Musicians of Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra have gone on strike. Contract negotiations with the Kennedy Center, which houses and provides management services for the NSO, have stalled, with the musicians’ union local stating that union proposals and management response “remain far apart on wages and other important issues.”
The NSO’s Sept. 28 season-opening gala has been canceled.
The Washington Post’s Michael Andor Brodeur outlines the terms being negotiated and back-and-forth assertions in the NSO musicians’ first work stoppage since 1978:
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