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Posted on 05/16/2026 1:45:18 PM PDT by CFW
A strike by thousands of Long Island Rail Road employees brought the nation’s busiest commuter railroad to a standstill early Saturday, disrupting travel across the New York metropolitan area and setting up a major labor standoff between transit officials and union leaders.
Train service was halted shortly after midnight when five labor unions representing nearly half of the railroad’s workforce launched a walkout after contract negotiations with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority collapsed. It marks the first rail strike on the system in roughly 30 years.
The shutdown immediately affected commuters traveling between New York City and Long Island, with officials warning riders to expect significant delays and overcrowding on alternate transportation options throughout the weekend.
At the center of the dispute are disagreements over wages and rising healthcare costs, the Associated Press reported.
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“Trump blasts Hochul for blaming him for Long Island Rail Road strike”
You just wait until boyman dammi gets wind of this...
Keep it shut down, refuse to negotiate until union strike reserves are depleted and they cry uncle, then dictate your terms.
Yeah, the line goes clear out to the end of LI ... it’s slogan from years back was “The Route Of The Dashing Commuter”
Ride a bike. Wear a mask.
It should be a crime for employees to conspire to sabotage an employer’s business. And it was, until the passage of the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, which gave legal protection to collective bargaining and labor strikes.
We want huge raises to drive inflation even more.
LIRR strike forces Long Island man to shell out $200 for Uber to MSG to attend relative’s graduation ceremony
No qualified management anymore who could at least keep some limited service going? Or is it all so complicated now that it’s all or nothing?
In all of America, there’s actually ONE commuter railroad that’s run properly...so why not go on strike? LOL!
Princess Kathy has another feather in her dystopian crown.
What will Biden do?
Ooops...
HAH!
Deal with that mamdamni
Oh how funny. Governor Hochul was supposed to fix this the other day. Apparently they told her to stick it.
Anyone flying out of JFK will need to take the subway or a bus to get there from NYC.
Passenger rail service.
Buffet’s RR is yugely bigger....
Biggly, Yugely larger....
Another reason to detest Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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