Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said Thursday he would leave the department in mid-March.
Walsh, a union construction worker who rose to be mayor of Boston and then Labor secretary, in an email to department staff touted the work during his tenure to promote collective bargaining and union organizing. He didn’t confirm that he would become the union leader for professional hockey players, but the National Hockey League Players’ Association separately said its executive board had unanimously appointed Walsh as executive director.
“We promoted every worker’s right to form a union, rallied the entire federal government to advance labor rights, and provided critical information and support to workers during a historic surge in union organizing activity,” Walsh said in his email. “I’ve met with workers at their workplaces, in union halls, and on a picket line, and I’ve sat at the table and spent long nights with labor and management to get to solutions.”
