Labor Hall of Honor

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 lone exception of 2012 inductee Dolores Huerta.

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

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