Jonathan Rosenblum

Jonathan Rosenblum is an organizer and writer with 40 years of leadership in grassroots union and community work in the US and Canada. He led the first successful Fight for $15 campaign and subsequently wrote the book, Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement (Beacon Press, 2017). Working closely with socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant between 2014 and 2024, he helped organize movements to win the first $15 minimum wage in a major US...See more

Jonathan Rosenblum is an organizer and writer with 40 years of leadership in grassroots union and community work in the US and Canada. He led the first successful Fight for $15 campaign and subsequently wrote the book, Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement (Beacon Press, 2017). Working closely with socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant between 2014 and 2024, he helped organize movements to win the first $15 minimum wage in a major US city; breakthrough renters' rights legislation; and the historic tax on Amazon to fund affordable housing and Green New Deal projects. Jonathan assisted the UAW in the largest academic worker strike in US history, the 2022 strike by 48,000 University of California graduate student workers and postdocs. Jonathan has worked closely with Amazon workers organizing in the US and abroad, and he consults frequently with unions and political groups in the US and Canada on campaigns to build power for working people. Jonathan is a long-time member of the National Writers Union and in 2024 was elected National Recording Secretary. He is a member and past board president of Kadima (Jewish) Reconstructionist Community in Seattle, where he lives with his amazing wife Carolyn and their equally amazing two daughters, Natalya and Tamar. See less