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Welcome to the Worker Power Hour with Randy Corrigan, a
brand new show about labor and worker issues. The host
of the show is Randy Corrigan, Secretary Treasurer and Principal
Office and Leader of Teamsters nineteen thirty two, one of
the largest public sector labor unions on the West Coast,
representing workers in government and non sworn law enforcement personnel.
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Randy Corgan is a thirty year Teamster who first became
involved in the labor movement by volunteering his time as
an organizer with the Teamsters Union at the age of
twenty one. Since then, he's helped thousands organize, 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 Brandy Corgan.
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We're back. Randy Corgan Here Worker Power are longtime organizer,
first time radio host. This is the work of Power
Hour with Randy Corgan on the Teamsters Local nineteen thirty
two broadcast network. Glad to have you back. Sorry I
missed last week. I had to be in Chicago for
meetings with a lot of people all over the country
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and I won't bore all of you with the details.
It was very productive and sometimes you know, I got
to go somewhere, and that's what we had to do
in Chicago, and it was I had the privilege of
actually meeting with a very large group of Amazon workers
in the Chicagoland area, and that was it was very
inspirational to be with that group talk to them about
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their next steps as well as explain to them how
they inspired millions of other workers to do things all
over the country last year. So sorry I missed last week.
It happens, but we're here, and we're here live from
sam Bardino. This week. I'm going to start off this
show by reading something that came into our email the
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radio show at Teamsters nineteen thirty two dot org Again,
radio show at Teamsters nineteen thirty two dot org. This
email that came in made such an impact on many
of us as well as it made an impact. Actually
when I received it, I was with a group of
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other people that I felt needed to be inspired to
and I don't know if they needed to be inspired,
but they were definitely inspired by this. And we obviously
got Jenny Hernandez's permission to read it, and she's our member.
She is a nurse manager and we represent her and Jenny,
what an amazing email, and I'm going to read it.
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I think all of you listeners are going to be
just absolutely impacted by this, and this shows us that
what we're doing is the right thing. It really really does.
Dear Randy, I had the opportunity to listen to the
radio show on July twenty third, twenty twenty five, and
I want to express my deep gratitude for the powerful
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segment on farm workers. As a third generation Mexican American
whose family history spans the transition of California from Mexico
to the United States, your words resonated profoundly with me.
My grandmother was a farm worker who traveled between central
and southern California harvesting oranges, grapes, and olives, with her
children always by her side. Her story, like so many others,
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includes the pain of being denied in education, punished for
speaking Spanish or our indigenous languages, and shamed for bringing
burritos to school. During the life last mass deportation, my
great grandfather, who belonged to a Native American tribe and
spoke a Native dialect, sought refuge on a reservation. My
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grandmother told us how at that time, anyone with brown
skin was being deported, regardless of where they were born.
I owe my very existence in education to his courage
in protecting and hiding our family. These are just fragments
of my family's story, but your reflections brought these memories
rushing back. I have never felt prouder to be part
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of a community Teamsters nineteen thirty two that honors and
advocates for farm workers. I came from that lineage, and
through preservation or perseverance, have earned a master's in nursing,
an associate degree in electronics, a bachelor's in robotics, and
a certification as a legal nurse consultant. What I am
witnessing today, coalitions uniting to protect immigrants and challenge and justice,
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gives me hope. Your broadcast was not just a triue,
but a powerful recognition of history too often erased. Thank you,
Randy for using your platform to uplift our stories. Hearing
those truths spoken aloud, touched by my heart and soul,
I am certain even my ancestors acknowledge your voice from
the other side. With deep appreciation. Jenny Hernandez sam Ardino
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County Department of Public Health, Jenny, thank you very much
for sending that when I'm getting goosebumps right now. When
we read things like this, it tells us we're absolutely
on the right path. When it comes to the programming,
the guests, the subjects that we talk about. We don't
get into these political footballs of kicking back and forth.
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We don't even get into sometimes arguing over policy. What
we get into is explaining how decisions of these policy
makers are impacting workers, how they impact the workforce, and
then what we can do about it, and how we
make sure that our members and their families are can
either either advance a better policy or vote for people
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and or hold them accountable. Maybe there's people that you
voted for that doing things you don't agree with, and
it's time you reach out to them and hold them accountable.
So again, thank you for sending that in. And it's
very it was very impactful to our team, very impactful
to myself personally, and it's a it's one of those
reminders of this is why we do this. This is
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why we have a mic in front of us, This
is why we're bringing the message. Excuse me, we're bringing
the movement to the mic. This is why we do
the radio show and we're doing the podcast and we're
pushing this message out as we want to make sure
that more and more people, workers, community, community leaders understand
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and respect how powerful the voice of the people are
and how powerful the voice of workers are. And we
believe that this is a platform and a tool to
do exactly that. So thank you Jenny again, really really
appreciate it. And you know, if you've been impacted by
the show like that, if you really enjoy something, we
want to hear from you. I mean, I guess if
you don't like something, we want to hear that too.
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I'll be pretty honest with you. I mean, I'd rather
hear the positive. But hey, if you really think I'm
off base on something, feel free to send it to
a radio show at Teamsters nineteen thirty two dot org.
Feel free to let us know. Let's just be respectful
when we have a conversation. It's okay to have differences.
What's important is for us to try to find solutions,
try to find solutions in difficult times and move people
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into a great space. And you know, we were really
proud of that segment of pointing out that what's happened
to certain cultures in like these twenty twenty five year cycles,
and you know it's it's at a certain point. Workers
have got to push back. Workers have got to rise up,
workers have got to withhold their labor, and they got
to say, Hey, corporate America, you're not going to be
in control of my country. This is a tree that
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should be run by the people for the people, and
it should be in the people's best interest, not corporate
America's best interest. And so with that, I'm going to
move right into live shout outs. And the first live
shout out I want to read actually came from a
pretty cool space. It was a reference to Hey, good morning, Teamsters.
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Early morning shout out to all the teamsters spending time
with their family listening to the Teamsters nineteen thirty two
radio station, awesome playlist. So thank you for sending that in,
and thank you for listening in on our new the
Worker Power Radio Network and the Worker Power Radio that
we have where you can listen to music, you can
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get some little updates, a little bit of news, and
there is a lot of people that are listening and
I'm getting a lot of positive feedback from it, and
we believe that it is going to be a very
powerful platform in the future. We've got lots of great
ideas to make something happen there and so with that
we get into the live shoutouts. Live shoutouts being Lupe
Delatory and Deborah Martinez from Redlands, tad Qiran Goula Sands
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from STS excuse me SCS West Valley Detention Center, Letitia
Allen from Public Health, Olin Pandiga Pananugua, Sorry, Janine Hammer
public Health. We also have and oh, Gina, I think
it's Gianna or Gina Hammer. She is a cancer survivor,
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so congratulations to you. Dan and Barbara Sheer from Orange
Linda and Bill Wassaum retirees. We also have Sandy Cabrera
al dar Fuentes from AARMC and Charmaine Barnow from HVP.
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We have Holly Edison, Hey, Holly, hope you're doing well.
Retire from our nurse manager unit. She helped at AARMC today.
I guess Michael Aragon from CFS, Nicole Burlechts from AARMC,
chat is Kelly Olivia Gabara, Abigail Ferris, Krista Hunter, and
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Amanda Montoya all from ARMC. We have Kirk Garrison from
the Sheriff's Crime Lab. Susan Loftis from Sheriff's Crime Analyst,
Connie Bottini from RAU to Library, Dominie or Daminee Travis
from Register of Voters, Lisa and Anita from AARMC Rehab,
Kathy Bernall all the way out in the City of Needles,
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and we have Patricia Gunderson. We have a shout out
for her. Good to see your listening. Patricia Amy Shackelford
from DOS. I actually text her last time I did
a live show and asked, Hey, how come you're not
listening anyway? Tina Morgan and Lonnie Garcia from TAD and
the Chino Bargaining Unit, Kim from Ralto, Freddie, Adriana Terry
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from all from Ralto, myself from CFS, Allison from CFS. Hey,
need to get some last names on here a by
the way, uh, Andrea from Fontana, Danielle from Fontana, Lauren
from Fontana.
Speaker 12 (17:17):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (17:17):
Maybe people aren't giving me last names because I'm mispronouncing him.
I don't know, you know. We also have James Estrada
from the City of Redlands, Warren Pennington and Kyle Monsoon
from Desert Water Agency, and Christina or Christine Montoya from
the city of Asperia. Thanks for listening and live, and
we got a special treat for those of you to
listen in live. If you're listening in live, we're actually
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where's that that that sweater? We're we're going to do
a fifth caller. If the fifth caller that got taken,
what what? What the heck? Anyway, from this point on
right now nine O nine eight eight nine eight three
seven seven nine O nine eight three excuse me nine
to nine eight eight nine eight three, the fifth caller
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to the front desk here at the building will get
a free sweater. We'll make sure that we send you
that sweater or you can come in and pick it up.
It's a Union proud sweater. And so we're gonna have
a little bit of fun with some of the live
for those of you that are listening in live, we
want to reward you for listening in live and encouraging
others to listen in live. And so with that, I
move on to the next part of the show, which
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is some fun facts and some highlights. The first job
that we're gonna highlight is our Confire group Confire Dispatch.
They dispatch fire and medical services to over fifteen agencies
including Apple Valley, Big Bear, Chino Valley, City of Colton,
Loma Linda, Montclair, Ontario, Ranch Cucamonga, Redlands, Rare Alto, Running Springs,
San Bardino County, San Manuel, and Victorville. One of the
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positions in that group is information systems analysts, and they
manage the network for the entire confire system, which includes
numerous nine to one one lines and non emergency lines.
The system consists of two dispatch centers, one in Rialto
known for the Valley Communications Center, and one inside the
Hisperia government center known as the Desert Communication Center. When
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dispatch receives a call for service, the dispatcher inputs the
call into a computer and sends and it sends the
information to the appropriate fire station, resulting in an audible
alarm announcing the location and the type of aid that's needed.
Most network issues can be handled via a computer, but
occasionally the analysts must need to work on the cable
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system themselves so or the system itself. And then we
also have emergency communication dispatchers. Dispatcher's answer emergency and non
emergency calls for medical and fire services. They assess each
call to determine the nature of the emergency and input
the call for service into the computer aided dispatch. That's
a CAD system which automatically sends the call to the
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radio dispatcher, who then dispatches resources. The CAD system is
built to automatically select the appropriate resources needed fire engines,
fire trucks, ambulances, et cetera for each call types such
as medical, traffic collision, or structure fire and so on.
So with that, that's a couple of the job classifications.
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And we really appreciate the work that teamsters do in
confire and again it's another example of in times of need,
it's a teamster that's there making sure that you're taken
care of. And we're also happy to know that those
are are happy to say, say and report that they're
they're the newest some of the newest members here at
Teamster's nineteen thirty two. And and something that you all
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can participate in is if you don't know, we have
Teamster Tuesdays and would you like to be highlighted on
Teamster Tuesday, you can email us at radio show at
Teamsters nineteen thirty two dot org. Again, if you you knows,
say your job, or you got you got a picture.
