Labor Photo: Honoring 9/11 Union Members
Friday, May 18, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Labor's International Hall of Fame paid tribute to the more than 600 union
members who died on September 11, 2001 in a ceremony at the AFL-CIO yesterday.
International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) President Harold Schaitberger
called on the gathering of union members who lost friends and family in the
attacks to "remember those that lost their lives innocently, those that lost
their lives doing their job." - photo: Cathie
Ong Herrera, whose sister, Betty Ong, was the flight attendant who relayed
information to people on the ground from one of the planes; photo by Julia
Kann