In contract negotiations late September, management of the financially struggling Symphony Society of San Antonio presented their “last, best and final offer” to musicians. They planned to cut musicians’ pay, nearly halve the size of its orchestra, and turn dismissed full-time musicians into lower-paid part-time musicians — creating what’s known in the symphony world as an “A/B structure.”

Management says these austere measures are the only way to save the symphony. But musicians disagree. Refusing to accept management’s terms, musicians of the San Antonio Symphony, united as American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 23, went on strike.

The musicians have been on strike since September 27. Since then, they’ve staged public rallies, picketed management’s offices, and engaged in labor solidarity actions with other San Antonio workers, and planned additional actions to come.