Labor Hall of Honor

The United States Department of Labor Hall of Honor is in the Frances Perkins Building, 200 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC. It is a monument to honor Americans who have made a positive contribution to how people in the United States work and live.

U.S. Department of Labor Hall of Honor, showcase highlighting the life-changing contributions that women, men, groups and organizations have made which have had a profound, positive impact on the American way of work and the American way of life.

Labor Hall of Honor
General information
Address	200 Constitution Avenue NW
Town or city	Washington, DC
Coordinates	38.893396°N 77.014514°W / 38.893396; -77.014514

Hall of Honor

The people and groups who are honored have all improved working conditions, wages, and over-all quality of life for American workers.[1] The Hall of Honor (first called the Hall of Fame) was first planned during the John F. Kennedy administration in 1962.[2] The hall was started in 1988.[3] The people to be given this honor are selected each year by a panel inside the Department of Labor. Each must have made a major contribution, and the award is given posthumously (after they have died) with the lone exception of 2012 inductee Delores Huerta.

Inductees

Those who have been inducted into the Hall of Honor[4] are:

• 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
• 2017 – Ronald Reagan[6]

External links

• U.S. Department of Labor Hall of Honor
• AFSCME Sanitation Workers Honored at White House, Join ‘Labor Hall of Fame’
• Labor Department honors Harley

References

1. Irwin Yellowitz, 'Labor Hall of Fame: Samuel Gompers: a half century in labor's front rank', Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 112, No. 7 (July 1989), p. 28
2. 'Developments in Industrial Relations', Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 86, No. 1 (January 1963), p. 73
3. "The Department of Labor's Hall of Honor". U.S. Department of Labor. 2014. Archived from the original on 23 November 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
4. "Hall of Honor Inductees". U.S. Department of Labor. 2014. Archived from the original on 30 April 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
5. Greg Roza, Harley-Davidson: An All-American Legend (New York: Rosen Publishing's Rosen Central, 2014), p. 5
6. "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. Retrieved November 7, 2017.