On The Mark
KCAA: On The Mark with Mark Westwood (Thu, 29 Aug, 2024)
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Long time organizer, first time radio host. First, I'd like to talk about last week's show. I thought that we did a show on right to work for those of you that didn't listen. You might want to go back and listen to it. The I have gotten a ton of feedback regarding the discussion that happened on that show from various spaces, retirees, non-union members, existing members, workers, friends. Just it was a show that really exposed some truths that had been kind of hanging out there for 60, 70 years. A lot of people were unaware of and the exchange that's come from it has been very, very good and very effective. So if you haven't listened to it yet, feel free, go back and take a listen and understand the real history of right to work and the oxymoron that it is. They call it right to work. Clearly, it's an oxymoron of a statement. It's not right to work. It's the opposite of it. And it's origins being of such a, I would call it very disgusting, racial beginning, or racist beginning is quite appalling. I guess it's why it's been hidden. Those facts have been hidden for so long. Anybody who's part of that organization and what they call the right to work organization should be embarrassed by its history. With that, that ties into a discussion that came off of, which is a bill out of Kentucky, the House Bill 500 that has been proposed because of right to work past in Kentucky in 2017. And just a few years later, there's a House bill that they're trying to process right now that would strip away lunches, breaks over time, the way overtime is paid, the way people get paid for their time to go between jobs. 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And for those of us that grew up in the IE, there were a staple place for where all the kids went. Not just them, there's a couple others we'll get into that in a few minutes. But I've also got a couple other guests on the backside of the hour, which is Nicole Fefferman. She's a social studies teacher and the director of the Young Workers Project. And I'm going to have our very own Carlos Gonzalez on here who helps me come up with our three Teamster jobs every week. You guys hear me talk about them every week. So guess what? You're going to get to hear them on the show this week because of the partnership we've built with the Young Workers Project and some of the work that we're doing in the community. You're going to get to hear about that on the backside of the show. That'll be our guest. And I'm really looking forward to that exchange and all of that. And so let's talk about our three Teamster jobs. 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The last job is many of you may like El Pato sauce for your enchiladas. Did I say that right, Carlos? El Pato? Owning a rental property sounds like a dream. Collect a rent and relax. That is until you realize how much work goes into getting it ready. First, do you need to conduct market research to understand local rental trends and determine a competitive rent price? Then there's cleaning, staging, repairs, and hiring a professional photographer. Next, develop a marketing strategy. List the property on rental sites and schedule calendar showings. Oh, don't forget screen time for the information at least I'll collect your time. (mumbles) Sound complicated? Renner's warehouse is here to take the hard work off your rental to do list. Our job is complicated because it should be. We handle everything from marketing and showing your property to screening tenants and preparing the lease. 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Everybody kids me 'cause I'm the white guy and I like all the Mexican food and I've grown up in kind of in that environment and that culture. And you know, I read down that I sound really white, especially when I say chili birdie. Anyway, el pato sauce in your enchiladas, you know, and other Latin foods, that is produced by Teamster members at Local 630. And I actually think that's produced right over here in Ontario, correct? They produce it there and gets canned and manufactured and sent out. So I think a Teamster next time you're in the grocery store and you wanna get some Spanish rice or some rice, it's got a little bit of spice to it. We're gonna make some enchiladas and you know it's got that sauce in it. It was a Teamster that made it happen. With that, I'm gonna go into our current labor news and I'm gonna try to speed through this 'cause I'm actually wanna spend a whole bunch of time with Scott here. We were chatting before we started up and we got into this exchange. I was like, "Man, we gotta get that exchange on the live on the air." 'Cause it's just really excited about having Don's on here. I've been looking forward to it for a while. Anyway, in recent news, current labor news, the first thing I wanna talk about is the Dartmouth College basketball team just recently voted to become union. And so, yeah, these college kids now, their likeness and all these things that they, for years, as they go to college and a college would be able to use their skill and let's say football players or basketball and they're extremely good at it, they didn't get paid for that. And these colleges are making a ton of money on these kids, they're not kids, obviously they're adults, but I guess I'm getting old, so I call them kids. But those colleges utilize that skill that they have that they bring, whether it be basketball, football, baseball, they actually have won the right, it was a few years ago, I think it was Minnesota was what broke through that for them to organize and collectively bargain for their work that they're performing for the school because the school is financially benefiting from it. Anyway, Dartmouth College men's basketball team voted in favor of it and congratulations to them, hope all the basketball players in college go down that path and a lot of times in professional sports, people don't last a long time and it's very tough, it's very demanding and hopefully they can be