Well it looks like the news is now official although there have been rumblings about it throughout the usual channels for weeks now: the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) is headed toward another ugly labor dispute. Anyone who kept a close eye on the 2012 dispute likely understood that the settlement was anything but a resolution. If you missed that work stoppage you can catch up on the details via Adaptistration’s Atlanta Symphony article index and then head over to the 8/25/14 edition of ArtsATL which published a good overview of impending doom via an article by Jenny Jarvie.
In a nutshell, the concessions secured in 2012 dispute did not forestall a drop ticket sales and fundraising and the ASO is proposing additional wage and benefit cuts alongside further reductions in the number of core musicians which dropped from 95 to 88 back in 2012.
All things being equal, it shouldn’t come as a big surprise if this dispute snowballs into something far worse than the 2012 showdown. Stay tuned…
Well it looks like the news is now official although there have been rumblings about it throughout the usual channels for weeks now: the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) is headed toward another ugly labor dispute. Anyone who kept a close eye on the 2012 dispute likely understood that the settlement was anything but a resolution. If you missed that work stoppage you can catch up on the details via Adaptistration’s Atlanta Symphony article index and then head over to the 8/25/14 edition of ArtsATL which published a good overview of impending doom via an article by Jenny Jarvie.
Wasn’t there an even longer-ago labor dispute, back when Alison Vulgamore was running the Atlanta???
There certainly were but I don’t know how those compare to the post downturn type of dispute.