Fox News and Fox Business correspondent John Stossel has been visiting union offices claiming he's interested in filming their "beautiful buildings." Yeah, right. A word to the wise John Stossel: The James O'Keefe sting only has a chance of working if they don't know what you're up to. You're a Fox News reporter. It's kind of obvious you're up to no good the instant you come within 10 feet of a union office. The only real question is whether Stossel is actually focusing on union buildings, presumably trying to portray them as unduly lavish, or if he was looking for something else ostensibly incriminating.
In response, the AFL-CIO is mockingly highlighting some of the beauties of its building:
(AFL-CIO Now) If Stossel's focus really was on the building itself, there is one thing he might try to highlight at the AFL-CIO: In the building's lobby and a room right off the lobby, there are two large and very beautiful mosaics showing scenes of work and family. Completed in 1956 and 1973, they are stunning, and if they set the tone for the rest of the building, it would indeed be a showplace.
They don't set the tone for the rest of the building. I actually worked in the AFL-CIO building at my previous job with Working America, and the pictures above are an accurate representation of the work spaces there: basic gray office-building carpet, cubicles and fairly spartan meeting rooms through the core of the building, with small offices along the outer walls. Hallways tend to feature framed posters or photos from past labor struggles. There's a small cafeteria at which employees can buy basic sandwiches, soups and salads. A utilitarian urban office building with some added union flavoring, in other words.
It's unlikely that Stossel got any footage beyond the lobbies of the AFL-CIO and whichever other unions he visited, and the staffers denying him entry to the rest of the building. This is apparently the kind of story Fox reporters are trying to break these days?
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