Martin J. Walsh made national news long before President-elect Joe Biden nominated the mayor of Boston to serve as labor secretary.3月，这位前建筑工人兼工会主席成为美国主要城市的首位市长，在19日疫情期间暂时停止建设。“这是一个艰难的决定，但这是正确的决定，”沃尔什在一封电子邮件中告诉ENR。新利luck沃尔什（Walsh）表示，尽管他担心工人失去收入，但他最终“采取行动来确保工人安全”。
Industry supported Walsh’s decision, despite the fact that it halted Boston’s historic building boom, and it praised him for incrementally and collaboratively bringing work back in May. “He acted decisively in the early days of COVID,” says Meaghan Hooper-Berdik, vice president and general manager at Turner Construction, “and then, just as decisively, Mayor Walsh supported the workforce returning to the jobsites under new health and safety protocols.”
沃尔什（Walsh）知道，在工作地点上的安全是日常关注的问题，“我有信心我们可以实施安全协议，以确保个人免受COVID-19的安全。”该市的协议需要针对特定地点的计划来防止传播。
去年12月，沃尔什（Walsh）帮助联系了卫生专家，工会和行业高管，他们为建筑工人创建了测试，追踪和治疗计划。沃尔什（Walsh）说，他为波士顿感到骄傲，“尽早暂停了建筑，并实施了安全指南，以确保工人及其家人的安全。”
The pandemic isn’t Walsh’s first time advocating for worker health. He also promoted a program curbing industry-wide opioid abuse. Open about his own battle with alcohol addiction, Walsh says, “Getting a second chance was so important to my own success.”
The former head of the Boston Building Trades joined the Local 223 union at 21 and served as its president from 2011 until he was elected mayor in 2013. He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1997 until he moved to City Hall. There he has shepherded Boston’s unprecedented development with an even hand, observers say.
Consigli Construction首席执行官Anthony Consigli说：“他具有合作的能力并将各个行业和利益的利益相关者融合在一起，以寻找更大利益的实用解决方案。”
沃尔什（Walsh）的政府提前计划到2030年提供69,000套住房单位，包括指定这些单位的22％，因为低收入和中等收入居民负担得起。此外，沃尔什（Walsh）最近在未来五年内向低收入和中等收入住房投入了5亿美元的资金。
He also required city-funded affordable housing construction to meet carbon neutral performance standards. Walsh’s overall resiliency plan is “comprehensive,” according to David Manfredi, chief executive and founding principal of Elkus Manfredi Architects. “Boston has never strayed from the Paris Climate Agreement.”
A member of the Boston Civic Design Commission, Manfredi credits Walsh for the “first citywide planning effort in decades.” He adds, “Boston will miss his leadership.”
