Jonathan Rosenblum

Jonathan Rosenblum has caused trouble for the rich and powerful for over forty years. He’s helped workers throughout North America organize, bargain, and strike in a wide range of industries—warehousing and logistics, higher education, healthcare, and public service.

A member of the National Writers Union and veteran newspaper reporter, he has published dozens of articles about organizing, and is the author of Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement, on his experience leading the first Fight for $15 campaign in SeaTac, Washington. During Kshama Sawant’s decade on the Seattle City Council, he worked on her council staff and as an election campaigner. In 2018, he served as strategic advisor to COPE-Vancouver during their historic Rent Freeze campaign in British Columbia, which led to the election of anti-poverty activist Jean Swanson to Vancouver City Council. In 2022, he served as an organizer and strategist for University of California graduate student and postdoctoral workers in the largest academic strike in US history.. He’s been an invited speaker in the US, Canada, and Europe. Beginning in early 2025, as Activist in Residence at Arizona State University’s Center for Work and Democracy, he has expanded his prior work helping Amazon workers organize in the US and internationally.

He lives with his family in Seattle, Washington, and has worked at various times as an Amazon delivery driver and a stagehand.