马萨诸塞州的一些建筑工会与州长查理·贝克（Chlie Baker）（R）保持在loggerheads。callsfor a statewide building moratorium amid the coronavirus crisis.

While narrowing the types of construction sites that are allowed to remain open, the Baker Administration has insisted that work continue on a wide range of critical infrastructure and housing projects, including mixed-used developments that include housing.

State officials also recently issued beefed-up safety protocols for work on construction job sites. The new rules require more frequent hand washing and cleaning job sites, while also requiring contractors to immediately send home workers with any signs of infection and work with local public health officials on extensive contact tracing.

“The Administration has followed federal guidance and tailored the essential business list to reflect the Commonwealth’s unique economy while maintaining strict guidelines for essential workers,” Sarah Finlaw, a spokeswoman for the governor, told Masslive.

但是建筑工会领导人并没有留下深刻的印象。辩称，在大流行中，保持工人和公众安全的唯一方法是使他们远离工作岗位，但工会官员敦促贝克跟随波士顿市长马蒂·沃尔什（Marty Walsh）的领导美国shut downalmost all construction work, with mayors of neighboring Cambridge and Somerville taking similar action.

Pushing back, two of the region’s largest construction unions last week ordered members across Massachusetts to stay home and refuse to go to work at all but emergency projects, such as a new intensive care union in the city of New Bedford.

代表波士顿地区画家的北大西洋各州木匠区域委员会和IUPAT区理事会的成千上万成员在4月6日的班次结束时离开了工作地点。

“We have had members who have been asking for this and who do not feel they are safe on job sites and don’t understand why construction workers are being sent to work while everyone else is staying home,” said Bert Durand, a spokesperson for the carpenters’ union.

In letters to their members, the business managers of both the carpenters’ and painters’ unions, who have more than 17,000 members across New England, said they had come to the conclusion that their members can’t work safely under current conditions.

“As the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases and deaths has dramatically increased, it has become apparent that working on construction sites in Massachusetts is abnormally dangerous,” wrote Thomas Flynn, executive secretary-treasurer of the carpenters’ union, in a letter to members.

The moves follow a call by the Massachusetts Building Trades Council, which represents 75,000 union members ranging from carpenters and painters to ironworkers and laborers, for a statewide construction moratorium until the end of April.

同时，来自其他几个工会的工人正在帮助为Covid-19患者提供医院病床，包括花三天的时间将波士顿会议和展览中心转换为4月10日开业的野外医院17，总部位于波士顿的承包商萨福克和新英格兰终点系统的联合木工团队，精选演示服务的工会工人，团队工人和工会画家在现场医院不停地工作。

兰斯说：“当我们在新英格兰完成系统的团队审查了该网站以及与建造此设施相关的时间限制时，决定在现场建造房间将是确保所有涉及的男女安全的最佳方法。”Mazzariello，新英格兰终点系统的工会木匠和野外主管。“我们的工会工人和木匠立即开始工作，在我们的磨坊商店中清理地板，在三个晚上，超过90个联合木匠和工人全天候工作，建造了由10,000多张床单的石膏板组成的面板。”

The sheets were delivered on three trailers 24 hours a day, said Mazzariello, adding, "This project was a flawless example of the best in class union professionals working seamlessly across a multitude of trade disciplines."

Half of the beds in the 1,000-bed hospital are reserved for members of the city’s homeless population who have tested positive for COVID-19 but don’t need full hospitalization.The makeshift hospital includes six acute care suites, 52 nurse stations, 48 bathroom facilities and a physical therapy suite.

当地17S业务经理鲍勃·巴特勒（Bob Butler）在一份声明中说：“我们将继续帮助扩大我们的医疗保健能力，以便每个人都能得到所需的护理。”

Ray Martin, a project manager at Watertown-Mass.-based mechanical contractor, J.C. Cannistraro LLC, credited the sheet metal workers for the firm’s success on the project known as Boston Hope Medical Center. The firm added filtration and modifications to rooftop ventilation units to help adapt the convention center's air system for the temporary hospital. The sheet metal workers also helped prepare isolation rooms for COVID-19 patients at the convention center.

马丁在一份声明中说，金属工人“超越了他们的期望。这不是他们正常工作的一部分。他们为生病的人做了。”

Touring another new 94-bed field hospital at the Joint Base Cape Cod on April 14, Baker announced two other field hospitals to help handle coronavirus cases. Baker said a 95-bed facility at UMass Lowell and 140 beds at UMass Dartmouth will come online soon.

This story was updated with new information on April 16.