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.
Background First proposed during the John F. Kennedy administration in 1962 as the Hall of Fame, the Hall of Honor was opened in 1988. 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:
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. 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. 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 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 - 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
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