize unions
has actually tried to make it a bad word or
not being able to educate the general public on it,
because again, corporations don't want workers to organize. They want
us to seem like we're something different than what we
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really are.
Speaker 13 (38:56):
Correct as usual. The one thing that I'd like to
also point out as when workers come together and join
a union or form a union and work for a
collective voice to sit down at the negotiating tables. One,
it's no different than these corporate associations like ALEX, the
American Legislative Exchange Council, the Chamber of Commerce. They all
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pay fees or dues or association fees to these organizations
to bring a collective voice to protect their interests, be
it in real estate with the National Realtors Association or
Small Business Association or whatever it is. Why is it
okay for them? But why are we look down upon
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as unions when we represent working people who generate the
wealth for the wealthy.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
You know, because it doesn't fit their narrative right. It's
all about villainizing unions and villainizing that entire system to
make us look bad.
Speaker 10 (39:55):
What do you to shift gears here a little bit?
Speaker 4 (39:57):
I'm going to come back to the points you just made,
but I want to shift gears. What do you find
is your best content? In other words, that most people
engage in they share we have a pretty good idea
what it is. And I also, as I do live
shout outs as the time goes on, I always like
to make sure as they're engaging. Here my wife is saying, Hey,
(40:18):
a live shout out to your unicorn wife. Don't forget
that as well anyway, So, yes, my wife gets a
live shout out as well. She just made a point,
So love you, love you, yeah, anyway.
Speaker 13 (40:28):
Point is so quick on the topic of wives. Are
wives put up with so much?
Speaker 10 (40:32):
Yes, they did.
Speaker 13 (40:33):
When you're a union official, the calls at night, sometimes
you have to leave at night and take care of situations.
They put up with so much, and they certainly deserve
a shout out.
Speaker 10 (40:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
And you know what's amazing too, is the is the kids. Now,
all of my kids, my adult children, who every one
of them, experienced the labor movement as they were growing
up because they grew up in the union hall, they
grew up on organizing drives, they grew up on picket lines,
they grew up in this space us organizing workers.
Speaker 10 (41:00):
All of that is.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Carried into them into their future as well, and they
have great empathy for the workforce as a result of it,
regardless of the direction that they go in. It's such
a I love the fact that this movement has impacted
my family and other families in such a profound way
where it actually puts you in a space to just
(41:23):
do the right thing right may I'm assuming your family
is the same way.
Speaker 13 (41:28):
Yes, absolutely, Unionism is generational. I'm third generation union Unfortunately
I have out of my three children, none of them
belong to the union. But every one of them recognizes
that every bicycle they peddled, every morsel of food they ate,
every pair of gym shoes that they received, was bought
and paid for by the sweat of my brown a
(41:49):
union contract. But to get back to the point of
your question about what seems to be the most engaging
topics that I bring up, is anytime I talk about politics,
I get a lot of hate. I also get a
lot of positive feedback. The hate comes out and people
are constantly saying, well, unions only do nothing but support
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the Democrats. Unions or a tool for the Democratic Party,
which is one hundred percent not true. If you've ever
been involved in a union, you've ever been involved in
candidate screenings, Reading through the questionnaires that we send out
before making our endorsements, you would get a bit better
picture and a clearer understanding of how organized labor sits
(42:31):
down and finally makes a decision to endorse candidates.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
And it's a pack committee that's usually made up of
rank and file members that make the decision to support
a candidate based on their position.
Speaker 10 (42:43):
Of labor, regardless of their party affiliation.
Speaker 13 (42:47):
Right, I think the question that we should be asking
isn't why do democrats or unions only support Democrats. It's
the question should be why don't all political parties support working.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
Well, it's interesting you say that because now you're seeing
they're all claiming to support working families like and you're
seeing a shift because there was some time where where
some parties just completely abandoned the worker and the message
and narrative as a whole. But you can see now
everybody is trying to say Now, whether they're doing it
(43:23):
or not is different, and they can be judged by
their policy decisions, not what they say in front of them, Mike,
but they're policy decisions. My point is is that. You know,
it's really important for us to make sure that we
have this conversation, engage it, and make sure that everybody
understands that. You know, everybody wants the worker to support them.
(43:46):
You know, more than seventy percent of the population supports unions.
And on top of it, you know clearly this last
few election cycles, whether they be local or regional or presidential,
everybody's talking about what the worker needs. And now, you know,
we've got to really look at, well, what's their policy
(44:06):
decisions as a whole, because your policy decisions as an
elected official are going to carry on for a very
long time after you and you're one hundred percent correct,
Like you know, I'm a labor advocate before i'm anything.
I know you are as well. I've actually supported we've
as an organization, we have supported Republicans running for positions
(44:30):
over not only Democrats, but former elected officials within labor
that ran in a position and still supported the Republican
over them, just because that Republican had absolutely been on
board with supporting labor issues, had been on board on
policy issues, and we weren't just going to jump ship
(44:52):
and go, okay, well there's this labor candidate, So we're
going to abandon the relationship we have with this individual. Again,
it has nothing to do with their political party, has
to do with the decisions that they made for the
workers we represent and the workers we seek to represent.
Speaker 13 (45:09):
Absolutely correct. In fact, in the state of Missouri, we're
going back about twenty years, we had a Democrat from
rural Missouri that refused to support collective bargaining for the
state workers in Missouri, and we quit endorsing him and
endorsed his Republican opponent because she came out stood with us,
literally stood with us and said I have full support
(45:32):
for collective bargaining for the state workers in Missouri, and
she got our endorsement and she won, and we didn't
ever hear from the Democrat. Again, I don't care who
they are. That's correct, support work in families. We're on board.
Speaker 4 (45:45):
That's correct, and that you know, and it really bodes
well that we should have a labor party. We clearly
don't have a labor party right now, but at some point,
you know, when you see the popularity of labor and workers,
there really should be one. We can have another discussion
regarding that later. I actually had someone on my show
a couple different times where we've discussed this and kind
of gleaned out what.
Speaker 10 (46:05):
It would take to have a labor party.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
But with that, what's the content that you feel like
gets the most traction, most reaction. I know I kind
of asked you this earlier, but let's double down on it,
and I'd like to take a couple of minutes to
talk about what you see exciting everybody. And because what
we believe is I'm not running a show where I'm
(46:28):
provoking conflict. What I'm doing is I'm running a show
where we're educating and we're explaining, and we're just slowly
kind of walking everybody through the vastness of labor from
the last two hundred years and how important all that
information is because it has been lost, and then connecting
the dots to today and how it's important today. So
what is it that you feel is garnering the most
(46:49):
attention when you're discussing labor issues on your show.
Speaker 13 (46:54):
Yeah. I think probably the first video I did it
went viral that had almost two hundred thousand hits is
one in which I talked about the nation's economy was
never into shape. It's in when general Motors was our
number one private employer, and I didn't really even get
into who I was. The noise of the jets got away.
(47:14):
I'm a former union president of the United A Lot
of Workers Local twenty two fifty, financial secretary at Unit
A Lot of Workers Local one thirty six. At one
thirty six, we built the Dodge Ram trucks in fent, Missouri,
and at twenty two fifty we built Chevy Colorado GMC
canyon in the Chevy's full size vance. So we bet
(47:35):
that's where I come from. And before that, I was
an electrician in construction in the IBW for almost twenty years.
So I've been around a long time and I've done
a lot. But back to the point that you're asking,
our nation's economy was never into shape. It's in when
General Motors was our number one private employer. Now it's
either Walmart or Amazon, depending on who's doing the hiring binge.
(47:58):
And when you take all those eighty thousand dollars year
auto assembly jobs out of the economy and you replace
them with thirty or forty thousand dollars year Walmart or
Amazon jobs, you lose the economic stimulus on fifty thousand dollars.
You also lose that income tax, and that income tax
is what builds roads, bridges, funds our schools, that's what
(48:21):
funds our first responders. The whole community suffers when you
lose that kind of job income.
Speaker 4 (48:28):
And the sales tax revenue generated by the purchasing power
correct exactly.
Speaker 13 (48:33):
I mean it is a huge hit to the economies.
And when I had a few people come out with
some negative talk about the UAW, those jobs are so
easy a monkey could do them. Stuff like that, nobody
deserves eighty thousand dollars a year. And then I did
a breakdown on the labor cost per vehicle and that
just sent people through the roof. Not many of them
(48:55):
believed it, but it's one hundred percent accurate. The labor
costs per vehicle now is about five percent. And I
say now because of the last two contracts where UAW
made some pretty decent economic gains. But we had to
strike for forty days in twenty nineteen and for forty
six days in twenty and twenty three to achieve these
(49:19):
economic gains.
Speaker 4 (49:20):
But the corporate execs will say, if you got to cut,
you gotta cut labor.
Speaker 10 (49:24):
It's the it's in that five percent, Like, what about
the ninety five buddy?
