Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't know if the fighting's ever been
Speaker 1: more fun than it is right now.
Speaker 2: Glad you're here.
Speaker 1: Three O three seven one three eight two five five
Speaker 1: The number text d an five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 1: So weird to be starting the week on a Tuesday, right,
Speaker 1: And because Ryan yesterday, I mean pretty much everybody worked
Speaker 1: this holiday yesterday, right. Did you know anybody who had
Speaker 1: it off other than government workers and us?
Speaker 2: That's it? Yeah, right?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: So what was that all about?
Speaker 1: But anyway, we're glad to be back with you now,
Speaker 1: and Lord knows, there is plenty to talk about and
Speaker 1: plenty of fun stuff, right because Trump is on a roll,
Speaker 1: there is no question about that.
Speaker 2: And you know how it is.
Speaker 1: You know, momentum begets momentum, and success begets success, and
Speaker 1: you're seeing all of that right now. Not perfect, It's
Speaker 1: never going to be in any human endeavor. That's not
Speaker 1: the way it works. You look at all the great
Speaker 1: figures in American history, all the great figures in world history,
Speaker 1: other than Jesus Christ himself, literally nobody has ever been perfect.
Speaker 1: And so that is even pain often and of itself, right,
Speaker 1: because the left is losing its mind for all the
Speaker 1: obvious reasons. But on top of that, because of Trump's
Speaker 1: success and this feeling of impotence and this feeling of
Speaker 1: helplessness that the left has right now, so as the
Speaker 1: constituency on the left, though it's obviously shrinking, the constituency
Speaker 1: on the left gets more and more hyped up.
Speaker 2: You're having more and.
Speaker 1: Stupid stuff done by the leaders on the left, including
Speaker 1: their media arm which makes every day fun for us
Speaker 1: on this show, because we've got the receipts, we've got
Speaker 1: the sound, and we'll play some of that today. So
Speaker 1: we got that going for us. And locally, meaning here
Speaker 1: in Colorado, it's so great to see a number of
Speaker 1: really prominent restaurant owners step up and just send this
Speaker 1: letter to Mayor Mike Johnston aka Lawless Mike, aka bag
Speaker 1: Dad Bob or should it be Bagdad Mike, but who
Speaker 1: goes out and just just says all these things that
Speaker 1: aren't and just pretends that everything's okay when a lot
Speaker 1: of it's falling apart. So so great to see these
Speaker 1: prominent restaurant owners right to Johnston and say things are
Speaker 1: falling apart, because it's not like, you know, the Colorado
Speaker 1: Republican Party writing to Mike Johnston. These are restaurant owners
Speaker 1: in Denver saying it's falling apart around us and giving
Speaker 1: very vivid examples.
Speaker 2: So it's great to do two things.
Speaker 1: One is the more attention you call to the problem,
Speaker 1: that the better chance it gets fixed.
Speaker 2: But also just to fully expose lawless Mike for who
Speaker 2: he is.
Speaker 1: He's a guy who's just out there paddling these deceptions
Speaker 1: while things literally fall apart around him, So that gives
Speaker 1: us more hope for a fix in the future. Three
Speaker 1: or three someone three eight two five five text d
Speaker 1: An five seven seven three nine. As much as we
Speaker 1: love keeping it local, got to start on the world
Speaker 1: stage today, right because this is one of those moments
Speaker 1: in world history, American history that is going to be
Speaker 1: a bit of a pivot point. And we've talked about
Speaker 1: Ukraine all along, we talked about it before Putin and
Speaker 1: he's Satan.
Speaker 2: Why do we even say putin?
Speaker 3: Ryan?
Speaker 1: Can we set up maybe an internal fine system where
Speaker 1: every time somebody says Putin instead of Satan, they get
Speaker 1: fined because.
Speaker 2: What's the difference between the two.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy is Satan on Earth and that's
Speaker 1: the reality of Putin. I know he wears a nice
Speaker 1: watch and nice suits, and he can look like the
Speaker 1: accountant down the street. No offense to the accountants down
Speaker 1: the street.
Speaker 2: Right, But he is satan.
