Biden Rapport With Labor Pick Raises Workers’ Political Sway (1)

President-elect Joe Biden on Friday publicly introduced his friend, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, as his nominee for U.S. labor secretary, offering workers hope that they will benefit from the personal and professional bond between the two men.

“For secretary of labor, I nominate a good friend and a stand-up guy—Marty Walsh from Boston, son of Irish immigrants,” Biden said during a press conference in Delaware, following news of the Cabinet pick a day earlier. “I know him, tough as nails; diagnosed with cancer at age 7, beat it at age 11.”

Walsh, a former construction union official and Democratic Massachusetts ...