MTA threatens fare hikes and service cuts as LIRR strike deadline approaches

LIRR workers face wage stagnation and potential service disruptions affecting hundreds of thousands of daily commuters if strike occurs.

On the edge of a May deadline, the Long Island Rail Road and its workers' unions find themselves locked in a familiar but consequential standoff — one where the cost of resolution and the cost of failure both fall heaviest on those who can least afford either. The MTA has named its number: an 8 percent fare increase if union demands are met, and service cuts to follow. For workers who have watched another year pass without a raise in one of the most expensive regions on earth, the threat of a strike is not a tactic so much as a reckoning. What unfolds in the coming weeks will say something abo

MTA threatens fare hikes and service cuts as LIRR strike deadline approaches

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