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Monique Buchanan 0:40
Well, hello, Las Vegas. It's Monique Buchanan, the host of the Welcome Home with Monique show. And I want to thank you so much for joining us today. Hey, this is a show where we talk all things real estate community, just trying to, you know, do our best to make a difference here in our Las Vegas valley. All right, so before we get started, I want to share something personal with you guys. So, I don't know if you know this. You guys know you're my family, but I tell y'all everything. I am a huge supporter of our unions. Why am I such a huge supporter? Well, my father was a member of the culinary union for over 20 years. I grew up, and I got to see firsthand what the unions can do for your family, okay? I know what they did for my family. They provided us health benefits. They stood behind my father when he was wrongfully reprimanded at work. They helped protect his job, and they even got or recovered his wages that he lost while he was off work, right? So they went to battle for him at 1516, years old, I seen that firsthand. We were scared, we were nervous, right? But all those fears went away when my father was able to say these words. I filed a grievance. I said, 'Dad, what does that mean, sweetheart? I have the union behind me. I am a union member. So that never ever left me. I always thought to myself, wow, that was powerful to have that backing. So, because of that support, my father was able to retire. He was able to purchase a home, because when he did retire, he was given a lump sum. He bought himself a home 18 years later. My father is still receiving retirement benefits from his union that supported him. All right, so I know firsthand that unions can truly make a difference in people's lives. So, joining us today, my co-host Becky Coynes, of course, who herself previously served as a union representative for the culinary union. So, this topic is not just near and dear to my heart, but also Becky's, and we're super excited to welcome Matt and Johnny from Teamsters Local 14, honey, my husband is a Teamsters Local 14 member. Just shouts out to Teamsters, shouts out to all the members of the union. But we're gonna go ahead and learn more about what the union does, the benefits they provide, and how they help working families throughout the community, Matt, Johnny, Becky, thank you all for being here. And why don't we start by having each one of you introduce yourselves, or at least Matt and Johnny, and tell our listeners a little bit about what you do with the union, who you are.
Johnny Ortega 3:16
Well, thanks, Monique, it's a nice story, you know, and it segues, segues right into what, what we're going to be jumping into, but my name is Johnny Ortega. I've been with Teamsters Local 14 for 33 years. I currently represent the Clark County School District, Boulder City, North Las Vegas. I service about 1100 members myself.
Monique Buchanan 3:39
Wow,
Johnny Ortega 3:40
yeah, it's a lot. In again, it's an honor to be working with Local 14 and being a member myself for that long, that long a period of time.
Monique Buchanan 3:49
Absolutely, love it. Talk with you, Matt.
Matt Lundy 3:52
Thanks, Mo. My name is Matt Lundy. I'm the organizing coordinator for Teamsters Local 14 here in Las Vegas. My journey in organized labor started in the mid 90s, actually, before that, but I went through my first organizing campaign as a non-union worker. At that time, we didn't know what our rights were, we didn't know what to expect from management, we didn't know what was illegal or not, right? And so we muscled our way through it. We lost, right? We didn't really know what we were doing. Fast forward, I moved to Las Vegas in 2000 and got hired in a warehouse. There was a campaign going on, never made it to an election. Third time around was the charm, right? We, we got our stuff together, and we organized in 2008 and I volunteered a lot of time with the union as an organizer, had the opportunity to work directly for our international in DC. I did that for the last 11 years, and now I'm back home working with Teamsters Local 14. My role in the local union is to help workers exercise their federally protected right to organize, inform their union, fight for better wages, benefits, and working conditions.
Monique Buchanan 4:53
Great job, Matt. And you know what's crazy, even when I had my first job, even, you know, first, second, third. Heard you know that that thing is on the wall that tells you your rights, but nobody hardly reads that, right? So I always would pass it up, and I never really knew what my rights were as a worker, you know. So, so, anyways, Becky, why don't we start with this question? What is the union, you guys? What is the union?
