U.S. Department of 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. 

 Hall of Honor 

The people and groups who are honored have all improved working conditions, wages, and overall quality of life for American workers.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 The Hall of Honor (first called the Hall of Fame) was first planned during the John F. Kennedy administration in 1962.'Developments in Industrial Relations', Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 86, No. 1 (January 1963), p. 73  The hall was actually started in 1988. 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).

 Inductees 

Those who have been inducted into the Hall of Honor 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

 2003 - Paul Hall
 2003 - Milton Hershey
 2003 - Steve Young

 2004 - Harley-Davidson: William S. Harley; Arthur Davidson; Walter Davidson; and William A. DavidsonGreg Roza, Harley-Davidson: An All-American Legend (New York: Rosen Publishing's Rosen Central, 2014), p. 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.
 2019 - 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

 References 

 Other websites 

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

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