Speaker 4: He is a megalomaniac, to put it mildly. And Dan,
Speaker 4: I want to ask you the question because you lived
Speaker 4: through this history just like I did. There was tremendous
Speaker 4: hope in the early nineties when Gorbaschev and the Soviet
Speaker 4: Union fell and Boris Yeltsen assumed power, and there were
Speaker 4: talks between him and President Clinton at the time. How
Speaker 4: do we get from Yeltsin and that Russia to this
Speaker 4: one under the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 1: Because we went from Reagan to Biden, right, we went
Speaker 1: from peace through strength to the ultimate weakness. I mean,
Speaker 1: for all practical purposes, the US did not have a
Speaker 1: president during the Biden presidency, and maybe even worse than that,
Speaker 1: because there actually was an individual there who evil in
Speaker 1: the world, led by Putin could size up, and they
Speaker 1: sized him up correctly and realized they could have their
Speaker 1: way with the world. And that's why we got what
Speaker 1: we got in Afghanistan. That's why we got what we
Speaker 1: got in Ukraine. That's we got what we got on
Speaker 1: the horrors of October seven. And so now that strength
Speaker 1: is back. Right now that strength is back, that war's
Speaker 1: going to be ended. But the very sad thing, and
Speaker 1: it's not Trump's fault, is that Evil is going to win.
Speaker 1: To a point, Trump is going to cut the losses.
Speaker 1: This never would have happened if Trump was in office.
Speaker 1: But right now, Evil Putin is going to be rewarded
Speaker 1: with some territory and he's going to be viewed as
Speaker 1: the winner. And that's sick. But you've got to blame Biden.
Speaker 1: You got to blame the left and Ryan, this is
Speaker 1: a point I wanted to start the show with. You
Speaker 1: gotta blame Europe. I mean, this doesn't happen without Biden's weakness.
Speaker 1: But Europe absolutely failed Ukraine. Europe had its moment of
Speaker 1: testing and it decided it was going to surrender to Putin.
Speaker 1: And that is one of the saddest chapters in modern
Speaker 1: world history. You know, somebody had the great line. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you saw it. Ukraine needed fighters from Europe and
Speaker 1: it got cheerleaders. It got cheerleaders instead of fighters. Somebody
Speaker 1: else said that, and that's true. You know, the European
Speaker 1: leaders and countries. Yeah, Gozolinsky's standing ovation. You know, hey,
Speaker 1: here's a big, nice Crepe. But they wouldn't give him fighters.
Speaker 1: And from day one it was clear unless Europe put
Speaker 1: boots on the ground, Russia was going to win. And
Speaker 1: Europe decided not to do it, and so Europe failed Ukraine.
Speaker 1: There should never be an American boot on the ground
Speaker 1: in Ukraine. But Europe failed Ukraine. And I didn't want
Speaker 1: World War three and Ukraine. Who would? But the only
Speaker 1: way to stop Putin is to prove that Europe would fight,
Speaker 1: and Europe made it cleared from day one it would
Speaker 1: not fight.
Speaker 4: And I think Dan too, where people have to pump
Speaker 4: the brakes on this, and I think you've done that effectively.
Speaker 4: Here is Trump has to unblank what Biden blanked up,
Speaker 4: and in particular on this front with the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 4: Like you said, like I agree, like Donald Trump says
Speaker 4: it would never have happened on his watch, but it
Speaker 4: wasn't on his watch, and it happened, and it happened
Speaker 4: on Biden's watch. So there's a degree of kind of
Speaker 4: clean up on Aisle nine that has to happen here
Speaker 4: where yeah, Putin's going to get some stuff, and he
Speaker 4: shouldn't have gotten it. But if we want to end
Speaker 4: this war and bring it to a resolution, then yeah,
Speaker 4: he's going to have to talk to both sides. Trump,
Speaker 4: his administration, Secretary of State Rubio, He's got an entire
Speaker 4: envoy in team there. And I think there's a real
Speaker 4: momentum here toward peace dand that we did not have
Speaker 4: and there was no hope of it when Joe Biden
Speaker 4: was president.
Speaker 2: Well, I think.
Speaker 1: There's more than momentum, Ryan, I think it is certain
Speaker 1: at this point this war is going to end. And
Speaker 1: then whether it can be fairly labeled peace or not,
Speaker 1: only time will tell. But Trump will will do the
Speaker 1: job the world needs done that only he can do
Speaker 1: right now, which is to end the war. And I
Speaker 1: love what Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor said that,
Speaker 1: wait a second. Until Trump was elected, you know, there
Speaker 1: was no talk of ending this war. You know, no
Speaker 1: real talk of ending this war, and any talk was
Speaker 1: about how the war might end. Now that Trump's been elected,
Speaker 1: all the talk has shifted, total paradigm shift to win.
Speaker 1: The war will end, and that's all because of Trump.
Speaker 1: So he's doing his job. Let's go, Ryan, with cut four,
Speaker 1: where Rubio I think lays it out clearly for Europe
Speaker 1: and the world got four.
Speaker 2: The Ukraine and the.