You want others to know, you want the community to know.
You obviously can see we have this really really big
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social media following in addition to a big digital footprint.
And so yes, I also missed the Beatrice Beatrice Garcia
Aguilar Garcia she is. She said, I'm listening live too.
Have Ryan Franking listening in live as well. I always
like to make sure I grab him and with that
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the Teamster Tuesday. Every Tuesday we highlight a member on
our social media to show the public the important work
our members do. You can follow us at nineteen thirty
two Teamsters. Very easy, very simple. The last Tuesday we
highlighted Daniel Palafox, who is a building inspector at the
City of Fontana who inspected an entirely new built facility
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from start to finish. What we like to do is,
you know, highlight them and highlight our members and show
show everybody what they're doing. You know, it's very easy
for people out there to say, and matter of factures,
people run for office all the time and say, cut
my taxes, gut public employees, they're too expensive, they're this,
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they're that. All the things that you hear and and
you know, if the public isn't aware of the things
that are done every day in the community and how
important these jobs are, it's very easy for someone to
whimsically just toss you away. We are experiencing that right now.
I actually heard a flight attendant the other day apologizing
to someone because we had a bunch of delays on
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our flight and a bunch of issues. And the flight
attendant was like, look, I'm sorry, but you know, there's
been a whole bunch of people cut back at the FAA.
There's been a whole bunch of air traffic controllers that
you know, have have left or been fired, and all
these crazy situations that happened. We can't fly until we're cleared,
and you know, we have some staffing issues. So you know,
at the end of the day, we have to be
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cognizant that are our vote, the message and the policy
of those that we support. You know, they can't just,
you know, if they just are going to throw away
certain workforces. We need to make sure everybody knows how
important those workforces are. We need to make sure that
the reality of that job that is being done for
the community every day has got some value to it.
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So teamster Tuesday, make sure if you want to be
if you want to be spotlighted, or you know somebody
that you should make sure that you send the email
in so that we can get that taken care of
and we'll make sure we get that picture up and
do it. And in that note, our fun fact of
today is a is it was an anniversary yesterday which
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went in August fifth, nineteen eighty one. Ronald Reagan fired
striking air traffic controllers. On August fifth, nineteen eighty one,
President Ronald Reagan fired over eleven thousand air traffic controllers
who were on strike for better working conditions, pay and
shorter and a shorter work week. The strike was led
by the Professional Air Traffic Controller Association was called PACCO
and Declare. It was declared unlegal illegal under a federal law.
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Reagan gave the workers forty eight hours to return to work.
When they didn't, he terminated them and banned them from
federal service. This is dark event marked a turning point
in US labor relations, signaling a more aggressive stance against
unions and weakening labor power for decades. Yeah, it's very true.
And you know, if when we get to a point
in this country where where we don't have the right
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to exercise our First Amendment right, the freedom of speech,
the freedom to assemble, and the freedom to withhold our labor,
the freedom to withhold our label, and then we get
punished for it. We got some problems, and so those
things need to be rectified. Otherwise Corporate America will always
have control. And the reality is is we have to
always lean into our First Amendment right. The next thing
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I want to point out, as far as like fun facts,
this July thirtieth was the fiftieth anniversary of the disappearance
of James R. Hafa and so the I just want
to read a quick thing that was put out here
here recently by the General President right right Robert. The
legendary leader changed the course of history for American workers.
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Everybody knows. If you've listened to the show, you obviously
know who James arhffe is. The following is a statement
from Teamsters General President Shawn M. O'Brien in remembrance of
the General President Emeritus James R. Haffa. James R. Hoffa
was a great man and a legendary labour leader who
transformed the lives of all Teamsters and Americans. He fought
tirelessly for strong wages, benefits, and protections that lifted millions
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of workers into the middle class. Haffa was fearless in
taking on greedy employers to secure groundbreaking national contracts. He
is recognized for turning the Teamsters Union into an international powerhouse,
bringing dignity and respect to the working class. This, no
doubt made him the eventual target of evil forces. For
too many years, his death has been the subject of
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relentless cultural jokes, losing sight of the fact that a
family lost a husband, a father, and our nation lost
an extraordinary leader. Today and always we remember James AR
Haffa not for the tragedy of his death, but for
this endured legacy. He was a visionary with remarkable courage
and conviction. Couldn't agree more with with Sean with the
General President, and you know Jim Hoffa. Jimmy Hoffa put
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really put the Teamster brand and unions and the working
class and the front of America, really really put it
in front of the community, really put it in front
of of corporate America, and was willing to take it
on and ultimately he ended up giving his life as
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a result of that. You know, his life was obviously
cut too short. But the reality is is the amount
of impact that that individual made over his tenure is
still measured, you know, fifty years later, fifty years after
his disappearance. And I know, you know, everybody gets into
the butt of jokes over over, you know, the mob
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and this and that, and you know, truth be told,
the reason why they they whacked him was because he
couldn't be controlled by the mob, and he was somebody
that the mob was afraid of. That's why they whacked him.
They didn't want him back in power. So at the
end of the day, you know, regardless of what the
movies and these narratives, you know, kind of spill out,
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I think it's important for us to pay attention to
the real work that had been done over decades, and
that was putting workers in the middle class, making quite frankly,
driving jobs and warehouse jobs that were at the bottom
rung and were not valued at all in the nineteen
twenties and thirties to then middle class jobs, to where
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people could raise a family, they could buy a home,
they could make sure their kids went to college if
they chose to and they could be just a really,
really good part of that community and be a productive
part of the community. So a great job in pointing
that out, and I'm glad that the issue was raised
for us to focus on the positive that is going on.
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I just want to give you a quick update on
for on Saturday, save the date we have August ninth.
You can get five complimentary tickets if you want to,
just go to call our where do we get this
mark for the sixty six ers get everybody. Every member
can get five free tickets.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
They just go on the link.
Speaker 11 (28:25):
They go on where do they find the link at? Sorry,
teamster Advantage app the team shir Advantage app.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Tap here for more info, right.
Speaker 11 (28:31):
And if you you need to, if you haven't done that,
you better hurry up and load that because I don't
know why you wouldn't just have the team ser Advantage
app on your phone. You get all these discounts everywhere
all over the IE. So anyway with that, make sure
that you utilize that. Our partnership with them creates this
beautiful opportunity that a lot of times our members will
get five free Each member can get up to five
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free tickets for them attend to a game, attend a game,
and that game is on Saturday, and so if you
want to make sure that you attend, get your family out.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Isn't there some to the else on there?
Speaker 11 (29:02):
Did I forget something? Oh? Yeah, look at that. If
you get hurly, there's a beer bat giveaway. What's a
beer bat?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I think it's a bat, like one of those drink Yeah,
I don't know beer bout something?
Speaker 11 (29:14):
What's a beer I miss that? You're right, I should
have pointed out maybe somebody knows what a beer bat is.
I don't know what a beer bat is.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
But are you getting something?
Speaker 11 (29:24):
Oh? We have a winner on the sweater. Yeah, we
have a winner. Lori Ryan was the fifth caller. Thank
you very much for posting this a few minutes ago.
I missed it when it first popped up, so we
already had a winner. She was the fifth caller. She
gets a she gets a sweatshirt, So it worked. I
think we're gonna do this more often. We're gonna have
a little fun with it.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I don't mean I have to give a sweatshirt back.
Speaker 11 (29:45):
Now you're gonna give me the thing on a beer bat?
Love this? Oh, Robert my phone, it's a drinking vessel
shaped like a baseball bat. Yeah, that's what we thought.
It was, all right, all right, all right, yeah, hey,
get there, you get five of them. You don't just
get one. You get there early enough, you're gonna get
five beer beats. And so with that, we got to
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take a quick break. I'm gonna get a guest in
here in a few minutes. We're going to be joined
by Monet Warren. She is the executive director of the
I E. Black Workers Center, and we're really excited to
have her on the show. And as soon as we
come back from break, we will have her in. Just
don't forget. This is casey AA ten fifty am one
oh six point five FM for when you're listening in.
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This is the Worker Power Hour with Randy Corgan on
the team STIRS nineteen thirty two Broadcast Network Take it Away.
Speaker 13 (30:35):
Mark S S S S S S.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
So we're back Randy Corgan, Worker Power Hour. We're joined
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by Monette Warren. Did I pronounce that correctly? Great? You're
I mispronounced the title or I misspoke. I make these
errors all the time. I'm a long time organizer, first
time radio host. So I guess what I get to
make all kinds of mistakes, and I get to I
get to use that as my excuse of being a
rookie at this it's actually I'm a sophomore now, I'm
in a year two. But I'm gonna I'm gonna use
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my rookie status as long as I get away with it.
You're the associate director of the I E. Black Worker Center. Correct, Yes, great, great,
So really appreciate you coming on the show. Appreciate the
work that you do, the advocacy work that you do
around the IE. As you know, our local unions very
active and very involved in the community and always trying
to uplift organizations like yours. So why don't you take
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a few minutes to introduce yourself and what the IE
Black Worker Center does.
Speaker 14 (33:21):
Sure, yeah, well, thank you so much for the invitation.
Thanks for having us. So I am like you, said
Bonnet Warren, the associate director with the Inland Empire Black
Worker Center. You were in your sophomore year, we are
in our junior year. We are a relatively new grass
roots organization here in the Inland Empire. Really just out
here advocating on behalf of black workers for fair worker protections.
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Wages you were speaking earlier about, like being able to
purchase a home and send your kids to college. We
are out here advocating on behalf of black workers so
that they also have those jobs that have dignity and
they're able to provide for themselves and they don't have
to work several jobs fighting against anti blackness in the
job market within the Inland Empire. We've been taking a
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lot of time speaking with black workers, hearing some of
the struggles that they have, and one thing that we
have also discovered is a lot of the struggles that
black workers do have are pretty across the board for
other marginalized populations. So while we're out here advocating on
behalf of black workers, we're also advocating for any marginalized
worker that finds himselves in the Inland Empire facing discrimination,
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wage theft, lots of wage schefts, yes, lots of crazy
lots of wage.
Speaker 11 (34:33):
It's crazy how much wage theft happens out there. I mean,
I'm shocked at it. How deceptive employers will be with
the pay stub to create to obviously create wage theft. Absolutely,
I'm sorry for interrupting.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
It's okay.
Speaker 11 (34:47):
So what else I'm sorry, I now, so it's start
you can start over.
Speaker 14 (34:58):
Yeah, So we're really just out here. As I said,
we are still a relatively new organization, So a part
of the work that we are doing is still outreach
and making sure that folks know that we exist.
Speaker 15 (35:07):
A lot of education.
Speaker 14 (35:10):
Black workers, marginalized populations don't always subscribe to mainstream media or.
Speaker 11 (35:16):
Traditional ways or nowhere to go or know where to go.
Speaker 14 (35:19):
To get the information, and so we do something like
a rap pro called the RAP Program that's in coordination
with the Labor Commissioner's Office, where we are literally teaching
community members there were workplace protections, making ambassadors out of
them so that they can then go into their communities
and spread the word, get that information out that they're
missing because they are they don't know where to go, right,
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They're not going to town halls, they're not listening to
the power.
