Ronald Reagan to be inducted in US Labor Hall of Honor

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta has announced that former President Ronald Reagan, who was once a Hollywood union leader, will be inducted in the Labor Department’s Labor Hall of Honor.

Acosta announced the honor Thursday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum in Simi Valley, California.

Reagan, the nation’s 40th president, served terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild in the 1940s and ’50s.

Acosta noted that Reagan led the Screen Actors Guild during its first three strikes and negotiated residual payments and health and pension benefits for the union’s members.

The Hall of Honor was established in 1988 to honor Americans who improved working conditions, wages and quality of life for families.

Reagan served as the nation’s chief executive from 1981 to 1989. He died in 2004.

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