Thousands of members of the North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters refused to show up for work on April 6 at new housing and infrastructure projects across Massachusetts after a top union official issued a stay-at-home order. The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 35 will also follow suit, with the union issuing a stay-at-home order for its thousands of members that will go into effect after the close of business on April 6. The moves come just a few days after the Massachusetts Building Trades Council, which represents 75,000 union members ranging from carpenters and painters to ironworkers and laborers, urged Baker to shut down all but emergency work for the rest of April. In letters to their members, the business managers of both the carpenters’ and painters’ unions, who together have more than 17,000 members across New England, said they had come to the conclusion that their members can’t work safely under current conditions.
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