Speaker 11 (35:43):
Hours or training centers or what job opportunities might be.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Right.
Speaker 11 (35:47):
Yes, absolutely, So what is the you know, like, what's
one of your most rewarding things that you've done doing
the job?
Speaker 14 (35:55):
Me myself, for the organization both.
Speaker 11 (35:58):
I mean, I guess I can ask that in two ways.
Like obviously you're drawn to helping others by doing this absolutely,
and so I like for people to tell stories about,
you know, success stories of how building your organization out
created a pathway ultimately that ended up much better for
there something that sticks out to you.
Speaker 14 (36:17):
Yeah. So personally, when I started, the organization had been
in existence for about six months and they were a
mighty staff of two and a half and there was
it was one of those things whereas call to actions
or different requests came in, they were like, Okay, we'll
do this, we'll work on that. We couldn't chew bubble
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gum and walk at the same time, as our executive
director would like to say. So, when I came in,
I literally created our operations, the strategies, the processes, and
gave our organization the bones that it needed to really
be able to hire more staff, right, because you have
to build out job descriptions and make it this thing
that is really functioning and flowing. And that's my personal
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thing that I'm most proud of. I think for the organization,
I definitely would say so, we've spent a lot of
time in Sacramento, especially this year. I was reflecting on that.
I think I've been to the Capital more than I've
gone to visit my mother. I've been up there really advocation.
I'll tell you something, And it's not just for black workers.
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We've been up there for different wage protections, different for teachers,
and different different different worker protections that don't just impact
black workers. And recently we even went to the clean
car wash out in Culver City to stand with the
workers who were kidnapped from the car washing. So really
being able to stand in solidarity with other organizations who
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are doing this work, really showing up because they know
the if you want us to sign out, we will
turn we will show up, turn up, tear the place up,
and really advocate on behalf of the populations that are
that other orgs serve. And so I think us being
mission focused right, black workers are our focus, but being
able to stand up and show up for other marginalized
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communities is probably one of our greatest things that we
have done.
Speaker 11 (38:12):
I love I love how you keep hitting the point
of it's not just for black workers, it's building the
coalitions for others, and that list is long. Absolutely, we
do live in America, where you know, I love my country,
but you know we've been guilty some bad stuff, right,
It's it's and we we also have seem to have
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amnesia on a regular basis, and we we don't know
how to kind of admit to our mistakes and just
try to do better. And I think the biggest thing
our country misses right now on a large scale is empathy.
Absolutely is empathy. And the reason I'm drilling down on
this is that the fact that you're pointing out that
you're working with other groups, it's not just about you know,
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isolating for your issues or your interests, because the power
or comes from having that diversity is not being not
being just about black workers, it's also being about in
a lot of cases, all workers. Absolutely. And then you know,
obviously Latino workers, they're they're with the deportation stuff that's
going on ice raids. That workforce is literally working under
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fear right now, even those that are legally in this country.
So by building relationships with them, you're able to accomplish
the goals of your organization.
Speaker 14 (39:28):
Yeah, absolutely, no one organization is going to be able
to do it by themselves. We have to be a
part of these coalitions, active members of these coalitions, right,
not just joining arms for the sake of a picture, right,
because we've invited been invited to things just to have
the black representation. So it's really important that you are
really active participants and you care for those people like
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you do the ones that you are on the frontlines
for serving in your own organizations, like I don't have
in my own family anyone who is in this country illegally, right,
but as a human who cares about other humans, going
to a car wash and listening to a woman talk
about how her husband went to work that day and
still they hadn't heard from him, hadn't been They don't
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know where he's at, don't know where he's at. As
a human, that's my responsibility, not I'm not a Latino, right,
I don't really, I'm not as intimately linked to it.
But that is my response. You're empathizing yet because it's
them today, but it could be us tomorrow. And I
think that that's a really good approach that we should
We should all kind of be taking that where there's
power in numbers, right, and if we as marginalized communities,
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communities facing these different discriminations, band together and really try
to push legislation, change rules, change laws, then that that's
really where the real power and the real magic is
going to come from.
Speaker 11 (40:42):
And it's about education too. I feel like, especially you
know an organization that centers its work around like the
Black Workers Center, right, that that as being a white guy, right, like, yeah,
right right. Obviously from the radio, I'm sure whoever's listening
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probably knows what I am. But the point to it
is is one of the things that labor taught me
was how to be empathetic to these situations and circumstances
that there are a lot of people, a lot of
elected officials that don't want us to be empathetic. That
kind of divide us. But looking back at history and
recognizing how corporate America's gained control, the exploitation of an individual, group, class,
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whatever we call it, right, has always been for some profit.
Like there's whatever it was done for. Originally it was
for slavery to own, to literally own. We'd look back
and scratch your head and go, how did anybody why
why was that allowed? And then you know another one
hundred years later you heard that correctly one hundred years
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so as white people, as anybody in America, no matter
what color you are, no matter what race, you are,
you have to empathize that there's this cycle that's happened,
and there are consequences to that cycle, right, there's long
term generational consequences and effects of that. And anybody who
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denies that or then says, wow, you know, a black
center shouldn't have their own this and that you're wrong, Yeah,
they're completely wrong. Like unions were always born out of
building equality and making sure that when those are being
treated differently or being marginalized, like you said, you know,
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union contracts were the first place that color blindness went away,
you know, and and also you know, gender went away
because you're getting paid X amount for the job period,
regardless of your color, regardless of your of your what
your gender or whatever it may be. My point for
bringing it all up is is that unfortunately, we got
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to do a lot more education of this again in
this country. We got to get people a little more
empathetic to recognizing, you know, what's gone on in two
hundred and forty nine years. And you know, I noticed
whenever I have those conversations with individuals that are ignorant.
I don't mean it to criticize and mean they're the
lack of information when you explain history. It's like, that's
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why it's here. Yeah, so don't get mad about it,
like work together and try to solve problems.
Speaker 7 (43:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (43:24):
I don't know. Maybe I'm sorry for rattling on. I
just really believe in the work that you're doing. And
I knows as a labor union, we love to embrace
this space because we learn a lot from it too. Yeah.
Speaker 14 (43:35):
Yeah, I appreciate what you were saying about people have
amnesia and they forget about the effects, right, And you
mentioned people saying, well, why a black worker center, And
just the fact that I kept on prefacing my sentence
with we do support other workers. As a black woman
supporting black workers, I feel that I have to explain why.
Speaker 11 (43:55):
They're because the narrative has been beaten up by.
Speaker 14 (43:57):
You exactly, and I think that in to make it
more personal. I when I moved back to the Inland Empire,
I went up to UC Berkeley for grad school, back
to cal State Long Beach for I'm sorry, U C
Berkeley undergrad, cal State Long Beach grad school, went to Virginia, worked,
came back, and when I was trying to get a
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job in the Inland Empire with all of my fancy
degrees and years of experience. I ended up working at
at Amazon. No shade to Amazon, but I.
Speaker 11 (44:28):
Could Amazon what you're talking about, Like we got we
have shows specifically dealing with Amazon's exploitation of workers. Okay, anyway, No.
Speaker 14 (44:39):
Let me correct myself. No shade to folks who find
themselves working at Amazon right now.
Speaker 11 (44:44):
Trying to find work.
Speaker 14 (44:45):
Absolutely, but I was unable to find work, and that
is what I qualified for as a black worker here
in the Inland Empire, and I faced a lot of discrimination.
And I may have been a little bit guilty of
believing some of the this narratives of like, are black
people black workers?
Speaker 10 (45:02):
Some of them?
Speaker 14 (45:02):
Are they qualified? Are they interviewing? I may have bought
into that. I don't know, but I.
Speaker 11 (45:07):
Guess sometimes we the pressures the narratives that are created
sometimes make us actually second guess the good work that
gets done. You're like, because you're looking at it, going,
how is that? How are people believing that?
Speaker 12 (45:20):
Like?
Speaker 14 (45:20):
Yeah, yeah, but I think that experience gave me the
intimate connection to what it's like to be a black
person trying to find a job in the Inland Empire,
and that is why it is really important that we
are educating black workers also, not of just workplace protections,
but how to talk about this part of their narrative
so that people are willing to listen.
Speaker 11 (45:41):
So let's shift gears here a little bit. I think
we've done both done a good job of pounding that
message right, talk about the mechanism of the Black Worker
Center in other words, like what does a worker go through?
Like somebody listening in And I just want to quickly
point out we do have people listening in live from
scott then right now we do have an international audience too,
(46:03):
So anyway, so I just whenever I get these live
shout outs, I always want to point out that they're.
Speaker 14 (46:09):
From anyway, Hey Scotland.
Speaker 11 (46:10):
Yeah, what what like, what's the mechanism?
Speaker 8 (46:14):
What do you mean?
Speaker 11 (46:16):
Say more I'm a black worker in the I e
I'm not. But if I was, right, then then then
I contact who what resources that connect me to? And
then what are the steps that then get me into
a better job or help me improve the conditions at
my job, or connect me to resources to make my
job better or the wage theff thing? You know, what
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are the what are the mechanisms of the thing, the
resources in which those individuals are experiencing.
Speaker 14 (46:42):
Sure, okay, So yeah, there's a lot of different things
and a lot of different touch points. So if you
are just an average black worker listening in or non
just a black worker ally, you can contact any one
of our emails that are posted on our website I
b WC dot org. We do have like an initial
Intake information tab down at the bottom where you can
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reach out to one of us. We typically once it
comes in, it gets filtered through our outreach program to
make sure it gets to the right person. And if
it is something like if you're experiencing workplace discrimination or
wage theft claim, we would then reach out to our
ie representatives to make that introduction and say we have this.
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We do a little bit of I want to say,
like reviewing what the claim is, just to make sure
that we're not abusing that relationship, that we are sending
what we believe to be legitimate claims. So that is
one way we do have membership, and so you can
join the membership and that really just ties you to
the boots on the groundwork. So if you are interested
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in going with us to the capital, if you're interesting
showing up to some of these local called actions to
the town halls and stuff like that. You can be
involved that way as well. It just really depends on
what the worker needs, what's.
Speaker 11 (48:01):
What's the Have you had a recent victory in the
wage theft stuff? I know it Amazon Speaking to Amazon,
we just had one where it's over one hundred thousand
and growing for a group of workers that third third
brink excuse me, third break was missing and or they
were not notified their eligibility for a third break and
they were working over that tenth hour. And this was
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happening on a massive scale, and so that ultimately that
ticket's probably going to run up to you know, significant
hundreds of thousands of dollars, and actually throughout the entire
state of California started right here at KSBD down the
street here.
Speaker 14 (48:34):
It's funny.
Speaker 11 (48:34):
I wouldn't doubt it's it's funny. Amazon came out and said, oh,
you know, the team stirs had nothing to do with it,
and we're like, oh, okay, right, you certainly Amazon, you
certainly didn't notify anybody of what was going on. They
have now made a correction in the system for someone
to make a claim that they can actually it's easier
(48:55):
for them to get it. I was just giving you
an example of something because we obviously works in this space,
you know, succinctly give me an example of a situation
like that you guys have worked on.
