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• Sep 24, 2015 - New Notes on the Autism Scale
• Sep 18, 2015 - Opinions regarding the Carnegie mess are indeed divided
• Sep 18, 2015 - Governance fail at Carnegie Hall
• Aug 28, 2015 - George Cleve
• Aug 04, 2015 - A must-read piece on performance anxiety
• Jul 12, 2015 - Lincoln Portrait and the Fourth of July
• Jul 09, 2015 - Some thoughts on Hartford
• Jun 17, 2015 - Cavalcade of baby conductors
• Jun 08, 2015 - You had two jobs…
• Jun 04, 2015 - The Vampire Squid and nonprofits – a real thing?
• May 07, 2015 - Colorado and the AFM
• Apr 08, 2015 - Music and politics, Part the Nth
• Mar 09, 2015 - Senza Sordino Editor Richard Levine: An Editor's Parting Thoughts
• Mar 06, 2015 - What I did on my summer vacation
• Mar 06, 2015 - A Week with the Paradise Orchestra
• Mar 05, 2015 - Just wrong
• Mar 03, 2015 - On playing pieces for the last time
• Jan 21, 2015 - Some more words on sub pay and Minnesota
• Jan 14, 2015 - Justice for extras – some practical considerations
• Jan 09, 2015 - Sub pay in Minnesota – the blame game
• Jan 06, 2015 - What mattered in 2014?
• Dec 03, 2014 - More on Dallas
• Dec 02, 2014 - Stupid music director tricks, part the 11,347th
• Nov 25, 2014 - Memory is the first thing to go, and musicians remember what the second thing is, too
• Nov 23, 2014 - How to do hearing protection right
• Nov 22, 2014 - November 22, 1963
• Nov 21, 2014 - Friends come and go…
• Nov 20, 2014 - Someone else discovers gender discrimination in orchestras
• Nov 19, 2014 - How important are the views of wealthy donors?
• Nov 18, 2014 - Is tenure good for musicians?
• Nov 17, 2014 - Another reason to love Milwaukee
• Nov 14, 2014 - Hot not
• Nov 13, 2014 - Change; as in "have we"?
• Nov 12, 2014 - Armistice Day
• Sep 16, 2014 - The past really is a foreign country
• Sep 12, 2014 - Orchestras turned upside-down
• Sep 09, 2014 - Symphonie Addictique?
• Sep 05, 2014 - Who Won the Met Negotiations?
• Aug 20, 2014 - The NFL jumps the shark
• Aug 13, 2014 - Some revisionist history from the AFM
• Jul 17, 2014 - Dominant and Tonic: Rethinking the Role of the Music Director
• Jun 09, 2014 - Virtual Wagner done right
• Jun 02, 2014 - Newsflash: conductor doesn't like unions
• Apr 08, 2014 - The League and Minnesota
• Mar 24, 2014 - Madame Butterfly is not a business strategy
• Mar 21, 2014 - Minnesota Orchestra board steps up
• Feb 17, 2014 - Orchestra saved from collapse is apparently not interesting news
• Feb 17, 2014 - Us as a sitcom
• Feb 12, 2014 - Machiavelli wasn't a Finn
• Feb 11, 2014 - Lessons from the Great Strad Robbery
• Feb 10, 2014 - In Memoriam
• Feb 05, 2014 - In Memoriam 2013
• Feb 05, 2014 - Why you don't want your orchestra's name to start with "M"
• Jan 31, 2014 - What the Great Strad Robbery means for the future
• Jan 28, 2014 - The Northern Front: Stunde Null
• Jan 26, 2014 - Are orchestras “hostile” to women conductors?
