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Speaker 1 (00:00):
World CACAA where every day is a Great Day CACAA Loma, Linda.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome to The Worker Power Hour with Randy Corrigan, a
brand new show about labor and worker issues. The host
of the show is Randy Corrigan, Secretary Treasurer and Principal
Office and leader of Teamsters nineteen thirty two, one of
the largest public sector labor unions on the West Coast,
representing workers in government and non sworn law enforcement personnel.
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Randy Corgan has a thirty year Teamster who first became
involved in the labor movement by volunteering his time as
an organizer with the Teamsters Union at the age of
twenty one. Since then, he's helped thousands organize, mobilize, and
achieve bargaining rights. He accomplished this by spending countless hours
with brave men and women all over Southern California in
their living rooms on the picket line to bring workers
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towards victory. This is the Worker Power Hour. And now
here's the host of the show, Randy Corrigan.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
We're back listeners, longtime organizer, first time radio host Randy Corgan. Here.
This is the work of Power Hour with Randy Corgan
on the Teamsters Local nineteen thirty two Broadcast Network, airing
live from Sam Bernardino. Good to have you back. This
is I think two or three weeks in a row.
I forget I keep mixing up that one show that
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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
into fifty one minutes and we actually had to stop
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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 who don't
know who Jennifer Russo is, she is a former General
Counsel of the NLRB that was terminated that the administration
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terminated in January of this year. 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
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to have her on property physically at 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
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the setup. And then I kind of did it on purpose.
As an organizer, you always got to ask someone to
do something. And I pulled her in 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
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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 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
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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 once she
started getting her blood pumping. Man, it was great. I
can't wait. Yeah, I cannot wait to see this for
all of you to see the show tomorrow. And you know,
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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
to do that and her 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
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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, Mark.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah, she kind of took the show away from yesterday
a little bit. Good. That's what we wanted her to.
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 3 (04:47):
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 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
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the 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. We
considered it. 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.
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And again, you should all be proud of the fact
that we were able to host her here.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Do you got something to see her a little starstruck yesterday?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
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 challenges that she's facing, because you know,
she was very genuine, very genuine, and very much understood
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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 4 (06:11):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
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 4 (06:21):
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 3 (06:30):
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 work or 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 day that we'll we'll cross. So last week's shows
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as a quick recap, we were joined by shay 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. And
it was great, great conversation. A matter of fact, a
lot of you commented on the clips that were out there.
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At the u c r i E. 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 basis
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because people lack the 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 and the IE to
know this. They're 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
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coming on. And also we were joined by Armando Atlanis,
who is the Secretary Treasury 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 life of one already as a result of
those rates.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
And you were.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
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 going to show. You're seeing.
A lot of the farms are starting to lock their
gates and they're basically telling ICE you can't come on
the property because they do have they're all documented workers.
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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, you know, raiding
an area that you have no idea if criminals are there,
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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. Police should
absolutely identify themselves, make it known who they are, who
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they're going to get, and let's get those those criminals
out of here. 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
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did a really good job. Obviously, it's been in industry,
has been in almost entire adult life. And he talked
about how difficult 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 space where policy and issues
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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, Sandraw, sand Cabrera, Anita, Vanessa and Lisa the
clerical staff for the rehab department at AIRMC, Vicki Thompson,
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City of Grand Terrace, Joy Santos, ARMC HIM Department, Natalie
to Galte 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 and AIRMC Nutritional Services, Krista Hunter at the ARAMC
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Nutritional Service, Chas Kelly AARMC, Annabelle Fernandez, County of San
Maardino Housing, Mario Felix SSS Victorville Station, Eddie or Tis
Law and Justice OA Fontana Station, Pamela al Ma Reid
at Barstow City. She's a Barstows steward, Veronica Zam Sambrano
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education specialist public Health, Marcus Worel at A seven up
and Fontana. We have Andrea Palacios. We have Lauren. We
have Jesse Turner Team, the Jesse Turner Team and Cus
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then at the we have this cb CSS Stewards, Trish Flores,
Crystal Olds and Zion Randolph, Zion and Randa and Zion
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Randolph Rialto Tad Jason Nugent, Tad O two, Jonathan Guteris,
I t D. Van ge The Lariba from Colton Westminster
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Connie Bottini, raaltal Live, Susan Loftis crime analyst, John Montesino
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from Victim's Advocate District Attorney's Office. Dinah Messias paralegal District Attorneys.
Sandra Reis Hernandez from the 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
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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 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 do we stay zoomed
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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 want to give
me some feedback, great, If not, I prefer to be
zoomed out 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,
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really appreciate that. And just as a reminder, this is
KCAA ten fifty one six point five FM. 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,
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you're supposed to throw something at me and keep me
on track.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Right anyway, Robert, take his remote for the camera away.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
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 in patient coders code medical
records so that the county can be reimbursed the most
money possible and ensuring there is precise billing in analytic
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compliance and patient coder 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
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with that, 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 employees at peace and happy
to be back at work, created a new member labor
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management group, 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
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attended the 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
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to one. 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, correct. 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
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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 great, great job there. We've received several
entries on the California Spanaccas scholarship from our members and
their kids. Good luck to all the members. One of
the things I want to point out to everybody is,
you know, our members do get a lot of scholarships.
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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 see a
big volume come in, and that is great. We really
like that. The committees love to see a big response.
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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, I go.