Speaker 14 (49:07):
Yeah, So for right now, we have to be okay
with the fact that because we are so young, and
because these different claims take so long to process and
they're just up until this year, there's a backlog of
these different cases and so some of them aren't.
Speaker 11 (49:24):
Being with the Department labors.
Speaker 14 (49:28):
Yeah, yes, so we.
Speaker 11 (49:31):
I forget the se right now off the top of
my head.
Speaker 14 (49:35):
So we have through our RAP program, the Workplace Workplace,
Workplace Ambassador Program, Ambassador Project project, Yes, we have made
we have given that education to a number of black
workers who have experienced different things on their job and
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have been We've equipped them with the knowledge to go
back and and challenge their employers when appropriate. We have
assisted five employers to date with getting a wage theft claim.
They've all unfortunately, like been wage theft and so we
are still awaiting the final results, the final results of that.
Speaker 11 (50:15):
Yeah, oh good, good. So what else do you have
any other you know, like programs or resources specifically you'd
like to highlight or talk about here on the show.
We got about ten minutes, actually about nine minutes.
Speaker 14 (50:28):
Okay, Yeah, So the rap program that I was just
speaking about is actually going to be kicking off. We
are going to be doing the second iteration that will
begin on October second. It's a six week certification program
and seven weeks because we do a virtual graduation as well,
and that the sign ups are going to be opening
this month for that, and so we invite all community
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members to come and be a part of that. We
recently had some strategic planning with the organization and an
outside contractor, and we have created six priority areas strategy
areas that we are leading into and we are hosting
a partner mixer next Friday, August fifteenth here at the
DoubleTree Hotel at the cutting Board, inviting folks.
Speaker 11 (51:12):
To comet here in Sanbordino off of Hotterman yeah, Waterman
in Hospitality.
Speaker 14 (51:16):
Right, yes, exactly, right off the freeway, and we are
going to have the We're gonna have it set up
to where folks can hear about the work that we're
doing and really sign on to partner in whatever area.
One of the six areas that they feel called to.
So if that's policy and advocacy, if that's outreach, workforce development,
that is one of the things that we have coming
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up right now. We also membership is open and we
are still encouraging folks to come join join the movement
get connected.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
Well.
Speaker 11 (51:45):
Sounds like a lot of good work and a lot
of good stuff. You know. I really appreciate the partnership
and the relationship and the advocacy in a space that
not a lot of people occupy, right And I think
that's one of the things that kind of drive most
of us that are in this is we we recognize
that corporate America has plenty of advocates great, and then
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they just rat a check when they need more workers,
regardless of you know what category they're in. They you know,
they need a lot of advocacy. And it's funny because
these corporations always try to they kind of try to
like message it is that, well, you don't want anybody
to get between me as a corporation and you as
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an employee. It's like, actually, yes, I do. I feel
a little loud humber Man. I think it's crazy that
sometimes people actually fall into this trap. No, I want
that relationship to where I'm the only person who can
advocate for myself with this large corporation, this massive corporation, Like, no,
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you know it's okay to have advocacy. It's not that.
Speaker 14 (52:52):
Worker education, right, work.
Speaker 11 (52:54):
Education, because they're not getting education in school right now.
Speaker 14 (52:57):
Yeah, and they we recently went to a training where
they saying that that's intentionally not being taught right. You
have to ask to go to the restroom, you have
to ask for permission, like we are not. Our K
through telve system is not necessarily teaching independent thought how
to advocate for yourself. And especially if you are a
person of color. You admitted to being white male, and
that I think speaks to like wanting to you sometimes
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have that ability to like go and advocate for yourself.
But a worker who has been marginalized has been seen.
Speaker 11 (53:26):
Sometimes they don't have the they don't have the confidence.
Speaker 14 (53:28):
Don't they don't they ask with good reason? Yeah, And
so that that that speaks to, like we need advocates
out there, We need that education so workers know, like, no,
you actually have a lot more power than you think that.
Speaker 11 (53:40):
You do, and you have more power when you come
together collective getting and especially if you know, corporate America's
kind of got this narrative to break us all up
in little pockets, right, have white people not like black people,
and that black people not like Latino and you know,
and so on and so forth. Like I mean, this
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is an age old thing that's gone on. Corporate America
has always tried to divide the workers because in the end,
we have we have the power absolutely and we can
shut things down. We have the ability to bring commerce
to a complete halt. We just choose not to exercise it.
And what my hope is is that the more organizations
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we partner with like yours, the more advocacy, the more
connections that we make when and we educate more workers
on understanding that they do have the right to withhold
their labor, they do have the right to advocate, they
do have a right to have advocacy, not just advocate
for themselves, but also have advocacy. And these are all
these are all good things to have, not bad things,
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Like let's not demonize organizations like this, let's encourage it
in a way where we figure out ways to work together.
Speaker 3 (54:51):
Yeah, totally agree.
Speaker 11 (54:53):
So what do you have to close on? Is there
anything you'd like to close on.
Speaker 14 (54:56):
Yeah, so just come see what we're about. Come to
our partner mixer, let's do this work.
Speaker 11 (55:02):
Is that day and time again.
Speaker 14 (55:03):
It is August fifteenth, from five to eight at the
cutting board inside of the Double Tree, San Bernardino.
Speaker 11 (55:11):
If you're looking to connect to the organization, looking to
help out, you just heard it from Monet herself and
what you can do. She is the associate director of
the Ie Black Worker Center here in the Inland Empire.
Really appreciate the work that you're doing and all that
you bring to the table and the energy you're doing.
I heard that you were a little nervous, like you're
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doing fine. I get this all the time on the show,
Like people say, oh, I don't know if I want
to go on, I'm a little nervous, you know. I'm like,
I got this, man. I've been organizing for years, like
for three decades, And if I can sit in any
workers living room and have a conversation with them and
ask a couple of questions, We're going to be just fine. Yeah,
And that's what happened. You just ask a couple questions,
(55:52):
you kind of get rolling and then get to tell
your story and that's what that's what we're doing here,
like we're what Teamster's nineteen thirty two is trying to
do with worker power, with the message worker power. You
see our billboards, you see all the things that we're doing.
We're trying to build that confidence of workers in the IE.
I grew up in this area, and I have seen
how corporate America has just feasted, feasted on the Inland Empire.
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They have built massive operations, massive warehouses, and they have
exploited millions of people in the process. They got they've
gotten billions of tax dollars out of the economy which
they didn't even need. Number one. Number two, they pulled
them out, which were resources for everybody else, which are
less wages. And you see this, this this exploitation on
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this massive scale of millions of people in the IE,
which is four million, you know population. So, you know,
to have someone like you in this space, we really
appreciate that. You know, it's it's for me, it's it's
you know, it's just it's kind of a way of life.
And really appreciate your advocacy out there. And hopefully we
can just keep chipping away at this and doing more
(56:59):
and more edge cation where we get more and more
workers to understand their power, because someday, you know, corporate
America is going to go too far and workers are
just going to say, we're not going to work man like,
We're not we're we are yep. I can't repeat that
on the air. They're just gonna say, you know, shut
it down. And because this is what I'm hoping for
one day is that is that workers pick an area
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and they say, within this geographical area, no one's going
to work. We're not going to do a big rally.
What we're going to do is there. It's gonna be
nobody's there. It's gonna be eerie. I've always believed that
silent protests are so much more powerful. You know, if
you look back in time, the Civil rights movement taught
us how powerful silent protests could be. Like incredible walking
(57:44):
into a diner, sitting down, being quiet, occupying the space
of a of a of a city government building, and everybody,
you know, not rocket seeing, not yelling or doing it,
just quiet like it really is a message of discipline
number one and number two that we mean business and
it's time for you to wake up and pay attention.
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So sixty seconds. You want to say anything before I
wrap this this first half hour up.
Speaker 14 (58:11):
We thank you for having us, Thank you for the
work that you all are doing. Thank you for uplifting
the workers, of giving us the opportunity to uplift black workers.
Speaker 11 (58:19):
Stories, and yeah, just.
Speaker 14 (58:21):
Come get involved some see what we're about. Come join us.
We want we want, we want all involved. That was
rad happening. You heard it in your ear too?
Speaker 1 (58:32):
Do you got a ghost over there?
Speaker 11 (58:33):
Did you hear that? My mic was off? Really? That
was a that was somebody clearing their throat.
Speaker 14 (58:38):
I heard it, but I was trying to pretend like
I didn't.
Speaker 11 (58:42):
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Speaker 11 (01:04:58):
We're back with the second half of our show. This
is the Work of Power Hour with Randy Corgan on
the team. STIRS nineteen thirty two Broadcast network, airing live
from San Bernardino. And just as a slight adjustment to
our show, we have Marco from the San Diego Labor Council.
He's a political director on the screen right now, it's
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not Marco. I'm sorry if I called you the wrong name.
My brother Luca. We have Luca. We're gonna get with
you in just a minute. I got to finish our
Teamster Advantage partner here and what we have as a
team Star Advantage program where we have more than a
thousand small businesses connected to our network, and we make
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sure that we bring them on and talk about all
the cool stuff that they got going on in their
local business, and we encourage our members to shop local.
We make sure that hey, not only is there a
cool discount, but make sure that you're going to a
local proprietor and a small business owner in the area
versus you know, one of these places that is is
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a big corporation that is you know, obviously taking a
lot of money out of the out of the community.
And and quite frankly, small businesses aren't getting the same
breaks that the big corporations are, right yet they got
to compete in the same market. So we're joined by
Bubba Bob from Three Iron Brewery in Colton, and I
went to Bloomington High School, which is you know, obviously
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right there close to Colton. Love Colton Love the Inland Empire.
And you know, one of the things that we do
with this program, the Team's Advantaged Program, is we were
constantly promoting to our membership to make sure that they
utilize the small business network that we've built out. We
have an app that they're connected to, and we make
sure that we send out regular notifications as well as
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we bring them on to our show on our on
our regular basis. You're talking about this, Yeah, yeah, I know.
See I got this new toy. Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, okay, anyway,
so oh yeah, yeah, fix the fix the thing I
actually moved in earlier. This is one of the things
about live radio. When you make a mistake, you can't
go back and edit it. You just got to roll
(01:07:05):
with you just have fun with you just got to
have fun with it, right. Beauty, Yeah, that's the beauty
of it. And so again, Bubba Bob from Three Iron Brewery,
why don't you talk about your small business. You've been
in existence since twenty fifteen, right, we have a little
closer to the mic.
Speaker 19 (01:07:20):
Yeah, we have, Randy. We're a family owned business, been
around for ten years. Just celebrated our tenth anniversary. It's
been liking to the cheers environment. It's in a industrial setting,
if you will. We're not on a main street, we're
(01:07:41):
off the beaten path. But we have some unique followers.
Speaker 11 (01:07:47):
That's good. You guys have like a comedy night or
something too right, we do.
