Construction unions in Massachusetts remain at loggerheads with Gov. Charlie Baker as the state pushes back against calls for a statewide building moratorium amid the coronavirus crisis.
More than 17,000 carpenters and painters stopped work on jobs across the state on Monday because of health and safety risks due to the pandemic, union leaders say.
A fatality on a Massachusetts bridge project has a local labor union questioning whether two union construction workers were properly trained to run the aerial lift they were operating at the time.