as rewarded as possible for the hard work that they do. The next one is Activision, the gaming software company, 600 workers, just about 600 workers have unionized at the Microsoft owned Activision. The vote came down 390 out of 398, so I'm assuming that went 390 to eight. That's pretty overwhelming, so congratulations to those workers that Microsoft owns them, it's great to see those workers occupying that space, obviously Microsoft is a very, very wealthy company and I'm assuming that they're gonna sit down and do the right thing to take care of those workers. I mean, think of the gaming industry and how much it's changed, I remember, I remember Activision being different than what it is today, I remember in television, I don't know if anybody sitting here remembers in television, Atari, the first game of Asteroids that came out, I remember the cool kid in the neighborhood that had the little free standing at Asteroids game and obviously this is morphed into quite an industry now and it's good to see those workers organizing. The last point of news I wanna point out is personal, excuse me, it personally affects me because I get so many text messages on this subject, people on both sides of the aisle politically that blow me up and that is Biden, seeks the endorsement of the Teamsters for the labor vote and he interviewed with the Teamsters last week just as Trump and others had interviewed with the Teamsters General, President General Executive Board in Washington, DC in January and so clearly the right thing to do is to sit down, go through all of the questions and policies in which an elected official is engaging in and making sure that they match up to working people. We represent more than a million workers in America, more than a million families and households and clearly it's important to know what their policy decisions are gonna be in this space and how they're gonna be affected and it's always ironic to see how everybody in today's day kind of overreacts when Trump was at the building a couple months ago, obviously back in January, all our liberal members were freaking out and I'm like, hey guys, can you chill out? Like, that's our job. Our job is to sit down and not take a personal preference and to understand where legitimate candidates are so that in the end a voting process can happen to decide who is gonna be better, who is believed the leadership is gonna be better for the membership and to represent the membership if they're present in the United States or any other US senator or whatever it may be. And so then obviously the flip side of it is, then all the Republicans getting that's, oh what's going on, I'm coming up biting there. It's like, hey guys, everybody, chill out. This is part of the process. It's not like the union votes for you. (laughs) They don't deal with stupid, no one takes your ballot. It's a recommendation and it's like, look, here's what the individual is running for a particular office as policies are. Here's how they responded to the questions. Here's what their track record is. Here are the things that they did when they held an office before or when they voted on things that may have gone before Congress or the Senate or at the president's level, what executive orders they had passed or refused to pass or vetoed bills that may have gone through Congress at a certain point. And so all of those things have to be taken into effect or excuse me, taken into account so that you can make a good decision on what's the best for more than one million members, workers who are making sure this country moves every single day. And sometimes that conflicts with individual issues. It conflicts with what are divisive issues in some areas that everybody can fight about forever. The idea is to get people into that space, whether it be President Biden or President Trump and-- Owning a rental property sounds like a dream. Collect a rent and relax. That is, until you realize how much work goes into getting it ready. First, do you need to conduct market research to understand local rental trends and determine a competitive rent price? Then there's cleaning, staging, repairs, and hiring a professional photographer. Next, develop a marketing strategy, list the property on rental sites, and schedule countless earnings. Oh, don't be a sweet answer for the information. (mumbling) Whew, sound complicated? Runners warehouse is here to take the hard work off your rental to-do list. Our job is complicated because it should be. We handle everything from marketing and showing your property to screening tenants and preparing the lease. 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And then you tally it up and you say, okay, well, there's nine out of 10 spaces that this candidate is supportive. And this one's one out of five, or one out of 10. Clearly you gotta go with the one that has a good track record of supporting working people based on facts, not what Facebook says in 13 seconds. So it's really important to break all that stuff down. The reason I thought it was interesting to bring it up, and I like to have fun with this conversation because politics always drives good arguments between people. I think that it's okay to disagree from time to time. It's okay to disagree, to disagree, that's maybe be spirited about our position. But at the end of the day, recognize that we gotta work together to make this country great. It's not about an individual that makes it that way. It's about us working together and coming together that makes this country great. It's a worker power hour, KCAA 106.5 FM 1050 AM. Thanks for having us. That now transitions us into our Teamster Advantage partner. And before I let him talk, I just gotta talk about how giggly I'm kidding, thinking about all the old bikes that I had. I hear that Don's actually has a bunch of bikes from our era that are at the shop. You can go in and they're on display and take a look and we'll talk about that in a minute. But I really appreciate the fact that Scott, you're here. We appreciate what your father did. I, for one, remember, 'cause I grew up in Fontana, it