Five Long Island Rail Road unions are threatening to screw New Yorkers with a crippling strike — possibly as soon as Thursday.

Their obscene demands include 16% wage hikes over three years — 6.5 percentage points more than other LIRR unions accepted — and no work-rule “givebacks,” meaning no changes to rules written in some cases to cover 19th-century technology, let alone adjusting for the 21st century.

If the MTA doesn’t buckle, the unions could shut down the whole railroad.

Fewer than 3,500 railroad workers would blithely strand 350,000 commuters — out of pure greed.

That would be a major pain for those commuters and their employers; fill-in bus service could only allow a small fraction to still take transit, and driving would be nightmarish.

But Gov. Kathy Hochul and MTA brass

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