Matt Lundy 5:19
My definition of a union is workers that come together to get their rights put in writing in the form of a contract, a legally binding agreement, also known as a collective bargaining agreement, but outlines your wages, your benefits, your working conditions. It's a contract that the workers propose in terms of, they help negotiate at the bargaining table, and they vote whether they accept or not.
Monique Buchanan 5:40
That's good answer. If
Matt Lundy 5:41
you think about contracts in our country, if you think about Wall Street, Goldman and Sachs, and the Koch brothers, the wealthy elite, if you will, right? When they do business on a daily business, they won't do it unless it's protected in writing.
Monique Buchanan 5:54
That's right.
Matt Lundy 5:55
So, why can't the women and men who make those people successful be afforded the same protection?
Monique Buchanan 6:00
Absolutely, and that's
Matt Lundy 6:00
what it really comes down to, right? I know in
Monique Buchanan 6:02
real estate we don't do anything unless it's in right, that's right, that's right. So, I will say one of the things that being part of a union does is it makes sure that you have better wages and benefits, which actually help my buyers purchase homes, right, and become homeowners, right? Right. So, all right, so we've got what a union pretty much is, is making sure you're protected, and that's via contract, especially in a state
Becky Coins 6:28
like ours. We're a right to work state,
Johnny Ortega 6:30
that's right,
Becky Coins 6:30
right to work.
Monique Buchanan 6:31
Yes. Now, what does that mean, you guys? What does that mean? I remember when I came here, I came from Seattle, Washington, and that was not so. Now we come here and they say, oh, it's a right to work state. What does that mean for somebody that's out there listening? What does that actually mean? But
Matt Lundy 6:48
you already gave me the wink. So, a lot of times, right to work and being at will get confused, right? There's a difference between an at-will employee and a right to work employee. Nevada is a right to work state, which essentially, at the end of the day, means you do not have to be a union member to enjoy the benefits of the collective bargaining agreement, right? So it's a lot of work for representatives, right, and all the labor organizations to make sure that the members, or that the workers, understand the importance of being a member, and I'll give you a brief example, when we go into negotiations, the first thing the employer does to demonstrate to test the strength of the unit is they look at how many members are within that unit. So, if you have a group of 100 people and only 30 are members of the union, you do not have a lot of leverage as a worker to negotiate a strong contract.
Monique Buchanan 7:37
You don't have the numbers right, so
Johnny Ortega 7:38
numbers, numbers matter, numbers matter always. So,
Monique Buchanan 7:42
what's your saying is that, so you could, you could have the union there, but, uh, but the majority of the workers may not even be part of the union,
Matt Lundy 7:51
correct? In a right-to-work state,
Becky Coins 7:52
yeah. Look at, in like, even with culinary, we're in the casino, we have multiple departments that aren't part of a union, we have non-the dealers aren't union. Oh, yeah, yeah, so you're in a casino that is, but that weakens your
Monique Buchanan 8:05
position, that weakens the workers' position. It
Matt Lundy 8:09
can absolutely,
Becky Coins 8:10
it absolutely can
Monique Buchanan 8:11
power numbers, that's right. Yeah,
Matt Lundy 8:13
and part of our role and part of our job is helping workers understand the leverage that they have when they stand together, because the more members that are the louder voice they have to accomplish what they're bargaining for at the table,
Monique Buchanan 8:24
so I know that even with us being realtors, we are very strong, right? We're not a union, but we are, I guess, a group, but we have our membership,
Becky Coins 8:32
yeah, yeah, we have a
Monique Buchanan 8:32
membership. I know we get laws passed when we speak, because there's power in numbers, like you said, when you, we get laws, yeah, when you organize things happen, they listen to our representatives when they go to DC, and they say, "Hey, we want to protect our constituents or our members. They listen because we are a huge group, so power in numbers, you guys. So, if you're working somewhere that has the union, you're telling me that if they're not part of the membership, they can still reap the benefits of the union.
Johnny Ortega 9:04
That's correct.
Monique Buchanan 9:06
Why would they not want to be part of the membership?
