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Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement

von Jonathan Rosenblum

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"The inside story of the first successful $15 minimum wage campaign that renewed a national labor movement SeaTac, Washington--a small city built around Seattle-Tacoma International Airport--gained national recognition as the first successful $15 minimum wage battleground. But what most people don't know is that the SeaTac fight didn't begin with wages. The campaign emerged from an unlikely coalition that first united over the right of Muslim airport workers to pray. When unions stood in solidarity with Somali immigrants in a conflict with their employer over prayer breaks, something remarkable happened. From this skirmish a powerful coalition of immigrant workers, clergy, and unions emerged to force a dramatic showdown with the airlines and political establishment. At stake was not just money but justice: whether the airport economy would serve the needs of everyone who made it work. Driven by captivating narrative and insightful analysis, Jonathan Rosenblum's book reveals the inside story of SeaTac: airport workers and clergy staging face-to-face confrontations with corporate leaders; the challenges of uniting a diverse, largely immigrant workforce; and the internal tensions that nearly destroyed the coalition. Beyond $15 is a blunt assessment of the daunting problems within today's unions; a blueprint for a powerful, all-inclusive labor movement; and a call for workers to reclaim their power and voice in the new economy"--… (mehr)
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Attempts at universal wage policies fall flat when taken to logical ends and economic theory is put to the test, these policies fail every time. ( )
  TravisWilson | Mar 22, 2018 |
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Wow... Very fascinating read. I took my time with this one, and think it's something good to save for my daughter who's being homeschooled. ( )
  LadyRavenSA | Mar 12, 2018 |
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.
I won this book through Librarything's Early Readers group.

As the synopsis states, Rosenblum did "dig deep into the root causes of poverty in the United States, and gives a blunt analysis of the problems the union currently faces in the wake of a struggle for power between immigrant workers and business and political elites." At least, in his opinion.

I guess when I registered to win this novel I didn't realize that the author was one of the organizers of Proposition 1? The story becomes more of a historical memoir, a success of a personal nature. I do think Rosenblum makes several good points about the state of the labor movement in America, if arguable. But the fact that he begins the story with his origins, his experience before Seattle, helps to tell the reader who's talking to you.

Overall I think it's a very interesting story. Dry at times, maybe a little too expansive in others. I don't need to know every character's origin story from the beginning of their youth. But it does create a sympathy for those whom this story is really about. ( )
  Karen.Helfrick | Dec 31, 2017 |
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Beyond $15 looks at the labor movement that occurred in SeaTac.
Labor Unions have become nothing more than bureaucratic entities seeking personal gain. This is one of the things the book tackles. Defining what a labor union should be in today's society. It is rather sad to see how the labor union has characterized itself in the United States, as nothing more than economic ploy. The book was a really good read, i wish nothing more from it. I understood where Rosenblum was coming from, and why he though the labor union needed a wake up call. The text is never dry and always has important information. I really enjoyed this book and would highly recommend it to anyone. ( )
  OscarArmando | Oct 24, 2017 |
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Do you get 2 consecutive days off from your job? Does your 10-year old child labor 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, in a coal mine? Hopefully, you answered yes and no, respectively, to those questions. Yet, truly so, a little more than a century ago, your answers might very well have been the reverse, were it not for the trade union movement.
The recently departed Dick Gregory, I had the pleasure of seeing him many times, always reminded his audiences that, "you got to ORGANIZE!!" And although he didn't mean it in the same vein, my Poppa often exhorted, "Organization spells success." Jonathan Rosenblum's book, "Beyond $15," is a tribute to those aphorisms.
It is an important work, not just in the story that it tells (the first successful effort to secure a $15/hour minimum wage), but also how a diverse community of interests -- workers, unions, community groups, faith workers -- can coalesce with a common idea.
Three decades ago, Reason-for-Living (hereinafter R-for-L)and I were employed at a well-known New England university. For over ten years, attempts at organizing the clerical and technical staffs of the colleges that comprised the university had been fruitless. Several times, Jesse Jackson appeared at our rallies, when there really wasn't much political capital in it for him. "How many of you own an MX missile?" Smiles and chuckles in response. "Well then, how many of you own a color TV?" 1000 hands in the air. "That's the problem; we don't make anything anymore except weapons." The difference isn't black and white," he would remind us. "It's GREEN!"
Literally, as this piece is being written, the president of the US is in Indiana, selling his "tax reform" plan that he claims will be a "yuge" benefit to the middle class; yet initial studies of the bill suggest that the biggest tax cuts will be for the proverbial 1%. Nothing new there; Reagan's tax "reform" of the mid-1980s did pretty much the same thing.
This same-ol' same-ol' often leads R-for-L to ask, and not always rhetorically, "WHY do people consistently vote AGAINST their own self-interest!?!?" One reason it happens is because the politricksters -- and apparently at least one real estate magnate as well -- love to peddle fear. Alas, we have seen it work too well and so often, throughout the world.
Which is why Rosenblum's chapter 4 is so important. "Bridging The Trust Gap" (pp. 56-72). Perhaps it should have been a much longer chapter, it is SO important a lesson. Yet the message is crystal clear: an "embryonic foundation of trust" among employees had been formed, truly and literally building a bridge across ethnic and cultural divides. With trust comes learning, and one "yuge" thing we learn is what unites us is stronger than any subterfuge that is designed and erected to divide us.
At that university where R-for-L and I worked, we would very often be asked, "But what will my boss THINK of me if I vote for the union???" Indeed, that was one of the college's main line of attack: that we should feel proud to be working at such an august university. But Congressman Barney Frank had a ready answer: "You can't eat prestige."
The more things change, the more they stay the same, the old folk-wisdom says. That often seems so true, doesn't it? But it doesn't have to be so forever. Mr Rosenblum's important tutorial can remind all of us of another eloquent quote: People see things as they are, and ask why ... but I dream of things that never were, and ask, why not?
Why not, indeed.

(PS: The campus where R-for-L and I worked did vote to organize. Approximately 1500 people voted, and it passed by all of 30 votes. The grad school where R-for-L worked, 65% voted for union represenation.) ( )
  bks1953 | Sep 27, 2017 |
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"The inside story of the first successful $15 minimum wage campaign that renewed a national labor movement SeaTac, Washington--a small city built around Seattle-Tacoma International Airport--gained national recognition as the first successful $15 minimum wage battleground. But what most people don't know is that the SeaTac fight didn't begin with wages. The campaign emerged from an unlikely coalition that first united over the right of Muslim airport workers to pray. When unions stood in solidarity with Somali immigrants in a conflict with their employer over prayer breaks, something remarkable happened. From this skirmish a powerful coalition of immigrant workers, clergy, and unions emerged to force a dramatic showdown with the airlines and political establishment. At stake was not just money but justice: whether the airport economy would serve the needs of everyone who made it work. Driven by captivating narrative and insightful analysis, Jonathan Rosenblum's book reveals the inside story of SeaTac: airport workers and clergy staging face-to-face confrontations with corporate leaders; the challenges of uniting a diverse, largely immigrant workforce; and the internal tensions that nearly destroyed the coalition. Beyond $15 is a blunt assessment of the daunting problems within today's unions; a blueprint for a powerful, all-inclusive labor movement; and a call for workers to reclaim their power and voice in the new economy"--

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