Speaker 5: European passages that they feel very sidelined without how the
Speaker 5: process has laid out so far, How you intentionally address
Speaker 5: their concerns and equiality incorporated and be treating and multiplay.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 6: The comment I would have on that is that for
Speaker 6: three and a half years while this conflict is raged,
Speaker 6: or three years while it is raged, no one else
Speaker 6: has been able to bring something together like what we
Speaker 6: saw today because Donald Trump is the only leader in
Speaker 6: the world that can.
Speaker 2: So no one is being sidelined here.
Speaker 6: But President Trump is in a position that he campaigned
Speaker 6: on to initiate a process that could bring about an
Speaker 6: end of this conflict, and from that could emerge some
Speaker 6: very positive things for the United States, for Europe, for Ukraine,
Speaker 6: for the world. But first it begins by the end
Speaker 6: of this conflict.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Europe had three and a half or three years and
Speaker 1: couldn't accomplish anything because the European leaders didn't have any
Speaker 1: credibility because Putin could see it was all talk. They
Speaker 1: and some money, but money's money, you know. Until you're
Speaker 1: willing to put boots on the ground. Evil is going
Speaker 1: to win, and Putin could see that good was surrendering
Speaker 1: to evil and he took advantage of it. Now there's
Speaker 1: a new sheriff in town. Now there's strength, and Prutin's
Speaker 1: going to have to come to the table. Unfortunately, evil
Speaker 1: will win because of Joe Biden, because of the Left,
Speaker 1: because of European weakness. But Trump will have accomplished the
Speaker 1: best that could be done. Right now eight fi' five
Speaker 1: four zero five eight two five five text d A
Speaker 1: N five seven seven three nine. And then at four
Speaker 1: thirty six, Kim Cordova from the Union will join us
Speaker 1: to talk about the end of the King super Strike
Speaker 1: and who was it? Did Jimmy Sangenberger or maybe a
Speaker 1: listener challenged me to ask her some tougher questions, And
Speaker 1: I'm going to take that challenge up. That that was
Speaker 1: an excellent suggestion, looking forward to that interview. You're on
Speaker 1: the Dan Kapla show.
Speaker 2: This is gonna yet again raised.
Speaker 7: A concern about FAA staffing air traffic control staffing. Now,
Speaker 7: this is a Canadian air traffic control tower and this
Speaker 7: is under Canadian authority.
Speaker 2: Once across the border.
Speaker 7: And yet, as you know, there has been this talk
Speaker 7: about maybe staff cuts at the FAA as a part
Speaker 7: of President Trump's effort to trim down the federal workforce.
Speaker 7: And yet, as you also know, the FAA has been
Speaker 7: complaining for years that they are understaffed and critical job positions, especially.
Speaker 2: Air traffic control.
Speaker 7: I was having a conversation with somebody today about whether
Speaker 7: air traffic control in America is being affected by the
Speaker 7: staff cuts so far, not to their knowledge, and yet
Speaker 7: other positions related to maintaining critical equipment appaired to have
Speaker 7: been cuts. So this is going to feed into all
Speaker 7: of these recent incidents, and the safety of the total
Speaker 7: air traffic system is going to be very much a
Speaker 7: part of the conversation as we go forward, at least
Speaker 7: on this side of the country of the border.
Speaker 1: I should say, yeah, you see, Trump has completely broken
Speaker 1: the media arm of the Democratic Party, and I'd say
Speaker 1: that's exhibit A. But we already have a through Z.
Speaker 1: We're going to have to create some new letters for
Speaker 1: the alphabet. That's Tom Costello from NBC News and I
Speaker 1: remember Tom well, we were contemporaries. I think at the
Speaker 1: time he was at Channel nine. Liked Tom he was
Speaker 1: a good reporter, and so it's too bad right that
Speaker 1: he's now part of the propaganda arm of NBC News.
Speaker 1: But he's doing Trump an enormous favor, right, because that's
Speaker 1: so goofy on its face, it's just going to cause
Speaker 1: people to distrust the media even more. But I don't
Speaker 1: know that that's physically possible, Ryan, because at this point,
Speaker 1: I don't know that there's any significant level of trust
Speaker 1: in the national media at all anywhere.
Speaker 4: No, so their popularity, Dan and Ryan, are you hearing me?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: I certainly am, Yes, I am. Can you hear me?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just got you back? Sorry there.
