Marty Walsh

If confirmed, I pledge to lead this work in partnership with workers in businesses, states, cities and tribal territories, employees in every single agency of the Department of Labor, the Administration, Members of Congress from all…

I look forward to working with him, President Biden, and Vice President Harris to see our country through this pandemic and rebuild an economy that is stronger and fair for all workers.

Workers who are the backbone of our economy are being pushed to the brink.

We have to do something about that.

We need to pass the Raise the Wage Act and establish a national minimum wage of $15.00 an hour without exceptions across jobs.

Mayor Walsh will bring an important perspective to the Department as the first union leader to head it in decades.

It is our obligation as a Government to protect workers and protect their futures.

Job training is not a Republican or Democratic issue. It is not progressive or conservative issue.

I find it really important that as we think about these standards... this is about protecting their workforce.

I think that we need to continue to strengthen the American worker here.

Ensuring equal access to good jobs--and the right to join a union and engage in collective bargaining.

We need laws like my Be Heard Act to make sure workers are protected against discrimination and harassment.

I definitely support raising the minimum wage.

We have to make sure that we are setting these young people, and people who go through them, up for some success.

I am so proud to be introducing the PRO Act later today with Majority Leader Schumer and Congressman Scott.

After four years of the Trump administration's attack on working families and a pandemic that continues to push them to the brink, we desperately need a Secretary of Labor like Mayor Walsh who will fight for workers not against them.

Union workers build the American middle class.

I would support him because it's about containing and eliminating the virus.

There has been no national pain from the very beginning. There's still no national plan.

I think as a country, if we shut down university across the country in the beginning of this virus would be in a lot better shape, as the United States of America was in terms of the coronavirus.

If we get to 4% will not be opening school. If we -- if we're opening school in a row in a hybrid model, and we get to 4% we'll be closing it back down.

I believe Joe Biden could manage our big country in a pandemic.

The estimated numbers are actually rather stunning. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has estimated the job creation potential off the Atlantic Coast alone at up to 212,000 jobs per year in the United States.

We can ensure that the jobs created by today's bill... are good jobs that benefit American workers.

I think it is a strawman. I think we can both create quality jobs and preserve a livable planet at the same time.