I'm reading some of the playback here because I suggested
on the on the on the camera anyway. So it's
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one of these things that you try to do live
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? What if I don't
want to do it? That's okay, my show. I can
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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 twenty twenty five Sack
after Interactive Media Agreement with a yes vote of ninety
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five percent ratifying the deal. The new contract 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
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congratulates to them having a win in a space when
it comes to AI. This is this next few years,
I'll tell you what, 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
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AI to do your work for you, you may turn
back around and not actually have a job yourself. 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
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on it anyway. Saturday Night Live v FX artists ratify
their historic first union contract. Visual effects workers at Saturday
Night Live SNL unanimously ratified their first union contract after
successfully organizing in October of last year. The nl VFX
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workers begun contract negotiations in April, and this contract brings
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 inten 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 federaliation mediation still exists? Did they
answer the phone or has that been cut to? Oh
my bad? Anyway, But the two and two days of negotiations, see,
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I'm trying to be funny here, man, I'm 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
to our hardworking Safeway members in the high cost living
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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.
So this is the work of Power Hour with Randy
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Corgan on the Teamsters Local nineteen thirty two broadcast network
mark let's do a thirty can break so we can
transition into our next guest.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
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 7 (22:25):
Well, it's kind of a debate. We believe that.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
The first organized group was around nineteen seventy nine, but
more officially closer to nineteen eighty six or eighty seven.
We gathered to help celebrate the Southern California car culture
of the forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
David shared the types of cars you might see and
of course his Pride and Joy.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
We'll see all kinds of cars, from early model hot
rods to very very well appointed custom cars, all mix
and models.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
We have everything that's cre eighty.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
We have a nineteen sixty six Chevelle Malibu, a yellow
one here my pride and Joy. But everyone just brings
whatever they have. There's several cars are under various stages
of construction and 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
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have bubblegum blowing contests, hula hoops, a limbo contests.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
It's just a wonderful.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Family event 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 6 (23:37):
You don't have to have a car in the show.
Spectators and car enthusiasts are encouraged to check out the classics.
It's free to attend. The past Pleasure Car Club shows
off their cars the first Friday of the month from
April through November, located in the Ross Parking Lot on
Yakaipo Boulevard for Community It Matters. I'm Lilyanvosdis.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
We're back. This is the work of Power Hour with
Randy Corgan on the team Sters 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. Glenn,
you you you, you know, you're sounds like you're having
a great time on TikTok and you're making a big impact.
You got tens of thousands of followers, and you're spreading
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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, 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
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why you transitioned to doing something like this.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
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 3 (25:57):
That's all right, you got a plane flying over, I
got you, We got you covered life, no worries.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
I'm at the airport with my family and I thought
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 leeches on
the employees or our members that were described as by
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a lot of people in elected positions.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Yeah, well they're controlled by corporate America. Yeah, they're controlled
by corporate America's interest anyway, So you know, how do
we believe them, But you make a great point. Sorry
for cutting you off.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Yeah, No, you're exactly right. And for too long they
have controlled the narrative as who 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 3 (26:57):
Yeah, and getting our message out and making the general
public understands why it's so beneficial to be in a
union number one and number two, you know, unions. 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,
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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
so excited to have you out there on TikTok, you know,
smashing the message. This is great.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
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 that when I got off the phone,
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she came in and said, pop out, you need to
put that on, uh 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 3 (28:43):
That is correct. 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
thank you, I appreciate you, or oh, it's great to
see that message out there. You know, I'm a un
member over here, and man, it's good to see us
in that space. You know, there's a lot of positive
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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.
Now that's I'm sorry, No, you're good.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
We can hear you.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I know we can hear the plane in the background,
but if you keep talking, we can hear it.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
Yeah, I feel horrible, but anyway.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
No, look, this is how it works. We're in the
labor movement. These things happen on the spot, you know.
And then you got your family and they're in the
car and they probably had to deal with this for
the last thirty years. You know, they all know, they
get it. Man, we're all in this together.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
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 air Show. Unbelievable timing on everything, But anyway,
I didn't want to miss this opportunity to speak with
you and your public, because these opportunities don't arise that
often and it's important for us to get 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 the member, meet the member. I called it because
people hear 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.
(30:22):
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, you know.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
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 the other members and some of them members
from other unions. They're like, I did not know that
that job classification did that, or I had no idea
(31:07):
that they were teamsters. I had no idea that those
re union members. I had no 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
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saving millions of lives, making sure millions 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
(31:51):
the PTA, and they're they're involved 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 7 (32:06):
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 3 (32:45):
That's right. 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
(33:07):
picks 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
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needs to 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
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what we really are.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
Correct as usual. The one thing that I'd like to
also point out is when workers come together and join
a union, form a union, and work for a collective
voice to sit down at the negotiating table is 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 3 (34:40):
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. What do you to shift gears
here a little bit. 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 in get agent they share. We have
(35:02):
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, 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 7 (35:23):
Point is real quick on the topic of wives. Are
wives put up with so much?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yes, they did.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
When you're a union official, the calls at night, sometimes
you have to leave at night and take care of
the situations. They put up with so much, and they
certainly deserve a shout out.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Yeah. 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. All of that is carried into them
(35:58):
into their fewture 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 do the
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right thing right may I'm assuming your family is the
same way.
Speaker 7 (36:23):
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
(36:44):
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
(37:05):
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 3 (37:30):
And it's a PAC committee, what's usually made up of
rank and file members that make the decision to support
a candidate based on their position of labor, regardless of
their party affiliation.
Speaker 7 (37:42):
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 families.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
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
(38:18):
or not is different, and they can be judged by
their policy decisions. They're 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
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the worker to support them. 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 decisions as a whole,
(39:04):
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 on anything, I know you are
as well. I've actually supported we've as an organization, we
have supported Republicans running for positions over not only Democrats,
(39:27):
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 and go, Okay, well there's
(39:48):
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 and the
workers we seek to represent.
Speaker 7 (40:04):
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
(40:27):
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 working families. We're on board.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
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 leaned out what it would take to have a
(41:01):
labor party. 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
(41:22):
show where I'm 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
(41:44):
garnering the most attention when you're discussing labor issues on
your show.
