Long Island Rail Unions Ask Trump to Step In to Avoid Strike (1)

A coalition of unions representing New York’s Long Island Rail Road workers has asked the Trump administration to convene a presidential emergency board, which could avoid a strike and allow negotiations with management to continue.

Locomotive engineers on Monday overwhelmingly approved a potential work stoppage in a fight for higher wages, inching the nation’s largest commuter rail line closer to a shutdown that would leave hundreds of thousands of riders seeking alternative travel.

Gil Lang, general chairman of the Long Island Rail Road Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, center, during a news conference in New York on Sept. 15.

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

“This is not a strike notice,” said Gil Lang, general chairman of the Long Island Rail Road Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, at a press ...