I found this book pretty riveting, however I spent the first half of my career as labor and the other half as management. I saw a lot of things, and I am a supporter of the solidarity concepts, but as indicated in this book, unions have to change if they want to exist. These folks at Sea-Tac found t ...more

Author Rosenblum looks at the battle around the Seattle-Tacoma Airport for raising the minimum wage. What emerged from a fight for Somali immigrant workers for the right to pray soon evolved into immigrant workers, clergy, and unions coming together for a larger battle that would have implications b ...more

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 busi ...more

Rosenblum's book appears to have two purposes: to describe the process through which a group of airport workers pushed for and obtained significant financial concessions from a large airline, and to describe how much more is needed to achieve true economic justice for workers. He provides excruciati ...more

This was a surprisingly interesting story of worker activism around an airport in the Pacific Northwest. The writing style was narrative, more like a story than like a non-fiction litany of facts and dates and footnotes. I read this for my book group and can see that there will be much to discuss. ...more

I won this in a GOODREADS giveaway -- Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement by Jonathan Rosenblum. ...more