Speaker 7 (41:49):
Yeah, I think probably The first video I did that
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.
(42:10):
I'm a former union president of the United a Lot
of Workers Local twenty two fifty, financial secretary at United
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 and the Chevy's full size vans. So we bet
(42:31):
that's where I come from. And before that, I was
an electrician and 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.
(42:54):
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 a 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,
(43:16):
that's what funds our first responders. The whole community suffers
when you lose that kind of job income.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
And the sales tax revenue generated by the purchasing power
correct exactly.
Speaker 7 (43:28):
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
(43:50):
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 the
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
(44:14):
these economic gains.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
But the corporate execs will say, if you got to cut,
you gotta cut labor. It's it's in there five percent,
Like what about the ninety five buddy?
Speaker 7 (44:24):
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 day 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.
(44:45):
Our members went and they voted to ratify the contract
by very slim margin. A few months later, General Motors
turned around and gave out six billion dollars in stock buybacks.
They had the money, they had it hidden in the
drawer and the couch or something, and they could be
paying their workers a fair wage, but instead they choose
(45:06):
to do stock buybacks. You guys saw the same thing
with Yellow Freight and the pensions and stuff.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
Yeah, so let me point to something. You pointed out
the two 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,
(45:32):
they can afford to buy a home in that neighborhood.
But 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
(45:53):
of years or whatever it is like, or you're there
for a long time, which is very rare because you
can almost not find anybody who'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
(46:15):
driver is they can't. And then if you work anywhere
within the 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
(46:38):
could afford to buy a home, goods and services in
that 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 a delivery right alongside that Amazon delivery on
the same doorstep many times. What a absolute contrast. And
(47:02):
it is a reality gut punch.
Speaker 7 (47:06):
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 3 (47:19):
It's roughly the same for US.
Speaker 7 (47:22):
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
(47:43):
half hours, they're going to become wealthy. It doesn't work
that way. Then you start throwing in health care, benefits, pensions, annuities.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
And well they're non union, they don't even have those
things correct.
Speaker 5 (47:57):
You know.
Speaker 7 (47:58):
One of the things that people need to remember. I've
got a nephew. When he was a very small child,
he had 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 at
Rock Cory was non union, and they could not afford
(48:18):
They 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 3 (48:44):
You know. 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 work there
for x amount of time, and they explain a story
(49:05):
just like 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.
(49:26):
Those 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
(49:47):
that and the plan that you got, and and 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. It's all over the place. 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
(50:11):
of forward thinking, bargaining good health care that's paid for
by the employer, making sure that the future is secure
in your most difficult times.
Speaker 7 (50:23):
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
(50:44):
January from COVID, but she continued to live on my
dad's healthcare, had 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 ahead. But because
(51:07):
of the healthcare provided by the IBW and my dad's
years is pan 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 3 (51:28):
And thirty years 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 as a Teamster local union, we have
fifteen thousand members here at Teamster's Local nineteen thirty two
in San Ardino, California. And what do you think you
(51:51):
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 bill boards 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
(52:11):
where we have over forty high schools 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
(52:32):
car and a podcast. What do you 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 you're leading.
Speaker 7 (52:44):
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 cultural changes and societal changes,
we're never going to make it. We will see exists.
I'm going to close it up by with two things
real quick. First of all, in twenty nineteen UAW one
(53:06):
on strike. I was president of the local Teamsters president
in the 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 on a Teamster
(53:27):
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 do exactly what
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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 Autowork or a
building trade of the Teamsters, should be following the pattern
that you all are setting. You're blazing a trail everybody
needs to emulate.
Speaker 3 (54:07):
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, I'm all ears. This is the
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This is the Work of Power Hour with Grandy Corgan
on the Teamsters Local nineteen thirty two broadcast network. Aaron
Live from San Bordino, and we have James Bites back
on and he's wearing an interesting shirt. I thought that
I would zoom in on him real quick. Here. Oops,
that's that's the wrong way. See, that's what's cool thing
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about this about this? There he is, what's up?
Speaker 5 (01:01:28):
James looking at you.
Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
Everybody, you've been out, you've been out eating and checking places.
Speaker 5 (01:01:33):
Out or yeah, yeah, all over the ie. I'm trying
to hit every city if I can.
Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
All right, so we have a date, a solid date
August fourteenth, where you all are going to land on
a particular location. Have you figured out what the restaurant
is that you're gonna the team stir Avantage restaurant that
you're gonna hit.
Speaker 5 (01:01:54):
Yeah, we talked about it a little bit, and I
wanted everyone to experience the very first restaurant that every
viewed when I came on the show, Johnny Russo's. So
I figured that would be a good pots, Well, there
you go, 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 3 (01:02:13):
They are, and and and again. When they were on
the show, they talked about how they what they make fresh,
all the different the 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
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ends up blowing up.
Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
I would like to do ten fifteen just to start out. Yeah. Yeah,
that way we don't overwhelm and we don't have the
food issue because you know Johnny will go out of
his way.
Speaker 3 (01:02:45):
To he sure will, and he sure will.
Speaker 4 (01:02:48):
And I heard they opened up a back section.
Speaker 3 (01:02:50):
There's a bard. They so don't tell people there's a bar.
Then we won't be able to control. No, definitely, come
there's a bar. All right? Well, August fourteenth, Johnny russos
in in Banning. It's on the calendar. Is there a time?
Speaker 5 (01:03:09):
And then we decided about six thirty.
Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
You guys gotta make this definitive.
Speaker 5 (01:03:12):
It's six six thirty. That way, people get off at work,
go home, pick up the family, and join us for dinner.
Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
Okay, you're gonna captu at twelve fifteen people correct? Okay,
So let's start an RSVP list. Who are they going
to contact?
Speaker 4 (01:03:27):
Abom contact me?
Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
Have them contact Mark? Mark? What's your cell phone number?
Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
Nine oh nine six seven seven zero two nine zero,
Ask for Randy Corgan. I mean Mark.
Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
Now you can write it on the bathroom wall. It's
our 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. You know what we're
gonna do. We're just gonna put the phone number on
the billboard to RSVP. Yeah, on the billboard.
Speaker 5 (01:03:53):
Yeah, that'd be good.
Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:03:54):
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 3 (01:04:07):
Okay, 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 4 (01:04:21):
I got a picture of a foot in the cast.
Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
So it's so he's not lying, right, So victors, he's
always been great. Uh just read the bio real quick.
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shaved ice this side of the Islands. The ConA Ice
experience will amplify any event from our steel drum music
to the signature flavor wave where guests can guests can
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flavor their own shaved ice. We guarantee to bring the fun,
laughter and flavor, whether indoors or outdoors. We handle a
whole variety of events, including schools, corporations, daycares, summer programs,
youth sports, picnics, weddings, and major sport events and festivals.
We also specialize in fundraising, So just show us where
to park and who to make the checkout to, plus
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we come to you. It doesn't get much easier than that.
So also you get a fifteen percent discount for ConA Ice.
They are located in 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
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dash ice dot com and you can find them obviously
on our team stir Advantage app. Make sure that you
use them and they're always at our car shows right.
ConA Ice comes does our events. Right, I've seen them, Mark,
You're not paying attention. Mark, I've seen them.
Speaker 4 (01:05:46):
That's because I just gave my phone number out on
the radio and it's blowing up.
Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
You can wait. We're running a show, not playing on
your phone.
Speaker 4 (01:05:55):
We already have three people lying. All right, I'm ConA
Ice does showed up to the car show all.
Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
This shooing 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. That's why
I said that, Yes, did you get a ticket?
Speaker 5 (01:06:18):
Did you? Yes?
Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
I did. I normally don't speed. You know, I'm usually
pretty good about it. But this day I came in hot.
Speaker 15 (01:06:25):
What's the hell always coast this morning?
Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
You saw me come in hot this morning?
Speaker 4 (01:06:30):
Really coming from the guy who got easily.
Speaker 3 (01:06:33):
Everybody's usually passing me on the freeway going randy, what
are you doing over in a slowly like what you
well is usually on the phone and I'm talking and
I'm doing stuff.
Speaker 5 (01:06:42):
How fast? Did they say allegedly you were going?
Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
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
that driving too slow. Maybe I got a ticket for
driving too slow.
Speaker 4 (01:06:54):
Maybe you should ask Robert how fast he goes.
Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
We already know how fast Robbert goes. We already know
that needles.
Speaker 5 (01:07:00):
We know.
Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
We's lucky he didn't go to jail. Yeah, the judge
said that 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. 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 5 (01:07:16):
The fact that he saw a judge. Jesus.
Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
All right, James, who where you've been lately?
Speaker 16 (01:07:21):
What?
Speaker 3 (01:07:21):
What's the what's the chitten?
Speaker 5 (01:07:24):
I got challenged to do ice cream for the summer,
so I actually, uh, how much? Three ice cream shops
in one day?
Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
And what how do you do that?
Speaker 5 (01:07:34):
Actually I hit four spots in one day total. This
is all done in one day.
Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (01:07:41):
And it just so 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 wrench cuckamonga.
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They're off a foothill bo levardy.
Speaker 3 (01:08:05):
Well, Taco Hut's not ice cream.
Speaker 5 (01:08:07):
I know they had to have lunch first as something
for the cream to sit on.
Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
My bad, I'll shut up.
Speaker 5 (01:08:13):
And so they offered twenty percent off really good Chimmy
Chunga's burritos. That's really good. You've been there, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. Now me and Mexican restaurants, I always judge
it by their chile there I love.
Speaker 3 (01:08:24):
I believe that's one of the best judges of a
Mexican restaurant.
Speaker 5 (01:08:28):
So if I go to a Mexican restaurant for the
first time, if.
Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
It's tender, got great flavor, and it's.
Speaker 5 (01:08:33):
Not too fatty, that's right. Yeah, So you're there. So
they had really good chili better I had that. They
had offered it in a Chimmy Chonga. So I tried
that out.
Speaker 3 (01:08:41):
You say you say it correctly, I say, chill a
by er day.
Speaker 5 (01:08:45):
You try you try?
Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
I mean we have it recorded, we can just play back.
Speaker 3 (01:08:51):
Yeah, so chive, I purposely mess it up now because
it irritates my wife, like, you know, She's like, you're
don't say it like that, let me order it for you.
I'm like, I'm a white guy. I'm supposed to mess
it up.
Speaker 5 (01:09:05):
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 Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania,
so you could really taste a quality. And they also
do a lot of fun stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:09:45):
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, So but that was really good.
Speaker 5 (01:09:57):
They also do fun things like I think on Thursday,
bring your own banana, get fifty percent off of banana split.
Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
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. Actually bring your own banana.
Speaker 5 (01:10:17):
I think that's what it was. I hope I got
that right now.
Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
But yeah, it's bring your own banana on on Thursday
and you get fifty off a banana split.
Speaker 5 (01:10:28):
That's what I pretty sure I read. I'm hoping that
I'm right now, Guys Brewschers, do you guys hear me?
Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
I'm sure we'll get corrected real quick if this is
not right.
Speaker 5 (01:10:38):
And uh so they also have speciality.
Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
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 5 (01:10:58):
A banana split.
Speaker 16 (01:11:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:11:01):
Yeah, so that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (01:11:05):
I think I've never heard idea.
Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
It is, but I've never heard of that.
Speaker 5 (01:11:07):
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 3 (01:11:19):
What did you get? Which which flavor did you get?
Speaker 5 (01:11:21):
I got cheesecake and I also got Reese's peanut butter cup,
so that is quite the difference. Yeah, yeah, I I.
Speaker 3 (01:11:31):
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 5 (01:11:42):
Yeah, we upset each other.
Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
Yeah, they totally offset each other.
Speaker 5 (01:11:45):
Yeah. Well Thrifties ice 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 spush now out of summer going forward.
I also want it's true.
Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
Yes, Robert checked on it.
Speaker 4 (01:12:02):
He called just checker Robert.
Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
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 5 (01:12:10):
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 true.
Speaker 3 (01:12:18):
And if somebody just somebody just put in here, I've done.
Speaker 5 (01:12:21):
It before, bringing your own banana.
Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
And it's only on Thursdays.
Speaker 5 (01:12:23):
Only on Thursdays, so please please go check them out
on Thursday's get a I'm definitely here banana. Also all
the places that I mentioned, if you guys could like
let them know that you heard it on the radio show.
That way they know the team shirts are working every
single way, that would be greatly appreciate.
Speaker 3 (01:12:41):
Everybody needs to bring their banana in on Thursday and
and say.
Speaker 5 (01:12:45):
Take pictures and submit them. That's that's what I want
to see.
Speaker 3 (01:12:48):
Say I want my banana split. I heard it on
the show anyway.
Speaker 5 (01:12:52):
So stop number three of the day was I'll minute,
it's in French. A minute. It is an ice cream
shop in Redlands.
Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
Have not been there.
Speaker 5 (01:13:03):
It's off citrus. They offered 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 and 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 3 (01:13:43):
Would have never picked honey avocado flavored ice.
Speaker 5 (01:13:47):
It was really good, was it? They also have vegan flavors.
Speaker 3 (01:13:49):
I love avocado, but I just would not think you're
doing it. The only thing that I think it's like
asparagus flavored ice cream or something.
Speaker 5 (01:13:56):
Yeah, but the avocados.
Speaker 3 (01:13:58):
But I had deep fried asparagus the other day. My
son took took us to a place by his house,
and I've never had this lightly battered asparagus. Man, it
tasted so good.
Speaker 5 (01:14:08):
Was it like a tempora ish? Yes? Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 3 (01:14:11):
Oh, it was so good.
Speaker 5 (01:14:13):
Real good.
Speaker 4 (01:14:14):
Hey, James, yes, sir, do you let him know that
you're doing the tape? James, No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
We're got to get him a shirt. James bits back.
We got to get him a polo. It says, James's
got the team to go on it. Hopefully someone's listening
and they'll get that taken care of.
Speaker 5 (01:14:26):
Well, I don't want to because I don't want to
be like, like, hey, make his food extra whatever.
Speaker 4 (01:14:33):
Don't you don't want their food critic service.
Speaker 5 (01:14:35):
No, I think I just should be the everyday guy treatment.
Speaker 4 (01:14:39):
Right, that's true.
Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (01:14:40):
That's a good point.
Speaker 3 (01:14:41):
Don't let him know if.
Speaker 5 (01:14:42):
I could have a like, I'm thinking about getting cards
made saying that, listen to that afterwards. Yeah, after I
pay the bill.
Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
Oh, there you go.
Speaker 5 (01:14:49):
They're like, hey, listen to the show for the follow
review or whatever the case is.
Speaker 3 (01:14:53):
That's a really good idea.
Speaker 5 (01:14:56):
So that way, oh either we really did a good
job or oh crud, see what happens. But that's what, right,
that would be pretty good just so they know. That way,
they could listen to the show after the fact.
Speaker 4 (01:15:08):
And maybe they'll want to come on.
Speaker 5 (01:15:10):
Yeah, that would be good too.
Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
I like this, all right, what else you got? James?
Speaker 5 (01:15:16):
Right? The last stop was, uh, have made ice cream
in Redlands as well? They're Upper Redlands Boulevard also really
good ice cream. 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 pallettas,
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which is just your typical Mexican popsicles like coconut, coconut, almond, pineapple, pineapple,
you know, and strawberry all the strawberry.
Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
Yeah, yeah, the strawberry is typically really creamy and.
Speaker 5 (01:15:52):
Yeah, but they also make like toasty locos and other
like little treats apart from ice cream.
Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
Oh yeah, they got they got a full on counter there, right.
Speaker 5 (01:16:01):
Yeah, yeah, it's shake.
Speaker 3 (01:16:05):
Like yeah, I can't do that, like you know, put
to heen all over it and all that. Like I was,
I don't understand it's ice cream, Like this isn't a beer.
Speaker 5 (01:16:14):
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 4 (01:16:19):
Like once again, you don't put on fruit cola.
Speaker 3 (01:16:23):
I don't want to ruin the fruit. Having good watermelon.
Speaker 4 (01:16:25):
That's how we used to sell Okay, well put it
on fruit.
Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
Like why you're supposed to eat fruit and you're not
supposed to ruin it with some chemical or some salt
or something that makes it bad for you.
Speaker 5 (01:16:38):
You never put a block, a bottle and a pine
and a.
Speaker 3 (01:16:42):
No, I've seen people do that. Or you know what
is it called drunken watermelon?
Speaker 9 (01:16:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:16:45):
Yeah, right? You take our cherries, you know you soak them?
Speaker 4 (01:16:49):
Yeah, you know it's called house party.
Speaker 3 (01:16:51):
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.
Speaker 4 (01:17:00):
Hmm, sorry, my mic.
Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
Was on anyway. I would never partake and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (01:17:06):
Oh, so let me trkin. It was pretty good too.
