据纽约州州长凯西·霍切尔称,长岛铁路罢工已经结束。
“今晚,MTA与五个LIRR工会达成公平交易,在保护乘客和纳税人的同时给工人加薪。我很高兴地宣布,分阶段的LIRR服务将从明天中午开始恢复关于X的声明周一晚上。
LIRR每天为30多万通勤者提供服务。
“罢工将于今晚午夜结束,”MTA首席执行官亚诺·利伯说在周一晚上的新闻发布会上说,在Hochul宣布后不久,州长和LIRR总统Rob Free也参加了发布会。
Hochul说,服务将于周二中午恢复,下午通勤时全面服务,并赶上周二晚上纽约尼克斯队的篮球比赛。
州长还表示,在工会批准之前,她无权描述协议的任何细节,但她确实表示,通勤者不会看到火车票价上涨来支付新政的任何部分。
Free表示,随着服务的增加,通勤者应该查看LIRR应用程序和网站上的火车时刻表,并补充说,早上的通勤将像周一早上一样依赖于公共汽车和班车服务。
这是LIRR 32年来的首次罢工,从周六午夜开始此前,代表数千名铁路工人的工会与纽约地铁运输管理局(MTA)未能就新合同达成一致。
代表LIRR工人的五个工会之一,机车工程师和列车员兄弟会(BLET)的全国副主席凯文·塞克斯顿(Kevin Sexton)告诉记者,他和其他领导人无法在谈判截止日期前就加薪和医疗费用达成协议。
MTA首席执行官Janno Leiber在与Hochul举行的周日新闻发布会上表示,工会的要求将迫使骑手“支付炸毁MTA预算的劳动协议的成本”
周日下午,管理铁路和航空业劳资关系的独立联邦机构国家调解委员会召集双方开会,谈判得以恢复。
周一早上,随着LIRR车手寻求替代交通工具,谈判再次升温。
美国广播公司纽约市站WABC报道,工会要求在四年内增加14.5%的工资据报告的,而MTA官员提供了略小的涨幅,并在合同的第四年一次性付款,以弥补差额。据WABC报道,提议的加薪幅度很大程度上符合LIRR售票员和纽约市运输工人接受的合同。
Long Island Rail Road strike is over, New York Gov. Hochul says
The Long Island Rail Road strike has ended, according to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
"Tonight, the MTAreached a fair deal with the five LIRR unions that delivers raises for workers while protecting riders and taxpayers. I’m pleased to announce that phased LIRR service will resume beginning tomorrow at noon," Hochul said in astatement on XMonday night.
The LIRR serves more than 300,000 commuters daily.
"The strike is ending at midnight tonight," MTA CEO Janno Liebersaid at a press conference Monday night, shortly after Hochul's announcement, where he was joined by the governor and LIRR President Rob Free.
Service will resume at noon Tuesday, with full service in effect by the afternoon commute and in time for Tuesday night's New York Knicks basketball game, Hochul said.
The governor also said she wasn't at liberty to describe any details of the deal, pending ratification by the unions, but did say that commuters will not see a train fare increase to pay for any part of the new deal.
Commuters should check the LIRR app and website for the train schedule as service ramps up, Free said, adding that the morning commute will rely on bus and shuttle service as it did on Monday morning.
The strike, the first by the LIRR in 32 years,began Saturday at midnightafter the union representing thousands of rail workers and the the New York Metro Transit Authority (MTA) failed to reach an agreement on a new contract.
Kevin Sexton, the national vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), one of the five unions representing LIRR workers, told reporters that he and other leaders could not come to an agreement over salary increases and health care costs before the negotiation deadline ended.
MTA CEO Janno Leiber said during a Sunday press conference with Hochul that what the unions asked for would force riders to "pay the cost of a labor settlement that blew up the MTA budget."
Negotiations resumed Sunday afternoon when the National Mediation Board, an independent federal agency that manages labor relations in the railroad and airline industries, summoned both sides to a meeting.
Negotiations picked up again Monday morning as LIRR riders sought transportation alternatives.
The unions demanded wage increases of 14.5% over four years, ABC New York City station WABCreported, while MTA officials offered slightly smaller increases and a lump-sum payment in the contract's fourth year to make up the difference. The proposed pay bumps are largely in line with contracts accepted by the LIRR's conductors and New York City Transit workers, WABC reported.