Johnny Ortega 9:10
Just lack of knowledge. Yeah. Well, thank God we're gonna teach it today, right? Right. And again, you know, I deal with Clark County School District on a daily basis, and I have about 397 skilled trade members there, and I'm worldly at 50% membership there, and you try to educate those guys every single day, and let them understand what the benefits are, you know, every day I represent them when they get in trouble, and so it's just another thing that we do for our members, they don't understand. Okay, they don't get it. I'm just gonna go ahead now. My
Monique Buchanan 9:46
listeners know me, they know I keep it 100 so I'm gonna have to go ahead and be 100 with this. I just recently, I think I know now, it's starting to come to me. I have a friend who is a. Yeah, well, let me just say, I know somebody, okay? And she was saying that she does not pay. This is what she was talking about. She says she doesn't pay the membership dues, but she reaps the benefits. So, why in the world would they reap the benefits if they don't pay the dues? And you said that's just because that's the law.
Matt Lundy 10:17
It's the law, okay?
Monique Buchanan 10:18
Well, what do they not get? They can't. I know they don't get to go to Wet and Wild for free, like we do. Johnny,
Becky Coins 10:23
I'll tell you what they don't get to Wet and
Monique Buchanan 10:25
Wild. I'll tell you what they don't
Becky Coins 10:26
understand. In my opinion, from all the work that I have done, is again like he said, misinformation. You think you're getting one over because I'm getting all the protections. What you're doing is you are watering down your power, so you think you have power, but you don't, and over the years you are eating away at what you have built and what everybody else before you has built that you have, and you are destroying it in real time, and you don't realize it.
Monique Buchanan 10:52
Give me layman's terms. Tell me what I'm telling me. Okay, let's pretend that I don't. Let's pretend I don't pay for union. Tell me, what am I going to miss out on?
Matt Lundy 11:00
So, if you're, if you're not a member of the union, right, you do not have access to access to the union hall, to the meetings, right? You cannot vote on shop stewards, you cannot vote on your contract, right, except for the first contract. So I can't chime in, you can't participate, right? You don't say what's important to me, I have no voice,
Matt Lundy 11:19
right. And a lot of times they kind of subscribe to that demonization process about the unions we spoke to, spoke about outside, right, but they don't realize that they are the union, they're part of the union, when you're a union member, you're the union, it's not Johnny Ortega, right, it's not anybody at the union hall, bottom up, it's you acting collectively with your coworkers to affect change, and that's what it comes down to. A lot of the mindset for the folks that don't understand that yet is they think the union's a night on a white horse that rides in is going to save the day for them, when in actuality it's them having the ability to save themselves.
Becky Coins 11:55
Okay, okay. If you don't know your contract, how do you know that they've wronged you?
Johnny Ortega 12:00
If
Becky Coins 12:00
you don't know what your rules and what's expected of you, how do you know that your boss is getting one over on you? How do you know that you're able to fight something, because a lot of them, in my, and like I said, I know that there's, you know, some overlay between the different unions, they all have their own different rules and how they handle different things, but I know my experience in the casino, a lot of our boss's attitude was just, you know, they would do it first and see what happens, like they know they're breaking a rule, they know the
Monique Buchanan 12:25
bosses right now, want to make sure everybody understands, correct? Yes, yeah,
Becky Coins 12:28
so the company, the company, the bosses, anything that's going on, we test the waters, yeah, they'll test the waters in violating your rights or going against your contract to see what you're going to do about it, and if you don't know that that is not what's supposed to happen to you, you don't go ask your questions, you don't vote on these things, you don't know that that's what's supposed to happen, you're not filing your grievances and fighting, so they're getting away with it, and then they get away with it one time, two times, 10 times, now you're creating a precedence. Well, you guys let it go,
Johnny Ortega 12:56
that's right, that's a good
Monique Buchanan 12:58
point,
Becky Coins 12:58
you know what I mean, like you guys let this go for the last two years, that's the rule that you guys have been following. What do you mean? We've been doing it. Nobody said anything.