Speaker 13 (49:28):
Right, You guys have seen the same things that we
have seen. General Motors said they had no more money
on the table. This contracted in twenty twenty three, forty
six days strike put the members through hell and they
lost billions of dollars because they were being singy with
the pocketbook. Said they could not give us any more money.
(49:50):
Our members went and they voted to ratify the contract
by a very slim margin. A few months later, General
Motors turned around and gave out six billion dollars stock buybacks.
They had the money, they had it hidden in the drawer,
in the couch or something, and they could be paying
their workers a fair wage, but instead they choose to
(50:11):
do stock buybacks. You guys saw the same thing with
Yellow Freight and the pensions and stuff.
Speaker 10 (50:16):
Yeah, so let me let me point to something. You
pointed out the two.
Speaker 4 (50:19):
Biggest employers, which is Walmart and Amazon, And so let's
use Amazon as an example and an Amazon driver and
just do a comparison to a UPS driver. A UPS
driver is delivering in every neighborhood in America, right, and
in any neighborhood, almost any neighborhood that they're in, they
can afford to buy a home in that neighborhood. But
(50:40):
an Amazon driver cannot afford to buy a home in
any neighborhood in America, any neighborhood. Like we've done the
math already. This is a shocking statistic. So now if
you work for Amazon, if you go to work for Amazon,
you're there for let's say the first couple of years
or whatever it is like, or you're there for a
(51:01):
long time, which is very rare because you can almost
not find anybody's been there, you know, more than five
or six years, regardless of even those statistics. Find me
somebody that works anywhere in Amazon that can that can
buy a home in a neighborhood, like those numbers are
so so so small. The statistic on a driver is
they can't. And then if you work anywhere within the
(51:24):
Amazon corporation, so they employ more than a million workers,
Now all those General motors workers could afford to buy
homes in the neighborhoods that they worked in. Every single
one of those General Motors workers could could could whether
it be GM or Ford or any of that from
that era, that time that you're referring to they could
afford to buy a home, goods and services in that
(51:46):
neighborhood period. But that is not the case now with
Walmart and with Amazon. And let's use Amazon specifically, because
you could use a direct comparison to a UPS driver
making and delivery right alongside that Amazon delivery on the
same doorstep many times. What a absolute contrast. And it
(52:07):
is a reality gut punch.
Speaker 13 (52:11):
It certainly is, and it highlights more than anything, why
when unions are charging and I don't know what the
dues structure is with the team stirs with the UAW,
it's two and a half hours away just per month.
Speaker 10 (52:24):
It's roughly the same for US.
Speaker 13 (52:26):
Okay, So when you break it down, that two and
a half hours per month is enabling through the contract
and collective bargaining agreement, enables your drivers to be able
to buy homes and pretty much any subdivision that they
deliver in. Whereas the non union driver thinks that they're
saving that too, and by saving that two and a
(52:48):
half hours, they're going to become wealthy. It doesn't work
that way. Then you start throwing in healthcare, benefits, pensions, annuities, and.
Speaker 10 (52:57):
Well they're non union.
Speaker 4 (52:58):
They don't even have those things correct.
Speaker 15 (53:02):
You know.
Speaker 13 (53:02):
One of the things that people need to remember. I've
got a nephew. When he was a very small child,
he had some some kind of tear duct issue and
he constantly had tears, and they wanted to get it fixed.
My brother in law at the time worked at Rock
Cory was non union, and they could not afford They
(53:23):
could not afford to have the surgery to fix it,
and he had no health care. So eventually I was
able to talk to a guy at the Operating Engineers.
Brother in law went to work for the Operating Engineers.
They were able to get my nephew the surgery he
needed before he started kindergarten, and everybody was happy with it,
(53:44):
and it cost him almost nothing out of pocket. Unions
are to make the difference.
Speaker 10 (53:48):
You know.
Speaker 4 (53:49):
On that note, some of the best stories I have
of my career have always been where I have a
father that comes to me, you know that I've known,
let's say fifteen, twenty twenty five, however many years that
they worked at this place, or a mother that comes
to me, you know that they worked there for X
amount of time, and they explain a story just like
(54:10):
you just said, of a severe health crisis with their
child or family member that they were able to get
through and then in the end not have medical bills
as a result of an extreme situation and then realize
the weight of that. You know, it's for us. Those
(54:31):
are priceless stories. In other words, that's what this is
all about. This isn't you know Amazon or these big
corporations that the corporate America that's running a muck right
now wants to kick that responsibility to the worker and say, well,
after ten thousand dollars, you're going to pay the bill
above that, right or you know, there's a cap on
your healthcare costs for this and for that and the
(54:52):
plan that you got, and on top of it, you're
paying you know, fifty percent of the premium or thirty
percent of the premium or whatever it is.
Speaker 10 (54:59):
It's all over place.
Speaker 4 (55:00):
The point is is as a labor advocate that you
you know you are, those are our most rewarding stories
when we hear individuals explain how their family is healthier
now because of forward thinking bargaining good health care that's
paid for by the employer. Making sure that the future
(55:23):
is secure in your most difficult times.
Speaker 13 (55:27):
Absolutely, I think a perfect add on to that. My
father passed away in twenty sixteen from pancreatic cancer. He
left the ib Thank you. He left the IBW in
nineteen ninety one after working there for I think it
was like thirty two years. My mom passed away last
(55:49):
January from COVID, but she continued to live on my
dad's health care head Excellent health Care. Still received his
pension and that was the union difference for her. Had
she been kicked off during COVID when she first contracted
the disease, who knows how much longer she would have had.
(56:11):
But because of the healthcare provided by the IBW and
my dad's years as paying dues to the IBW, my
mom lived as comfortable of a life as she could
until she finally succumbed to the disease. And I can't
be more grateful for the time that we did have
with her thanks to the IBW and her pension.
Speaker 4 (56:33):
And thirty years have the same stories, more than thirty
years of drawing in that system. You know, thanks for
sharing that story. And we only got a couple of
minutes left to really appreciate you getting that in. But
I do want to just shift and we close up
on you know, as a as a Teamster local union.
We have fifteen thousand members here at Teamster's Local nineteen
thirty two in sam Ardino, California. And what do you
(56:55):
think you being a TikTok influencer, being from labor and
seeing what we're doing. We have a live radio show,
obviously a podcast you understand. You know, we have billboards
and buses and you know, we were pounding this narrative
in the area. We got relationships with forty school districts
where we're helping teach in the schools. They're coming here
for career days where we have over forty high schools
(57:18):
coming here and many employers showing off their jobs where
kids that aren't going to go to college or connecting
to these potential jobs. We've created this system where we're
fully integrating and then we're also talking about it by
running ads, by being on the air, by making sure
we're on AM and FM radio, by you can stream it,
you can connect to it, you can listen to it
later in your car, and a podcast. What do you
(57:39):
think of what this union is doing, what our members
are doing here at Teamsters nineteen thirty two. Being a
longtime advocate like you are, and we got too many.
Speaker 13 (57:47):
You're leading. You are on the cutting edge of social media,
of society, of the cultural changes, and if we as
union officials failed to evolve with the car cultural changes
and societal changes, We're never going to make it. We
will cease to exist. I'm going to close it up
by with two things real quick. First of all, in
(58:09):
twenty nineteen UAW one on strike. I was president of
the local Teamsters president and for our truck delivery that
was delivering the cars and vehicles was on the stage
with us at midnight when our members walked out. He
came up. He stood up, and he pounded the table,
and he promised not one vehicle would leave that plant
(58:31):
on a Teamster driven rig. And he stood by it.
And because of the support of the Teamsters were in
the support of our members, we were successful in a
forty day strike. The other thing that I'm going to
say is that we have to change with society. We
have to recognize the technology that's available to us and
(58:52):
do exactly what you're doing. Man, I can't be more
proud to have had any opportunity to be on this show.
And talk with somebody who is on the leading edge
of these changes. I think every local, whether it's United
Autoworkers or a building trade of the Teamsters, should be
followering the pattern that you all are setting. You're blazing
a trail everybody needs to emulate.
Speaker 4 (59:12):
Thank you very much. We got thirty seconds. I just
want to tell you we really appreciate that. We're going
to share you on our platforms. Please share us on
yours if you want me to come on and let's
do something on your platform.
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Oops, that's that's the wrong way. See, that's what's cool
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What's up? James? Looking at you?
Speaker 10 (01:05:23):
Everybody, you've been out, You've been out eating and checking places.
Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
Out or yeah, yeah, all over the ie. I'm trying
to hit every city if I can.
Speaker 4 (01:05:34):
All right, so we have a date, a solid date,
August fourteenth, where you all are going to land on.
Speaker 10 (01:05:41):
A particular location.
Speaker 4 (01:05:42):
Have you figured out what the restaurant is that you're
gonna the team stir a bandaged restaurant that you're gonna hit.
Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
Yeah. We talked about it a little bit, and I
wanted everyone to experience the very first restaurant that I
reviewed when I came on the show, Johnny Russo's. So
I figured that would be a good point.
Speaker 10 (01:05:59):
Well there you go.
Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
Oh, good place to start that way, everyone could see
what I was talking about and help help them out too,
because they're a really good little restaurant.
Speaker 4 (01:06:07):
They are, and and and again. When they were on
the show, they talked about how they what they make fresh,
all the different different things on the menu. We should
give them a little bit of heads up, how big
how many people you think we're going to have show up?
You think, Mark, we should get a little bit of
like an RSVP list. But we also need to make
sure people are truly committed. Don't let don't do this
thing where he orders more food and it ends up
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blowing up.
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I would like to do ten fifteen just to start out. Yeah.
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Yeah, that way we.
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Don't overwhelm and we don't have the food issue because
you know Johnny will go out of his way.
Speaker 10 (01:06:40):
To he sure will, and he sure will.
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And I heard they opened up a back section.
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There's a did they? So don't tell people there's a bar.
Then we won't be able to control.
Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
No, definitely, come there's a bar, all right?
Speaker 10 (01:06:55):
Well?
Speaker 4 (01:06:57):
August fourteenth, Johnny russos in in Banning. It's on the calendar.
Is there a time?
Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
And then we decided about six thirty.
Speaker 10 (01:07:05):
You guys got to make this definitive.
Speaker 3 (01:07:07):
It's six six thirty. That way, people get off of work,
go home, pick up the family, and join us for dinner.
Speaker 4 (01:07:12):
Okay, you're gonna captus at twelve fifteen people correct. Okay,
So let's start an RSVP list. Who are they going
to contact?
Speaker 11 (01:07:21):
Abom contact me?
Speaker 10 (01:07:22):
Have them contact Mark? Mark? What's your cell phone number?
Speaker 11 (01:07:24):
Nine oh nine six seven seven zero two nine zero,
ask for Randy Corgan.
Speaker 4 (01:07:29):
I mean Mark, Now, you can write it on the
bathroom wall. It's every bathroom wall, it's recorded, it's live.
We heard all this. Everybody's got your number now, and
we're gonna write it on every bathroom wall.
Speaker 10 (01:07:41):
You know what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (01:07:42):
We're just gonna put the phone number on the billboard
to RSVP. Yeah, on the billboard.
Speaker 3 (01:07:47):
Yeah, that'd be good. Yeah yeah. Well again, it's a
really great restaurant. I really did enjoy it. The lasagna
was amazing. So I'm hoping everyone could experience it and
enjoy and word of mouth get them, get them some business.
Speaker 10 (01:08:01):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (01:08:02):
So we were supposed to have a TA partner today
was ConA ice. They ran into an issue this weekend
and I think hurt themselves so they tried to get here,
but we've had a hard time getting here. But there've
been always been a great partner with us.
Speaker 11 (01:08:15):
I got a picture of a foot in the cast.
Speaker 4 (01:08:18):
So he's not lying right, So victors, he's always been great.
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of the Islands. That ConA Ice experience will amplify any event,
from our steel drum music to the signature flavor wave
where guests can guests can flavor their own shaved ice.
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We guarantee to bring the fun, laughter and flavor, whether
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including schools, corporations, daycares, summer programs, youth sports, picnics, weddings,
and major sporting events and festivals. We also specialize in fundraising,
so just show us where to and who to make
the checkout to, plus we come to you. It doesn't
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get much easier than that. So also you get a
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Rancho Cucamaga and you can get a hold of them
at nine to five to one eight nine two zero
six zero six at v N A v A at
ConA Ice ConA excuse me, ConA dash Ice dot com
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and you can find them obviously on our team stir
advantage app.
Speaker 10 (01:09:31):
Make sure that you use them.
Speaker 4 (01:09:32):
And they're always at our car shows, right, ConA Ice
comes does our events.
Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
Right, I've seen them.
Speaker 10 (01:09:37):
Mark, you're not paying attention, Mark, I've seen them.
Speaker 11 (01:09:40):
That's because I just gave my phone number out on
the radio and it's blowing up.
Speaker 10 (01:09:44):
You can wait. We're running a show, not playing on
your phone.
Speaker 11 (01:09:49):
We already have three people lyning. All right, I'm ConA
Ice does showed up to the car show all.
Speaker 4 (01:09:53):
The We're issuing him a warning letter, Robert, make sure
he gets a warning letter for being distracted driver. I'm
going through I'm going through right now. I'm going through
driving school online and I'm in the distracted driver section.
Speaker 10 (01:10:07):
That's why I said that, Yes, did you get a ticket?
Speaker 3 (01:10:12):
Did you?
Speaker 10 (01:10:13):
Yes? I did.
Speaker 4 (01:10:14):
I normally don't speed. You know, I'm usually pretty good
about it. But this day I came in hot.
Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
What's hell?
Speaker 15 (01:10:21):
This morning?
Speaker 10 (01:10:22):
You saw me come in hot this morning?
Speaker 11 (01:10:24):
Really coming from the guy who got everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
Easily everybody's usually passing me on the freeway going Randy,
what are you doing over in a slowly like what
you Well, its usually on the phone and I'm talking
and I'm doing stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
How fast did they say allegedly you were going?
Speaker 4 (01:10:39):
I don't pay attention to my speed A lot of
times if I'm on the long thing, I just set
my cruise control so I don't have to worry about
driving too slow. Maybe I got a ticket for driving
too slow.
Speaker 11 (01:10:49):
Maybe you should ask Robert how fast he goes.
Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
We already know how fast Robber goes. We already know that.
When we went to Needles. We know he's lucky he
didn't go to jail. That's what he's Yeah, of course
he did because of how fast you were driving, driving
like one hundred and fifty miles an hours crazy.
Speaker 10 (01:11:04):
I can't believe that car does that. That's nuts. He
came in hot man. I should have had wings on
that thing.
Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
The fact that he saw a judge Jesus.
Speaker 10 (01:11:12):
All right, James, who you where you've been lately?
Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
What?
Speaker 10 (01:11:15):
What's the what's.
Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
The banded hitting? I got challenged to do ice cream
for the summer, so I actually, uh, how much three
ice cream shops in one day, and what how do.
Speaker 10 (01:11:28):
You do that? Actually, I hit four spots in one day.
Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
Total. This is all done in one day.
Speaker 10 (01:11:35):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
And it just happened the day after the last show
that I was on, we had Brewsters ice cream. Yeah,
So it just so happened that I had to have
something taken care of about in the Ontario Rancho area.
So I'm like, let's make a couple of pit stops
since I was out there. First, I had to have lunch,
So I stopped by Taco Hut and they're a ranch Cuckamonga.
(01:11:58):
They're off a Foothillo levard.
Speaker 10 (01:12:00):
Taco huts not ice cream.
Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
I know that. Had to have lunch first, I needs
something for the cream to sit on.
Speaker 10 (01:12:05):
My bad, I'll shut up.
Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
And so they offered twenty percent off really good Chimmy
Chunga's burritos. That's really good. You've been there, yeah yeah yeah.
Now me and Mexican restaurants, I always judge it by
their Chile I love.
Speaker 4 (01:12:18):
I believe that's one of the best judges of a
Mexican restaurant.
Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
So if I go to a Mexican restaurant for the
first time.
Speaker 10 (01:12:25):
Or if it's tender, got great flavor, and it's.
Speaker 3 (01:12:27):
Not too fatty.
Speaker 10 (01:12:28):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:12:29):
Yeah, so you're there. So they had really good chili butt.
I had that. They had offered it in a chimmy chuonga.
So I tried that out.
Speaker 10 (01:12:36):
You say, you say it correctly, I say, chill a
by day.
Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
You try, you try, I.
Speaker 11 (01:12:43):
Mean we have it recorded, we can just play back.
Speaker 3 (01:12:45):
Yeah, so chive.
Speaker 4 (01:12:47):
I purposely mess it up now because it irritates my wife,
like you know, She's.
Speaker 10 (01:12:52):
Like, you don't say it like that, let me order
for you. I'm like, I'm a white guy. I'm supposed
to mess it up.
Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
But you're trying. The thing is that you try. So
they're off for twenty percent off. They're off Foothill. They
also have several locations right after that. Brewster's Real ice
Cream wasn't that far away. They're also in the city
of Ranch Cucamonga. They offered ten percent off. But I
think during the summer that we're doing or July at least,
we're doing twenty percent off. Now it's a storefront. You
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can look in you see all the ash cream machines going.
It was really really good. I was actually surprised on
how smooth and creamy the ish cream really was. I
know they said they bring a milk milk from uh Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania,
so you could really taste a quality. And they also
do a lot of fun stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:13:40):
Isn't it crazy The milk from Pennsylvania is better than
the milk is rested right down the street, is it? Well, yeah,
a lot of milk is this pastor is done here
in California.