Speaker 1: You see, this is what happens, right when Ryan goes
Speaker 1: out and he gets a new Ferrari or Bugatti, then
Speaker 1: everybody expects him to go zero to one hundred and
Speaker 1: two blocks. But you know, you got to let the
Speaker 1: engine warm up and everything else. We've got new remote
Speaker 1: broadcasting equipment. Today I'm hold away doing trial prep and
Speaker 1: so we're using some new fancy broadcasting equipment that literally
Speaker 1: costs more than the house I grew up in. And
Speaker 1: I grew up in the most wonderful home you could
Speaker 1: ever imagine. But of course, the better the equipment, the
Speaker 1: worse it works. So sorry for that little glitch there,
Speaker 1: but I think people got my point right that all
Speaker 1: this leftist craziness, media craziness only helps Trump, only undermines
Speaker 1: the media credibility further. But the question I had on
Speaker 1: the table, Ryan, I don't think there's any meaningful credibility
Speaker 1: left with the national media, at least with the people
Speaker 1: in the middle. I don't think people trust them as
Speaker 1: kind of neutral arbitrators anymore, or neutral reporters anymore. I
Speaker 1: think that's all gone now.
Speaker 4: Their approval ratings are somewhere around Mitch McConnell's and those
Speaker 4: members of Congress that are well despised by both sides.
Speaker 4: I think the media, like you said, it, has burned
Speaker 4: through all of its political capital by jumping at every
Speaker 4: single Trump narrative and taking the opposite position side, even
Speaker 4: when that was not prudent for their coverage, for their ratings,
Speaker 4: for their viewers or listeners. And what we just heard
Speaker 4: there from Tom Costello, I mean, that's the stuff of parody.
Speaker 1: Dan.
Speaker 4: This is absolute his hysteriousness. Because this plane landed in Toronto.
Speaker 4: The FAA had nothing to do with this plane. Descending landing,
Speaker 4: et cetera. And to try to tie this to Trump
Speaker 4: just makes them all the more ridiculous.
Speaker 2: They can't pick their battles.
Speaker 1: It really does. But listen, Tom's a smart guy. I
Speaker 1: knew him from his days here and NBC. Those are
Speaker 1: smart people, right. I mean, they have a lot of
Speaker 1: wrong leftist ideas things like that, but they're smart people intellectually.
Speaker 1: I think what's going on, Ryan, and I'm not privy
Speaker 1: to their daily ratings breakdown and all of that. I
Speaker 1: think what's going on is they're under tremendous pressure from
Speaker 1: their their viewership, you know which which is losing hope, right,
Speaker 1: under tremendous pressure from their viewership implicitly to go on
Speaker 1: the attack, to give them some reason to hope, to
Speaker 1: give them some reason to hope that Trump's going to fail,
Speaker 1: or those viewers are going to stop watching, right because
Speaker 1: if all they're ever going to see is the success
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump, which is ninety nine percent of the
Speaker 1: true news, they're going to stop watching. So that's what
Speaker 1: I think is going on. It's no less dishonest, it's
Speaker 1: and it's no less helpful to Trump. But I think
Speaker 1: that's what's behind this lunacy three oh three SEVENE three
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Speaker 2: Kim Cordova, president.
Speaker 1: Of the union that's been behind the King super strike,
Speaker 1: will join us at four thirty six. We'll get into
Speaker 1: the reasons to strike ended. And thank goodness it did.
Speaker 1: I saw there's a text today celebrating the fact that
Speaker 1: I can go back to King Soupers and get back
Speaker 1: to my regular peanut butter.
Speaker 2: So thank you to that texter.
Speaker 1: I know that seems small to most people, which kind
Speaker 1: of baffles me, because everybody has a favorite food, right
Speaker 1: and if you can't access that favorite food because of
Speaker 1: a strike, that's a little frustrating.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite food?
Speaker 4: Well, it's not peanut butter, and certainly not right before
Speaker 4: I go on the air, Dan, you really tempt fade
Speaker 4: every single day, and I admire your dedication to the
Speaker 4: peanut butter cause.
Speaker 2: Bro, it's a challenge.
Speaker 1: We all need that extra I mean, listen, when you've
Speaker 1: been on air almost thirty years, and maybe it's more
Speaker 1: than thirty years someday, can you figure that out for me?
Speaker 2: Sure? Okay, but you need.
Speaker 1: New challenges because you know the stuff you're bad at,
Speaker 1: you're not going to get better at. True, the stuff
Speaker 1: you're good at, you're probably as good as you're going
Speaker 1: to get. So you need some new challenges. So maybe
Speaker 1: like duct tape over the mouth, eating peanut butter?
Speaker 2: Are you going? I want to welcome Kelly back.
Speaker 1: Kelly's back from just one of the toughest things anybody
Speaker 1: ever has to do, which is burying her beloved father.
Speaker 2: But so glad to have Kelly back with us.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Dan, It's good to be back.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, returning one more time a week from Friday to
Speaker 8: do the celebration of life reception. And but it was, yes,
Speaker 8: probably the worst week of my life.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, everybody's right, everybody's when they lose a
Speaker 1: parent and then God forbid a child.