I believe you guys try to treat me like this
on your show. Yeah, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
Cut MIC's off now. I need to get a little
button thing here.
Speaker 9 (01:17:17):
Reckon.
Speaker 3 (01:17:20):
Yeah yeah, bring some Brussels sprouts to the Robberts. See
how that works out for you.
Speaker 5 (01:17:23):
You don't like brussel sprouts.
Speaker 3 (01:17:24):
Brussels sprouts, 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.
That's the other one. It's horrible.
Speaker 5 (01:17:38):
You know I was forced to eat that. I don't
have that problem with the smell of liver and onions.
I can't stomach it.
Speaker 3 (01:17:46):
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 Like, nah, No, you like
liver and onions.
Speaker 5 (01:17:54):
I like the smell. I can't eat it. I've tried
too dry, I couldn't eat it. Mike Dog loves it.
Speaker 3 (01:18:04):
Yeah, we should go back to riddle that one back.
Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
So, hey, maybe I'm going to heen and fruit at
this point.
Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
Yeah, so the Teina fruit, let's just talk about that
real quick, like it's amazing. I know everybody likes it.
Speaker 5 (01:18:18):
I just can't.
Speaker 3 (01:18:19):
I just if I'm 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. You know that.
But when you put the teena, I mean you're making
fruit not good for you.
Speaker 4 (01:18:35):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
Look, I'm a healthy person here, can't you tell super healthy?
Speaker 4 (01:18:40):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:18:40):
Yeah, super healthy? I mean so am I longtime eater?
First Time Radio.
Speaker 4 (01:18:44):
Gay Randy drinks a lot of green tea.
Speaker 3 (01:18:47):
Right, Okay, what else you got, James?
Speaker 5 (01:18:51):
You know you know the history of the Ashcombe Sunday.
Speaker 3 (01:18:54):
I think you're gonna tell us, And I was just asking.
Speaker 5 (01:18:56):
Just because I wanted to know.
Speaker 3 (01:18:58):
No, I don't.
Speaker 5 (01:18:58):
Well, when soda was invented, it was considered as addictive
as alcohol and beer. So around the Bible Belt they
outlawed the 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
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to sell that stuff, so just on Sundays, just on Sundays.
So they're like, well, why don't you just give me
the stuff you put in the soda, meaning the ice cream,
whipped cream and the topians without the soda. Hence the
ice cream Sunday was born.
Speaker 3 (01:19:36):
Interesting did you learn that in the History Channel Unwrapped
Food Network?
Speaker 4 (01:19:41):
How was it going to go with the food that
built America?
Speaker 3 (01:19:44):
Are that one? Yeah? All right, Well, James really appreciate
you coming on the show, and why don't you do
a real quick reminder to everybody you are a sam
Ardino County employee, and you were on our bargaining committee. Here,
you're active, you're steward. You. I think I saw you
into the Sparks game. Huh.
Speaker 5 (01:20:01):
I did go to the Sparks game. As a matter
of fact, that was a little controversy with that too.
Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
Oh yeah, I heard, did you. Yeah, I heard you
had to change your shirt? Yeah, shirt something. Yeah, I
had a 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.
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But then they asked for volunteers to bring out the
flag in the center of the court 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 4 (01:20:38):
That's good. That's good.
Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
Yeah, But I mean I saw, could you comply, you know,
so you could stay and not get thrown out of
the stadium.
Speaker 5 (01:20:44):
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.
Speaker 3 (01:20:53):
Imagine that the irony in that.
Speaker 5 (01:20:55):
Yeah. 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 to look bad, so I put
it on. Granted I'm a three X guy, and they
gave me an extra large Did you put it off? Yes,
and it had to be over the other shirt. So
now that's now an extra layer. So I'm like sausage
casing all day.
Speaker 4 (01:21:15):
Oh I'm glad you said it. Oh, that's great.
Speaker 5 (01:21:19):
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.
Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
All right, James, thanks for coming on. What's your job title?
Real quick?
Speaker 5 (01:21:33):
I'm a scale operator for the county.
Speaker 3 (01:21:36):
What does that mean?
Speaker 5 (01:21:37):
Pretty much? You bring in your car to the landfill,
we weigh them, take your trash, weigh them out. Charge
you pretty easy, psy.
Speaker 3 (01:21:46):
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
(01:22:08):
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
(01:22:30):
that's that's a second warning letter in the same day, Robert.
Speaker 4 (01:22:33):
Next week they'll be an operator, right, Yeah, we're we
James opening, Hey, James.
Speaker 3 (01:22:40):
Do you want to you want to apply?
Speaker 5 (01:22:41):
Sure? Why not?
Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
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
nation is why the incidents, which occurred in facilities in
both Illinois and New Jersey were potentially deliberate and coordinated
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attacks meant to intimidate, threaten, and harm workers exercising their
federally protected rights. This is this is where you know,
corporate America has lost its mind, Like 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 compos One incident might be an accident, but two
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in different states, It's really hard to believe, said Juan
Compos director of the teamsterss Tank Hall Division and Teamsters
International Vice President at Large. And I agree with one
New yor 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
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need for us to help in that space. It's incredible,
and those pickets have actually now been expended, tended 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,
(01:24:15):
just letting you know. I can hear them coming through
the thing, so I 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
overwhelming to join Teamsters Local three thirty seven. The group
of workers, including press operators, machine technicians and assistants, and
(01:24:36):
folder operators and assistants, produced lottery tickets that are used
by several states and countries. 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
(01:24:56):
new teamster of Night excuse me of three point thirty four.
Being a Teamster means the world to my co workers
and myself. We run this shop twenty four to 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
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they're on a picket line, and now you're gonna have
to find it on multiple you know, in multiple locations.
