Labor Hall of Honor

Labor Hall of Honor
Labor Hall of Honor in Washington, D.C.
General information
Address	200 Constitution Avenue NW
Town or city	Washington, DC
Coordinates	38°53′36″N77°00′52″W / 38.893396°N 77.014514°W / 38.893396; -77.014514

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 exceptions of 2012 inductee Dolores Huerta and 2024 inductee President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. President Biden is the first living and the first current President inducted. President Reagan was inducted posthumously during the Trump administration in 2018. https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/osec/osec20241216-0 President Biden was honored as part of the ceremony designating the Frances Perkins Homestead in Maine as a National Historic Landmark under the authority granted by the Antiquities Act. https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/secretary-haaland-joins-president-biden-as-he-designates-frances-perkins-national-monument.htm

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
• 2024 - President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.

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. Yellowitz, Irwin (July 1989). Labor Hall of Fame: Samuel Gompers: a half century in labor's front rank (PDF). Monthly Labor Review. Vol. 112. p. 28.
2. Developments in Industrial Relations. Monthly Labor Review. Vol. 86. 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 2012-03-12.
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.