A strike on the Long Island Rail Road was averted — for now — as union officials took an unprecedented move Monday to ask the Trump administration to intervene. A coalition of five unions wants the feds to put together a presidential emergency board, labor leaders said during a press conference — as they took numerous shots at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Gov. Hochul. But the Manhattan Institute’s Ken Girardin explains why it’s a bad idea:

Labor unions representing Long Island Rail Road employees went full-steam ahead this month toward a destructive strike, only to hit the brakes when the Hochul administration didn’t blink.

Now they’re appealing to the Dealmaker-in-Chief, President Trump, to help them save face.

For the sake of Long Island commuters, New York taxpayer

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