• Jan 20, 2014 - Baumol's common cold
• Jan 14, 2014 - Armistice Day on the Northern Front
• Jan 09, 2014 - Minnesota, toxic leadership, and Milgram
• Jan 07, 2014 - Leadership, solitude and musicians
• Dec 14, 2013 - Something you should read
• Dec 12, 2013 - Another missed opportunity
• Dec 10, 2013 - Kitschmastide (with examples)
• Dec 06, 2013 - 'Tis the season
• Nov 22, 2013 - 11/22/63
• Nov 19, 2013 - "New" Business Models
• Nov 13, 2013 - Our conspiratorial industry
• Nov 11, 2013 - Misconduct in and out of the workplace
• Oct 31, 2013 - Charleston decertifies
• Oct 08, 2013 - MacArthur Foundation strikes out again
• Sep 30, 2013 - No good news from the Northern Front (with update)
• Sep 11, 2013 - Why not try negotiating? (with update)
• Sep 05, 2013 - Bought and paid for
• Sep 03, 2013 - About that New Republic article
• Aug 30, 2013 - It's getting weird up there…
• Aug 29, 2013 - Red line in Minnesota gets redder
• Aug 27, 2013 - The latest bad news from Minnesota
• Aug 15, 2013 - How Hard Substantive Change Really Is In This Business
• Aug 06, 2013 - What we should hope isn't next for Minnesota
• Aug 01, 2013 - A Very Touching Moment
• Jul 29, 2013 - Final thoughts on the 2013 AFM Convention
• Jul 24, 2013 - An historic day for the AFM
• Jul 22, 2013 - What happens in Vegas might matter to you
• Jul 20, 2013 - Mediation in Minnesota
• Jul 08, 2013 - When Vampire Squid meets orchestra
• Jun 19, 2013 - From One of the Masters: Basic Principles of Orchestra Management
• Jun 07, 2013 - Nashville – WTF?
• May 28, 2013 - Another take on job satisfaction
• May 10, 2013 - New boss same as old boss
• May 03, 2013 - Where no orchestra has gone before
• Apr 16, 2013 - The AFM is still wrong about the League
• Apr 11, 2013 - St. Paul settles
• Apr 03, 2013 - News from the North
• Apr 02, 2013 - In memoriam 2012
• Apr 01, 2013 - In Memoriam – 2012
• Apr 01, 2013 - A normal strike
• Mar 19, 2013 - Fun with Financing in Nashville
• Mar 08, 2013 - A Bold Experiment
• Jan 02, 2013 - Are dinosaurs falling? Are deficits "structural"?
• Dec 13, 2012 - Are Three Legs Appropriate? Or Even Sufficient?
• Dec 05, 2012 - About that $6 million deficit…
• Dec 03, 2012 - NLRB happens
• Nov 30, 2012 - Why no impasse in Minnesota?
• Nov 29, 2012 - The Empire strikes back
• Nov 26, 2012 - Cooking the books
• Nov 16, 2012 - Osmo joins the party
• Nov 14, 2012 - An assumption too far
• Nov 12, 2012 - Is a tree embarrassed if it doesn't hear itself fall?
• Nov 09, 2012 - Managements not part of the reality-based community
• Nov 06, 2012 - What the election tells us about the press
• Nov 02, 2012 - A Map To Reading And Finding Topics In Harmony: Eight Years of Research, Studies, and Articles
• Oct 27, 2012 - Headline of the year
• Oct 26, 2012 - When bad boards happen to good orchestras
• Oct 23, 2012 - Another day, another conspiracy theory
• Oct 23, 2012 - The curious incident of the Boards in the night-time
• Oct 22, 2012 - Minnesota nasty
• Oct 19, 2012 - I really should have practiced harder
• Oct 18, 2012 - The rest of the ugly
• Oct 17, 2012 - Minnesota by the numbers
• Oct 15, 2012 - My kingdom for a decent news article
• Oct 11, 2012 - The reason why
• Oct 09, 2012 - Gold in them thar toobs?
• Oct 09, 2012 - Didn't work
• Oct 08, 2012 - One Wow and One Uh-Oh
• Oct 05, 2012 - Norman thinks it’s “The Rulebook”
• Oct 03, 2012 - Peter Dobrin says it all
• Oct 02, 2012 - Ground Zero for the Payless model
• Oct 01, 2012 - Dumb s**t conductors say
• Sep 28, 2012 - 10,000 lakes, one fish, and no settlements
• Sep 27, 2012 - A bad settlement in Atlanta
• Sep 26, 2012 - When’s it OK to ask musicians to work for free?
• Sep 25, 2012 - That was quick
• Sep 24, 2012 - Norman doesn't get negotiations
• Sep 19, 2012 - On the fungibility of musicians
• Sep 14, 2012 - Musicians as managers
• Sep 07, 2012 - On governance
• May 25, 2012 - Who bears the risk?