Speaker 3 (01:13:49):
So, but that was really good. They also do fun
things like I think on Thursday, bring your own banana
to get fifty percent off of banana split.
Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
No kidding, yeah, oh my gun, I just I'm in
now Tomorrow Thursday, I'm gonna have to race back for
I got to be in Needles tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (01:14:08):
Actually bring your own banana.
Speaker 3 (01:14:12):
I think that's what it was. I hope I got
that right now.
Speaker 4 (01:14:15):
But yeah, it's bring your own banana on on Thursday
and you get fifty percent off a banana split.
Speaker 3 (01:14:22):
That's what I pretty sure I read. I'm hoping that
I'm right now, guys, Brewsters, do you guys hear me?
Speaker 10 (01:14:29):
I'm sure we'll get corrected real quick if this is
not right.
Speaker 3 (01:14:32):
And uh so they also have speciality.
Speaker 4 (01:14:35):
Can you call can you Robert, can you call them
real quick and ask him if this is true, so
that by the time he gets off the show, we
can answer this question, cause I'm pretty sure I gotta
know if if you bring your own banana into into
Brewsters on Thursdays, you actually.
Speaker 3 (01:14:53):
A banana split.
Speaker 10 (01:14:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (01:14:56):
Yeah, so that's interesting.
Speaker 10 (01:14:59):
I think I've never good idea it is, but I've
never heard of that.
Speaker 3 (01:15:02):
You know, they're also doing the thing where they you're
you're below the counter. Uh you get a free scoop? Yes,
so that was in there. I didn't see anybody try that.
I was thinking about trying.
Speaker 10 (01:15:13):
What did you get? Which? Which flavor did you get?
Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
I got cheesecake and I also got Reese's peanut butter cup,
so that is quite the difference.
Speaker 4 (01:15:24):
Yeah, yeah, I I one of the things I used
to like to do is the coconut pineapple. Not there
but thrifty coconut pineapple and then what's that chocolate malted
crunch because that's too completely different.
Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
Yeah, we upset each other.
Speaker 10 (01:15:38):
Yeah, they totally offset each other.
Speaker 3 (01:15:40):
Yeah. Well thrifty is ash cream is awesome too. Yeah. Yeah,
but uh so we tried that it was really good,
very light and airy creamy. I really recommend everyone to
give it a shot. Splush now out this summer, uh
going forward. I also wanted it's true.
Speaker 10 (01:15:55):
Yes, Robert checked on it. He called just checker Robert.
Speaker 4 (01:15:59):
I was thinking, if this isn't true, they know they
think they're being punked right now when they're when someone's.
Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
Going, I know I read it right, But then I
started doubting myself after I said it. I'm like, this
is I know, it's kind a really good deal right
because it's like it's a great deal being true.
Speaker 10 (01:16:12):
And somebody just somebody just put in here. I've done
it before, bringing your own banana, and it's only on Thursdays.
Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
Only on Thursdays, so please please go check them out
on Thursdays. Get a I'm definitely here banana. Also all
the places that I'm mention, if you guys could like
let them know that you heard it on the radio
show that what they know Team Shirts are working for
every single way, that would be greatly appreciate.
Speaker 4 (01:16:35):
Everybody needs to bring their banana in on Thursday and say.
Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
Take pictures and submit them. That's that's what I want
to see.
Speaker 10 (01:16:43):
Say. I want my banana split. I heard it on
the show anyway.
Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
So stop number three of the day was I'll minute,
it's in French a minute. It is an ashcream shop
in Redlands.
Speaker 10 (01:16:56):
I have not been there.
Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
It's off citrus. They offer ten percent off now. They
make the ice cream right then and there. They use
liquid nitrogen, so they just throw it in a mixture,
throw the liquid nitrogen in there and spin it and
freeze it right then in there. So it it tasted
really good, but I felt like the flavors as when
you mix it in the mixture for a few hours,
(01:17:19):
that the blend the flavors mix wasn't quite there for me.
It was still really good. They had to line out
the door. They actually had people that were off from
out of town. They moved out of town. They came
back just for the ice cream for that day. And
I had an avocado flavored ice cream, so it was avocado.
Speaker 10 (01:17:37):
Would have never picked honey avocado flavored ier.
Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
It was really good, was it? They also vegan flavors.
Speaker 10 (01:17:43):
I love avocado, but I just would not think doing it.
Speaker 4 (01:17:46):
The only thing that I think's like asparagus flavored ice
cream or something.
Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
Yeah, the avocados, but I.
Speaker 4 (01:17:52):
Had deep fried asparagus the other day. My son took
took us to a place by his house, and I'd
never had this lightly battered asparagus.
Speaker 10 (01:18:02):
Man, it tasted so good.
Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
Was it like a tempora ish? Yes? Yeah, that's good.
Oh it was so good, real good.
Speaker 11 (01:18:08):
Hey, James, Yes, sir, do you let him know that
you're doing the tape?
Speaker 16 (01:18:11):
James?
Speaker 3 (01:18:12):
No, No, No.
Speaker 10 (01:18:13):
We're gonna get him a shirt. James bits back. We
got to get him a polo.
Speaker 4 (01:18:17):
It says, James's got the team to go on it.
Hopefully someone's listening and they'll get that taken care of.
Speaker 16 (01:18:21):
Well.
Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
I don't want to because I don't want to be like, like, hey,
make his food extra whatever.
Speaker 11 (01:18:27):
Don't you don't want their food critic service.
Speaker 3 (01:18:30):
No, I think it just should be the everyday guy
treatment rights.
Speaker 10 (01:18:34):
That's true. That's good point. Don't let him know.
Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
If I could have a like, I'm thinking about getting
cards made saying that listen to that afterwards. Yeah, after
I pay the bill. Oh, there you go, they're like, hey,
listen to the show for the follow review or whatever
the case is.
Speaker 10 (01:18:48):
That's a really good idea.
Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
So that way, Oh, either we really did a good
job or oh crud, see what happens. But that's what
I got. Would be pretty good, just so they know.
That way they can listen to the show after the fact.
Speaker 11 (01:19:03):
Maybe they don't want to come on.
Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
Yeah, that would be good too.
Speaker 10 (01:19:08):
I like this all right, what else you got, James?
Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
Right? The last stop was Uh, had made ice cream
in Redlands as well. They're off of Redlands Boulevard. Also
really good ice cream.
Speaker 17 (01:19:20):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
They're known for their what they call raspados shaved ice
So they have vanilla, your traditional bubble gum and things
like that. They also have a palettas, which is just
your typical Mexican popsicles like coconut, coconut, almond, pineapple, pineapple, uh,
you know, and.
Speaker 10 (01:19:40):
Strawberry all that stuff. The strawberry, yeah they yeah, the
strawberry is typically really creamy and.
Speaker 3 (01:19:46):
Yeah, but they also make like toasty locos and other
like little treats apart from ice cream.
Speaker 10 (01:19:53):
Oh yeah, they got they got a full on counter there, right.
Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
Yeah, yeah, it's clean.
Speaker 4 (01:19:59):
And yeah, I can't do that, like you know, put
to heene all over it and all that. Like I was,
I don't understand it's ice cream like this isn't a beer.
Speaker 3 (01:20:09):
It's not well, not only on ice cream, but I
mean you could have it with your fruit. It's really
good on fruit.
Speaker 10 (01:20:13):
Like once again, you.
Speaker 11 (01:20:15):
Don't put on fruit.
Speaker 10 (01:20:17):
Come on, I don't want to ruin the fruit. Having
good water.
Speaker 11 (01:20:20):
That's how we used to sell.
Speaker 10 (01:20:22):
Okay, well put it on fruit. Like why you're supposed
to eat fruit and you're not supposed to ruin it
with some chemical or some salt or something, and that
makes it bad for you.
Speaker 3 (01:20:32):
You never put a block a bottle and a pine.
Speaker 10 (01:20:34):
And a No, I've seen people do that.
Speaker 3 (01:20:37):
Or you know what is it called drunken watermelon? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (01:20:40):
Yeah, right, you take our cherries, you know, you soak them?
Speaker 11 (01:20:43):
Yeah, you know called house party.
Speaker 10 (01:20:45):
Right, that's what we did when we were or that's
what other people did when they were teenagers. You didn't
do it, No, it was it was good. M sorry,
my mic was on anyway. I would never partin and
stuff like.
Speaker 3 (01:21:00):
That, so let me truk on. It was pretty good too.
Speaker 10 (01:21:03):
I believe you guys try to treat me like this
on your show.
Speaker 4 (01:21:06):
Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna cut MIC's off now. I'm gonna
I need to get a little button thing here reckon. Yeah, yeah,
bring some Brussels sprouts to the Robbert. See how that
works out for you.
Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
You don't like Brussels spruce Brussels sprouts.
Speaker 4 (01:21:20):
I can't stand the smell of them. I am not
I am not a picky eater, but I could tell
you there's two. There's a couple of smells that I'm like,
Oh my god, about liver and onions.