was Rick's bicycle city that I always went to 'cause it was closer. Obviously Don's was a bit further 'cause I lived in Fontana in various parts of Fontana most of my life. And Ralto was, you know, clearly a bit further away. And I remember, I went there a few times, but for me, it was once a week me and my brother had to go to Rick's, right? We had to go to the bicycle shop. We had to see what the new hottest thing was. We had to, you know, dream about some of those bikes that were coming off the line or what was new happening or, you know, the new tires, the new brakes, you know, especially when brakes were the handling, the handle brakes were just coming out and getting better and better. It just brings back all kinds of great memories of being a kid, being active, getting on my bike. And we would just, we would disappear for the, we would just disappear and be gone. We didn't have a cell phone. We didn't, there was no electronic leash. We just, we bolted and, you know, we would end up in another city. We would, I know one time we rode our bikes all the way to Montclair from Fontana. I don't remember how the hell we got back. But, you know, at the end of the day, you know, we'd go on the hills and we'd drive here, you know, we're right here and right there. And so with that, Scott, tell us about Don's bicycle shop. I'm so excited to have you here. - Thanks, well, thanks for having me on. So basically my dad opened it up in 1959, excuse me, April 1st. So we're coming up on our 65th anniversary, which is pretty cool. Not everybody's can say that. Long history short, my dad opened it up. I kind of grew up around bikes as a kid. So I would help him out. I would do a lot of the purchasing for him. And I guess I just sort of at least learned the fundamentals of how a small business works. And five days after my 18th birthday, my father passed away. He was actually riding his bicycle home and he had a heart attack. So that was kind of a shock to myself and my older brother and my mom. And it's like, wow, okay, we have this little business. It was a little 500 square foot, kind of hole in the wall business. As I shared with you off the air, I found his ledger, his first day in business, he did $8.78, which I think back in 1959, he could put a deposit on a house, I think back then for that kind of money. But we had to make a decision and we decided to keep the business going. I was in college at the time and it was not what I planned on doing for a living. As a matter of fact, my dad didn't even want me involved in the business. He didn't think there was a future in it. So I ended up finishing my degree. - And your dad was a mechanic at Norton, right? - He was, he worked two jobs. He was a workaholic, was gone, worked crazy hours. So yes, he was in the Air Force during World War II and then he also worked as a mechanic at Norton Air Force Base when that was a thing. In addition to running the bike shop, basically kind of a one-man operation. Occasionally he'd have people come in and help and I would help around the shop as well. But you know, as a family, we had to make a decision to we keep this thing. We decided to keep it. It was generating income, it was getting me through school. So we kept it and we expanded it over the years and hired our first employee when I was at college, kind of the help when I wasn't there. And then we moved it in the early 80s down to our current location, did several expansions there. And then again, long story short, I had to make a decision. Did I, was I going to be a marriage and family therapist or was I gonna run a bike shop? And I just make more money selling bikes. So that's kind of... - But you can still get them to come in, sit on the couch. - Yes. - Ask them some questions. - Right. - And then, hey, you wanna buy a bike? - Right, I'll show you this electric mountain bike. - If you exercise, you'll actually be a better person because you'll, you know, adults and orphans, all that good stuff. - Right. - You won't be upset at each other. - No, 100%. I mean, there's a lot of psychology and sales, a lot of psychology and business. And obviously, you know, cycling's a great thing. It's physical and it's social and it's fun and as you're pointing out, it brings back all those memories as kids. - And you guys are beasts, you cyclers, man. I see you on the road, like I live in Yucaipen. I see you all the time on Wildwood Canyon or Beaumont Avenue. Seeing you guys go up that hill, you make me tired just watching you as I'm driving by you. Well, I'm kind of a roadie myself. There's obviously different categories of bicycles. I'm a roadie, I got into road cycles. Funny, one of my first employees raised bikes and he'd show up to work with shave legs and the guy was doing like 300 miles a week. Now, I'm thinking, man, this guy's pretty impressive. I mean, he's just a monster. And that may be, I'll try that. And so, you know, I got into bike racing and I realized that if it came down to a sprint, I was gonna lose really bad. I was a horrible sprinter, but I was a good climber. I could do well in the mountains and the hills. And that's kind of what I focused on and started getting serious about my training and worked with a coach for a while, started riding back and forth to work every day. It's training basically every day. And one, two state titles for California. In '92, I qualified to go to the US Olympic trials. So I competed in the US Olympic trials. I finished 38 out of 300. That was the last year that the Olympics were open amateurs. So it was basically the last year for some unknown, you know, schmuck like me to actually go to the Olympics. - You're no schmuck in the IE. Everybody knows when Don's bicycle is. - Well, thank you. I appreciate that. But yeah, cycling's just been a big part of my life. I ran a professional team for five years. I got a corporate sponsorship from Seven Up. Ran a men's team. Also ran a women's professional cycling team, which was sponsored by Diorite Cola. Four of my athletes competed in the Olympics. And one of my female athletes went to Silver Medal and Rio on the