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 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 actually 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).
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
- 2003 - Paul Hall
- 2003 - Milton Hershey
- 2003 - Steve Young
- 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.
- 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[6]
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 'Developments in Industrial Relations', Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 86, No. 1 (January 1963), p. 73
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Hall of Honor Inductees". U.S. Department of Labor. 2014. Archived from the original on 30 April 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ↑ Greg Roza, Harley-Davidson: An All-American Legend (New York: Rosen Publishing's Rosen Central, 2014), p. 5
- ↑ "U.S. Secretary of Labor Acosta Announces the Upcoming Induction of President Ronald Reagan into the Department of Labor Hall of Honor".