Negotiators reach a deal to end strike on Long Island Rail Road
May 19, 2026
The system’s major commuter lines will begin running trains by noon Tuesday, with full service to all branches by the afternoon rush hour.
The system’s major commuter lines will begin running trains by noon Tuesday, with full service to all branches by the afternoon rush hour.
LAWYERS AT BROOKLYN Defender Services, the city’s second-largest public defender organization, voted to authorize a strike,
NY’s price gouging laws prohibit businesses from increasing prices on essential goods and services such as transit options like rideshares.
The LIRR serves hundreds of thousands of commuters who live along a 118-mile-long land mass that includes Brooklyn and Queens.
LIRR ceased operations just after midnight after five unions representing about half its workforce walked off the job.
LIRR service runs in Brooklyn and has stations in East New York, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Atlantic Terminal in Downtown Brooklyn.
The battle over 24-hour shifts has pitted the mostly immigrant women working in the home care industry against vulnerable patients.
32BJ SEIU said Friday afternoon that a tentative contract agreement has been reached that would avert a threatened strike.
Thousands of superintendents, maintenance workers, front desk staff and resident managers in residential buildings are preparing to strike.
Members of the union began picketing on the school’s Lower Manhattan campus, as university representatives criticized the move.
The current four-year master labor agreement between the union and the Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations expires on April 20.
WORKERS AT NEW York City’s 10 unionized Starbucks stores last week ended a three-month-long strike without coming to an agreement.
Councilmembers joined unionized CAMBA IT workers to condemn CAMBA’s plan to outsource its IT department while workers remain on strike
A strike, which could have happened as early as Thursday under federal rules, would have impacted some 250,000 riders.
The contract dispute has been in National Mediation Board-sponsored mediation since February 2024. Member ballots are due in on Monday.
NEW JERSEY TRANSIT on Thursday urged customers to complete their travels and arrive at their final destination by 11:59 p.m. on Thursday.
THE STATE PRISON GUARDS’ UNION has agreed to terms to end a wildcat strike after reaching a deal with the state.
CORRECTIONS WORKERS on Friday entered the fifth day of an unsanctioned strike over what they say are unsafe working conditions.
Only three months after the Seventh Ave. Starbucks unionized, the coffee retail giant announced that it is closing the store on Thursday.
DOCTORS AT several public NYC hospitals on Monday came to an agreement on a new contract, averting a planned strike of nearly 1,000 doctors.
DOCTORS ON STAFF AT THE CITY’S PUBLIC HOSPITALS, including one in Coney Island, have been asked to return
Nearly 1,000 doctors at four public NYC hospitals, including Coney Island Hospital, gave notice that they’re ready to strike on Jan. 13.
AS THE HOLIDAYS ROUND the corner, two Amazon warehouse facilities are gearing up to convene a work stoppage on Sunday.
CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS HAVE ONCE again broken down between the International Longshoreman’s Association and port owners along the East Coast.
Some 45,000 dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports are returning to work after their union reached a deal to suspend a strike.
U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down this week when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike.
From Maine to Texas, dockworkers at 36 ports across the eastern United States are on strike for the first time in decades.
MAYOR ERIC ADAMS on Tuesday announced the appointment of Allison Stoddart as City Hall chief counsel, effective immediately.
The two sides haven’t bargained since June in a dispute largely over wages and a union-proposed ban on increased automation of port cranes.
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