New York’s Long Island Rail Road Faces Potential Strike in Mid-MayCommuters 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.