The Trump administration has agreed to get involved in contract negotiations between five unions representing Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) workers and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), temporarily averting a potential strike.

A planned work stoppage by approximately 3,700 LIRR employees, which was scheduled to have begun this week, has been halted. LIRR service will continue uninterrupted.

The calls for federal intervention came at the unions’ request. Under the Railway Labor Act, the union coalition has the right to ask the president to appoint a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) to investigate disputes between rail carriers and unions, and recommend solutions.

Trump has established a PEB to help negotiate the contract dispute between the MTA and the coalition of five u

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