Velcro. - Wow. - That's kind of it and like-- - This is rock star status here. - I mean, I love it. I love my job. I have the best job in the world. I get to go to work every day and love what I do. - Everybody in the bicycling community, that's what they call it, everybody knows you. Everybody knows your establishment because of all this activity that you do in the community. - Sure, sure. Well, I mean, it's weird because, you know, I got an award from the City of Rialto is the Bridge Builders Award, talking about giving back to your community. And, you know, they asked, well, what makes you give back to your community? And simple because my community gives so much to me. And the thing about a bike shop, as you know, from your childhood, is that it's kind of like, like a barber shop to an extent. It's a special kind of business where you really get to know people. - Yeah, and what I always loved about when I went into Ricks, kind of like what Mark said about your dad is knowing your dad. - Yes. - You guys always remember the kids coming in, right? 'Cause we're dreaming about that next bike. And then you build that relationship with us at that age, right? And then as soon as we got the money, we're like, "Hey, man, I need to get those tires." Or, "I need to get this, you know, this brake set," or whatever it may be. And that's very valuable, especially in today's day when everybody's connected to these electronic devices. - Yes. - Like you provide something for the community that gets people moving, that gets, you know, it gets them active, you know, obviously it's very hard to be on your phone texting while you're riding a bike. I'm sure lots of people-- - People do it. - Right. - I can tell you. - Well, you're right. I mean, it's kind of to an extent an old-fashioned activity, but it's physical, it's social, and it kind of goes against some of the-- - And it's great exercise. - Oh yeah, yeah, it's great cardio, it doesn't beat you up. And it's weird, part of the fun of this is that we have such a diverse group of people that we deal with, it's the kids. It's older people that maybe want an electric bike, that's a new booming category. - Give me that. I want the bike that's going to drive me around. - No, you know, you think that and people like, well, that electric bike it rides itself doesn't know it doesn't. You just have to pedal it. - Except the pedal a little bit. - Correct, you're still getting a workout. It just kind of extends the range of what you can do. So you're talking about you kypo. Well, now you can ride up that hill. You're still going to get a workout, but-- - Get the electric part of it, take me up the hill. - Get the pedal and coming down. - Sure, sure. But it's a very diverse group of people, and just the experiences that we have that are crazy, I could write books about this stuff, just the crazy experiences we've had with people, and again, getting to know people on a personal level, getting to know their struggles. I had a guy just two weeks ago, came in, and he was looking for a mountain bike, and I could tell there was something just a little off about him. I couldn't put my finger on what it was, but I'm having to try some bikes, and he just didn't have the balance for it, and I'm like, you know, and then he says, let me tell you what happened to me, and apparently he was on his motorcycle heading north on the I-15, and somebody hit him from behind, knocked him off his motorcycle. He goes skidding. He said, I had all my protective armors, so I knew how to fall, and I'm rolling on the freeway, because I'm doing okay, and then I got run over by a truck. I ran this guy over, and basically-- - He survived, though. I mean, I guess we're chuckling 'cause he survived. - He survived, yeah, but he's lying on the side of the freeway, and again, not to talk to you about the dark side of human nature, but the people that hit him, according to him, they stole his wallet. They came up to him stole his wallet and then left, and they went on a spending spree in Vegas. So the guy that was driving the truck helped him. You know, they airlifted him out. He was in a coma for seven months, and he finally came too, and he's on the road to recovery now. I mean, I'm just, like, my jaw's just hitting the floor, going, oh my God, I mean, these are the kind of stories that I get to hear, and to be part of this guy's journey back from hell, you know, it's just, it's an honor and a privilege to have those sorts of experiences, not like I said, I could write a book full of those kinds of stories, but it's so cool. - So let's talk about some of the bikes that you have. I know I have a few of them hanging in my garage from our boys, and, you know, two of them now are driving, so the last thing they wanna do is touch a bicycle. But, you know, it's, it's, I've personally purchased bikes from your shop, and obviously I know a lot of listeners probably have, and if they haven't, let's talk about what you have there. I know you have mountain bikes, you have, you know, regular BMX bikes, you know, you have your basic, you know, I'm sure you have beach cruisers. - Yes, so again, that's another cool, we are a very diverse shop, and not every bike shop is diverse. - Correct. - We are not only diverse in terms of the brands that we offer, but in terms of the types of bikes, because some shops will just, we just sell electric bikes, or we just sell road bikes, or we're on pretty much a mountain bike store. For me, it's like, I wanna get everybody, so I try and cater to kids, whether it's a two-year-old who's gonna hop on a push bike. - But that kid's gonna grow up and buy an electric bike. - That's right, we wanna get em hooked on the sport, right? We wanna get em excited about it. So it's everybody from the little child that's getting their first bike to, you know, somebody who's like, you know what, I wanna get back on a bike, but I've got some kind of an issue with balance, so we'll put them on maybe like a, like a recumbent trike. So there's that category, electric bikes, again, huge, huge, huge. It's becoming a bigger piece of the pie as far as what we