Speaker 2: I mean just yeah, the worst thing in the world.
Speaker 1: But so glad you're back with us. And it really
Speaker 1: is interesting, isn't it, Kelly? And I think it's great
Speaker 1: how things have changed and now often there's more time
Speaker 1: to plan that big celebration of life.
Speaker 2: It used to be that.
Speaker 1: Like clockwork, right, I mean, those weeks were going to
Speaker 1: happen in the first few days. The funeral had to
Speaker 1: happen within four or five days. But I think it's
Speaker 1: great now that there's more time.
Speaker 8: Well, he definitely. Both my parents made it very easy
Speaker 8: on all of us because they had pre planned this
Speaker 8: in twenty fourteen, so we didn't have to do a
Speaker 8: whole heck of a lot.
Speaker 2: Except for the.
Speaker 8: Picking out the burial clothes and you know, helping my
Speaker 8: mom with I thing. She's eighty one, so she's also,
Speaker 8: you know, not a sprite person to get around, and
Speaker 8: so it was good that Adam and I and the
Speaker 8: kids were there to help her go to the market
Speaker 8: and help her, you know, get herself.
Speaker 2: Boy, that is so true. Yeah, that is so true.
Speaker 2: And so YEAHM so so glad you're back.
Speaker 1: And Andy, after this break in Cordova, head of the union,
Speaker 1: will give you her tape on why the strike ended
Speaker 1: and whether there's another one coming down the pike. And
Speaker 1: then want to talk about these brave prominent restaurant owners
Speaker 1: in Denver who are saying to Mayor Johnston, this place
Speaker 1: is falling apart. Here on the Dan Kaplra show, get
Speaker 1: down close to zero, We'll keep you warm here at
Speaker 1: three oh three sevenon one three eight two five five
Speaker 1: text Dan five seven seven three nine. Hey, President of
Speaker 1: UFCW seven, Kim Cordova joins us talk about the end
Speaker 1: of the King super strike. We're hoping for quite a while. Kim,
Speaker 1: welcome back to the show.
Speaker 9: Hi damn, thank you for having me on.
Speaker 1: Well, sure thing, I think the big question people have
Speaker 1: is what ended the strike and is this just buying
Speaker 1: time or can we expect to be able to go
Speaker 1: to King soupers now for a long time to.
Speaker 9: Well, what happened was, in my opinion that what got
Speaker 9: us back together was we were successful in the restraining
Speaker 9: order case where the company attempted to well, they filed
Speaker 9: a complaint to seek a restraining order to limit the
Speaker 9: you know, how many people can strike or the strikers
Speaker 9: in general, and we were successful. So we went to
Speaker 9: court on Thursday last week. We got a decision late
Speaker 9: Friday evening and by Saturday, King sent a letter asking
Speaker 9: to go back to the table, which had not happened prior.
Speaker 9: But we negotiated over what that would look like, and
Speaker 9: so we didn't accept our offer, and we've set in
Speaker 9: terms of things that needed to be done in order
Speaker 9: for us to come back to the table. And so
Speaker 9: now we have an agreement to try to you know,
Speaker 9: hopefully work through you know, our proposals, and I'm hoping
Speaker 9: that the company negotiates with us.
Speaker 10: So, so, kid, is this a pause where we may
Speaker 10: see strikers back on the line in another week or
Speaker 10: two if the union doesn't feel the companies negotiating in
Speaker 10: good faith?
Speaker 2: Or is this a strike that has really ended?
Speaker 9: A strike is not? It's not totally ended for this
Speaker 9: particularly those particular ulps. That strike is over, but the
Speaker 9: we're you know, we're far from reaching the deal. We're
Speaker 9: so far apart. So right now, the parties have agreed
Speaker 9: that for at least one hundred dates they could not
Speaker 9: lock out the workers. So you know, they had the
Speaker 9: option to lock out, which we understand they were threatening
Speaker 9: to do. We can't strike for one hundred days and
Speaker 9: they cannot implement an offer for one hundred days, So
Speaker 9: you know, we have some time to try to work
Speaker 9: through it. And if not, I mean, you know, this
Speaker 9: might I'm hoping that we can reach an agreement, but
Speaker 9: if not, you know, we might have you know, we
Speaker 9: might continue the fight. I mean, the fight might happen
Speaker 9: outside of these stores.
Speaker 1: Again, Well, Kim, let me ask you, Kim, Cordova, UFCW
Speaker 1: seven President Kim. A lot of people are still confused
Speaker 1: as to what the reason is for the strike. So
Speaker 1: what exactly are you going to be negotiating right now?
