Marty Walsh

First lady Jill Biden will travel to Massachusetts Thursday and stay through Saturday, making stops in Boston, Andover and Nantucket. Dr. Biden is expected to land at Boston Logan Airport shortly after noon on Thursday, according to the White House. From the airport she will head to Home Base in Boston, a Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital program…

First lady Jill Biden is one of several prominent officials set to speak at a teachers union convention happening in Boston later this week. The American Federation of Teachers’ biennial event will be held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center Thursday through Sunday. It’s the 1.7 million-member union’s first in-person meeting in four years, the organization said in...

U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said Monday that he’s ready to step up to the plate and help end Major League Baseball’s two-month old lockout. Walsh, the former Boston mayor and longtime Red Sox fan, said he had spoken with representatives of the owners and the Major League Baseball Players Association about the ongoing negotiations and that he encouraged...

Former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, now the U.S. secretary of labor in the Biden administration, says he will not run to succeed Charlie Baker as governor of Massachusetts.

Maura Healey would be considered a frontrunner in the race.

The race for governor is wide open after incumbent Charlie Baker announced last year that he would not seek a third term

Sources with direct knowledge have told NBC10 Boston political reporter Alison King that Democratic Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has decided to run for governor and an announcement is expected Thursday. Healey, 50, was first elected the state’s attorney general in 2014 after years working under former Attorney General Martha Coakley as chief of the office’s Civil Rights Division, its…

Possible candidates for Massachusetts governor have already stockpiled millions at the start of the election year. The two Democratic names with the deepest bank accounts have yet to say whether they’re running. They are former Boston mayor and current U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and state Attorney General Maura Healey. Walsh began the year with $5.1 million in his...

Four days after reaching a tentative agreement with Tenet HealthCare on a new contract, about 700 nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester have set a contract ratification vote date, which could end their long strike. On Friday night, the Massachusetts Nurses Association announced that U.S. Labor Secretary Martin Walsh had mediated an all-day session at the IBEW Local 103…

After being on strike for more than nine months, nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital are set to return to work after a deal was reached at a meeting moderated by Labor Secretary Marty Walsh.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu visited the White House on Tuesday to meet with other newly elected mayors, senior White House leadership and members of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet — including some “familiar faces.” Wu left for Washington, D.C. Tuesday morning and documented her trip on social media. She shared a selfie with one of her predecessors, Labor Secretary Marty...

Next year’s lineup of candidates for governor of Massachusetts is still taking shape, and the current focus is on whether Attorney General Maura Healey and former Boston Mayor Martin Walsh will get in the race. During a visit to Springfield Monday to highlight federal infrastructure investments, a reporter asked Walsh about speculation that he may be weighing a run...

Just about every conversation about the now wide open Massachusetts governor’s race starts out with the same question: Will Attorney General Maura Healey get in? Boston University Professor Tom Whalen expects she will: “She’s the giant in the political field. Of the Democrats, she’s the best possible choice they have.” Despite the three Democrats already in the field —...

If former Boston Mayor Martin Walsh is interested in running for governor of Massachusetts next year, he gave no indication of it when asked about the race Friday morning during a national radio appearance. After discussing the latest national jobs report on Bloomberg Radio, Walsh was asked if he personally had more work to do in his current role as…

Federal contractors will be guaranteed an hourly minimum wage of at least $15 in all new contracts with government agencies beginning Jan. 30, 2022.

The poll, conducted by Suffolk University for NBC10 Boston and The Boston Globe, has Wu at 62%, more than double the 30% Essaibi George received.

With two weeks to go until the Boston mayoral election, Michelle Wu continues to hold a commanding lead over opponent Annissa Essaibi George, a new poll shows. The poll, conducted by Suffolk University for NBC10 Boston and The Boston Globe, has Wu at 62%, more than double the 30% Essaibi George received. Seven percent of respondents remain undecided. A MassINC/WBUR…

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh talks about his position in the Biden administration and touches on the race for his old seat as Boston’s mayor.

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh may be out of New England, but he’s still a die-hard Patriots fan who loves Tom Brady. While the former Boston mayor is still a Patriots season ticket holder, he says he is busy in Washington and won’t be able to make it to Gillette Stadium Sunday to see them play Tom Brady and the...

Boston’s former mayor, now labor secretary in the Biden administration, says he loves Tom Brady but will be rooting for the Patriots Sunday.