Wesley Knight 13:06
Monique Buchanan has served the community for over 10 years, helping homeowners, probate families, first-time buyers with zero down grants, and investors nationwide, serving all 50 states and 24 countries worldwide. 702-984-3700 at Realtor Monique Buchanan on Instagram, the Monique Buchanan team experience you can trust. And now back to the Welcome Home Show. And so, if I can add something, because just to kind of jump on what you're saying, is when we take a group through the organizing process, the goal is to negotiate a strong contract, right? It's not just to win the election or whatever that recognition process looks like, but the goal, the textbook answer is to negotiate a strong contract. I would argue it goes beyond that. I want to build militant membership that's going to police that contract, right? To your point,
Monique Buchanan 13:54
yeah,
Matt Lundy 13:54
they're going to hold the company accountable, right? Legally, both both parties, the union and, or the workers, the union and the employer have to abide by the terms in that agreement, right. So I want militant membership that's militant enough, that's active enough to pick up the phone when their brothers and sisters need help to answer that call, to defend their contract, police their contract. It's important in building a stronger union,
Monique Buchanan 14:18
and that's part of being in the union, being an actual paid member, where you're in those meetings and you understand that contract and you know what to look out for, that's really good points, you guys. So, let's go on to who are the teamsters, and, honey, if you don't know who the teamsters are, but who are the teamsters today?
Johnny Ortega 14:35
Well, Teamsters is started back in 1903 yeah, they've been around a long time,
Monique Buchanan 14:40
long time,
Johnny Ortega 14:40
people don't realize that these horses that we wear every single day have names, right? It's thunder and lightning, where those names came from. You know, there's two unions that came together, and I know Matt, you know, he's amazing with this, the history on that. And so I'm gonna let him turn and turn that over. He can talk about that a little bit more than I can, but you. Again, maybe in a 33 year member here in Las Vegas, you know, and working with these organizations here, but Teamsters Local 14, we handle all the truck drivers, warehouse, local governments, stuff like that, like your husband, like you said, you know, city for the city of North Las Vegas, the only one here in this valley that we don't represent the city of Las Vegas in Clark County. Okay, we go as far as all the way out to Mesquite, Overton, Caliente, so we have school district in Clark County School District as well. Yeah,
Matt Lundy 15:36
yeah, so there's there's no beverage that's delivered in the city unless it's touched by a teamster, right? So we warehouse it and we deliver it. There's not a child that goes to school in Clark County School District that's not delivered to that school safely by a teamster, right? The folks for my
Monique Buchanan 15:52
bus drivers out there that's listening, that's
Matt Lundy 15:54
it. The AC units on the schools, right, they're maintained by Teamsters. The schools are cleaned by Teamsters, right, and that's just at CCSD, and, like Johnny said, we represent public municipal employees, Boulder City, City of North Las Vegas. We have CCSd. We have a lot of the liquor distribution in town, whether it's soda or alcohol, you know. We represent a lot of different bakeries, some linen companies. Our local has about 5000 members in Southern Nevada, and that's 5000 out of the 20,000 amongst all the Teamster locals in Southern Nevada.
Monique Buchanan 16:26
Wow, so,
Matt Lundy 16:27
and real quick, just to give you some bullet points, 1903 we've been around 123 years,
Monique Buchanan 16:33
123 years,
Matt Lundy 16:35
and it's not because we don't fight for the membership, right? You wouldn't be
Monique Buchanan 16:38
around 123 years if you could get voted out, just like you get
Matt Lundy 16:41
voted in, that's
Monique Buchanan 16:43
powerful, and you know we have a real strong Teamsters history here in Las Vegas.
