“The first job that had a real big impact on my life that I remember the best was I worked at a stationery store when I was in high school. And that job was really where I started to be curious about who I was and what I want to be like as I got older and working-wise.”

American politician and trade union official

Martin Joseph Walsh is an American politician and trade union official. He served as mayor of Boston from 2014 to 2021 and as the 29th United States secretary of labor from 2021 to 2023. A Democrat, Walsh first served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, representing the 13th Suffolk district from 1997 to 2014. In labor leadership, he rose to head the Boston Building Trades Council from 2011 to 2013. He later left the labor department in March 2023 to become executive director of the National Hockey League Players' Association.