Labor Hall of Honor explained

Labor Hall of Honor
Address:	200 Constitution Avenue NW
Location Town:	Washington, DC
Coordinates:	38.8934°N -77.0145°W

The United States Department of Labor Hall of Honor is in the Frances Perkins Building, 200 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. It is a monument to honor Americans who have made a major contribution toward their country's workers; for example, by improving working conditions, wages, and quality of life.^[1]

Background

First proposed during the John F. Kennedy administration in 1962 as the Hall of Fame,^[2] the Hall of Honor was opened in 1988.^[3] Honorees are selected each year by a panel inside the Department of Labor. All have been recognized posthumously with the lone exception of 2012 inductee Dolores Huerta.

Inductees

Its inductees include:^[4]

1989 – Cyrus S. Ching
1989 – John R. Commons
1989 – Samuel Gompers
1989 – John L. Lewis
1989 – George Meany
1989 – James P. Mitchell
1989 – Frances Perkins
1989 – A. Philip Randolph
1990 – Eugene V. Debs
1990 – Henry J. Kaiser
1990 – Walter P. Reuther
1990 – Robert F. Wagner
1991 – Mary Anderson
1991 – Philip Murray
1992 – Sidney Hillman
1992 – Mother Jones
1993 – David Dubinsky
1994 – George W. Taylor
1995 – Arthur J. Goldberg
1996 – William Green
1997 – David A. Morse
1998 – Cesar Chavez
1999 – Terence V. Powderly
2000 – Joseph A. Beirne
2002 – 9/11 Rescue workers
2002 – Jim Casey
2003 – Paul Hall
2003 – Milton Hershey
2003 – Steve Young
2004 – Peter J. McGuire
2004 – Harley-Davidson: William S. Harley; Arthur Davidson; Walter Davidson; and William A. Davidson^[5]
2005 – Robert Wood Johnson
2005 – Peter J. Brennan
2006 – Charles R. Walgreen
2006 – Alfred E. Smith
2007 – Adolphus Busch
2007 – William B. Wilson
2008 – John Willard Marriott
2008 – Leonard F. Woodcock
2010 – Justin Dart, Jr.
2010 – Helen Keller
2011 – The Workers of the Memphis sanitation strike
2012 – The Pioneers of the Farm Worker Movement
2012 – Rev. Addie Wyatt
2012 – Tony Mazzocchi
2012 – Mark Ayers
2012 – Dolores Huerta
2013 – Bayard Rustin
2013 – Esther Peterson
2014 – The Chinese Railroad Workers
2015 – Ted Kennedy
2016 – Frank Kameny
2018 – Ronald Reagan^[6]
2019 – Howard Jenkins Jr.
2020 – Robert P. Griffin
2022 – The Essential Workers of the Coronavirus Pandemic
2023 – The Bostock Plaintiffs
2023 – El Monte Thai Garment Workers

External links

Notes and References

Book: Yellowitz, Irwin . Labor Hall of Fame: Samuel Gompers: a half century in labor's front rank . July 1989 . . 112 . 28 . 7.
Book: Developments in Industrial Relations . January 1963 . . 86 . 73 . 1.
Web site: . 2014 . The Department of Labor's Hall of Honor . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151123085152/http://www.dol.gov/dol/aboutdol/hallofhonor/ . 23 November 2015 . 2012-03-12 . U.S. Department of Labor.
Web site: Hall of Honor Inductees . . 2014 . U.S. Department of Labor . 12 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150430090142/http://www.dol.gov/dol/aboutdol/hallofhonor/inductees.htm . 30 April 2015 . dead .
Greg Roza, Harley-Davidson: An All-American Legend (New York: Rosen Publishing's Rosen Central, 2014), p. 5
Web site: U.S. SECRETARY OF LABOR ACOSTA ANNOUNCES THE UPCOMING INDUCTION OF PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN INTO THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR HALL OF HONOR. United States Department of Labor. August 24, 2017. November 7, 2017.