The Teamsters have extended their 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
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in California, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
and Rhode Island. Air Gas is a quote. Air Gas
has failed to treat their members, our members with the
dignity and respect they deserve, sed Juan Compost, director of
the Teamster Tank Hall Division and Teamster International Vice President
at large. Mansion could have been avoided if the company
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had simply bargained in good faith. Instead, air Gas chose
to stall, provoke, and disrespect its workers. 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
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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 just do
thirty seconds please, Mark, instead of it being two minutes.
This is the Worker Power Hour with Randy Corgan on
the Teamsters nineteen thirty two Broadcast Network, airing live from
sam Bordino. Take it away, Mark, We're back live. This
(01:27:38):
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
where he's going. And you know, he doesn't just go
(01:27:59):
to one, he goes to multiple.
Speaker 4 (01:28:01):
He covers a lot of ground.
Speaker 3 (01:28:02):
He sure does. He's excited about it.
Speaker 4 (01:28:05):
No, and it's it's good for the program, you.
Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
Know, And I love it. 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 and uh, you know,
talking about how good the food is or what the
services are at a particular location of these more than
(01:28:28):
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,
(01:28:52):
you know, really appreciate you coming on the show. And
you know, this is the worker Power Hour. This this
Teamster's Local nineteen thirty. I don't know if you've done
a lot of research on us, but we've got over
fifteen thousand members in the region, and you know, we've
got a very big digital following, very big social media following.
We have a live radio show with podcasts, and you know,
(01:29:14):
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 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 in the region.
(01:29:37):
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. And
(01:29:57):
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.
That are our members. And so we're proud of the
(01:30:18):
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. We support we support
candidates that support workers. Period. You could call yourself the
(01:30:43):
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. Ser thank you for making
sure that our country is safe. And with that, I'm
(01:31:05):
gonna let you introduce yourself before I get into some questions.
Thanks for coming on the show and joining the Worker
Power Hour.
Speaker 16 (01:31:10):
Yeah, thank you my audio.
Speaker 3 (01:31:12):
Yes you're good, we can hear you perfect good.
Speaker 16 (01:31:15):
Good. Yeah you know.
Speaker 15 (01:31:18):
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 3 (01:31:38):
Oh really. We have a camp up there in Big Bear,
one hundred and sixty acre camp. Our 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 16 (01:31:51):
I love that. I love that that.
Speaker 15 (01:31:53):
You know, I have such fond memories of being a
young guy, and you know, my 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 through the bunny slope. I'm going with
you guys.
Speaker 16 (01:32:11):
And they're like, we're going to the Black Diamond.
Speaker 15 (01:32:13):
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.
Speaker 16 (01:32:29):
Down that mountain.
Speaker 15 (01:32:32):
I've never been more store in my entire life than
I have been at Big Bear, California.
Speaker 16 (01:32:38):
And then and then they had me drive home back
to San Diego.
Speaker 15 (01:32:42):
That my ship was stationed in San Diego and that
was not safe either.
Speaker 16 (01:32:47):
I was so tired, but I made it out of line.
Speaker 3 (01:32:50):
Leave it to our friends to put us in a
tough spot.
Speaker 15 (01:32:52):
Huh, Yeah, that was my big bear. But anyway, you know,
back to politics. Yeah, I I haven't always.
Speaker 16 (01:33:01):
Been a political person. You know.
Speaker 15 (01:33:02):
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 eyes to the way
our world is run by corporations and special interest I really,
(01:33:23):
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 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
(01:33:47):
this time, you know, I said, hey, you know, you know,
maybe we should run this cycle against US Senator Pete Ricketts.
Speaker 16 (01:33:54):
He's as from.
Speaker 15 (01:33:56):
A billionaire family and this and that they on 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
(01:34:19):
age of Americans now to be homeowners is thirty eight
years old. Since nineteen sixty five, you know, the price,
the meetium 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
(01:34:40):
lot harder for kids these days than it was for
I'm assuming you're roughly the same age as me, But for.
Speaker 3 (01:34:49):
What would make you assume that? Dan, I just get it,
get out.
Speaker 15 (01:34:56):
I can't see you too well on the screen, but
you know you certainly don't look like you're nineteen.
Speaker 3 (01:35:03):
I am not like, so we're close, We're very close.
We are.
Speaker 16 (01:35:10):
I'm fifty now. I just turned the Big five.
Speaker 15 (01:35:12):
Oh 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 3 (01:35:26):
Or establishing a base for your family.
Speaker 15 (01:35:29):
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
(01:35:49):
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 phones and everything else that they have
to deal with these days, to add that into.
Speaker 16 (01:36:09):
Their strife is disturbing.
Speaker 15 (01:36:13):
And you know, guys like Pete Ricketts, my opponent in Nebraska,
guys like that.
Speaker 16 (01:36:18):
People. Okay, I want.
Speaker 15 (01:36:20):
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, Right, they don't know what
it's like to put Christmas on a credit card.
Speaker 16 (01:36:33):
They don't they don't understand, So how could they.
Speaker 15 (01:36:38):
Legitimately, you know, cost laws and sign on to legislation
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 twenty four, we
got forty seven percent of the vote coming out of
nowhere as an independent, and you know, I really truly
(01:36:59):
just want to make a difference in people's lives.
Speaker 3 (01:37:02):
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,
(01:37:25):
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
(01:37:47):
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 has had two hundred and forty nine years to
show it how responsible it is in America, and it's
(01:38:10):
not 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
(01:38:32):
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 16 (01:38:41):
One hundred percent, you hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 15 (01:38:44):
And what a lot of people don't know, Yeah, I'm known,
you know, locally for the strike.
Speaker 16 (01:38:49):
You know, as president.