sell, and there's all kinds of different electric bikes as well. And the funny thing is, you know, when somebody's even talking about electric bikes, I'll say, look, let me just stick you on one, tell me what you think, and in every single time, the expression on their face when they come back, it's like, oh my God, you know, it's like, wow. - I know I want one, I do. - It's so much fun, and for me, it's exciting because it's a fairly new category, but it's getting a lot of people on bikes that maybe couldn't otherwise, you know. Maybe they wanna keep up with their friends, and they just can't. Sold an electric road bike to a lady, and her husband's like, yeah, I wanna keep up with my husband here, but he's just faster than I am. Well, now he's gonna have a hard time keeping up with her. - So now that we hear that you got, you got basically every bike that there is to have, you know, what's, I know that you've been part of the Teamster Advantage partnership. - Yeah. - Since almost the beginning of us, yeah, you were one of the first, we have more than a thousand small businesses connected to that network, and I don't know if you know it's that large. It's huge, and now we have so much fun with this because obviously for us, we're providing a free service to the small business. - Owning a rental property sounds like a dream. Collect a rent, and relax. That is until you realize how much work goes into getting it ready. - First, you need to conduct market research to understand local rental trends and determine a competitive rent price. 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I gotta wrap up and go to break here in a few minutes. But maybe we close on what that partnership has meant for you and partnering up with us as an organization literally, I think since 2016 or '17. - Yeah, it's no, it's great. And we love having members come in. I mean, it's always, we try and treat everybody special. That's why I've been around for like 65 years. But certainly when you guys, when your folks come in, it's great to have them as part of, we're always there for them, whatever their cycling needs are. So no, it's been a wonderful arrangement. People are great. So we hope this continues for a long time, but yeah, it will as long as we're gonna be around, we're gonna have this program and you're more than welcome to, I mean, we don't, obviously we don't, how much do we charge you? - Oh, for the radio show? - No, no, how much do we charge you for the Teamster Advantage partnership? - Boy, you know, it's actually, it's free. - Yeah, I know. - Everybody could, you know what we believe like, when you first have a conversation, they're like, how much is it? There's gotta be a backside gimmick in it. - Right. - No, not at all. - No, it's free. - Like, our goal was to build it out like it is today, where it is so large and we're in over 20 chambers throughout the Inland Empire. And just bring in a message of shop local, don't go to Walmart to buy the bike, don't go to Target, don't go to all these other places, go to the local shop and try to figure out how to make sure that you keep your tax dollars in the local economy. Keep those small businesses, you know, connected in a way that we do. This is KCAA 106.5 FM 1050A, and it's the worker power hour. Scott, we really wanna thank you for coming on, we appreciate you being here. Any last couple words before we go to break? - Mm, boy, check out the new electric bikes. I mean, really cool. - I'm going to. - Yeah, combined, see our BMX museum, it is at the reality. - And that's in Ralto. - Yes, so if you had a BMX bike as a kid, you were gonna freak out when you walk in the store and see all these bikes. It took us about a year to collect them from all over the country. It's gonna blow you away. If you had like a GT or a dyno, some of these classic vintage BMX bikes, we put together an amazing museum. - What was the other one, KP Ripper? - PK Ripper. - PK Ripper. - Yep. - PK Ripper. - PK Ripper too, we got 'em all. - Oh yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - All right, this is the Worker Power Hour. We're gonna go to break. Let's see you on the other side. Thanks, Frank. (upbeat music) We're back. This is Randy Corgan with the Worker Power Hour, KCAA 106.5 FM 1050 AM. Our call of numbers 888-909-1050. Hey, if you're right around the corner, you can dial 909-7925222. You know, this whole thing about toll-free line, is there anything, you know, do we really need toll-free lines anymore? I'm just, I know it's good marketing gimmick, but like everything now, the way phones work, do you charge to get charged? So maybe we'll have another show on that in the future. I'm really excited about our next couple guests. Number one, Carlos Gonzalez. He's a trade unionist, works with me. I've been working with him for pretty close two decades now in one form or another, bouncing around the labor movement. He works at 1932. And then we also have Nicole Feferman on, and we just saw her zoom in. She is a social studies teacher for LAUSD, and she is also the director of the Young Workers Project. And one of the things that we've been doing as a union is we've really been engaging with the public. And one of my favorite parts of our organization is our engagement with the schools. Because labor has been forgotten at the school level when it comes to education, high school, junior high. And I remember as a kid, seeing when I was in high school, we were going through the decades for history, and I remember in the roaring 20s, seeing the roaring 20s, flipping the page over on the other side, it was all about woman and child labor. And those things, I remember all the way back to my teens, flipping that page back and forth, going, this is a contradiction. What is so roaring about that, ironically, all these years later, guess, look what I do. But I had a funny situation happen. I guess it's not funny, I can only laugh at it. When my oldest son graduated from, before he graduated from high school, he was going to school at Carlsbad High in Carlsbad. He sends me a picture of his history book, describing unions