Matt Lundy 16:50
Absolutely, and it's only grown, man, so that's really
Monique Buchanan 16:52
good. So, why is it important for workers to have the union? What would you say, Johnny? What makes it important? One thing,
Johnny Ortega 16:59
well, again, we've touched on that numerous times already, but it's their voice and them being the member, right? You know, and again, I mentioned to you earlier that I take care of a lot of people in the government agencies, and you know, they don't understand that they are the union, right. You touched on it several times, and and you tried to explain the benefits of being a union member, you know, it's kind of like car insurance, you don't need it until you need it, right? And you get members calling all the time, hey, I want to join, and the reason why they are in trouble now, they need you, yeah, they're in trouble,
Monique Buchanan 17:32
something's happened,
Johnny Ortega 17:33
every CEO in this, in this valley has a contract, you know, why not the employee, absolutely, you know, you try to make sure that they understand the benefits of being a member for the long haul, right? It's a career, it's not just a job that you're going to be there for a year or two. This is a career when you're a Teamster member, it's a career that is a really good point.
Becky Coins 17:56
And people take for granted, they don't, I mean, in this day and age, please forgive me, my fellow union members that I've worked with for so many years, but we get complacent and lazy. I mean, we really, really do the things that you have now were, you know, came about from the backs of people for, you know, you have a weekend because of a union, right? You only have to work eight hours without, you know, anything over that is overtime pay. Thank a union member for that. Like, people don't understand, and this goes for our non-union people all around the city. They get to reap those benefits that these unions fought for with these companies,
Monique Buchanan 18:33
right? They put that in place. Your retirement pension, yes, union, they have training and career growth union, you know, supporting families with paid sick leave, sick time, family benefits, you know, livable wage, livable wage, like Johnny said, you have a voice at work, you know, when it comes to coming together and speaking up about wages, benefits, and your working conditions, union, union, union, home ownership opportunities, like I said, union safer worker place because of the union overtime pay 40 hour work weeks. Why, Becky,
Becky Coins 19:09
thank a union member,
Monique Buchanan 19:10
think the union, you know, nobody's trying to hit you over the head. It's been 123 years of them proving that they have your back. Job protection union, right?
Becky Coins 19:20
I'll never forget working, going from.. and don't get me wrong, I was raised in a union family, my family on my dad's side, union carpenters, lathers, the whole trades on that side, my grandmother, my grandfather, culinary union, so I mean, my family all union, but when I first started in the casino business, I worked non-union for a long time, didn't know any better, so I was good. I'm making good money. Yeah, me too. I was, take.. I thought I was taken care of well.
Monique Buchanan 19:45
Well, they didn't have union where we worked, me and Becky used to work together.
Becky Coins 19:48
Yeah,
Monique Buchanan 19:48
and they didn't have.. they didn't have.. we will
Becky Coins 19:51
leave that part out. They didn't have a union. The union left that one alone, because that one ran it like a union, because he kind of.. I think knew better. I think he understood, treat your employees well. Well, they'll treat you well, so yeah, but guess what? Let me just stop you real quick, because he treated me
Monique Buchanan 20:04
well. But guess what? 15 years in, I walked away with nothing.
Becky Coins 20:07
Yes, but
Monique Buchanan 20:07
whereas if I would have stayed at Bally's with the union, and this is my personal story, now that you're bringing that up, as you know, guys, before I was in the casino business for 15 years, slanging drinks, I was a cocktail waitress, y'all. Anyways, I got hired at Bally's at 21 and I quit Bally's and went over to a different place. I'll just say that, and it was a local spot. The local spot made more money in tips, maybe like 50, maybe 50 bucks more, whatever, maybe 100 And to me, I'm 21 you know? I don't know the benefits, I'm not thinking about it like that, not thinking long term, working your
Becky Coins 20:42
way up retirement.
