Long Island commuters who have been holding their breaths in fear and breathe easy...at least, for the time being, as it was announced Monday that a potential Long Island Rail Road strike that could have taken place later this week has been temporarily averted. The strike, which was announced to take place starting Thursday and would have involved approximately half of all LIRR workers walking off the job, was put off by the unions, pending a request they made to the Trump Administration to step in and create an emergency board that would mediate between the unions and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. It is the union leaders collective hope that, if such a emergency board were to be created, it would be able to hear proposals from both sides and make recommendations

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