Unions representing thousands of workers on the Long Island Rail Road are holding strike authorization votes after more than a year and a half of bargaining mediated by the National Mediation Board failed to result in a contract.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority and the unions — known collectively as the Long Island Rail Road Bargaining Coalition — are in the middle of a 30-day cooling off period mandated by the Railway Labor Act following the end of mediation on Aug. 18. The coalition of unions could strike when that cooling-off period ends Sept. 18 but any of the negotiating parties or Governor Kathy Hochul could request that the Trump administration create a Presidential Emergency Board that would delay a strike.
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