Speaker 19 (01:07:50):
We have an open mic on Thursdays. We also have
all kinds of events. This week we're we're trying our
hand to beat party. First ever beach party at three Iron.
Speaker 11 (01:08:02):
Are you bringing sand in? No? Okay, that's all right.
I thought about it before.
Speaker 19 (01:08:08):
Yeah, we thought about a dunk tank, but the liabilities
with beer and water and and all that slipping, we
didn't want to go down that path.
Speaker 11 (01:08:15):
So I hear you've got some really good you know,
some really good beer. You got some really good brew.
Matter of fact, I think Mark was just telling the story.
You want to tell the quick story.
Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
Oh the summer sandy. You call it the Albatross. Now, yeah,
it's yeah, that one you got to be careful with.
I I was referring to when I first tried it,
when I signed you guys up and took it home,
had a couple sixteen ounces. My girlfriend looks me in
and says, you all right. I was like, I think
I'm on my way here. So that's some that's some
(01:08:45):
good stuff. Though.
Speaker 11 (01:08:46):
What's your most popular brew?
Speaker 19 (01:08:49):
Probably the Eagle ip Ah and the Pineapple Orange Wedge.
Speaker 11 (01:08:52):
That sounds good, the Pineapple orange Wedge. Yeah.
Speaker 19 (01:08:55):
This this week, we're releasing a hob and Arrow blonde,
so that little kid to it. It's got a little bite.
Speaker 11 (01:09:01):
Yeah, man, you know what, we got to get James.
So we also now have this this member James. We
call it James Bites Back. He tours all of the
places and he comes back on the show and gives
a gives a review.
Speaker 1 (01:09:16):
We better take the bus.
Speaker 11 (01:09:17):
Yeah, we got to actually get him an uber or
a taxi when he leaves your place.
Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
They're not all that strong.
Speaker 11 (01:09:25):
Yeah, but you got to understand James, like when he
goes to a donut shop, he gets like ten, Like
he doesn't he doesn't know moderation over indulgence. Yeah, well
he's like I got to test them all.
Speaker 19 (01:09:34):
Yeah, we love that kind of person.
Speaker 11 (01:09:38):
Sure you do. So tell us about the setting in there.
You said it's kind of like a cheer setting.
Speaker 19 (01:09:42):
And yeah, yeah, it's it's very Uh. I guess the
best way to to explain it is it's comfortable We've
got people that come in off the street and next
thing you know, they're giving us a review that it's
great place, great beer, great people. But we've been liking
(01:10:04):
the cheers. Like I said, it's when you come in.
Most of the people that come in on Wednesdays and Fridays,
everybody knows their name.
Speaker 11 (01:10:13):
So and you've been in business for ten years, so
you got over the hump of what usually kills a
small business in the first few years. So congratulations to that.
And do you want to describe you have any food there?
Speaker 19 (01:10:24):
We do. We have local food trucks that come in
quite often, so we utilize them. We're all about the
community as well, so we try to to contract with
people that are local.
Speaker 11 (01:10:38):
Which which food trucks have you had there?
Speaker 19 (01:10:39):
Just let's see, we had back nine burgers.
Speaker 11 (01:10:42):
Just last week. They're great. Yeah.
Speaker 19 (01:10:44):
Yeah, We've got a Hawaiian vendor. The name escapes me now,
but we have Hawaiian vendor coming in doing Hawaiian barbecue
for our beach party on Saturday. But we oftentimes have
food trucks in there.
Speaker 11 (01:10:58):
Yet you should when you do the beach party, maybe
we have everybody just bring a little cup of sand there,
they can put it on their sandals, right. I can
imagine trying to bring sand in doing that and then
get trying to get it out of there. Yeah, bad idea, Randy.
Speaker 19 (01:11:13):
Well, we thought the water was a pretty bad idea too. Well,
but it's going to be ninety eight degrees there this Saturday.
So who knows a hose?
Speaker 11 (01:11:21):
Mike, I say, just bust the hose out right right,
that sounds like it could be fun.
Speaker 1 (01:11:26):
Put a sprinkler in the back. Where are you guys,
bru there.
Speaker 11 (01:11:30):
You go, so a lot of specialty any other specialty
beers or mixes or specials that you have you want we.
Speaker 19 (01:11:36):
Have probably let me see, we have ten beers on
tap that are pretty regular. And then we have what
we call a mulligan.
Speaker 11 (01:11:46):
And someone's a golfer.
Speaker 19 (01:11:47):
I see, yeah, well it's a golf theme. It's funny
the story. People come in and they say, so, you
guys are golfers. Yeah, we're golfers, but honestly, we suck
at golf.
Speaker 11 (01:11:58):
Doesn't everybody?
Speaker 19 (01:11:59):
Well yeah, yeah pretty much, but.
Speaker 11 (01:12:01):
Come on, man, like everybody's oh, I'm a good golfer,
full of it. Man, No we're not. We're just smacking
this little white ball around entertaining ourselves drinking beer.
Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
Yep.
Speaker 19 (01:12:11):
But we actually got the name because when the when
when Rick the owner at the time, when he was
when when he was brewing outside of a stovetop. He
was in his backyard and we were all there, you know,
partying up, having a few beers, and his mash started
(01:12:31):
boiling and he didn't have anything long enough to stir
the mash. So his brother ran into his garage and
got his wife's three iron and that was the first
mash paddle.
Speaker 11 (01:12:45):
And that's how we got the name three Iron. There
you go, like, see I was, I was looking for
a funny story, and you explained exactly how the name
came about. Yeah, and so you're pretty close to a
r MC right airhead Regional Medicals.
Speaker 7 (01:13:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (01:13:00):
Yeah, you know what we gotta do is we got
to set up a little event over there, like do
something after hours or everybody comes over and does a
special or something.
Speaker 1 (01:13:10):
I was thinking about it before the show.
Speaker 11 (01:13:12):
Yeah, so some of the obviously we have a lot
of air m see people listening. Actually, I just went
through our live shoutouts and we'll think about what we
can try to put together and get over there and
have a nice little event and try to coordinate what
the food truck is so that we can make sure
that it has a has a it's a good outing.
Anything else you'd like to cover before we wrap up
this segment, just come on in and the vibe is
(01:13:36):
everybody knows your name.
Speaker 19 (01:13:37):
Everybody knows your name.
Speaker 11 (01:13:38):
That's it.
Speaker 19 (01:13:39):
Everybody knows Bubba.
Speaker 11 (01:13:40):
Can you name the ten beers the most ten popular?
Speaker 19 (01:13:43):
Probably right now? We have the Matador, We have the Honeywheat.
We have the Hazy Pale Ale pineapple orange.
Speaker 11 (01:13:52):
Wedge pineapple orange sounds.
Speaker 19 (01:13:54):
It's pretty good. And then the Eagle, which is an ipa.
We have Albatross, which is a So those are pretty
much the standard brews that we have on tap, and
then like I said, we always have some some ouligans
to back those up.
Speaker 11 (01:14:13):
Well, we appreciate you coming on. We appreciate your partnership
with the Team's Advantage program. And I know I see
push notifications from our app every now and then for
you out there. And something we've noticed recently is that
a lot of our members are using the app and
they're going to these places, but they're not necessarily notifying
the business of the utilization. So we're actually revamping some
(01:14:36):
of our program to create a little bit more awareness
of the utilization and hopefully we can do that with this.
And the other we're doing is we're having fun to
where a group is kind of getting together once a
month and they're landing on a location you know, ten, fifteen,
twenty people and doing like a fun review of it. So,
you know, any ideas that you got, any suggestions. Again,
(01:14:58):
we appreciate the relationship, appreciate the hard work that you
do in the in the community. Being a small business
owner is tough. It's hard work. It's it's working class
as working class gets no different than the members we represent,
which is why we've tried to build this relationship like
we have, especially you know, being in thirty chambers of
commerce throughout the entire region and encouraging everybody to occupy
(01:15:21):
a collective space. Any last words before I wrapped this
part of the show up.
Speaker 19 (01:15:26):
No, just come on in, show your team STIRS card
and you'll get a ten percent discount.
Speaker 11 (01:15:30):
Ten percent including alcohol. See a lot of places we
lose the ten percent on the alcohol, but here you
get the ten percent.
Speaker 19 (01:15:39):
If that doesn't draw nothing I don't know nothing.
Speaker 11 (01:15:41):
Well it will if it doesn't. You know, your whole
explanation should draw them in. We've been joined by Bubba
from Three Iron Brewery right in Colton, pretty you know,
and obviously just did a good job of describing the establishment.
Sounds like a ton of fun, sounds like a great
regular client. Tell in there. We appreciate you coming in,
We appreciate what you do with the community. Let's take
(01:16:02):
you just a real quick thirty second break so I
can transition Mark, and then we will have Luca on
here very very soon. This is the work of Power
Hour with Randy Morgan and the Teachers, nineteen thirty two,
Broadcast Network, Live from Samborghino. We're back. This is the
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Worker Power Hour with Randy Corgan on the team. STRES
nineteen thirty two, Broadcast Network. Boy, that was I'm looking
forward to having an event, potentially having an event over
there at Three Iron Brewery. We got to make sure
that we get the word out and we get more
and more participants. And you know, it's right there by
airm you know, we have a ton of members that
are actually going in there.
Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
Just across freeway over there off of Coolian Mount Vernon.
Speaker 11 (01:17:47):
Yeah, yeah, it's really close to them.
Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
Their food trucks are amazing.
Speaker 11 (01:17:50):
Yeah, you know, I wonder which Hawaiian one they have.
I'm really looking forward to that, and we got to
make sure that we do a little a little review
on it, all right, Luca Barton, the communication specialists with
the San Diego Labor Council, We appreciate you coming on. Sorry,
I've squeezed one of our teams for advantage partners in here.
We really cherish our relationship with the small business community.
(01:18:13):
I'm sure that you can appreciate that. We've had a
really good time building out this massive network of all
the small businesses. And really what it does is speaking
labor to labor here is it does a good job
of helping knock down the anti union stuff going on
at the chamber a lot, right, and when you're there,
and not only are we in all those chambers I
(01:18:34):
spoke of earlier, but we've actually either been on the
board or currently on the board of directors for multiple chambers,
including serving as president at some point in some of
these communities. So imagine the irony in that where union
is present in that space. And I believe we got
to occupy that space for two reasons. One education and
(01:18:55):
making sure everybody understands how beneficial unions are to the
local communit and two not allowing an anti union rhetoric, message,
narrative beat us over the head, continually beat us over
the head. And so with that I got Luca Barton
on the communication specialists from the San Diego Labor Council,
which has got a long history of greatness, a long
(01:19:17):
history of a lot of great leaders have come out
of that Labor Council to do great things, not only
in San Diego but in the broader community. Luca, you
want to introduce yourself and talk a little bit about
what you're working on right now. Welcome to the Work
of Power hour.
Speaker 18 (01:19:32):
Thank you so much. Yeah, I'm Luca to sink this
Martin pronouns he day. And as you said, I work
at the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, And
so where the local organization of the afl CIO, which
is like the Union of Unions. It's an organization for
unions to come together to fight for a more just,
(01:19:54):
democratic world with opportunity for all. And there's the national
level afl CEO. There's a state level California Federation at
the labor unions, and then where at the local level,
and our purview is the San Diego and Imperial counties.
