(Source: Trains.com, March 17, 2026
A second Presidential Emergency Board has sided with a coalition of unions in their ongoing contract dispute with the Long Island Rail Road — but the LIRR rejected the board’s recommendation, setting the stage for a strike or lockout in May. The board was, under the rules of the Railway Labor Act, required to select either the unions’ last offer or that of the LIRR as the most reasonable. On Monday, March 16, it chose the unions’ offer, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen said. The PEB also turned down the LIRR’s request for major changes to work rules, saying LIRR’s “insistence of all its work rule changes, in our view, makes its Final Offer the less reasonable of the two, regardless of the respective GWIs [general wage increases].”
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