• May 23, 2012 - That was quick
• May 21, 2012 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
• Apr 26, 2012 - Settlement in Louisville – at least for now
• Mar 27, 2012 - Why a Flanagan?
• Mar 06, 2012 - Miracles of Modern Science
• Mar 05, 2012 - The Perilous Analysis of Symphony Orchestra Finances
• Feb 23, 2012 - Games (if not fun) in Louisville
• Feb 13, 2012 - Best line of the century
• Feb 06, 2012 - Why there are no solo viola careers
• Jan 26, 2012 - What a good board looks like
• Jan 13, 2012 - Of models old, new, and broken
• Jan 11, 2012 - Let's make a commercial!
• Jan 10, 2012 - About that Strad vs modern violin study thingy…
• Jan 06, 2012 - Diversity and the theater world
• Jan 05, 2012 - Journalist in need of Fisking
• Jan 03, 2012 - A different view of orchestra economics
• Dec 30, 2011 - NLRB says we can be unionized – for now
• Dec 28, 2011 - O sweet mystery of life
• Dec 16, 2011 - Of choirs and orchestras
• Dec 14, 2011 - For the musician with self-esteem issues
• Nov 21, 2011 - Who represents whom – and when?
• Nov 18, 2011 - More on the Colorado flap
• Nov 14, 2011 - Michael Kaiser was right
• Oct 28, 2011 - Why the Louisville plan will fail
• Oct 25, 2011 - Through the worm hole
• Oct 21, 2011 - Justice for extras
• Oct 19, 2011 - Remembering Len Leibowitz
• Oct 13, 2011 - Philly out of the AFM-EP Fund?
• Oct 11, 2011 - How to kill a mediation
• Oct 10, 2011 - Louisville: a local view
• Oct 04, 2011 - Some real innovation for a change
• Oct 04, 2011 - The bottom-up theory of institutional accountability
• Oct 03, 2011 - Leonard Leibowitz, DILC: 1938-2011
• Sep 22, 2011 - Nixon goes to Louisville
• Sep 20, 2011 - MacArthur whiffs again
• Sep 08, 2011 - The San Francisco Story
• Sep 06, 2011 - Louisville managemen set to make two more bad decisions
• Sep 02, 2011 - Put things in your ears you should
• Aug 31, 2011 - What a difference a week makes
• Aug 26, 2011 - An unusual source for replacement workers
• Aug 25, 2011 - Louisville CEO surprised that AFM will support picket line
• Aug 23, 2011 - Louisville management arms Tsar Bomba
• Jun 21, 2011 - When Bruce Willis meets Richard Wagner
• Jun 10, 2011 - A tribute to Fred Zenone
• May 13, 2011 - What a crisis looks like
• May 12, 2011 - A cautionary fable
• May 11, 2011 - A crisis of analysis
• Apr 25, 2011 - Getting displaced by an orchestra that doesn't exist
• Apr 18, 2011 - Emily can't save the (Philadelphia) Orchestra
• Apr 11, 2011 - Was it worth it?
• Apr 06, 2011 - Downsizing for stability?
• Mar 31, 2011 - A question to which I don't know the answer
• Mar 30, 2011 - Twilight in Syracuse
• Mar 29, 2011 - Another deadline in Detroit
• Mar 23, 2011 - More about community engagement
• Mar 22, 2011 - Are orchestras really non-profits?
• Mar 01, 2011 - Orchestras and the union movement
• Feb 26, 2011 - Bringing the violin to a huge new demographic
• Feb 24, 2011 - Picking the meat off the carcass
• Feb 24, 2011 - Don't try this at home
• Feb 22, 2011 - WTF was that all about?
• Feb 21, 2011 - The Intertoobs can barely keep up with this story!
• Feb 21, 2011 - More details on the Detroit negotiations
• Feb 21, 2011 - "Let's drop the big one now"
• Feb 20, 2011 - A substitute orchestra in Detroit?
• Feb 20, 2011 - A suspension bridge to nowhere good
• Feb 18, 2011 - Backs to the wall
• Feb 17, 2011 - No settlement in Detroit
• Feb 12, 2011 - Progress in Detroit?
