Union Execs Meet at Swanky Resort Hotel
-By Warner Todd Huston
As union members lose their jobs all across the country, the AFL-CIO executive council met at a luxury hotel in Miami Beach, Florida this week.
The union bigwigs met at the Fontainebleau where the cheapest room rings up at $400 dollars a night.
Were I a union member, I might take exception to such extravagance for union bosses. Especially in an economy like this.
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on March 5, 2009 1:10 pm
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The AFL-CIO struck a deal where rooms were less than $200 a night. Nice try. From Cavuto’s talk with AFL-CIO’s Stuart Acuff . . .
Cavuto: All I’m saying, Stuart, is the mixed message part. Right? You’re at a great locale, I know that hotel very well, I know that beach very well. And I’m just wondering whether the appearance which you guys knocked, rightly so, when the financial guys were tripping over themselves having massages at a lagoon, to say, look, enough is enough, appearance matters, this matters.
Acuff: Appearance does matter. That’s right, Neil. And that’s why I’m on the program with you today. And that’s why I’m explaining that we got a room rate for less than $200 a room, and that our staying here is the result of negotiations that happened three years ago that promotes an awful lot of good union jobs.
Cavuto: Wait a minute, wait a minute. The most expensive room is $200?
Acuff: Excuse me?
Cavuto: The most expensive room for your members attending is $200?
Acuff: Under $200.
Cavuto: Really. [Pause] All right, then everything’s off. You did OK.
All right — ah. Stuart, seriously. Very good having you. You did a good job.
Acuff: Thank you so much.
Cavuto: If I could get one of those deals — that’s not bad!
Obama is in bed with the labor union leaders, not the labor union. Wait till their eyes are opened a little further, say when GM, Chrysler or Ford goes into bankruptcy and the union members find that the bargaining table just got real small because their union reps have been sugar coating the empty promises of an inflated pay scale and benefits packages that can’t be sustained in the real world. Rather than scale back unrealistic pay they would rather watch their company go bankrupt; boy that makes a lot of sense.
Even at $200 per, it is too much.
Plus consider what breakfast, lunch and dinner cost in that joint.
Nice try, didn’t work.
Paying $200 is too much? That’s your OPINION.
The FACTS are that the AFL-CIO did NOT pay $400 a room to stay there as Fox News INCORRECTLY reported. Instead of covering the event straight up, Fox News went all the way to Miami to look for an angle that would outrage their right-wing viewers, and got the facts wrong, as they usually do when they try to create scandal where there is none.
Had they done any investigative reporting at all, they would have learned, as Cavuto did to his embarrassment live on Fox News, that the AFL-CIO got a 50-percent discount on rooms. But then there would have been no phony story to peddle as news, right?
Of course, there will likely be no correction or retraction. The falsehood is now out there for all wingnuts to hear and pass on to others. Mission accomplished, Fox News!
You make of yourself a fool, Sootsayer. Fox News DID NOT report that the AFL CIO paid $400 a room. They said they went to a hotel where the most expensive room IS $400.
Get your facts straight… if that’s possible for you.