Speaker 9: So right now we're trying to negotiate successor agreements. We're
Speaker 9: negotiating for all the unionized stores for Kingsupers are on
Speaker 9: the front range of Colorado, southern Colorado and the western
Speaker 9: slopes of city markets. We have sixteen collective bargaining agreements
Speaker 9: that we're negotiating over. We have, you know, city market
Speaker 9: king Soopers. So there's about twenty i'm sorry, around twelve
Speaker 9: thousand workers that these contracts cover, and so we are
Speaker 9: trying to reach successor agreements now.
Speaker 2: But we may interrupt and I'm so sorry, just our
Speaker 2: time constraints.
Speaker 1: What are the big issues though, because after we talked
Speaker 1: last a lot of listeners had the good question, Wait
Speaker 1: a second, it sounds like it's not over money. So
Speaker 1: it's not over pay raises. It might be over having
Speaker 1: more staffing. But but but what is the primary point
Speaker 1: of contention right now?
Speaker 9: Well, there's several one. Staffing it's the number one you know,
Speaker 9: it's the number one issue. We are trying to address.
Speaker 9: So there's chronic staffing issues like I explained last time
Speaker 9: we spoke. But also there are proposals on the table
Speaker 9: that the company has regarding healthcare, you know, pension and
Speaker 9: our retiree benefit. We have a down alone retire refund
Speaker 9: in the company's proposing to take eight million dollars and
Speaker 9: divert the money that would go into that fund into
Speaker 9: another fund, and that would hurt a very vulnerable group
Speaker 9: of we're you know, people that live on limited income,
Speaker 9: and that's we're not going to allow that. There's also
Speaker 9: we are actuary show that we're going to be about
Speaker 9: forty one million dollars short on healthcare if we were
Speaker 9: to agree to the company's proposal. We're not going to
Speaker 9: agree to that. Our members just want to be able
Speaker 9: to have you know, these stores fully staffed. They want
Speaker 9: investment in staffing. Safety is a big deal. Like I
Speaker 9: told you a lot of that. They have the shop
Speaker 9: listing our members in the middle of all of the
Speaker 9: crime that goes on and in these stores. But also
Speaker 9: they want the ability to afford to buy the groceries
Speaker 9: that they sell. And so even though King Soopers is
Speaker 9: all over the airways and that they're offering a four
Speaker 9: dollars and fifty cent wage increase that's over four years
Speaker 9: and only to selected votes, so when we haven't got
Speaker 9: to economics on our side yet. But their wage increases
Speaker 9: are zero to twenty five percent for thousands of workers.
Speaker 9: And so I mean, obviously that's the point of contention.
Speaker 9: But healthcare, you know, we'll be bargaining over healthcare. We
Speaker 9: submitted a proposal of the company will not agree to
Speaker 9: as well as they're not offering any new money to
Speaker 9: our pension plans, and so you know, that's the economic
Speaker 9: piece of it. But the big piece is really that
Speaker 9: we have been trying to get the company to recognize
Speaker 9: that there are chronic staffing issues in those stores. The
Speaker 9: customers see that when they're waiting in long lines, they
Speaker 9: see empty shelves, they see departments closing early, and we've
Speaker 9: seen an eighteen percent reduction since COVID. So even though
Speaker 9: these stores are doing quite well, they are not replacing
Speaker 9: bodies in the store, and there's not hours allocated to
Speaker 9: actually perform the work.
Speaker 2: Thank ye, let me ask you this if I may.
Speaker 1: Our friend Jimmy Sangenberger, who's on this station, sometimes wrote
Speaker 1: a column for the Denver Gazette with the headline strike
Speaker 1: serves outside agenda, not local workers, and in part talked
Speaker 1: about West Coast unions that it talked about, how, you know,
Speaker 1: if they want to see local unions here, et cetera,
Speaker 1: help them on the West coast transform the grocery indus street.
Speaker 1: So is this a case where this strike was motivated
Speaker 1: more by people outside of Colorado wanting to increase the
Speaker 1: overall strength of the union rather than local issues.
Speaker 9: No, not at all. We may have we're the UFCW
Speaker 9: and other unions represent workers with Kroger and Saeguay and Alberson's,
Speaker 9: and there's systemic problems within the industry, but our strike
Speaker 9: and our negotiations they're over our Colorado workers. They actually
Speaker 9: take the vote, they walked out, you know. And so
Speaker 9: this is these are local issues. I mean, we we
Speaker 9: have other local unions around the country that have the
Speaker 9: same type of you know, problems with Kroger and all that.