Speaker 15 (01:38:51):
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.
I was an 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,
(01:39:14):
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,
we were working twelves, we were working sixteen's and there
was four plants under the umbrella, the master contract around
(01:39:34):
the country that were 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 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
(01:39:56):
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.
Speaker 16 (01:40:04):
Fine, that's capitalism.
Speaker 15 (01:40:06):
Uh. You know, 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 3 (01:40:16):
Capitalism is great, it just got to have a level
of social responsibility exactly.
Speaker 15 (01:40:21):
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
(01:40:41):
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
(01:41:01):
path for a lower tier employee to go.
Speaker 16 (01:41:02):
To the upper tier.
Speaker 15 (01:41:03):
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 right side
of history. We called their bluff and we went out
(01:41:25):
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 3 (01:41:38):
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
(01:42:00):
of a sudden started to value the jobs that we're
talking about right now that had been devalued, 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
(01:42:23):
like you just said, which is a strike, and then
make you look like you're greedy workers. And the reality
is is 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
(01:42:44):
and continuing to devalue important jobs, a so called great
American brand, 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 oh, well, their job's not as important
(01:43:06):
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 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,
(01:43:29):
if I got to go through this, then millions of
other people are in the same boat. We got to
bring a stop to this somehow. So thank you for
jumping into the space to make a difference.
Speaker 15 (01:43:40):
Sure, yeah, absolutely, you know. I feel like it's 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.
(01:44:01):
Sometimes 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
(01:44:22):
term or two, 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
(01:44:43):
a solution to that, and hopefully people can get behind it.
And you know, dang, 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 3 (01:44:59):
Well, 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 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 realize that they've
(01:45:22):
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. 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 decades. And
(01:45:43):
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, 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 where the mob. Uh, you know that the
movies have depicted us to be because you know, funny
(01:46:05):
story I always say here on the mob thing is
if you know the teamster's the mob, this and that,
if I'm the mob, then I'm just gonna have the
boss whacked. Right, Let's just let's just 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
(01:46:31):
by corporate America can be beat by workers like you,
occupy in elected positions to set policy. Because what we
learn in the in 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 16 (01:46:52):
Yeah, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 15 (01:46:53):
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 just today, I was you know,
there's a heat wave going across the country and certainly
Omaha is affected as well. I was on a roof
(01:47:13):
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 3 (01:47:28):
Well, here're the irony in this. I got to point
this out. 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 again obviously exaggerating the point. It may
not have been for them, but the reality is is
(01:47:49):
you're on that roof doing that hard work. It could
just be office workers. I got you. I'm just I'm
just contrasting how hard this work is because the narrative
is is we're all a bunch lazy people.
Speaker 15 (01:48:02):
Right yeah, and you know, our voice doesn't matter and
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.
Speaker 16 (01:48:17):
And you know, they.
Speaker 15 (01:48:20):
Like myself, I was going to college when 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
it's even I mean, this was twenty two years ago.
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Now my daughter's twenty two, and like, it's ex potentially
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 we have to talk about antitrust and anti monopoly laws.
(01:49:04):
We have to level the playing field for our workers,
both in union and non union workforce. That's how we
do it. It's the Dollar Generals of the world. You
can drive by 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, depend on
which direction you're coming from.
Speaker 16 (01:49:25):
And mom and pop stores are boarded up because they
can't compete.
Speaker 15 (01:49:29):
They can't 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. It's all consolidating right now, massive numbers of
(01:49:55):
small farms and ranches or filing for bankruptcy. And it's
being corporate consolidated.
Speaker 3 (01:50:02):
To your point of home ownership, To your point of
home ownership, this is and to 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
(01:50:23):
could buy a 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
(01:50:44):
the end of 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 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
(01:51:04):
to put more money in their pocket. 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 to one case. Working people don't
have a lot and they're not getting a lot of
that shareholder value that again is being recirculated back into
(01:51:28):
their pockets. I've only got three minutes here before the
end of the 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 area see it just like we do.
It's just now a matter of getting them to get
(01:51:50):
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. What do you got to
close on?
Speaker 15 (01:52:00):
Yeah, no, I appreciate that, and I appreciate your show,
and and and you know, hopefully everybody listening.
Speaker 16 (01:52:10):
Takes a little something from each thing. You know, I did.
Speaker 15 (01:52:13):
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, 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
(01:52:35):
don't care what side of the aisle you land on, left, right, blue, red, Independent, uh,
whatever other party is there are what we all have
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
(01:52:56):
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
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 3 (01:53:16):
And you know there's a lot more for us to
agree upon than fight about.
Speaker 15 (01:53:20):
That's correct, exactly, And 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.
Speaker 16 (01:53:29):
Is probably our co workers.
Speaker 3 (01:53:31):
Right.
Speaker 15 (01:53:31):
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. They 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.
Speaker 16 (01:53:47):
That's what we need to focus on.
Speaker 3 (01:53:50):
Dan, Really appreciate you coming on. Dan Osborne running for
Senate in Nebraska. Really he's also a union advocate and
he's go Husker and then that too, right let us
strike in twenty twenty one understands the trials and tribulations
of corporate America and how how they can be especially
(01:54:11):
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 15 (01:54:22):
Dan, one last word, no, thanks, thanks for thanks for
listening to me Ramble.
Speaker 16 (01:54:27):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (01:54:28):
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. We need more
and more of our active people. You have a guy
here who got engaged with a labor dispute and then
(01:54:51):
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how bad Corporate America is running this independent, So congratulations
to him. This is the worker power. We are building
worker power, and the way we're building worker power is
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(01:55:13):
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What can you do? You can how do you build
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them to build worker power too, and you make sure
that they withhold their labor at the appropriate time, and
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