• Feb 12, 2011 - Not quite as much fun as the real thing, though
• Feb 12, 2011 - Still talking in Detroit
• Feb 10, 2011 - Why conductors should STFU
• Feb 09, 2011 - How not to make audiences feel
• Feb 09, 2011 - Detroit inches closer to edge of cliff
• Feb 09, 2011 - American exceptionalism
• Feb 08, 2011 - It's the silly season
• Feb 04, 2011 - And they could sell tickets to staff meetings!
• Feb 03, 2011 - Tea leaves in Detroit
• Feb 02, 2011 - When Die Walküre meets Den Schneesturm
• Feb 01, 2011 - Dinosaurs falling from the sky in theater-land?
• Jan 27, 2011 - This isn't good….
• Jan 25, 2011 - Cry me a river
• Jan 24, 2011 - Detroit Update 1/23/2011
• Jan 22, 2011 - More Detroit
• Jan 22, 2011 - A press blackout with a very short lifespan
• Jan 21, 2011 - Are we figments of Mahler's imagination?
• Jan 19, 2011 - AFM wins in court; won't matter much
• Jan 18, 2011 - An orchestra of 300 million
• Jan 14, 2011 - What's the difference between practicing and child abuse?
• Jan 13, 2011 - Movement in Detroit: PS
• Jan 13, 2011 - Movement in Detroit?
• Jan 11, 2011 - CSO Live (not sure about the conductor, though)
• Jan 08, 2011 - Arts in the suburbs
• Jan 07, 2011 - Orchestras aren't about "peace"
• Jan 05, 2011 - The kid stays on the podium
• Jan 05, 2011 - A good idea
• Jan 03, 2011 - Happy New Year
• Jan 03, 2011 - In Memoriam 2010
• Dec 10, 2010 - Why orchestra management is hard
• Dec 09, 2010 - The times they are a'changin…
• Dec 03, 2010 - The moralistic approach to orchestra scheduling
• Dec 02, 2010 - The price was right
• Dec 01, 2010 - Another take on Met HD
• Dec 01, 2010 - What a good idea
• Nov 30, 2010 - Ice Bowl
• Nov 23, 2010 - Recollections
• Nov 19, 2010 - Another great moment in press coverage
• Nov 18, 2010 - Price it (right) and they will come
• Nov 17, 2010 - Conductors say the darndest things
• Nov 11, 2010 - Music medicine can be fun!
• Nov 10, 2010 - Social media and musician activism
• Nov 09, 2010 - Grass Growing HD
• Nov 08, 2010 - Wassup in Detroit?
• Nov 02, 2010 - New sheriff in town
• Oct 29, 2010 - Time to go short?
• Oct 27, 2010 - Fred Zenone
• Oct 21, 2010 - Are auditions fair?
• Oct 19, 2010 - Why conductors live longer
• Oct 13, 2010 - MacArthur gets one right
• Oct 12, 2010 - Actions have consequences
• Oct 10, 2010 - A bad excuse to get out of a tough dilemma
• Oct 09, 2010 - Sarah's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad dilemma
• Oct 06, 2010 - Why don't orchestras promote from within?
• Oct 04, 2010 - Bad cases make bad models
• Sep 30, 2010 - America's other professional orchestras
• Sep 28, 2010 - What happened in Vegas…
• Sep 25, 2010 - Detroit implements
• Sep 21, 2010 - What's Detroit about?
• Sep 20, 2010 - And now for something completely different…
• Sep 16, 2010 - Internal disconnects
• Sep 15, 2010 - Another take on gender discrimination
• Sep 13, 2010 - Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln…
• Aug 29, 2010 - Daddy, what's an 8(d) notice?
• Jul 01, 2010 - How not to behave at work
• Jun 28, 2010 - Michael Kaiser: wisdom or bromides?
• Jun 24, 2010 - AFM Election Results
• Jun 20, 2010 - Live-blogging the AFM Convention
• Apr 19, 2010 - Something sure is broken in Honolulu
• Apr 18, 2010 - The potential of online media
• Apr 15, 2010 - Step away from the cell phone…
• Apr 13, 2010 - On Indispensability
• Apr 12, 2010 - Kenneth McKellar
• Apr 10, 2010 - NY Times thinks running an orchestra is a real job
• Apr 09, 2010 - Hiring outside the box
• Apr 06, 2010 - The dystonia horror show
• Apr 05, 2010 - Another explanation for gender imbalance
• Mar 30, 2010 - What happened in Charleston?