Speaker 9: But when you talk about local or outside issue, Safeway
Speaker 9: is I mean Kroger King Soopers is bargaining and coordinating
Speaker 9: with Safeway, a whole different company, a different employer and
Speaker 9: their competitor, and they brought in out side workers from
Speaker 9: staffing agencies from the South to cross the picket line
Speaker 9: and help move the company's agenda. So I didn't see
Speaker 9: that piece about it. But this doesn't have anything to
Speaker 9: do with West Coast and moving a West Coast agenda.
Speaker 9: It's that we have common employers. We are one union
Speaker 9: where the UFCW have the same international union, and our
Speaker 9: interests we've you know, we had a coalition that to
Speaker 9: block the merger. We were against the merger and our
Speaker 9: interests were the same. I mean, we knew it all.
Speaker 2: It's so sorry interrupt.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you one more question before the end
Speaker 1: of this segment, and that is I'm sure a lot
Speaker 1: of people listening have the same attitude I do, which
Speaker 1: is why it looks like to strike largely succeeded. We
Speaker 1: like King Soopers, we like the store, we like the company,
Speaker 1: we like the people who work there. We want to
Speaker 1: support the workers. At the same time, everybody listened, money's tight,
Speaker 1: So I'm sure a question on folks minds is, okay,
Speaker 1: is this now, this success by the union going to
Speaker 1: mean that groceries become more expensive for the people listening
Speaker 1: to this show.
Speaker 9: No, not at all. We haven't even gotcha economics. The
Speaker 9: company is, you know, they have self checkout. You've seen
Speaker 9: that the workers are not to blame for these high prices.
Speaker 9: Everybody on your show, folks shouldn't give the path path
Speaker 9: to Kroger when they just gave their shareholders seven point
Speaker 9: five billion dollars in stop buybacks. And again, this is
Speaker 9: a company that's very successful. The workers only want a
Speaker 9: piece of the wealth that they create. They haven't received
Speaker 9: a wage increase. Well, so when grocery prices are going up,
Speaker 9: you're going through self checkout and you're having to do
Speaker 9: a lot of this work at the register, and your
Speaker 9: prices haven't went down. So while workers are doing more work,
Speaker 9: they are not being able to give the level of
Speaker 9: service for the price of the goods that are being
Speaker 9: sold at that store. Our members are investors, their stakeholders.
Speaker 9: They have to be able to even afford to buy
Speaker 9: the groceries in their own stores, you know. And that's
Speaker 9: the thing. And by the way, most of our members
Speaker 9: are part time. And so when they're talking about a
Speaker 9: four dollars fifty cent rate, the general public thinks that
Speaker 9: things workers are getting that off the bat. Only selected workers,
Speaker 9: thousands of workers under the company's proposal with see zero
Speaker 9: to twenty five cents on part time hours.
Speaker 1: And Kim, I have to get out right now for
Speaker 1: a heartbreak, but thank you for being with us. And
Speaker 1: I think the reason the strike succeeded is I think
Speaker 1: people's experience over the years and decades with the King Soopers.
Speaker 2: Employees they come in contact with has been.
Speaker 1: Universally positive and so yeah, and everybody wants that to continue.
Speaker 2: Kim, thanks for your time today.
Speaker 9: Thanks Dan, Happy, thank you you.
Speaker 1: Take care of that is Kim Cordova from the union.
Speaker 1: When we come back Denver restaurant owners telling Mayor Johnston
Speaker 1: the city is falling apart around them.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Kapla show.
Speaker 11: Well, he was standing in a country where free speech
Speaker 11: was weaponized to kentuct a genocide, and he met with
Speaker 11: the head of a political party that has far right
Speaker 11: views and some historic ties to extreme groups. The context
Speaker 11: of that was changing the tone of it, and you
Speaker 11: know that that the censorship.
Speaker 6: I disagree with you specifically about the right now I
Speaker 6: have to disagree with you.
Speaker 1: It has to be one of the top five stupidest
Speaker 1: things ever said on television anywhere.
Speaker 2: In the world.
Speaker 1: And you know me, I don't use that word stupid
Speaker 1: as a pejorative. I only use it when there's no
Speaker 1: other word that will capture it. That's Margaret Brennan. She
Speaker 1: is an intelligent person. Now she's a Lefty, so she
Speaker 1: has a lot of bad ideas, but she's an intelligent person.
Speaker 1: So she's sitting there on National TV in America saying
Speaker 1: that the horrors of the Holocaust were caused by free speech.
Speaker 2: I mean, an infant.
Speaker 1: Would know that's laughable. So what's really going on. That's
Speaker 1: my point. My point isn't oh, look at Margaret Brennan,
Speaker 1: she's stupid. No, My point is that what the left
Speaker 1: has realized right now and what it realized a long
Speaker 1: time ago, is if there is free speech, the left loses.