So we have over one hundred and twenty unions, two
hundred thousand working families and let's see what are were
(01:20:21):
you working on? Well, we're working towards this August nineteenth
nonviolent direct action training. So as we've seen ice ice
arresting our fellow workers like Unite here Local thirty workers
in the parking lot after they they've gone on a
(01:20:41):
long shift of work, we want to make sure that
all of our union members and community members are trained
and prepared in like civil rights, civil disobedience, because we
got to do something. We've got to organize and build
collective power so that we can mold this world again
(01:21:02):
towards a more democratic one. So we got that coming up.
And then Labor Day September one, we have a big
Labor Day march that our President Bridget Browning is putting
together with a lot of indivisible local groups and no kings,
and there should be tens of thousands of people at
that march, and where we're figuring out what to do
(01:21:25):
Bridgets talked about maybe doing something with a general strike
she wants to do like in twenty twenty six, but
we're not sure.
Speaker 5 (01:21:33):
Maybe that's that's too soon.
Speaker 11 (01:21:35):
Never too soon to do something.
Speaker 5 (01:21:38):
Yes, we do figure it out together.
Speaker 11 (01:21:39):
Hey, I heard you just swung the balance of power
in a local supervisors race, you know, with the border
supervisors for San Diego County.
Speaker 18 (01:21:47):
Right, Yeah, and that had a huge win.
Speaker 11 (01:21:51):
So talk about that win real quick, and I want
to talk about why it's important.
Speaker 5 (01:21:56):
Of course.
Speaker 18 (01:21:56):
So the San Diego County Supervisors are five people who
control over eight billion dollars for the county.
Speaker 5 (01:22:04):
And so we.
Speaker 18 (01:22:08):
Had formerly endorsed this candidate in District one who won
handily last November, and then she decided to not take
to not continue her second her second term, so it
opened up this vacancy and we have this incredible candidate
(01:22:28):
who's now Supervisor, Paloma Agari, who has just been busting
busting her butt her whole entire life for communities, for workers,
and we were able to come together to get her in.
And for me, it totally makes sense why that happened.
But early on our president Bridget Browning and Mark our
(01:22:52):
political director, and a lot. We're getting phone calls from
people in unions as well as the Democratic Party being like,
we don't think Poloma can make it. But the way
that she's been fighting for unions, for workers on issues
that are important to them and bringing a lot of
people together totally made sense why she won.
Speaker 11 (01:23:13):
Yeah, congratulations on that. And let me just shift gears
back to the comment you made as far as a
general strike is concerned. You know, one of the things
I've been cautioning those in labor not that I'm an expert.
I mean I have been an organizer for every thirty years.
I am a longtime organizer, first time radio host. So
this radio stuff is just getting message out. That's not
my full time gig. Organizing workers is something I have
(01:23:36):
always loved you always will do and that agitation, education
and movement that we're trying to build. You know, we've
got this new slogan we're just trying to capture, which
is bringing the movement to the mic. And I think
that's one of the things in which labors we've missed
the boat on. We've not brought our movement to the
mic to where we can get to enough people, which
is again why we're doing this. My point is on
(01:23:58):
a general strike, we can't control that date. In other words,
we can't say, hey, we want to do March of
twenty twenty six or June of twenty twenty six. For
general strikes. If we look back in history and we
recognize when they happen, there are things that sparked them
that then moved into other pieces. But workers had to
(01:24:19):
know they had the right to withdraw withhold their labor first.
And I think that one of the things that we
got to do is we just got to educate on
a massive scale. You have a First Amendment right to
withhold your labor, the freedom to assemble, the freedom of speech,
where the arguments one to protect concerted to create concerted
activity protected concerted activity in nineteen thirty four nineteen thirty
(01:24:41):
five under the Wagner Act, which ultimately became the Nationally
Relations Act. My point to bringing this up is that
we have kind of forgotten, and we've at least have
forgotten to educate the population that you have the freedom
to assemble, you have freedom of speech, that you don't
lose it when you go to work like you did
prior to nineteen thirty four. That technically, under the law
(01:25:03):
prior to nineteen thirty four, you lost those rights, and
that the argument that won on the Flora Congress was
utilizing that workers didn't have the right to assemble, right
to freedom speech at work, which is where protected concerted
activity was born and then enshrined in every law. We
haven't pounded that message enough for workers to know that
(01:25:26):
they can withhold their labor. So again we just got
that explain it to you.
Speaker 18 (01:25:31):
Yep, that's would be taught in schools. That's right should
be a public education. So much of our world involves power,
but we don't teach power in the schools, and we
definitely don't teach about collective worker power or collective community
and worker power, which is unions and community groups and organizing.
Like I think you should really be teaching how to
(01:25:54):
organize them exactly the rights that you're talking about, and
how do you unionize, how do you organize? Like that's
real importance stuff and letting us know like this is
this is top down power, which has these kind of
which is more autocratic, more dictatorial and probably not so
good for society the economy. And this is bottom up power,
(01:26:14):
and this is like this kind of thing, but that's critical,
critical information that we should absolutely be be teaching.
Speaker 11 (01:26:23):
Yeah, the more we take to the airwaves, the more
we have billboards, the more we have buses or you know, however,
we're pounding this message into the general public. We labor's
got to lead this message, in other words, saying, hey,
workers like you have the right to do this, and
here's where those rights were one and you. They don't
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do any good unless you actually exercise them, So start
to exercise them. You can exercise them on a smaller scale.
You don't have to do your first test to be
walking off the job for a month, right however, but
you can if you choose to. And the reality is
is collective action is going to swing this stuff back
that we're dealing with in America, where corporations have have
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obviously overstepped, have have reached too far in the only
counterbalance that has really kept them in check in the
last nearly one hundred years has been collective action and
with the withholding our labor. And we've got to lead
that and lead that message, lead that narrative, press into
that space. Educate, like you said, in school, Explain to
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the kids before they get into the workforce. Here's the
difference between a union job and a non union job,
and why being in a union job has got a
better future, Why it's got this and that, and then
on top of it, this is your this is your
right to protect a concerted activity. Clearly it's been pulled
out of school, not taught in school because corporate America
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again controls those textbooks. My son who graduated from Carlsbad
High which is obviously in San Diego County, they call
us a cartel. That's how they educated on unions in
his in his book, we're a cartel, like it's so said,
that's where that's where we are. And we got to
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go to that school board meeting. We got to press
back and say, no, I'm not the cartel. I'm a
I'm a union worker that makes sure that this community
does this, or we deliver this, or we pick up
your trash or whatever it is. We're not the cartel.
Why are you describing us that way. We have to
be engaged in our civic process to make it happen.
Speaker 18 (01:28:30):
Yeah, and there are all these myths out there that
just help the wealthy. And now we have so many
billionaires out there because the wealth just keeps, it just
keeps getting more and more rigged, whether under a democratic
or republican administration, either one it keeps more. Obviously it
accelerates more unto Republicans, they tend to put but it
happens under democrats too. And it kind of goes from
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this more New Deal America where we thought, you know,
government can be a place of good and it can
help workers, and it can help communities, and we're going
to put money towards that so that everyone prospers. And
then it started as unions started getting cut down, you know,
starting in nineteen forty seven with the Taft Hartley Act.
(01:29:14):
But so many policies since then, and this philosophy neoliberalism,
which is just unregulated capitalism, just keeps keeps being pushed.
Speaker 5 (01:29:26):
By the elites. And we're in a place now where
we have.
Speaker 18 (01:29:31):
Little power and just the wealth keeps going to less
and less hands and concentrations. But unions are at their
highest popularity in decades since the New Deal era. Seventy
percent of people are for it, and so we need
to get that as you're saying that message out there
that collectively you have the power democratic power to make
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your workplace better. But also you're not just a worker,
you're a community member, and you can make your community
better once we come together.
Speaker 11 (01:30:02):
That's right. These narratives like you said that the corporate
America controls, one of them is that we're anti capitalists. Like,
first of all, look, America is a capitalist society. It
needs a social conscience. There's nothing wrong with capitalism as
long as it's got a social conscience with it. As
long as there's social responsibility, that's the proper balance. We're
(01:30:22):
not going to change how all this works until corporate
America a has you know, a little more empathy and
shares the wealth a little bit more. Again, workers are
at the center of whether or not that we're successful
at making that happen. And you're right, we can complain
about this and that, and you know, you know they're
(01:30:43):
doing this and they're doing that, and we're not doing that.
Like the reality is is we got to get to work.
We got to educate workers, we got to agitate them,
we got to encourage them into this space, and and
we got to lead them in this moment where we say, look,
it's time to withhold our labor. It's time now, I
can't tell you the date on the calendar. You tell
me when your workplace is ready. You tell me when
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your area, your community is ready. You tell me when
your industry is ready. When you're ready to hold your
industry accountable, let's go. You have the power to shut
it down, and you have the right, not just the power,
you have the right. It's always funny that the unions
get criticized for violence and this and that. And you know,
this country was formed on a protest. It was formed
(01:31:26):
on the Boston tea Party, which destroyed t it broke something,
They destroyed something, and we celebrate that. But then we
turn around and say, well, unions, you know they destroy things. No,
it's a protest. No one's saying that someone's got to
go out and be violent or break something. That's not
what I'm implying here. But it's convenient for a narrative
(01:31:48):
that corporate America wants to put out there. Right Like,
if we're proud of that moment of the Boston tea Party,
then guess what we need to lean into it now
and we need to tell an employer, Hey, it's no
different than what the British did to us with the
tea you're taking too much, man.
Speaker 18 (01:32:06):
What's too often people from the working class, they put
down their own and so they'll make those excuses and
maybe they'll see some violence. Sometimes it happens right at
collective actions. But that's just a symptom of as you're saying,
these billionaires, these wealthy people, these corporations, greedy corporations, all
(01:32:32):
of their policies, not paying workers enough so that they
can eat.
Speaker 5 (01:32:36):
And then also we have people.
Speaker 18 (01:32:41):
Like with this one big beautiful bill slashing healthcare for
those workers who are making minimum wage who need that healthcare,
and cutting food stamps for workers who are making that
minimum wage. And we're just subsidizing these corporations and again
just sending all of our money.
Speaker 11 (01:32:59):
It's right. It's funny these huge corporations talk so much
smack about bigger government, about oh the government, they love
the government, when they're getting a million dollars an hour
in and I'm not even exaggerating here, right, Like, like
there's one individual I'm not going to say his name
here that likes to you know, put rockets in this guy,
like the amount of money that he gets his his
(01:33:22):
companies get in government subsidies, in tax dollars from the government,
Like you love the government, but you run around talking
about how bad the government is to him. The government's
bad unless they're giving him money, like what like and
villainize anybody else someone someone who's working hard, working too
(01:33:44):
jobs and qualifies for food stamps like, Oh, those are
those are people that are leaching off society. No, those
that are leaching off society are those ones that are
getting billions of dollars every single year, pulling it out
of our local economy. And then turn around and trying
to villainize the very people that are doing all the work,
that are working hard. Like I'd love to see these
(01:34:07):
individuals I'm talking about go work as a farm worker.