Monique Buchanan 20:44
Yeah, not thinking about my health care, not thinking about how they skipped over that and gave that girl that pip pit position when it was really mine, and I couldn't do anything about
Becky Coins 20:53
it. Yep,
Monique Buchanan 20:54
I wasn't thinking about that, but that was $100,000 change in my income that I got skipped over, and I had nobody to go complain to, because I was not union. That's exactly what, yeah,
Becky Coins 21:04
that's exactly what I was getting at, like working at that non-union job, which I thought everything was great. Yeah, and then things started to deteriorate over time, so things are going. They used to play with our
Monique Buchanan 21:14
seniority. Yes, they were one day we were housed, then we were this, then they decided to make us over this. So, you guys, it's so important. 15 years of my life I sat there at was loyal to this company, and I love it. I loved it, but let me tell you, when I walked away, I walked away with nothing. My dad did the exact same thing in a union, he walked away with a pension, he walked away with a lump sum, and he's still to this day collecting checks from his union, but to
Becky Coins 21:42
go back to the other stuff too, like I'll never forget the day that I walked in to my union job, brand new, and I'm looking at these girls and the way that they're with their management, you can't do that, and I was like, you can say you can say that to your boss of a job, what do you mean for yourself, they were like, you're allowed to do that. Our contract says you can add, you cannot take away. This is my station. I had this. This is what I was like at that other job. There's no way in the world I would have said a word to tell you to hit the door.
Johnny Ortega 22:13
That's right, yeah.
Becky Coins 22:14
And I was like, what, what are you guys talking about? What's this contract? What do you mean? And I dove in head first.
Monique Buchanan 22:21
So, guys, if you're just tuning in, this is the Monique Buchanan Show, and we talk all things real estate and community. Today, we have a mr. Johnny and mr. Matt on from the local Teamsters 14 union, and they're just kind of going over everything that you know, maybe the questions that you guys have about what is a union, what do they do for you, and things like that, so we're just going over all these things, and if you have any questions, you can reach out to them at their website,
Matt Lundy 22:46
Teamsters fourteen.com
Monique Buchanan 22:48
Teamsters fourteen.com Listen, they're willing to talk, probably willing to come out and talk to your people, you know, if you're interested in bringing the unit to your job. So once again, Teamsters 14.com One more question, are you guys currently organizing any groups?
Matt Lundy 23:06
Yes, we are currently. Actually, we just wrapped up a group that we organized in Henderson, but right now we're working with EMTs and paramedics in the city of Las Vegas and Clark County with a company called AMR.
Monique Buchanan 23:16
Oh, good AMR, AMR Medical Response in
Matt Lundy 23:20
Midwest. Okay, people don't understand the hardships that the paramedics and EMTs in our city. If you
Monique Buchanan 23:27
watch that movie on Netflix, you understand it. I just watched that movie, it opened my eyes all the way up about three. Yes, yes,
Matt Lundy 23:33
I did the job in 29 years ago, 1990 Did
Monique Buchanan 23:36
you do the job,
Matt Lundy 23:37
and not much has changed?
Monique Buchanan 23:39
Oh, wow, I was
Matt Lundy 23:40
making 1250 an hour, and up here, unfortunately, they're starting these folks 13 $14 You're telling me the people that say people's lives are making just above
Monique Buchanan 23:50
minimum wage. As
Matt Lundy 23:51
an EMT and paramedics, average rate is between 25 and $26 an hour. We have members that work in our beverage distribution facilities making well over $30 an hour with a pension and employer paid health care. These folks are dealing with non-livable wages, obviously they're dealing with inadequate health care, inoperable equipment.
Monique Buchanan 24:11
No,
Matt Lundy 24:11
and so they're fighting to change those things. Oh, God bless you guys, they're coming together. And people, you know, when you see them on the side of the road, you just assume they're part of the fire department and they've got it made, and you know, and they're just, they're doing well, but they're not.
Monique Buchanan 24:24
Yeah, and
Matt Lundy 24:24
for me, the reason it's important is not only that I want to live in a fair and equitable community, but I want to live in a safe community, right?
Monique Buchanan 24:31
Yeah, absolutely. And
Matt Lundy 24:32
these folks, aside from our school bus drivers that we represent, transport our most valuable cargo, cargo, absolutely, you know, those are our mothers, our daughters, our grandchildren in the back of those ambulances, in probably the most traumatizing point of that person's life. Absolutely, the last thing that I want is my daughter to be in the back of that ambulance, and that paramedic or that EMT is in a position where they don't know if they're going to put food on the table at night, right, or make their rent, right, so. The impact the health of our EMS folks directly impacts the health of our community. So, this is a social justice campaign.