Speaker 1: It's that simple. If there is free speech, the left
Speaker 1: loses because the left's ideas are bad that the facts
Speaker 1: disproved the left, logic disproves the left, basic morality disproves
Speaker 1: the left. So if people are allowed free speech, the
Speaker 1: left loses. That's what those comments were all about. So
Speaker 1: now Margaret Brennan, at the level of top level of
Speaker 1: CBS and faced the nation has to take the position
Speaker 1: that it's free speech that caused the Holocaust. That's how
Speaker 1: dangerous free speech is. So that's what's really going on,
Speaker 1: and that's another reason this last election was so critical.
Speaker 1: His free speech was on the line, and it's just
Speaker 1: like Polish. He came out the day after he was
Speaker 1: elected governor and said, now people have to keep their
Speaker 1: faith out of the public square. And that's another version
Speaker 1: of this right because he knows if people practice their faith,
Speaker 1: if they vote their faith, the left loses.
Speaker 2: Same point.
Speaker 1: If people are free, free to practice their religion freely
Speaker 1: and openly, free to live their religion, including in the
Speaker 1: way they vote. And that doesn't mean Catholics voting for Catholics. Hey,
Speaker 1: some of the worst you know people out there when
Speaker 1: it comes to undermining church teaching when they're elected office,
Speaker 1: are Catholics. No, this is about vote being the principles
Speaker 1: of your face. So police knows the left nose. If
Speaker 1: if people have free speech, freedom of religion, the left loses.
Speaker 1: That's why Margaret Brennan was driven to say something that
Speaker 1: stupid and crazy. They are desperate on the left, and
Speaker 1: that's good because they're exposing themselves now for who they
Speaker 1: really are. Let's go to Dean and Arvada to kick
Speaker 1: off our callers. You're on the Dan Kaplis show. Welcome Dan,
Speaker 1: He Dan.
Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 2: I am living the dream? How about you?
Speaker 3: Yun about that?
Speaker 9: Hey?
Speaker 3: It was calling. The last Hilary had was the lady
Speaker 3: from King Supers, the head of the year. The question
Speaker 3: I have is the question I have is why she's
Speaker 3: so concerned about staffing. She's not one Looking at propt
Speaker 3: and Lost Stavens. People only get eight hours of workout
Speaker 3: of them. It's not like they're doing the job of
Speaker 3: three people.
Speaker 2: Oh but forgive me, my friend.
Speaker 1: Have you been in an understaffed situation and your experience
Speaker 1: sat King Supers, because you're gonna have yours.
Speaker 3: I own, I own two companies.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, So do you shop at King Soupers?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, so you can size it up for yourself. My
Speaker 1: experience is that people who work at King Supers are great,
Speaker 1: and that there is understaffing, and that understaffing affects the
Speaker 1: consumer experience. But I've got to believe it makes it
Speaker 1: harder on each worker.
Speaker 2: I understand.
Speaker 3: I honestly, I haven't seen problems with my customer service.
Speaker 3: Do you self checkout four different ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I hate it, and listen, I do a
Speaker 1: lot of tough stuff.
Speaker 2: I do a lot of hard work. I hate self checkout.
Speaker 1: If I'm about to pay one hundred and two hundred
Speaker 1: bucks for groceries, I at least want to wheel my
Speaker 1: card and have a nice conversation with the cashier. I
Speaker 1: don't want to go and be scanning my barcodes. I
Speaker 1: know it sounds small. I just hate it, so more
Speaker 1: and more often I have to self check out. That
Speaker 1: affects my customer experience. You may enjoy self checkout for
Speaker 1: other people. I could see it being arresting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually do like it. Okay, Look, I mean
Speaker 3: that's the only issue is the stuff checkout. It seems
Speaker 3: like you know, she's worried about I mean she's not
Speaker 3: why on the bottom line of these stores?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: But but how is the bottom line at King Sooper's
Speaker 1: Right now? It looks pretty good to me? I mean,
Speaker 1: what what?
Speaker 2: What was?
Speaker 1: And this is not a fair question to you. You're
Speaker 1: a hard working man, you're running your businesses. You don't
Speaker 1: have time to look at this stuff. But what would
Speaker 1: you guess that the profit net bottom line profit, not
Speaker 1: gross revenue net profit of Kroger was last year.
Speaker 3: Well, I heard it was billions. I don't know if
Speaker 3: it's sure enough.
Speaker 2: Seven and a half? What billion?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I think it was more like three and
Speaker 1: a half. But they're not going broken. And hey, my friend,
Speaker 1: you're you're a great caller. I'm a business owner like
Speaker 1: you are. I'm sensitive to all the same issues you are.
Speaker 1: If you want to hang on, we'd love to have you.
Speaker 1: You're on the Dankapla Show.