I want to see him try to do it for
a week and watch how how how they You know,
how those conditions that's you want hard work. Go to
work in one of these warehouses, go to work for
one of these huge corporations, one of your own corporations
that are exploiting workers. I'm sorry, I'm gonna get on
(01:34:27):
a tangent here if I don't, if I don't correct myself,
I'm assuming you agree with what I'm saying.
Speaker 18 (01:34:34):
Absolutely, all work is skilled and has cognity, and if
it's worth having that job, then it's worth paying at
least a living wage. And I would say a thriving wage.
Speaker 11 (01:34:49):
Yeah, a wage to buy a home, a wage to
buy a home. Like where has that been lost? Like?
You know, Like what I'm inspired by is these Amazon workers.
I'm watching Amazon workers with hold their labor take on
one of the biggest corporations in the world. Look at
them dead in the face. Just a week and a
half ago, you saw a group of them here in
in in industry demand, you know, do a demand on
(01:35:12):
the boss, Demand that they be recognized, demand that they bargain.
And they've joined you know, dozens of others doing the
of other units doing the same thing. There's there's dozens
more coming. You know, workers are starting to say, you know,
you're supposed to do this and they have the right
to demand that. And seeing the courage in them, it's
so inspiring because they look around and then they realize
(01:35:32):
they kind of have control of their workplace and they go, oh, yeah,
this will work. Like and then and then they reap
the benefits from it. They get a little you know,
then the boss throws a little change out of them
and you know, you know, give them some fans and
makes it a little you know, less bad as far
as on the heat's concerned. They start to try to
accommodate some of those requests, but they're building power by
doing that. And so I'm inspired because I can see
(01:35:55):
that workers are doing it when they know what to do.
We just got to get a little bit more out
front where we're agitating and being more aggressive. I'll give
you another example TSA, like when they stripped that away.
What we should have done is just taken a position
in labor, in the labor movement. We did have someone
from from their union on here right after that happened,
just don't go to work, then you're going to strip
(01:36:17):
away my bargaining rights. Same thing with Utah. Like in
Utah when they took a position to take away their
bargaining rates, had all the police officers and firefighters and
public employees just said we're not going to work on Monday,
then sorry, don't know what to tell you. We're not
going to work till you fix it. You know as
well as I do. They would have fixed it that fast.
Speaker 18 (01:36:35):
Yeah, yeah, and absolutely, Like with the teamsters, I see
those videos Teamsters is really good at putting it on
the social media videos of marching on the boss and
the workers asserting their rates, and that that spreads. Like
here in San Diego, we had NUHW healthcare workers. They
(01:36:57):
were on the longest mental health care drake in history
for six months, on an open ended strike, and they
went down to their local Starbucks to get coffee and
they would talk with the workers there and talk about
their strike. And then that Starbucks became organized and then
unionized and became our fifth in the San Diego County
Starbucks that's unionized. So it spreads, and it's beautiful to
(01:37:23):
see those things where people understand their rights and they're like, wait,
we can do this.
Speaker 5 (01:37:27):
It's like, yeah, you can.
Speaker 18 (01:37:29):
So you just need to keep spreading that word out
there and getting it out there.
Speaker 11 (01:37:32):
And in a lot of cases, you know, what have
they got to lose? Some of these jobs are so bad.
Like there we found at Amazon that within a few days, statistically,
more than seventy percent of workers are actually looking for
another job. Within just like within the first week, they're
already looking somewhere else. So if you're already looking to
go somewhere else, then you know this situation's bad and
(01:37:56):
this is crazy statistic with Amazon that I've been pounding
this message. If you're a UPS driver and you're delivering
in neighborhoods, you can probably buy a home in almost
any neighborhood you're delivering in. Not everyone, but almost everyone.
An Amazon driver cannot buy a home in America. They
can't in any neighborhood. They the amount that they're paid
(01:38:18):
does not qualify them to buy. And I would love
for someone to prove me wrong on the statistic. Find
me the neighborhood that they can afford to buy a
home in, and come on the show and tell me
how I'm wrong. My point is is Amazon or corporate
America has gotten to this point where they just don't
even recognize the right thing to do anymore, and we
(01:38:41):
as workers have got to shut it down to get
them to recognize it.
Speaker 18 (01:38:45):
Yeah, and it's again like over this from the New
Deal to unregulated capitalism. It's this financialization of everything. Everything
including humans, can be commodified, and corporations will kill you
as long as they can make billions of dollars.
Speaker 5 (01:39:04):
They proved it with Yeah, we see that.
Speaker 18 (01:39:06):
With Boeing, We see that with Amazon, they don't care
about their drivers. They're like one of the most profitable
companies in the world, and yet they're they're not going
to give a living wage. And I even you know,
as I'm sure you know that whenever an Amazon warehouse
comes to a place, it actually lowers the wages for
(01:39:30):
that industry. Yeah, for that industry around that area, which
is terrible.
Speaker 11 (01:39:34):
And they become a huge drain on the public services.
They become a huge drain. Is actually a net negative
for a particular area on whatever they profess that they're contributing,
that the amount that's being pulled out in government subsidies,
in what everybody qualifies for the house to work there.
Speaker 18 (01:39:55):
You know, Yeah, our local taxpayer dollars are going to
support these people they are being underpaid, instead of going
to our infrastructure, instead of going to housing, instead of
going to all these youth programs.
Speaker 11 (01:40:07):
Right. San Diego is a great example, San Diego County.
Let's just take the whole county as a whole. I mean,
it's a beautiful place. It's got it's obviously kind of
expensive to live there. So find me where anywhere in
San Diego County that an Amazon employee can buy a
home anywhere in the county. In the county, yeah, any
(01:40:29):
not just Amazon driver, an Amazon employee like okay, maybe
someone who works in management that's making one hundred and
fifty two hundred thousand dollars a year, but not a worker.
Speaker 18 (01:40:40):
No, I mean they're living with multiple roommates or maybe
living with home if their parents live around here.
Speaker 11 (01:40:46):
Multiple.
Speaker 18 (01:40:46):
Other things that we're working on is a hospitality twenty
five dollars an hour minimum wage at the City of
San Diego, and so the city of San Diego a
living wage is thirty dollars and seventy one cents an
hour by the MIT wage calculator, but the minimum wage
in the City of San Diego is about eighteen bucks,
(01:41:07):
and so it's nowhere close to that living wage and
not even to mention like a thriving wage. So we're
fighting and we're targeting that industry, the tourism industry and
the hospitality industry because it's a huge industry with corporations,
multinational corporations like Hyatt who make billions of dollars and
(01:41:30):
then they don't pay their workers enough. And so we're
being strategic and targeting this industry that can afford to
pay their workers. They can afford to pay more than
twenty five dollars an hour minimum wage. They could do
thirty seventy one, but we're we're looking to raise it
to that twenty five dollars and it's coming up in
September to the full City Council.
Speaker 5 (01:41:51):
And it's been great to see the community and unions,
even unions.
Speaker 18 (01:41:54):
Who aren't directly affected by this, come and support their
fellow their fellow IATZ workers, hotel workers, concession workers, av
stage hand workers to do that and hopefully we can
make it a little bit more affordable around here.
Speaker 11 (01:42:11):
So we're gonna appreciate you coming on the show. Got
a few more minutes here. I just want to shift
gears real quick. You're the comms comms specialist there in
Labor at the Labor Council, right, So what do you
think of little nineteen teamsters nineteen thirty two here in
San Bradino with our comms platform with the radio show,
(01:42:31):
and I don't know if you heard, we now have
our own twenty four to seven radio where you can
listen to music, and we're going to be building on
that platform where we're connecting our members to be able
to actually listen to music twenty four to seven. We'll
be able to tie in go live at any time
that we want to go live, or tie in our shows,
or tie in news, tie in you know, little snippets,
(01:42:54):
little advertisements and stuff like that that obviously have to
do with members. And you know, I just I believe
that that the more we lean into the space, and
we're finding great success as a result of leaning into
the space. I always like to hear from other advocates
in labor, what do you think of what we're doing
in this space.
Speaker 18 (01:43:15):
I love to see it because this is absolutely what
we need to We need to be thinking how can
we reach the masses, which is a massive goal, but
how can we do that?
Speaker 5 (01:43:26):
And radio is part of that. I remember hearing.
Speaker 18 (01:43:30):
Like far right elite US individuals, like they had a
whole program to train people on how to speak they're
talking points on AM radio that was decades ago, and
so they created, you know, AM radio had just a
lot of far right people that were, you know, talking
a lot of stuff that divided the working class.
Speaker 5 (01:43:50):
And so we need to get on AM radio.
Speaker 18 (01:43:54):
We need to get onto these places that people are
gonna listen in and create these pro U union, pro worker,
pro community first media outlets. So I think I think
it's wonderful. And you guys have an app for the
local businesses which you know, spending money locally. It just
it just helps create an engine for the local economy
(01:44:15):
instead of the dollars going to some multinationals somewhere else
that is then going to fire people and send jobs elsewhere.
Speaker 5 (01:44:23):
Just cut them and put AI in.
Speaker 11 (01:44:25):
Oh. I love when I love when when some elected
officials try to attack us in the area. We always
show up at their chamber boom like, and we actually
had been there, right, And then we start to push
back on them and go, what are you talking about.
We're doing all this for free. We're not even charging
the chamber charges. We're not charging these small businesses. We're
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connecting them to tens of thousands of our households in
the region, encouraging people like this is what unions are doing.
Don't be villainizing us. And and to your point a
minute ago, we're built being out a platform to where
we're we're good. Hey, we hope that other locals do,
other unions do podcasts, do shows. You know what, I
(01:45:09):
have a dream of someday is that there's a station
that's one hundred percent labor one hundred percent of the time,
and that that you're if you want to tune into
what's going on with from IBW or af SME or
or some other union of the teamsters or whatever. You know.
Obviously we do a lot of things that are teamster centric.
Not everything teams are centric, but but you know, hear
all this and have a platform that's one hundred percent
(01:45:32):
labor one hundred percent of the time. We're building that
out right here, and we invite every labor organization to
participate in it and help make this grow to exactly
what you just said, so that when people do want
to tune into labor and they want to learn, and
they want to understand, and and instead of them hearing
some wacko that's you know, blabbering about all the time,
(01:45:52):
that they can actually listen to information that's going to
impact their job and back impact the way they're going
to be able to feed their family, buy a home,
and build worker power in the end. That's what I
believe that we're trying to do and hopefully you can
help us keep building that network out.
Speaker 18 (01:46:12):
My brother yeah, I love it, Thank you so much.
It's it's aspirational for sure.
Speaker 11 (01:46:19):
It's crazy. Somebody told me when I started to unpack it,
like are you nuts? Yeah, pretty much like those of
us that get involved in labor, like we pick crazy
fights sometimes, right, Yeah, I'm nuts. Let's go like like,
let's get it. Yeah, let's go get it. Like you can't.