• Mar 26, 2010 - Pain in Baltimore
• Mar 23, 2010 - Healthcare reform and orchestras
• Mar 22, 2010 - Gender and orchestras – another datapoint
• Mar 18, 2010 - Reading the tea leaves in Detroit
• Mar 18, 2010 - Oops
• Mar 16, 2010 - The Cult of Youth
• Mar 15, 2010 - NHMF and the Union
• Mar 12, 2010 - Klemp, you talka too muich
• Mar 10, 2010 - Does the Vienna Phil discriminate?
• Mar 04, 2010 - He has a dream
• Mar 04, 2010 - It's an ecosystem, Maestro
• Mar 03, 2010 - Nice little pension plan you got there…
• Feb 28, 2010 - Resistance is apparently futile
• Feb 24, 2010 - The hottest seat
• Feb 23, 2010 - TMI and the cult of personality
• Feb 22, 2010 - Conductors and the cult of personality
• Feb 17, 2010 - Better seen than heard
• Feb 16, 2010 - Why we won't die of Baumol's Disease
• Feb 11, 2010 - Apologies
• Feb 09, 2010 - The future of classical recording – Part 1
• Feb 08, 2010 - About that Salome next season…
• Feb 05, 2010 - Hard duty
• Feb 04, 2010 - Technology and recording sales
• Feb 03, 2010 - What he said
• Feb 03, 2010 - Stick a fork in it?
• Jan 28, 2010 - Seattle settles
• Jan 27, 2010 - How AFM members can help in Haiti
• Jan 27, 2010 - Reboot in New Hampshire
• Jan 24, 2010 - An unhappy customer
• Jan 24, 2010 - Sandow on Ricker on diversity
• Jan 24, 2010 - Thought for the day
• Jan 23, 2010 - Such a versatile instrument – Part 2
• Jan 22, 2010 - Some thoughts about auditions
• Jan 20, 2010 - Reactions to Cleveland
• Jan 20, 2010 - Cleveland strike is over
• Jan 19, 2010 - More on Cleveland
• Jan 18, 2010 - Cleveland on strike
• Jan 17, 2010 - Such a versatile instrument
• Jan 15, 2010 - Sometimes it's hard to have a screened audition
• Jan 14, 2010 - Tab dump 1/14/2010
• Jan 13, 2010 - The model's not broken
• Jan 11, 2010 - Popcorn and Der Rosenkavalier
• Jan 07, 2010 - The ultimate downbeat
• Jan 07, 2010 - Tab dump 1/7/2010
• Jan 07, 2010 - NHMF hits the Reset button
• Jan 06, 2010 - Seattle and the Union
• Jan 04, 2010 - In memoriam 2009
• Dec 24, 2009 - On vacation
• Dec 21, 2009 - Tab dump 12/21/09
• Dec 18, 2009 - On doing yet another run of mediocre Messiahs
• Dec 15, 2009 - Thinking like the audience
• Dec 14, 2009 - Tab dump 12/14/09
• Dec 14, 2009 - Treasuring for Dummies
• Dec 11, 2009 - No business for old men?
• Dec 09, 2009 - Dear Diary
• Dec 07, 2009 - Tab dump 12/7/09
• Dec 06, 2009 - Tab dump 12/6/09
• Dec 04, 2009 - I've got mail
• Dec 03, 2009 - An important election you didn't know about
• Dec 01, 2009 - The New (Model) Hampshire audition system
• Nov 30, 2009 - Tab dump 11/30/2009
• Nov 26, 2009 - A local view of the NHMFC
• Nov 24, 2009 - Musicians to the ice floes, please
• Nov 22, 2009 - Tab dump 11/22/09
• Nov 22, 2009 - When the excellent becomes the enemy of everything
• Nov 21, 2009 - Not quite as nice as endowing them, but still…
• Nov 20, 2009 - This actually might work for Bach
• Nov 19, 2009 - A webcast worth watching
• Nov 19, 2009 - A Coup-de-Festival
• Nov 18, 2009 - Tab dump 11/18/2009
• Nov 18, 2009 - And Omaha Beach was a skirmish
• Nov 17, 2009 - Tab Dump 11/17/2009
• Nov 15, 2009 - Trombone for dummies
• Nov 14, 2009 - Are orchestras like newspapers?
