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Labor secretary - Marty Walsh
Walsh became mayor of Boston in 2013, and is the chairman of Climate Mayors, a group of 470 mayors across the US. Walsh has previously served as a local official in the Laborers International Union of North America, and led the city s Building and Construction Trades Council for two years.
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If confirmed, Walsh would be the first union member to serve as labor secretary in nearly half a century.
In the role, Walsh would head the
Department of Labor, which is responsible for policies, projects, and laws involving unions and the workplace.
Walsh would take on the role at a time when the US is suffering under mass unemployment. The country lost 140,000 jobs in December alone.
Biden builds out Cabinet with choices for Commerce and Labor secretaries Bart Jansen, USA TODAY
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President-elect Joe Biden announced Thursday his choices of Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo to lead the Commerce Department and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to head the Labor Department.
In fleshing out his economics team, Biden also named:
• Isabel Guzman to head the Small Business Administration. She is a former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff at the agency who is now director of California s Office of the Small Business Advocate.
• Don Graves to serve as deputy secretary of Commerce. Former President Barack Obama put Graves in charge of helping revive Detroit when it grappled with bankruptcy by working with municipal, state, business, and community leaders. Graves is a former executive director of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and deputy assistant secretary for small business, community development, and h
Labor secretary – Marty Walsh
Walsh became mayor of Boston in 2013, and is the chairman of Climate Mayors, a group of 470 mayors across the US. Walsh has previously served as a local official in the Laborers International Union of North America, and led the city s Building and Construction Trades Council for two years.
If confirmed, Walsh would be the first union member to serve as labor secretary in nearly half a century.
In the role, Walsh would head the Department of Labor, which is responsible for policies, projects, and laws involving unions and the workplace.
Walsh would take on the role at a time when the US is suffering under mass unemployment. The country lost 140,000 jobs in December alone.
LIUNA Praises Selection of Mayor Walsh for Labor Secretary
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Terry O Sullivan, General President of LIUNA – the Laborers International Union of North America – made the following statement today:
The 500,000 strong, proud, and united men and women of LIUNA are ecstatic and thrilled that President-elect Joe Biden has chosen a dues-paying, card-carrying, second-generation member of Laborers Local Union 223, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, to be the next U.S. Secretary of Labor. Marty Walsh is a living embodiment of the American dream: he worked his way up from the field to become a leader of his local union, the head of the Boston Metropolitan Building Trades Council, Mayor of Boston, and now, U.S. Secretary of Labor. He is a hard-charging, hard-fighting, tireless and tenacious working class warrior whose word is his bond, who says what he means and means what he says, and who can