You can't make great things happen by you know, kind
of being you know, kind of lethargic about it or
(01:46:41):
making excuses or not at least thinking big. You know,
the reality is is we've got to make something happen.
And I'm being honest with you, I'm having a great
time with this radio show. I feel like I'm you know,
it's not like the self grandizing platform for me. I
feel like I'm in this long house call where I
keep getting to go back and educate workers on their
(01:47:03):
next step to do something great, crazy, you know, inspirational
or whatever it may be. And and it's a platform
that is obviously growing. And I don't know if you've
heard today, we even got some some people from Scotland
that are listening in and just gotta got a text
on the screen over here. But you know, we're just
having fun with it because it's all about moving people
(01:47:24):
into a good place. And you know, when you're bringing
the movement to the mic, you're doing something right. Anything
you want to close.
Speaker 18 (01:47:32):
On, no, I mean, you can find us on our
website union yes dot org and social media s s D,
I see Labor Council, and then you can join our
actions events on our website. You can sign up for
our action emails and then hopefully we'll see you out
(01:47:53):
there on a strike line or another solidarity event.
Speaker 11 (01:47:56):
Can you tell me the the the the event you
have on Labor Day one more time before we close
out this segment.
Speaker 18 (01:48:05):
Yeah, of course, Labor Day March with no kings a
bunch of indivisible groups, so we're putting that together. We
want it to be a little different from other marches,
so we're trying to figure that out. There's gonna be
tens of thousands of people meeting at Waterfront Park at
ten am, and yeah, it's going to be solidarity. There's
(01:48:26):
probably going to be some singing like who side are
you on? And it's going to be worker power.
Speaker 11 (01:48:32):
So that's right. So we're building worker power, one conversation
at a time. Look at Barton. Appreciate you coming on
a communication specialist with San Diego Labor Council. Really appreciate
you San Diego Imperial Counties Labor Council. You guys merged
a few years back. In my brain, I still I
(01:48:53):
remember Jerry being there. So it gives you an idea
of how far I go back. I've been. I've been
organizing for over thirty years, so I've kind of been
in this space and and sometimes I don't get caught
up with branding it correctly. But Luca really appreciate you
coming on spending time with us. Today. I got to
get into some news to close out my show. Please
share the share, share our link, share share the news
(01:49:17):
on what we're doing. And and you know, if we could,
if we could help expand this in a way where
we help other unions or other local unions participate. We've
got a place to take their podcast park them. You know,
just buying a little bit of airtime. It's really easy.
We're not making any money on that. We obviously airtime
just cost money with the radio station. Uh so you know,
(01:49:39):
podcasts can be very easily converted into into fitting into
airtime and hopefully you know, this is the beginning of
more unions doing exactly what you and I are agreeing
that we need to do. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 5 (01:49:50):
All right, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 11 (01:49:53):
Yeah, this is uh, this is the work of power
hours Randy Corgan. And I'm not going to go to
a break mark. I'm just gonna shift into the news.
I never got to the news from the earlier part,
and I kind of got rolling on a bunch of stuff.
So let me see if I can't actually make sure
I cover all of it. I think that the one
thing I overlooked is our kind of our victories within
(01:50:14):
the local union. Let me give some of that. We
were able to stop here at nineteen thirty two. We've
got a lot of you know, we've got a lot
of good things happening all the time. We got a
staff here that's constantly pushing back on the employer. Yeah,
you're making noise over there, Robert. We got a staff
here that's constantly pushing back on the employer or resolving issues,
(01:50:36):
resolving grievances, negotiating contracts, getting things done. And what happens
is sometimes in the hustle and bustle of that we
sometimes missed the mark at explaining it, and so I'd
like to go through and give some quick updates on
stuff that's going on. We were able to stop an
administrator who thought they could mandate extra shifts on their staff,
challenge that position on the subject and as a result
(01:50:58):
any extra shifts were all voluntary not mandatory. That had
to go into a voluntary status not a mandatory status.
Lo Melinda the productive negotiations that the negotiations have been
productive so far and they're preparing for a contract vote
next week. There's an employer that we had that withdrew
an investigation. We had another employer that suspended that tried
(01:51:22):
to terminate someone got that reduced to a suspension. We
had a suspension to get from ten days reduced down
to five days. We have strong members and attendance at
the city council meeting in rialto Chino and Fontana, and
we also have during a site visit with a business
agent last Thursday, a member a member's air conditioning went
(01:51:45):
out in their truck and the dealer wanted between fifteen
hundred and two thousand dollars to repair it prior to
leaving the city. The BA stopped by the Teams to
Advantage partner Gray Jaeger at the filter change and asked
him if he could help. Two hours later, the member
called and said that they took care of her truck
by the filter chains and saved her eight hundred dollars.
(01:52:07):
She was extremely good those I love those stories. That's
a teamster partner, you know, member have a financial struggle
business agent connecting to a teamser Advantage partner, teams Serdvantage
partner stepping up giving them a discount. That's great stuff. Also,
Stewart took the reins on their first representation with a
fellow member and was successful at reducing a written warning.
(01:52:30):
So there's a lot more here. I got to get
into the news. I just wanted to give you a
little quick round robin. What's going on in the local itself.
In Worker Power Hour news, All major Las Vegas Strip
casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory. The historic deals,
finalized late last year, mark a major turning point for
the first time in the Culinary Union's ninety year history.
(01:52:52):
All major casinos on the Strip are unionized, backed by
sixty thousand members, most of them in Las Vegas. It
is the largest labor union in Nevada. Experts say the
Culinaries Union's success is notable is a notable exception in
the national landscape where union membership overall has been declining. Together,
we've quote together, we've shown that change can be a
(01:53:15):
positive force, and I'm confident that this partnership will continue
to benefit us all in the years to come. Patrick Nicholas,
president and CEO of the Venetian, who said, shortly after
workers approved the deal and they just recently organized them
and got a deal. Venetian was anti union for a
very long time, so it's good to see they've been
leveraged into a position where they're being productive and cooperative.
(01:53:40):
Union members say their new contract has already reshaped their
day to day life. The housekeeper no longer races against
the clock to clean an unmanageable number of hotel suites,
and they're depending more. They're spending more quality time with
their children because of better pay and guaranteed days off.
Thirty two hundred Boeing workers who build fighter jets are
on strike. Union says about thirty two hundred workers at
(01:54:01):
a Boeing facility in Saint Louis, Saint Charles Missouri, and
I'm not even trying to pronounce this. In Illinois voted
to reject a modified four year labor agreement with Boeing,
the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said on Sunday.
In an ex post, the union said, thirty two hundred
highly skilled IM union members at Boeing went on strike
(01:54:24):
at midnight because enough is enough. This is about respecting dignity,
not empty promises. IM District eight thirty seven members deserve
a contract that reflects their skilled, dedication and critical role
they play in our nation's defense. Yeah, think about that
in our nation's defense. District eight thirty seven head Tom
Bowling said in a statement and IBT news. Workers at
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Open Kitchen join the Teamsters. More than forty drivers and
helpers at Open Kitchen in Chicago have voted to join
Teamsters seven oh three. The group organized to demand better pay,
stronger benefits, and safer, more respectful working conditions. We voted
to become Teamsters because we're tired of being pushed around
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and quote, said Seaman Johnson, a driver at Open Kitchen
and new member of Local seven oh three. This is
about dignity with a union. We finally have a real
voice on the job and the power to fight for
a fair contract. Boise Cascade is on strike. This week,
members of Teamsters Local one to ninety officially went on
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strike against the building materials distributor Boise Cascade, demanding fair
wage increases and improved healthcare benefits. After months of stalled
contract negotiations, the twenty workers at Boise Cascades Billing Montana
facility walked off the job early Tuesday evening, citing management's
refusal to offer a fair contract. The strike follows a
breakdown and talks after the company failed to address workers'
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concern over stagnant pay and inadequate healthcare coverage. Teamster's Local
one to ninety has been engaged in contract negotiations with
Boise king Ascade for several months. Despite efforts to reach
a fair agreement, the company has not made a serious
offer that addresses core teams to issues, forcing workers to
strike until a fair deal is reached. And in Teamster's
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Local nineteen thirty two news confire kicked off bargaining last week.
And so just see our social media highlights.
Speaker 19 (01:56:22):
And.
Speaker 11 (01:56:24):
You know, check out all of our platforms. We got
a few of them right, Robert, isn't isn't that what
we got going on around here? Robert, I gotta tell you,
doing a great job on the calm stuff. Really, we
lost our logo back here, I know, we got just
got about a couple of minutes here. Yeah, great job, Robert. Really.
I like how you're doing the little clips teasing people
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into the show. You like how I challenged Luca down there,
Hey man, can you get some people to do the
same thing. I think that's what we got to do.
I think we got to occupy this space in a
way that we say, hey man, when are you going
to do this? Like, like, if we want the people
to follow us, if we want the general public to
follow us. You know, obviously the majority of our show
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is meant to be directed at our members. However, we
try to build the content that anybody can listen to
because we want our members to be able to use
this content to where they can agitate workers to build
worker power themselves, not just be selfish for our own utilization.
Anybody can have worker power, And how are we building
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worker power in the Inland Empire. We're building it. We
got billboards, and we've got we've got we've got buses,
and we've got this radio show and our teams to
advantage program. And you know, now we have this radio
station that's twenty four to seven music. I'm getting a
lot of text where people like the music, like the
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great job Mark on loading in the music that people
are liking and listening to. Are you going to say something, Mark,
you only got a minute? Quiet?
Speaker 1 (01:58:00):
We're still loading. So requests or appreciate it?
Speaker 11 (01:58:04):
Yeah? Yeah, requests you want to send in some requests,
you want to highlight somebody. We believe there's so much,
so many opportunities for us to utilize this platform with
the twenty four to seven. Now think about it in
the future. You got we got a big contract coming up,
or you got your contract coming up. We could do
a live update on the air where we send out
a push notification, you link over to that radio station.
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We jump on the mics real quick, and we just
give an update to where everything is. You got a
strike going on, We could be out there at the
strike and we could do a live broadcast from the
strike and encourage people to come out. We just, man,
we're really excited about this. Obviously, it doesn't mean anything
if you're not utilizing it. So we're building worker power
and neal an empire, and we're building it, you know,
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by making sure we talk to our friends, we talk
to our family, we talk to our neighbors, and we
educate them on building worker power and how do we
do that. We explained them that they got the right
to withhold their labor, they got the right to organize,
they got the right to have a selective bargaining agreement,
they have the right to be in a union. This
is not something you know, over seventy percent of workers
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today support unions, and yet only ten percent are. It's
not because of all failures, because of two things. One,
Corporate America has skewed the rules to be in their favor. Two,
not enough workers have exercised their rights. And we're agitating
workers to exercise worker power now and every day. This
is the Worker Power Hour with Randy Corgan on the
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Teamsters nineteen thirty two Broadcast Network, airing live from Sambordino.
See you next week, Take it away, Mark.
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