Jonathan Rosenblum (activist)

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Jonathan Rosenblum (born 1961) is a community and labor activist, writer and a union and community organizer based in Seattle, WA.

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Career

Rosenblum began labor and community organizing in the 1980s, after his involvement with The Ithaca Journal in upstate New York. He eventually moved to Seattle in 1991 and helped found the Washington State chapter of Jobs With Justice, a labor, faith, student and community coalition. [1] From 1996 to 1997, he worked as an organizer on the Union Cities Campaign for the King County Labor Council and AFL–CIO. Following this campaign, Rosenblum staffed the initial effort to organize contract technology employees which turned in to WashTech (CWA 37083 WashTech). [2] [3] From 1997 to 2001, Rosenblum was Director of the Seattle Union Now (SUN) program at the AFL–CIO, which included work on graduate student employee unionization at University of Washington. [4] As a result of his role at SUN, Rosenblum was closely involved in labor's preparations for the 1999 Seattle WTO protests. [5] Rosenblum played an active role in helping to create a coalition between SUN and Direct Action Network, environmentalists, international activists and students.

From 2011 to 2014, Rosenblum was the campaign director for Service Employees International Union during the $15 minimum wage initiative at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. [6] [7] [8] During his labor organizing work in Seattle, he became a colleague of civil rights, labor and peace activist Lonnie Nelson, who helped to recruit workers at a daycare center to SEIU membership. [9]

He authored Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement, published by Beacon Press in March 2017. [10] [11]

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