UBC Members at the World Trade Center: The Missing, The Workers

(See link at bottom for story on members working at ground zero.)

As of Tuesday Sept. 17, the death of one UBC member has been confirmed in the terrorist attack. The New York City Council of Carpenters currently lists some 15 not accounted for from among the several hundred members from the metropolitan area who were working in the World Trade Center at the time.

Carpenter Daniel J. Rosetti, 32, of Bloomfield N.J., joined Local 15 just last May. He was handling furniture for Certified Movers, who confirmed his death to the Northern New Jersey Council of Carpenters.

As recovery work continues, hundreds of carpenters are among the thousands currently assisting at the scene, many in "bucket brigades" that are painstakingly removing rubble as rescuers comb the wreckage. Card-carrying members of building-trades unions are the only non-uniformed workers allowed at the disaster site.

At this time the New York City District Council is still working to contact all missing individuals. With well over 100 contractors regularly employing UBC members at the Center's seven massive buildings, the NYC Council is continuing the difficult work of verifying the names and whereabouts of all members who were actually onset during the attack, and is coordinating their information with nearby Councils in the UBC's Eastern Region.

Fortunately, it appears that no UBC members were lost at the Pentagon – where renovation on the damaged sections had only recently ended.

The General office will continue to update this page as facts become available. As soon as arrangements are clear, we will provide details on how UBC families can offer support to our members in the New York City area.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those touched by this terrible event.

Click for an article on Carpenters and other New York-area union members who volunteered at the scene in the first days after the disaster:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34485-2001Sep14.html