Washington, D.C. — September 11, 2025 — Today, North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) President Sean McGarvey issued the following statement:

“Today, we pause to remember the nearly 3,000 lives lost on September 11, 2001, and to honor the families, first responders, and survivors whose lives were forever changed.

“For the Building Trades, September 11 is personal. Our members were on those job sites before, during, and after the attacks. We lost brothers and sisters that day. In the days, months, and years that followed, our members stood shoulder to shoulder with first responders at Ground Zero and the Pentagon to clear rubble, restore hope, and rebuild America’s spirit.

“On this solemn anniversary, we remember that terrible day and the heroic work that followed. NABTU will never forget the lives lost, the families left behind, or the responsibility we bear to build a safer, stronger nation for generations to come.”

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Media Contact: Betsy Barrett, (202) 997-3266 | bbarrett@nabtu.org

About NABTU: North America’s Building Trades Unions is an alliance of 14 national and international unions in the building and construction industry collectively representing over 3 million skilled craft professionals in the United States and Canada. Each year, our unions and signatory contractor partners invest almost $2 billion in private-sector money to fund and operate over 1,900 apprenticeship training and education facilities across North America that produce the safest, most highly trained, and most productive, skilled craft workers found anywhere in the world. NABTU is dedicated to creating economic security and employment opportunities for its construction workers by safeguarding wage and benefits standards, promoting responsible private capital investments, investing in renowned apprenticeship and training, and creating more construction career pathways to the middle class for women, communities of color, Indigenous people, veterans, and the justice-involved. For more information, please visit nabtu.org.