President Donald Trump has formally stepped into the ongoing contract fight between the MTA and five Long Island Rail Road unions, assigning an “emergency” mediation board to try to resolve the dispute.

The White House on Tuesday published an executive order “establishing an emergency board to investigate disputes between the Long Island Rail Road Company and certain of its employees represented by certain labor organizations.”

The move came in response to a request made Monday by five labor organizations representing around half of the LIRR’s 7,000 union workers. The request delayed a potential strike by the unions that could have otherwise begun as early as Thursday.

“Ask and you shall receive,” Kevin Sexton, national vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Tra

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