(Source: Newsday, April 23, 2014)
NEW YORK — A Presidential Emergency Board session between MTA managers and LIRR unions extends into a fourth day Thursday, with negotiators on both sides trying to broker a deal to avert shutting down the nation’s largest commuter railroad this summer. At issue is the size of wage increases in a new six-year contract. LIRR unions want the MTA to abide by the recommendations of an earlier Presidential board, which called for raises totaling 17 percent. The MTA is pushing for LIRR laborers to accept the terms of a deal reached last week with subway and bus workers. It would give them 11 percent raises.
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