Monique Buchanan 25:06
I love that. I love that. I'm glad that you guys are doing that
Matt Lundy 25:09
right. If you want more information, you can. If you feel, you can go on to the website, heroshotnstruggle.com
Monique Buchanan 25:15
Heroes shouldn't struggle.com That's right. Heroes shouldn't struggle. Is there anything that the
Becky Coins 25:21
community can do now about with that?
Matt Lundy 25:22
If you access the website, there's a link. We have a change.org petition on there. We are, we have got a lot of community support. We've got some support from our elected officials, as you know, there it's silly season as far as politics goes. So, a lot of people are looking for endorsements, and we have some elects that are willing to go on record and support these when the time's right. We also have some reporters that want to do articles and things like that. So we've developed an infrastructure, a lot of love and warmth around these folks. And right now we're just busy out in the street talking. That's where I'm headed after I get off the air, is to go and talk to these workers. Well, you
Monique Buchanan 25:56
definitely have my support on that. If there's any way I can help as well, mine as well, shouldn't struggle.com I love that. So, what if there's other AMTs that are like listening to you workers that would like to pull together and bring that to them?
Matt Lundy 26:10
Yeah, absolutely. There's another group in town, right? There's only really two providers in town, Medic West and AMR. They're they're owned by the same parent company, and then there's another locally owned group out there, and if they're listening and they want to reach out, they've already gotten the geofence targeted ads on their social media accounts.
Monique Buchanan 26:27
So, you guys brought a lot of things to us today. I hope you guys will come back on again.
Matt Lundy 26:31
Absolutely. Yeah, this
Monique Buchanan 26:33
was really good. And Becky, thank you for your input. I knew having you on here know
Becky Coins 26:37
how this is partial to my heart. Yes, yes,
Monique Buchanan 26:40
like I said, she used to be a rep, so. And then you told the story well, because you could not get away with that. No, your whole livelihood would be snatched from you if you tried to speak up for yourself.
Becky Coins 26:50
That's right,
Monique Buchanan 26:51
and that shouldn't be the case, right?
Becky Coins 26:52
Power and numbers should be power numbers
Matt Lundy 26:55
with our international constitution. The standard dues raise two and a half times your hourly rate, one time a month, so less than a day's worth of work will pay your union dues, right?
Monique Buchanan 27:04
But guess what? Private
Matt Lundy 27:05
sector,
Monique Buchanan 27:06
how many? How many raises do you get? Because I know you guys are always getting my husband another raise, a raise, another raise negotiations,
Becky Coins 27:14
that's what those are for. So
Matt Lundy 27:16
get as much as we can every year.
Monique Buchanan 27:18
You're really not paying the dues because they're keep getting you raises, they
Matt Lundy 27:21
pay for themselves, they pay for themselves,
Monique Buchanan 27:24
but anyways, even with real estate, I tell you guys, look, I'm always looking out for your best interest, I'm not gonna get on here and talk about anything I don't believe in, so I'm honestly telling you, I'm not getting paid for anything to say this, but I've been witness to my father and my husband to what the union can do for you, but if you guys have any information, once again, it's local,
Matt Lundy 27:45
it's Teamsters Local fourteen.com
Monique Buchanan 27:47
There it
Matt Lundy 27:48
is. I'm sorry, it's Teamsters fourteen.com
Monique Buchanan 27:50
I messed you up. That's all right. We
Matt Lundy 27:52
recovered well. Say it one more
Monique Buchanan 27:53
time, clearly.
Matt Lundy 27:54
Teamsters 14.com
Monique Buchanan 27:56
Teamsters 14.com Heroes shouldn't struggle.com struggle.com
Johnny Ortega 28:02
All
Monique Buchanan 28:02
right, until we hear from you guys. We love you. Have a blessed weekend. Oh, and by the way, I do sell houses, so if you want to sell a house or buy 17029, 84 3700 Love you guys. Thank you for listening. Please remember, all terms discussed are simply an estimate. My license number is S 1788 46 My phone number, if you'd like to contact me, is 702-984-3700 You can also find me on YouTube.
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