{"id":286185,"date":"2026-09-15T02:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286185\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T02:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:16:07","slug":"philadelphia-musicians-union-reaches-tentative-contract-agreement-with-philly-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286185\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Musicians\u2019 Union reaches tentative contract agreement with Philly Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The Philadelphia Musicians\u2019 Union and the Philadelphia Orchestra have come to terms on a new bargaining agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The tentative deal includes wage increases, protections for musicians against hearing loss, and expanded opportunities for students to attend rehearsals.<\/p>\n<p>Orchestra members will vote on the contract this week.<\/p>\n<p>If ratified, it would start immediately and run for three years \u2014 through Sept. 9, 2029.<\/p>\n<p>This round of contract negotiations featured much less public hostility than the last time around.<\/p>\n<p>Just three years ago, musicians authorized a strike and filed unfair labor practice complaints with the National Labor Relations Board. The strike never came to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Orchestra is scheduled to kick off its season on Sept. 24 with a benefit concert at the Kimmel Center. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The Philadelphia Musicians\u2019 Union and the Philadelphia Orchestra have come to terms on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,19940,119189,4500],"class_list":["post-286185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-orchestra","tag-philadelphia-musicians-union","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}