as a cartel, literally, describing unions as a cartel. And my son is like, obviously my son, he's my son, he comes from a labor family, not only is his mother's side a complete labor family, like he's looking at this going, oh my God. Now obviously most kids growing up look at that, and they just look at the word cartel and they think we've got guns running around chasing people shooting them. And it's just incredible how the negative environment around unions have spilled into that being allowed to be a textbook in a school. And so clearly we have the opposite on today. And what I wanna talk about is, I wanna talk about the activities in which Carlos, you and some of our staff members are doing through the Teamsters and Hispanic Caucus, the 1932 Teamsters and Hispanic Caucus, and the engagement that we are having with the schools to number one, dispel the fact that we're not cartels, number one, and two, that we are trying to bring a better message about labor and teach the youth about labor in a much better way. And first, Nicole, I have to say, I get to say thank you all the time to Carlos sitting here to my left. I don't always say thank you, Tim, 'cause we worked together, so he has to deal with me on bad days. Anyway, thank you, Nicole, for what you're doing in this space. Like this is, my team is so complimentary of you and how you have helped kind of create this space. And what I'd like for you to do is talk about this relationship and talk about this partnership and talk about how the kids have engaged in understanding what unions are and understanding labor. And I got a bunch of questions for you, but Nicole, why don't you start off by kind of introducing yourself and quickly talking about like what this is all about in a nutshell of some of the things I just described. We can't hear her just so you know. Are you on mute? I guess we should've tried an audio piece first. All right, for all my listeners, I'm sorry while we figure out this piece. Carlos, seeing that you're here right now, let's switch over until we get that fixed. Carlos, what is your like, how do you see this engagement? Obviously, in front of me, I got a bunch of stuff that the kids wrote about the last time you guys were together. And from your perspective, what do you, how do you see this partnership with Nicole working out? Well, we've been lucky enough to apart with Nicole since last year and I think the first time was one of the high schools in San Pedro. She reached out for volunteers and we're more than happy to help. And what's exciting is the amount of kids that participate in this mock bargaining, mock negotiations, it's, or you're setting up a situation like it's bargaining, like you're actually arguing a contract with them. It's crazy because a lot of them, it's economic classes, social studies class, depending on the teacher and the amount of kids, and you're talking not a classroom, you're talking a lunchroom, you're talking a conference room type setting, you're talking about these kids walking in and understanding contract bargaining. And it seems like complex, but what you're really teaching them is if they have a voice in the workplace that unions matter and that unions are the only thing through your working career that will give you the opportunity to voice your opinion for you and your family. Nicole, can we do a quick test to see if you're live? Yeah, I can hear you all here right now. Yes, we can hear you. Awesome, we're live. Hey, that's amazing. Well, Carlos just did a great job. And let me also say I'm so excited and so grateful to be on here with you all today and to really be developing this beautiful partnership with Teamsters Locals. Carlos and his crew started with me, it's in Pedro last year, and now we just did two in the last about month, two other collective bargaining simulations. So it's just the energy that Carlos and his team bring into the room to engage with students is just a beautiful thing to work on. So what are these kids getting out of that, Nicole? How are they reacting to this space? Well, I mean, look, I'm a 20, almost 20 year teacher. I was an SEIU organizer before I became a teacher. And I worked with the hospital workers and nursing home workers. And so, you know, like we're union thugs, sort of like what you were describing, right? Like 20 years ago. I don't see you as a union thug, but hey, okay, I'll buy it. (laughs) I have an underlying simmering anger that likes to be displayed at certain points, but we are not thugs in fact. And what's been so wonderful over my career is that I've been integrating labor history. So students learn about the homestead strike, right? When thousands of steelworkers went on strike against, you know, the Bill Gates of the Dilded Era, right? And they joined together across ethnic lines, you know, new immigrants and more established American families, right? Native board, American families. And so, you know, my whole career, I have been working to dispel that very idea that your side experience in his textbook. I will say that what is especially gratifying as a labor person is that, you know, while we can say lots of bad things about social media, it actually has, I think in like the last maybe five years, really sort of turned young people's perception of the labor movement. And so what I really feel like we're doing at this point is helping students make sense, right? What is, why did the UAW go on strike? Why did SAG go on strike? Why did our teachers go on strike? - We came down there on your pick and line, by the way. - Hey, thank you, we appreciate you. And this summer was like a beautiful like solidarity summer, right, in Los Angeles. And so all of these students are, you know, they are seeing the pick and lines when they drive around town. They have family and they have friends who have, you know, in the past couple of years, there's been like a real amazing shift of energy, right? In labor activism. - Here's a comment, here's a quote from one of them. I learned that we have to keep fighting for what we want. We have strong arguments, teamwork is the core of getting