Speaker 10 (01:21:29):
That's the other one. It's horrible. You know, I was
forced to eat that.
Speaker 3 (01:21:35):
I don't have that problem with the smell of liver
and onions. I can't stomach it.
Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
Do you know how many people that are listening right
now are shaking their head like I am right now,
They're going, oh that smell?
Speaker 10 (01:21:45):
Like, nah, no, you like liver and onions.
Speaker 3 (01:21:49):
I like the smell. I can't eat it. I've tried
too dry. I couldn't eat it. Myke dog loves it.
Speaker 10 (01:21:58):
Yeah, we should go back to riddle that one back.
Speaker 11 (01:22:03):
So hey, maybe I'm going to heen and fruit at
this point.
Speaker 10 (01:22:07):
Yeah, so that the teena fruit. Let's just talk about
that real quick, like that's amazing. I know everybody likes it.
I just can't. I just if I'm.
Speaker 4 (01:22:14):
Eating watermelon, I'm eating orange or you know whatever it is.
It's like, you know, I like, I love fruits. I
like a lot of vegetables. I just don't like Brussels
sprouts and broccoli anyway.
Speaker 10 (01:22:24):
You know that. But when you put the tena, I
mean you're making fruit not good for you.
Speaker 15 (01:22:29):
Right.
Speaker 10 (01:22:30):
Look, I'm a healthy person here, can't you tell super healthy?
Speaker 11 (01:22:34):
Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
Super healthy? I mean so am I longtime eater, first
time radio.
Speaker 11 (01:22:38):
Gay Randy drinks a lot of green tea.
Speaker 10 (01:22:41):
Right, Okay, what else you got, James?
Speaker 3 (01:22:45):
You know you know the history of the ash cream Sunday.
Speaker 10 (01:22:48):
I think you're gonna tell us.
Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
And I was just asking just because I wanted to know.
Speaker 10 (01:22:52):
No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
Well, when soda was invented, it was considered as addictive
as alcohol and beer. So around the Bible Belt they
outlawed to sell of alcohol and soda on Sundays. So
when people go to the mount shops or they would
go to the pharmacists that they sell ice cream and
all that good stuff and sodas, they were not allowed
(01:23:15):
to sell all that stuff, so just on Sundays, just
on Sundays. So they're like, well, why don't you just
give me the stuff that you put in the soda,
meaning the ice cream and whipped cream and the topians
without the soda. Hence the ice cream Sunday was born.
Speaker 10 (01:23:30):
Interesting did you learn that in the History Channel.
Speaker 3 (01:23:33):
Unwrapped Food Network.
Speaker 11 (01:23:36):
I was gonna go with the food that built America?
Speaker 10 (01:23:38):
Are that one?
Speaker 9 (01:23:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:23:41):
All right, well, James really appreciate you coming on the show.
And why don't you do a real quick reminder to everybody.
You were a sam Bardino County employee and you were
on our bargaining committee. Here, you're active, you're steward you.
Speaker 10 (01:23:53):
I think I saw you went to the Sparks game. Huh.
Speaker 3 (01:23:55):
I did go to the Sparks game. As a matter
of fact, that was a little controversy with that too.
Speaker 10 (01:24:00):
Oh yeah, I heard, did you? Yeah? I heard you
had to change your shirt?
Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
Yeah shirt something, Yeah, I had. It was similar. It
was one of it was a Teamster shirt from the
Hispanic Caucus, the new one that they came out. I
don't know I'm allowed to say it on Yeah, So
I was wearing that and then like radio Yeah. So anyway,
it wasn't horrible, but then they asked for volunteers to
bring out the flag in the center of the court
(01:24:24):
for the national anthem, and I was one of the
people that I got picked and they took a look
at the shirt and they're like, hey, you need to
cover up. So I did.
Speaker 10 (01:24:32):
That's good, that's good.
Speaker 4 (01:24:34):
Yeah, But I mean I saw could you complied, you know,
so you could stay and not get thrown out of
the stadium.
Speaker 3 (01:24:38):
Part of me wanted to fight it, of course, I
really wanted to, like, you're gonna censor me, Well, I'm
holding this flag, but I'm like, I'm not here for
imagine that the irony in that. Yeah, So it's kind
of like, I'm not here for me. I'm here with
the team shirts. I don't want to make anything look bad.
So I put it on. Granted I'm a three X guy,
and they gave me an extra large.
Speaker 10 (01:25:00):
Did you put it off?
Speaker 3 (01:25:01):
Yes, and it had to be over the other shirt.
So now that's now an extra layer some like sausage
casing all day.
Speaker 11 (01:25:10):
Oh, I'm glad you said it.
Speaker 10 (01:25:12):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 3 (01:25:13):
I'm hoping there's pictures. I'm pretty sure there's pictures somewhere
out there. But I'm like, I'm so uncomfortable, like I'm
holding the flag. The corner of the flag. They're having
me wave it up and down, and I had a
hard time moving all.
Speaker 10 (01:25:24):
Right, James, thanks for coming on. What's your job title?
Real quick?
Speaker 3 (01:25:28):
I'm a scale operator for the county.
Speaker 10 (01:25:30):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (01:25:32):
Pretty much? You bring in your cars to the landfill,
we weigh them, take your trash, weigh them out. Charge
you pretty easy, psy.
Speaker 4 (01:25:41):
So I got some again, Thanks for coming on. Really
appreciate you doing James bites back. You went a little
bit further than I was expecting you to go, but
that's okay. We're having fun with the dialogue. So I
just got to do some real quick IBT news here
because we have we have Dan Osborne, a Senate candidate
at a Nebraska coming on the show here in about
(01:26:02):
five minutes or so, and he is an independent running
and I would like to try to get through some
of this news in case that conversation with him goes
really well and ends up going a lot longer. Hey, Mark,
just say you know that we just lost the NBC logo.
See he's over there playing on his phone again. Now
(01:26:25):
that's that's a second warning letter in the same day, Robert.
Speaker 11 (01:26:27):
Next week they'll be an operator, Right, yeah, we're we
James opening.
Speaker 10 (01:26:34):
James, do you want to you want to apply?
Speaker 3 (01:26:35):
Sure? Why not?
Speaker 4 (01:26:38):
In IBT news chemicals, you know you were gonna you
were gonna be shocked by this. This is unbelievable chemicals
released on striking air gas workers. Last week, air Gas
released unidentified chemical agents on striking Teamsters at multiple locations
nations wide. The incidents, which occurred in facilities in both
Illinois and New Jersey, were potentially deliberate and coordinated attacks
(01:27:02):
meant to intimidate, threaten, and harm workers exercising their federally
protected rights.
Speaker 10 (01:27:06):
This is this is.
Speaker 4 (01:27:07):
Where you know corporate America has lost its mind, like
like let's let's let's just release chemicals on people on
a picket line. I mean, it's it's just nuts that
we're here. One quote from one compost. One incident might
be an accident, but two in different states, it's really
hard to believe, said Juan compos director of the teamsterss
(01:27:28):
Tank Hall Division and Teamster's International Vice.
Speaker 10 (01:27:31):
President at Large.
Speaker 4 (01:27:32):
And I agree with one new or one hundred percent
correct on this air Gas again a quote from him,
air Gas knew exactly what it was doing looks like
a targeted attack on workers standing up for their rights,
and we're going to make damn sure they're held accountable.
You're right, want anything you need for us to help
in that space. It's incredible And and those pickets have
(01:27:52):
actually now been extended extended to a whole bunch more
locations because of it. It's like, all right, well, you
want to release you know, gas on everybody, Well guess
what we're gonna do. We're gonna give you even more
opportunity to release more gas. So we also had Pollard
Banknote workers joined Teamsters. Hey, Mark, just letting you know,
I can hear them coming through the thing, so I
(01:28:13):
don't know if we can mute that as they're coming
on before we get him to join. As we close
up this part of this segment of the show. Anyway,
workers at the Pollard Banknoight have voted overwhelmingly to join
Teamster's Local three thirty seven. The group of workers, including
press operators, machine technicians and assistants, and folder operators and assistants,
produced lottery tickets that are used by several states and countries.
(01:28:36):
Before this campaign, it seemed like enthusiasm and our plant
was hanging on by a thread. But now by joining
the Teamsters, it lit a fire under us and it's
been a breath of fresh air, said Jeremy Hilton, a
ten year maintenance tech and proud new teamster of night
excuse me of three thirty four. Being a teamster means
the world to my co workers and myself. We run
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this shop twenty four seven and now we can work
together to make sure we are compensated fairly for it. Then,
as I said earlier, the Teamsters expand a nationwide strike
against air Gas. I am assuming it's because they released
chemicals on them while they're on a picket line, and
now you're going to have to find it on multiple
you know, in multiple locations. The Teamsters have extended their
(01:29:22):
nationwide strike against air Gas, with hundreds of workers honoring
picket lines at over fifteen facilities in eleven states. The strike,
led by air Gas teamsters in Cleveland and New Jersey,
now include extended pickets in California, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri,
New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island. Air Gas
(01:29:42):
is a quote air Gas has failed to treat their members,
our members with the dignity and respect they deserve, Sedjuan Compost,
director of the Teamster Tank Hall Division and Teamster International
Vice President at Large. This expansion could have been avoided
if the company had simply bargained in good faith. Instead,
air Gas as chose to stall, provoke, and disrespect its workers.
