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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Episode #171: Orchestra on Strike! with Robert Kassinger
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Some of the finest classical musicians in the world are on strike this week. Performers in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, members of the Chicago Federation of Musicians Local 10-208, are walking the picket lines thanks to demands for givebacks in their contract. To explain the strike as well as the life of a working concert musician, we speak with Robert Kassinger, a bassist with the orchestra and part of the union’s leadership.
We also speak with Anthony Ciampa of the New York State Nurses Association about the major strike vote tak...