an agreement. - Yes, so this is sort of what's really nice and elegant as a teacher about this collective bargaining simulation that Carlos has been supporting, is that working with seniors, mostly, right? Students who are on the verge of graduating from high school. And we are asking them to take all of those communication skills that they've developed over their years in school, take all of their analytical skills that they have developed through their years in school and say to them, "Great, now." Here's a set of issues that workers are fighting for and half of you are gonna be management and half of you are gonna be those union folks and you all have to figure out how to make this work at the bargaining table. And so they are discussing, they are analyzing, they are strategizing. And Carlos can speak to this. It's usually about a four hour simulation. - Yeah. - It starts off real quiet, real quiet. - And like bargaining does that a certain point, better getting spirited. - And then now an hour into it, it's so noisy. (laughs) Because they snap into it, right? Like they get it with the health of those coaches like Carlos, like Elroy and SCIU 99 bus driver who was on the bargaining team that led the ULP strike last spring, right? - Another student said, "I learned the power of a union, "the power of a union what it has, "how powerful a strike is and the process of a..." - Owning a rental property sounds like a dream, collect a rent, and relax. 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Because they are, you know, they are 18 years old, 17 years old. - This is my favorite one. This is my favorite. - To face the world. Collective bargaining. Again, these are quotes from the kids that were in the class. To be able to bargain, you must think about everyone. It has an us. It's an us situation. In other words, the collective. Getting people to understand the collective is where we get things done. Not the individual situation. That, Carlos, what's your, seeing that dynamic unfold with these kids. Obviously, we didn't have this one when we were grown up. - No, we didn't. - And so, probably would have, probably would have really enjoyed it, right, if I had a couple years earlier. Anyway, but, you know, like, what's your feel for that? - There's a lot of different emotions that I go through when we do these and, you know, shout out to Annabelle, Abe, and Juan that helped with this project and everyone does it. - Yes, yes, yes, yes. - The range of emotions is to see these kids as Nicole was saying, where they start off very quiet and they're just kind of understanding we're walking through the simulation and to see them kind of get out of their shell and speak up and get emotional talking about these certain issues because we give them each an item that they're gonna discuss and that they own it. Whichever side of the table they're on, they own it and the interactions that we have in between these breaks about what it means to be, when you get into the world and you look at an application that says you're at will, what does that mean, explaining those types of things to them and why there's power in a union and then to see them get it at the end of the four hours, it's amazing, it's inspirational for me. The kids that I've met, like, I take these pictures with these kids and they just share about their lives instantly because there's, I think they open up more so because you're teaching them real life scenarios, things that if they're gonna deal with in the real world and there's a lot they don't know and if you explain it as a scenario plays out, this is what a union does, this is how you react, is this the hill to die on, they instantly get it right off the bat and I haven't had, like, I love all my teams and I'm gonna get a shout out to the ladies, the ones that the chair, the ladies, all the ones that are always like, they're just putting it down like we're not budging, this is what we're gonna get. And to that point, here's another quote, I learned that providing good working conditions for workers is important. It's significant to prioritize safety and efficiency. So all this villainization we get, I don't see corporations going into the school and talking about this, right? Like, this isn't a one way street where we want workers to only benefit and collapse organizations. No, we want safety, we want efficiency, we want it to be a win-win. You want people to be able to have a good middle-class job, provide for their family, and it not to be this turnover environment where you're having to jump from job to job to job to job. And seeing young adults, kids at this age, catch on to it and be able to connect to it. For us, the reason why we've built out this program is we wanna build that familiarity with them as young as possible so that when they get to 18 and they get into the workforce, that they're looking for what's gonna be good because there's a lot of companies we all know that just aren't providing good jobs. And we need them to understand, hey, look, if you end up landing there, there's something you could do to organize number one. We'll have a whole show on this at some point in the future. And then, but the first thing you should do is look for the one that is a union job 'cause clearly a lot of the work's already been done. It's not all done, but a lot of the work has been done and it's a good starting point for you at 18 years old if you're gonna be in the workforce. And some say, "Oh, I'm gonna go to college." Do you know how many people that have high degrees, like you just heard Scott on earlier, like he's got all these degrees and he's running a bike shop, right? Like sometimes, even though we may wanna do that and we go to college and we do, we may end up still in the workforce in another space and it still should be good jobs. So teaching people at a young age that this is what you look for is, we believe it's just good for our community and it's good for our social environment. And Nicole, what you guys are doing there is just phenomenal seeing the pictures, seeing everything that's going on. By the way, this