(01:30:03):
Now they're facing a full court press. We will win
the contracts our members have deserved, end quote. And also
they release chemicals on them while they're on the pigot line.
So at the end of the day, man I will
keep you posted on what's going on with the air
Gas workers and the extension of pickets all throughout. We
are going to go to a quick break. Can we
(01:30:26):
just do thirty seconds please, Mark, instead of it being
two minutes. This is the Worker Power Hour with Randy
Corgan on the Teams STIRS nineteen thirty two Broadcast Network,
airing live from sam Bordino.
Speaker 10 (01:30:37):
Take it away, Mark, we're back live.
Speaker 4 (01:31:32):
This is the work of Power Hour with Randy Corgan
on the Teamsters Local nineteen thirty two Broadcast Network, aerin
live from San Bernardino. Well that was great, James again
doing a nice little tour of hitting all these locations
I love how he describes the food and of all
of our Teamster Advantage partners, and he describes what he's doing,
(01:31:52):
where he's going. And you know, he doesn't just go
to one, he goes to multiple.
Speaker 11 (01:31:55):
He covers a lot of ground.
Speaker 10 (01:31:57):
He sure does.
Speaker 11 (01:31:57):
He's excited about it, and it's it's good for the program,
you know what.
Speaker 10 (01:32:01):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (01:32:02):
This idea came out of the membership meeting floor, somebody
listening to the show participating saying, hey, we should we
should go out and have somebody go visit. And I said, well,
why don't you do it? And then now we pull
him on the show and we're exchanging and and you know,
talking about how good the food is or what the
services are at a particular location of these more than
(01:32:23):
thousand small businesses the part that participate in our network.
And so I'm going to transition to the next part
of our show. We are joined by Dan Osborne, who
is a Senate candidate in Nebraska, and he is let
me fix my camera here so that you know, it's
one of one of these cool things in technology. What
do you think, Dan, No, I like it, Yeah, Hey,
(01:32:47):
you know, really appreciate you coming on the show, and
you know, this.
Speaker 10 (01:32:51):
Is the Worker Power Hour.
Speaker 4 (01:32:52):
This this Teamster's Local nineteen thirty two. I don't know
if you've you've done a lot of research on us,
but we got over fifteen thousand members in the re
and you know, we've got a very big digital following,
very big social media following.
Speaker 10 (01:33:05):
We have a live radio show with podcasts.
Speaker 4 (01:33:08):
And you know, we have billboards and buses and you know,
we're we're doing everything we can to get the community
connected to how powerful unions are for their community, not
just how powerful we're off for our own self interest,
but for the collective interest of the community as a whole.
Our small Business network is connected to over a thousand
small businesses. We're in over over thirty chambers of commerce
(01:33:31):
in the region. We're on the board of directors from
multiple chambers. We're participating in the space. We're working with
forty school districts and high schools that are coming and
doing career days with us once a year. And you know,
what we're trying to do is get people to understand
the unions aren't a bad thing. Unions are very very
good for our economy. They're very very good for our community.
(01:33:51):
And we make sure that goods and services not only
are delivered, but also you know, in this area, if
you dial nine one one, it's a teamster who answers
the phone and make sure that you're taken care of,
make sure that the fire or the police are dispatched.
And when you show up at a hospital, in a
lot of cases, it's a teamster that's receiving them at
the emergency room.
Speaker 10 (01:34:11):
That are our members.
Speaker 4 (01:34:12):
And so we're proud of the fact that we're helping
take care of this community every day. We really appreciate
you engaging in this space. And boy, you have done
one heck of a job of splashing as an independent
because you know, labor is tagged as only supporting Democrats,
which isn't true.
Speaker 10 (01:34:31):
We support we support candidates that support workers. Period.
Speaker 4 (01:34:36):
You could call yourself the Johnny Joe Party, you can
call yourself whatever party you want. At the end of
the day, if you're supporting workers and your policy support workers,
we're going to help get you elected. And from what
I understand, thank you for your service in the navy.
You are a veteran in the Navy. We appreciate that service.
Thank you for making sure that our country is safe
(01:34:58):
and with that, I'm gonna let you in introduce yourself
before I get into some questions. Thanks for coming on
the show and joining the Worker Power Hour.
Speaker 15 (01:35:04):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 10 (01:35:05):
My audio, Yes you're good, we can hear you perfect
good good.
Speaker 15 (01:35:11):
Yeah, you know. I My name's Dan Osborne. I'm currently
running for a United States Senate in Nebraska as an
independent candidate with a labor platform, for sure. But I
kind of wanted to touch on what you said about
being in the Navy in San Bernardino. I cut my
teeth snowboarding in Big Bear, California.
Speaker 4 (01:35:32):
Oh really, we have a camp up there in Big Bear,
one hundred and sixty acre camp are kids. We just
had like six hundred kids go through camp through this
whole summer. The last week is this week. We partner
with a camp up there up in Big Bear.
Speaker 15 (01:35:46):
I love that. I love that that. You know, I
have such fond memories of being a young guy, and
you know, my friends we were from California and they're like,
have you ever been snowboarding before? I'm like now, and
they're like, all right, well you need to go over
to the Bunny Slope and I'm like I'm not going
with the Bunny Slope.
Speaker 10 (01:36:03):
I'm going with you guys.
Speaker 15 (01:36:05):
And they're like, we're going to the Black Diamond. And
I said, I said, well, I'm going with you then,
and they're like, no, you don't want to go to
the Black Diamond. You need to go over to the
Bunny Slope, the Blue, the Blue Slope. I came around,
I think it was blue, and I'm like, no, I'm
going with you guys, and they're like fine, you know
they I wouldn't take no for an answer. It took me,
I think two hours to get down that mountain. I've
(01:36:26):
never been more store in my entire life than I
have been at Big Bear, California. And then and then
they had me drive home back to San Diego. That
my ship was stationed in San Diego and that was
not safe either. I was so tired, but I made
it out of line.
Speaker 10 (01:36:45):
Leave it to our friends to put us in a
tough spot. Huh.
Speaker 15 (01:36:47):
Yeah, that was my big bear. But anyway, you know,
back to politics, Yeah, I haven't always been a political person,
you know. It really wasn't until I led the strike
as a president of BCTGM Local fifty G against Kellogg's
here in Omaha, Nebraska that, you know, really opened my
(01:37:10):
eyes to the way our world is run by corporations
and special interest I really, I really saw that first hand.
And you know, that's why I'm running for United States Senate.
I want to I want to be a voice for
the working person. I want to uplift all workers, not
(01:37:30):
just union but all workers to the point where, you know,
I have three kids of my own, and my oldest daughter,
she's twenty two, she's you know, I set my kids
down this time. You know, I said, hey, you know,
you know, maybe we should run this cycle against US
Senator Pete Ricketts. He's a he's from a billionaire family
(01:37:52):
and this and that they own a baseball team. You know,
I'm like, do you really think these are the people
that should be governing us in our daily lives? And
my kids were like no, because they are so concerned
about the fact that they won't be able to be homeowners.
I think it's the average age of Americans now to
(01:38:16):
be homeowners is thirty eight years old. Since nineteen sixty five,
you know, the price, the meeting price of a home
has almost doubled if you include inflation with that, you know,
compared to when they were buying homes then. And I
know it's a lot harder for kids these days than
(01:38:37):
it was for I'm assuming you're roughly the same age
as me, But.
Speaker 10 (01:38:43):
For what would make you assume that? Dan, I just
get it, get out.
Speaker 15 (01:38:51):
I can't see you too well on the screen, but
you know, you certainly don't look like you're nineteen.
Speaker 10 (01:38:58):
I am not.
Speaker 4 (01:38:58):
Like.
Speaker 15 (01:39:02):
So we're close. We're very close.
Speaker 10 (01:39:04):
We are.
Speaker 15 (01:39:05):
I'm fifty now. I just turned the big five.
Speaker 8 (01:39:07):
Oh.
Speaker 15 (01:39:07):
But yeah, so these kids these days are so concerned
that that. I mean, because being a homeowner, that's like
the beginning stages, right of a personal wealth.
Speaker 10 (01:39:20):
Or establishing a base for your family.
Speaker 15 (01:39:23):
Yeah, your family. It's the first stage to secure retirement.