• Nov 11, 2009 - A Wizard experiment in Oz
• Nov 10, 2009 - Of business models and the breakage thereof
• Nov 08, 2009 - From under a rock emerges A Strategy
• Nov 08, 2009 - iWHAT?!
• Nov 08, 2009 - Dept. of Homeland Obviousness update
• Nov 06, 2009 - Honolulu Symphony files for moral bankruptcy
• Nov 05, 2009 - Yet more trouble for Honolulu
• Oct 30, 2009 - Another diaspora story
• Oct 29, 2009 - How many basses does it take to make a video?
• Oct 28, 2009 - The Naxos nexus
• Oct 27, 2009 - This wouldn't work for Bruckner either
• Oct 27, 2009 - The boss is the best organizer
• Oct 26, 2009 - Executive experience?
• Oct 25, 2009 - Saving money by pissing off the patrons
• Oct 24, 2009 - Now that's what I call a union
• Oct 23, 2009 - Pianist goes to jail too
• Oct 20, 2009 - More non-rigorous thinking about the arts
• Oct 18, 2009 - Chicago Symphony goes to jail
• Oct 18, 2009 - The diaspora personified
• Oct 17, 2009 - A guilty pleasure
• Oct 16, 2009 - Dog bites man
• Oct 16, 2009 - How the CD business could have been saved
• Oct 14, 2009 - Thinking different about Pops
• Oct 13, 2009 - Do orchestra managers make too much?
• Oct 11, 2009 - The Fall Classic
• Oct 11, 2009 - Change we can believe in
• Oct 10, 2009 - This week's concessions
• Oct 09, 2009 - Are conductors ovepaid?
• Oct 08, 2009 - Noises off week in Wisconsin
• Oct 06, 2009 - Play ball!
• Oct 06, 2009 - Cello humor
• Oct 05, 2009 - The boss is the best organizer
• Oct 04, 2009 - Management by waving (sticks) around
• Oct 04, 2009 - Noises off
• Oct 02, 2009 - Department of Conductorial Humor
• Oct 01, 2009 - Orchestra (but not money) can go to Cuba
• Sep 30, 2009 - Philly hires a new CEO
• Sep 30, 2009 - A rather blunt headline
• Sep 30, 2009 - Fun with audition ads
• Sep 29, 2009 - Maybe we're doing OK after all
• Sep 28, 2009 - Halls are hazardous workplaces
• Sep 27, 2009 - A notable retirement
• Sep 26, 2009 - Subscribe not?
• Sep 25, 2009 - Might not work for Bruckner
• Sep 25, 2009 - MPope3
• Sep 25, 2009 - Times a'changing in the Olde Countrie too
• Sep 25, 2009 - Leadership by waving something other than a baton
• Sep 24, 2009 - Ship-jumping on the rise?
• Sep 24, 2009 - The arts to subsidize insurance industry profits?
• Sep 24, 2009 - Government subsidies, American-style
• Sep 23, 2009 - Debt is dangerous stuff
• Sep 23, 2009 - Doing business with the Met
• Sep 23, 2009 - Another orchestra for Lincoln Center
• Sep 22, 2009 - In a world of hurt
• Sep 22, 2009 - From the Department of Great Headlines
• Sep 22, 2009 - Talk is cheap, and so are plans
• Sep 22, 2009 - The most interesting conductor in the world
• Sep 21, 2009 - On being overly picky at auditions
• Sep 21, 2009 - How to do a concert hall right
• Mar 30, 2009 - Age, gender and orchestras
• Jan 27, 2009 - Lobbying for a piece of the stimulus pie
• Jan 17, 2009 - Remembering Ron Bauers
• Jan 05, 2009 - In memoriam 2008
• Jan 02, 2008 - In Memoriam 2007
• Jun 27, 2007 - A Tale of Two Meetings
• Feb 14, 2007 - Robert’s Rules of Order: A Primer
• Jan 05, 2007 - In Memoriam 2006
• Nov 17, 2006 - l'Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal
• Apr 16, 2006 - To IBB or not to IBB? Why musicians so often say “no” to interest-based bargaining
• Apr 08, 2006 - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Labor Relations, Negotiations, and Contract Administration