The voting results were announced at this morning’s rehearsal: the Oregon Symphony players have voted to ratify the contract proposal hammered out over the summer.\u00a0 I’ll have more details when a formal press release is issued.\u00a0 Many thanks to our tireless Negotiating Committee for their service to the orchestra!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The voting results were announced at this morning’s rehearsal: the Oregon Symphony players have voted to ratify the contract proposal hammered out over the summer.\u00a0 I’ll have more details when a formal press release is issued.\u00a0 Many thanks to our tireless Negotiating Committee for their service to the orchestra!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[186,2],"tags":[3668],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-issues","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-oregon-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-O2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2229,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/24\/how-much-orchestra-can-portland-afford\/","url_meta":{"origin":3102,"position":0},"title":"how much orchestra can portland afford?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Can Portland afford the Oregon Symphony as it currently exists? 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