New York’s Long Island Rail Road Faces Potential Strike in Mid-May
Long Island Rail Road workers are threatening to strike as soon as May 16 as union leaders and transit officials have yet to reach an agreement on wage increases even with the help of a federal mediat
Commuters near Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) signage at Moynihan Train Hall in New York, US, on Monday, Sept. 15, 2025. Locomotive engineers for New York's Long Island Rail Road approved a potential strike in a fight for higher wages, inching the nation's largest commuter rail line closer to a shutdown that would leave hundreds of thousands of riders seeking alternative travel.