Labor Hall of Honor
| Labor Hall of Honor | |
|---|---|
 Labor Hall of Honor in Washington, D.C. | |
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| 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 |
TheUnited States Department of LaborHall of Honoris in the Frances Perkins Building, 200 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. It is amonumenttohonorAmericanswho have made a major contribution toward their country's workers; for example, by improvingworking conditions,wages,andquality of life.[1]
Background
[edit]First proposed during theJohn F. Kennedyadministrationin 1962 as theHall 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 recognizedposthumouslywith the lone exception of 2012 inducteeDolores Huerta.
Inductees
[edit]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 –9/11Rescue 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;andWilliam 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 theMemphis sanitation strike
- 2012 – The Pioneers of theFarm Worker Movement
- 2012 –Rev. Addie Wyatt
- 2012 –Tony Mazzocchi
- 2012 –Mark Ayers
- 2012 –Dolores Huerta
- 2013 –Bayard Rustin
- 2013 –Esther Peterson
- 2014 – TheChinese 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 theCoronavirus Pandemic
- 2023 –The Bostock Plaintiffs
- 2023 –El Monte Thai Garment Workers
External links
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- Labor Department honors Harley
References
[edit]- ^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.
- ^Developments in Industrial Relations.Monthly Labor Review.Vol. 86. January 1963. p. 73.
- ^"The Department of Labor's Hall of Honor".U.S. Department of Labor.2014. Archived fromthe originalon 23 November 2015.Retrieved2012-03-12.
- ^"Hall of Honor Inductees".U.S. Department of Labor. 2014. Archived fromthe originalon 30 April 2015.Retrieved12 March2012.
- ^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".United States Department of Labor.August 24, 2017.RetrievedNovember 7,2017.