Everything that goes into being a homeowner in the state
that you have, you know, in your little plot of
land in this world is something that's super important. And
it's just, you know, that's part of the American dream.
And I feel like it's dwindling, and these kids are
(01:39:43):
feeling it. And I talk to them every day. I
talk to a lot of kids every day. I go
to universities, I go to community colleges, and I talk
to these kids and they're afraid, and you know it,
with the advent of social media and everything that goes
in with these phone and everything else that they have
to deal with these days, to add that into their
(01:40:05):
strife is disturbing. And you know, guys like Pete Ricketts,
my opponent in Nebraska, guys like that people. Okay, I
want to backtrack for just two seconds. Less than two
percent of our elected officials in both the House and
Senate come from the working class.
Speaker 10 (01:40:23):
Right.
Speaker 15 (01:40:24):
They don't know what it's like to put Christmas on
a credit card. They don't they don't understand. So how
could they legitimately, you know, cost laws and sign on
to legislation if they if they really don't truly understand it.
So that's that's what I'm all about. That's what we're
trying to do here in Nebraska. You know, in twenty
(01:40:44):
twenty four, we got forty seven percent of the vote
coming out of nowhere as an independent, And you know,
I really truly just just want to make a difference
in people's lives.
Speaker 4 (01:40:57):
I think something that you said early on in this
conversation is you talked about how you recognized corporate America's
control over America and I'm assuming that that is related.
I'm making some assumption. Seriously, tell me if I'm wrong.
You know, you worked in the Kellogg plant, which is
what you would call a brand, an American brand, right,
(01:41:19):
you were thinking Kellogg, you know Cereal, and you know
all the things that Kellogg owns. It's this this brand
that has this recognition to it, and you you what
I'm what I'm gleaning from what you said is that
going through that strike and recognizing the greed that Corporate
(01:41:41):
America has and their values and how they approach things.
I mean, sometimes they will crush anybody in their pursuit
to you know. And my stick that I've always said,
or I've been really saying recently, is, you know, Corporate
America's had two hundred and forty nine years to show
it how responsible it is in America, and it's not
(01:42:05):
had a good track record in those two forty nine
Like you literally can only look at a sliver of
a couple decades where they were somewhat responsible. Outside of that,
they've been pretty bad. They're back to some old bad
habits that really concerned me. And so I'm just saying,
is that something that really stuck out to you that
when you got into this labor dispute, you got into
(01:42:26):
the strike, and then you saw this what is considered
a great American brand, just try to crush everybody talk
about that if that's if that was the case, Yeah.
Speaker 15 (01:42:36):
One hundred percent. You hit the nail on the head.
And what a lot of people don't know. Yeah, I'm known,
you know, locally for the strike, you know, as a president.
What people don't know is, for twenty years, I worked
twelve hours a day, seven days a week, just trying
to make the company profitable. I would get on grassroots
teams and you know, try to do whatever I could.
(01:42:59):
I was a industrial mechanic there for twenty years, just
trying to make the trying to make them money because
I understood, and the unions understand. When they make money,
we make money. Everybody's happy, right. But what a lot
of people don't know about this strike is that during
COVID we were working, we were working seven days a week,
(01:43:19):
we were working twelves, we were working sixteen's and there's
four plants under the umbrella, the master contract around the
country that we're working these hours. And at one point
in time, fifty percent of our workforce was forced quarantine
and or sick due to COVID. You know, everybody has
(01:43:39):
their COVID stories. But what happened was is we made
them record profits. They went from nineteen billion to twenty
one billion dollars profit that year, and the CEO gave
himself a two million dollar raise and a big pat
on the back. You know, the board enriched themselves, the
stockholders enriched themselves, and that's fine. That's capitalism. You know,
(01:44:01):
we could talk about capitalism being you know, it's it's
a it's a it's a great, it's I think capitalism
is good, but unchecked capitalism is dangerous.
Speaker 4 (01:44:10):
Capitalism is great, it just got to have a level
of social responsibility exactly.
Speaker 15 (01:44:15):
And so where we're at right now is unchecked capitalism. Anyway,
So Kellogg's, you know, made these record profits, and I
felt like as president of my union, you know, our
our contract expired that year, and I figured it was
going to be a no brainer. We'd get a little
sliver of the pie, you know, considering we're the ones
who who you know, they made this money off of
(01:44:35):
our backs. Well, instead, they sat at the negotiation table
from us and they said, we're going to take your
health insurance. We're going to take the cost of living
adjustment from you, which is our only form of wage
increases designed to keep us even with inflation. I don't
need to tell your audience about COLA. And then we're
going to implement a two tier weight system with no
(01:44:55):
path for a lower tier employee to go to the
upper tier. So we had no choice but to go
out on strike. They knew what they were doing, and
in the two weeks that we negotiated with Kellogg's, I
think we spent maybe ten hours. As soon as any
of those three items got brought up, they would walk out.
So they knew what they were doing. They wanted us
to go on strike. We felt we were on the
(01:45:16):
right side of history. We called their bluff and we
went out on strike for seventy seven days and we
won a contract. You know, it wasn't amazing, but we
weren't asking for anything, is the crazy thing. We just
wanted to keep what we had, what we earned for
like the last fifty years.
Speaker 4 (01:45:32):
I remember when you were on strike. I mean I
don't remember you being on strike, but I remember the incident,
and I remember thinking this, like corporate America, like they
just can't help themselves. Right, This is where they get
into this space, they lean into it and they really
lose their mind, which is clear what they are right now.
Like in twenty twenty, obviously the onset of COVID, all
(01:45:55):
of a sudden started to value the jobs that we're
talking about right now that had been devalued you you know,
with a narrative for a long time, because corporate America
wants to devalue them to pay them less, even though
they're making plenty of money and they can afford to
pay good wages. They then want to devalue them publicly
or with a narrative so that they can drive something
(01:46:18):
like you just said, which is a strike, and then
make you look like you're greedy workers.
Speaker 10 (01:46:21):
And the reality is is.
Speaker 4 (01:46:24):
Even in twenty twenty one, not even completely out of
the COVID dust, right, they're still dealing with you know,
the effects of that. Immediately, the greed turns on trying
to claw back whatever they thought they could and continuing
to devalue important jobs. A so called great American brand,
(01:46:45):
A great American brand devaluing jobs, and what we can
see over the last thirty years in the labor movement
is that corporate America has won the devaluing of jobs
and gotten workers to start to fight with each other
and ah, well, their jobs as important as my job.
And then we're as a result, we're not collective in
our approach quite as much. What's happening now is their
(01:47:07):
greed is forcing us to be a little bit more collective.
And you know, it's good, not the good, The greed's
not good, but it's good that we are being collective
in our approach because it's great to see individuals like
you running for office that are inspired by a labor
fight and we're like, wait a minute, if I got
to go through this, then millions of other people are
in the same boat. We got to bring a stop
(01:47:29):
to this somehow. So thank you for jumping into the
space to make a difference.
Speaker 15 (01:47:35):
Sure, yeah, absolutely, you know, I feel like it's just something.
It's my duty. The same way I signed up for
the United States Navy and then after that I signed
up from the Nebraska Army National Guard. I was a
nineteen kilo on an Abrams tank. It's just it's just,
you know, I do what I feel is right. Sometimes
(01:47:56):
there's things bigger than us. It's bigger than me, it's
bigger than my family, it's bigger than you. And this
is you know, we gotta we got to steer our
ship right right now, and it's going off course, and
we need the way the framers of our constitution intended
this whole thing to be. Right. You come from your farms,
you come from your factories, you do a term or two,
(01:48:17):
and you know you rule because you're you're you're from
the people. And that is what we're missing right now.
We are in career politicians where millionaires working for billionaires,
and that that is the essence of the problem in
this country. And hopefully I can represent a solution to that,
(01:48:38):
and hopefully people can get behind it. And you know, dang,
let's let's just win this thing. Let's get some wins
under our belt and and and really bring workers into
the forefront of the conversations. Again, that's what we're missing.
Speaker 4 (01:48:53):
Well, what's what's good though, is we can see that
the electeds are all trying to kind of It's funny
because I just had a similar conversation with an earlier
guest on the show on the on the first half
of the show, and you know, all the electeds want
labors vote or they they want workers vote. You know,
there's we're starting to see now that the elected officials
(01:49:16):
realize that they've got to connect to workers. Now they're
in some cases they're saying the right thing. It doesn't
mean their policy is doing the right thing.
Speaker 8 (01:49:23):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:49:23):
And now those are obviously two different subjects. But the
reality is it's easier for you to stay connected to
the policy for workers if you were a worker like yourself,
being a mechanic and a Callogg's factory for you know,
a couple of decades, and like you said, working twelve
hours a day. You're not some fat cat sitting around
some fat cat union officials sitting around. First of all,
(01:49:44):
none of us are that, regardless of what they perceive
us to be. That's just some narrative and a cartoon
that somebody has painted no different than supposedly where the mob.
