Today in labor history Sept 11 Among the dead were 634 union members

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September 11

More than 3,000 people died when suicide highjackers crashed planes into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. Among the dead were 634 union members, the majority of them New York City firefighters and police on the scene when the towers fell - 2001



September 11, 2001 - Hundreds died -- and thousands of others sprung into action -- when the World Trade Center was attacked in New York City. The events of that day forever changed the lives of many Americans. Read about some of the working class heroes of Sept. 11 in the AFL-CIO's special section: http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/publications/magazine/union_heroes.cfm#tableofcontent