is KCAA 1050 AM 106.5 FM. Don't forget we are live on the radio show and call in if you have any questions. Nicole, any thoughts on that? - Yeah, I mean, I think that interestingly enough, when I asked students how many of you are already working, there's always a collection of young people who have raised their hands, right? I mean, I know myself. When I was in high school, I worked at Hotline on a stick and Maria's Italian kitchen. And so for them to understand the power of having a say in your wages and benefits and working conditions, they can directly compare, you know, what they're experiencing at their workplaces today with what workers who are organized and who are at the table together and who have, are using their collective power, right? To fight for their fair share. I think that that's a really powerful, you know, moment for these students. - Nicole. - And Nicole, how do you deal with pushback? Pushback administratively internally? Because, you know, I've got, I had a son that looked at his book and said we were a cartel, right? That's the opposite side of, you know, a school district on the opposite side of wanting to teach what you're doing. So I'm assuming you run into some pushback from some people that may not necessarily agree that these things should be taught. And so how do you deal with that briefly? Because we are running to the end of the show and we only got five minutes. But I'd like to, I think it's important to know that individuals like you are doing a great job of making sure this important subject is at the forefront. And that doesn't necessarily mean people are just saying, "Yeah, go right ahead and do it." How do you deal with the pushback? - So I want to say, first off, that Los Angeles is a union town. So I haven't heard much pushback. But I will say that something that I am, I am, is that the essence of collective bargaining is conflict resolution. Like what you were talking about earlier, right? This is about creating a win-win. And companies, organizations, want workers who are going to stay with them, who are going to continue developing their expertise, who are going to develop loyalty, right? That's what makes a company strongest. And I think that for folks who are skeptical of this work, you know, the first thing I would do is to invite them to come and observe, right? And Carlos can speak to this 'cause those management teams can come sort of hard. - Yeah, those kids do a great job of playing the other side, right? - Yeah, because that's the side that they know about, right? That's the side that they're familiar with. That's sort of like, cut, throat, management perspective. - It's my way of the highway. - But the good thing about that, I was having this conversation with Nicole and we were out there and, you know, she put me on the management side, which I wasn't happy with in the beginning, but, you know, I rolled through it, but what was interesting-- - All of a sudden, you started to become tough. - You know, it was interesting to talk to them about how that side is about building a relationship. It's about building trust and about how you need to take care of your workforce at the same time and within your budgets and not be, you know, there's no sense in taking Penny's back just to try to show the boss he had to take Penny's back. You got to take care of the people that take care of you. And I think that was actually, it was helpful for me to understand that aspect of it and, you know-- - Helps create better managers. - There does. - That's exactly what you were saying-- - They are understanding-- - There is another way. - Right. - There is another way. - That's right. It's not all adversarial. It's not all everybody's, you know, fighting each other. Yeah, you get some disagreements. At the end of the day, the objective is to resolve issues in 99.9% of the time. That's what the sides do is they resolve the issues. There may be some spirited discussion as you're getting there, but the collective goal is supposed to be to help those workers get to a better place. And if both sides have that in mind, we will always be there. And I think that you make a very good point that, you know, we jokingly say, oh, the management side, we hate them. Those, we're all literally joking about that because at the end of the day, teaching those kids the management side, some of them are gonna become managers. And like a couple of my children are, that are in positions, they absolutely respect the workers because we've taught them to do that. And they're gonna be better managers and they're gonna have better relationships with their employees. And they're gonna actually be able to argue through their superiors in a much more effective manner if they understand that we got two minutes left, any closing remarks, Carlos and Nicole, let's start with Carlos. - I just wanna say, you know, thanks to Nicole and you Randy, 'cause you've actually been the forefront here, especially in the end of the empire, bringing labor conversations to the schools. And as much as it helps the kids, it helps us too. So when I get negative or I have my negative thoughts about the labor movement and where it's at, coming to these schools and working with Nicole and the other labor activists in there, bringing me back to the place of happiness and why I originally got involved. 'Cause every now and then I need that kick from the butt, why you get involved in it, I appreciate that. - And Nicole, isn't this cool? We got our own labor show and the IE is the only labor show. The 4.5 million people in the IE, a labor show, we are talking about labor, we're having great guests on. We got so many guests lined up, it's crazy, glad we were able to sneak in. Any closing remarks we got only about a minute left. - I welcome you all to come and do a little taping of one of these simulations that we've done so that your listeners can hear just how amazing these conversations are. And I'm so, again, I'm just so thankful that Carlos, you, Randy, brought me on here today. Love to get the word out. 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