You know that the movies have depicted us to be
because you know, funny story or I always say here.
Speaker 10 (01:50:00):
On the mob.
Speaker 4 (01:50:01):
Thing is if you know the teamster's the mob this night,
If I'm the mob, then I'm just gonna have the
boss whacked.
Speaker 9 (01:50:06):
Right.
Speaker 10 (01:50:06):
Let's just let's just.
Speaker 4 (01:50:07):
Knock them out of the picture, and I don't have
to worry about this anymore, and I'm gonna get whatever
deal I want. Right, clearly that's not there. I haven't
whacked any bosses, you know, in my time. So at
the end of the day, those narratives, right, that's okay.
You know, that narrative controlled by corporate America can be
(01:50:27):
beat by workers like you occupy in elected positions to
set policy because what we learn in the in labor
is we learn a consciousness that's different than what we're
hearing on that TV every day or in that social
media feed.
Speaker 15 (01:50:46):
Yeah, yeah, that's it. And you know, there's there's a
couple of things. There's there's a reason why people like
us don't run for office because we don't have the
billion dollars, We don't have the or millions that we
can step away from our job. So just today I
was you know, there's a heat wave going across the
country and certainly Omaha is affected as well. I was
(01:51:07):
on a roof all day fixing a roof unit, getting
an office cool back down. There was a Thermo store
that went bad, and you know, we had troubleshoot it
and figure it out. And you know that's what I'm
doing still every day while running my campaign.
Speaker 10 (01:51:23):
Well, here're the irony in this. I got to point
this out.
Speaker 4 (01:51:25):
You're on the roof in the heat, direct heat, direct sun,
fixing the very air conditioner that's cooling an office potentially
for some corporate people to stay nice and cozy. Well yeah,
and I'm again obviously exaggerating the point. It may not
have been for them, But the reality is is you're
on that roof doing that hard work.
Speaker 10 (01:51:45):
It could just be office workers. I got you.
Speaker 4 (01:51:47):
I'm just I'm just contrasting how hard this work is
because the narrative is is we're all a bunch of
lazy people.
Speaker 15 (01:51:56):
Right yeah, and you know our voice doesn't matter in
our opinions don't matter because we don't have a fancy
Harvard or Stanford education. You know, some of the most
intelligent people I know have very mechanical minds, and you
know they like myself. I was going to college when
(01:52:18):
my wife got pregnant with my first daughter, Georgia, and
you know, I knew I had to go get a job.
I just had to go into the workforce. I needed
insurance because having a baby is crazy expensive and it's
it's even I mean, this was twenty two years ago.
Now my daughter's twenty two, and like, it's ex potentially
(01:52:41):
harder for these kids, these ages that are having kids
to make it and to buy houses and to you know,
earn a wage that that you know, they can get
by with. And that's exactly what I want to do.
And when we have to talk about anti trust and
anti monopoly laws, we have to level the playing field
for our workers, both in union and non union workforce.
(01:53:04):
That's how we do it. It's the Dollar Generals of the world.
You can drive by in any town in Nebraska and
I don't know how much time we have cut me off,
but you know, you could drive by any town in
main street in Nebraska and there will be a Dollar
General at the end or beginning of the town, depending
on which direction you're coming from. And mom and pop
stores are boarded up because they can't compete. They can't
(01:53:24):
buy the same goods as dollar General can and sell
it for cheaper. And there's one person or two people
employed at the Dollar General. And that's our rural country
right now, and it is set up for them to
succeed and for the little guy to fail. We're seeing
it with our farms, We're seeing it with our ranchers.
(01:53:45):
It's all consolidating right now, massive numbers of small farms
and ranches or filing for bankruptcy, and it's being corporate consolidated.
Speaker 4 (01:53:57):
To your point of home ownership, to your point of
home home ownership, this is your point of corporate America's greed.
If you use Amazon as an example, an Amazon delivery
driver cannot afford to buy a home anywhere in America period,
delivers in all these neighborhoods. But a Ups driver who
delivers in all the neighborhoods of America could buy a
(01:54:18):
home in almost any of those neighborhoods. Not everyone, but
almost any of them. And we've done the math to
find an Amazon driver, to find a neighborhood that an
Amazon driver can buy a home in, and it doesn't
exist mathematically. So the reality is is your point is
spot on, and the dollar general at the end of
(01:54:38):
the street or the beginning of the street. The corporate
America is wanting to starve everybody out, take every penny out,
because they in their defense is we want to, oh,
we want to we want to make sure that the
shareholders have their piece of the pie, right, and the
reality is is the executives are the biggest shareholders and
it's just an end to round for them to put
(01:54:59):
more money in their Yeah, people that are in four
to one k's and some investments, But then you look
at the amount of money that the average person, which
is about fifty six thousand dollars in their four one
k across the country, Like, it's not like they got
hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars invested in their
four on one case. Working people don't have a lot
and they're not getting a lot of that shareholder value
(01:55:20):
that again is being recirculated back into their pockets. I've
only got three minutes here before the end of this
show because you'd asked for the timing, so I'm letting
you know, and I really appreciate you making that point,
and I just want to make that point. And man,
you getting forty six point five forty seven percent of
the vote says that working people, that your residents, that
people in your.
Speaker 10 (01:55:40):
Area see it just like we do.
Speaker 4 (01:55:42):
It's just now a matter of getting them to get
out and vote and make sure that a person like
you gets into the Senate and can help set policy
to help workers for generations.
Speaker 10 (01:55:53):
What do you got to close on?
Speaker 15 (01:55:55):
Yeah, now, I appreciate that, and I appreciate your show,
and you know, hopefully everybody listening takes a little something
from each thing. You know, I did. I did two
hundred public events in Nebraska, and I went and met
people where they live, where they worked, whether they were
farmers or worked at the local hospital or school, whatever,
(01:56:18):
went and talked to them and listened to their trials
and tribulations of their lives. And what I found that
we have in common with everybody. I don't care what
side of the aisle you land on, left, right, blue, red, Independent,
whatever other party is there are what we all have
(01:56:39):
in common is that we're just people, and we're all
we're all Americans at the end of the day, and
we're just trying to get through this life. We're trying
to navigate this planet and our little spot on the
on the globe, and we want what's best for our
kids and for our families. And you know what we're
seeing right now is is a government and a two
(01:57:02):
party doom loop that's just trying to pit us all
against each other. You know, we have a lot more
in common than the media lets on to believe.
Speaker 10 (01:57:11):
And you know, there's a lot more for us to
agree upon than fight about. That's correct, exactly, And.
Speaker 15 (01:57:15):
I think the core of that is our work, right
we are, our families come first, But who we are
and who we spend the most amount of time with
is probably our co workers.
Speaker 16 (01:57:25):
Right.
Speaker 15 (01:57:25):
We spend a lot of time at work. That's how
we identify ourselves where and the people in Nebraska, I'm
sure just like the people of California, hard ass workers,
good working people. I just want write what's for their kids.
We all have some different ideas, but at the end
of the day, that's what we have in common. That's
what we need to focus on.
Speaker 4 (01:57:44):
Dan, really appreciate you coming on. Dan Osborne running for
Senate in Nebraska. Really he's also a union advocate and
he's Huskers and then that too, right let as strike
in twenty twenty one understands the trials and tribulations of
corporate America and how how how they can be especially
(01:58:06):
in moments like that. Thanks for coming on the show.
Really appreciate you being with us. And I'm just gonna
spend the last couple of minutes of our show. Again,
if you want to say, by real quick, we got
you and when we're going to cut you off.
Speaker 10 (01:58:17):
Dan one last word.
Speaker 15 (01:58:19):
No thanks, thanks for thanks for listening to me, Ramble,
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (01:58:22):
You didn't You did a great job. Thanks for coming
on the show. Thank you, and for all you listeners
out there. This is what we need.
Speaker 10 (01:58:31):
We need more and more of our active people.
Speaker 4 (01:58:38):
You have a guy here who got engaged with a
labor dispute and then is running for office because he
saw how much corporate, how bad corporate America is running
this independent So congratulations to him.
Speaker 10 (01:58:53):
This is the worker power are we are building worker power.
And the way we're building worker power is having conversations
like this and we have our show or billboards and
think of Teamster campaign and we're out really trying to
get the community to understand the value of being in
the union and the value of connecting and how we
got to encourage more workers to organize.
Speaker 4 (01:59:10):
What can you do? You can how do you build
worker power? You talk to your friends, you talk to
your family, you talk to your neighbors, and you get
them to build worker power too, and you make sure
that they withhold their labor at the appropriate time, and
you educate them on what their rights are. This is
Randy Corgan, longtime organizer, first time radio host. This is
also the Worker Power Are the Randy Corgan on the
Teamster's nineteen thirty two broadcast network, airing live from San Bernardino.
Speaker 10 (01:59:34):
Take it Away, Mark.
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