23 September

The Workingman’s Advocate of Chicago publishes the first installment of The Other Side, by Martin A. Foran, president of the Coopers’ International Union. Believed to be the first novel by a trade union leader and some say the first working-class novel ever published in the U.S. – 1868

California Gov. Gray Davis (D) signs legislation making the state the first to offer workers paid family leave – 2002