World Trade Center, Built With Union Labor, Is Now America’s Tallest Building [View all]

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World Trade Center, Built With Union Labor, Is Now America’s Tallest Building

By Travis Waldron

One World Trade Center, which will replace the World Trade Center towers that fell in the September 11 terrorist attacks, became the tallest building in the United States this morning when workers hoisted a 408-foot spire atop it. At 1,776 feet tall, the building is now the tallest in the United States and the third-tallest in the world.

And, as American Rights at Work noted when it became the tallest building in New York, it was built with union labor:

It’s fitting: union members were among the first responders; union members served in the immediate cleanup; and now union members are part of the rebuilding.

Anti-union legislation has made its way across America in recent years, from Michigan to Indiana to Wisconsin. But unions were instrumental in building America’s middle class, in responding to the attacks on 9/11, and now, in rebuilding the World Trade Center in the decade since the attacks.

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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/05/10/1993871/world-trade-center-built-with-union-labor-is-now-americas-tallest-building/