The Long Island Rail Road won’t shut down for a worker strike this week after transit union leaders requested federal intervention requiring them to stay on the job until at least May.

Five unions representing roughly half of the LIRR’s workforce threatened to walk off the job as early as Thursday after talks broke down with the MTA. On Monday, the unions said their workers had voted to authorize a strike — but announced they had also requested President Donald Trump to convene an emergency board to broker a deal, which triggers a negotiating process that delays a strike for six months.

Gilman Lang, the general chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, said he didn’t want to upend commutes on the nation’s busiest commuter railroad, which carries some 300,000 dai

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