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Probability of LIRR employee strike increases after failed negotiations
The Railway Labor Act provides for an Emergency Board, named by the President. Usually a cooling off period results. LIRR is a carrier by rail, and thus under RLA and not under the state’s transit law.
Having been a picket line marcher, sign carrying nationwide railroad striker for three “labor actions,”, this may be a relevant fact: all were stopped by injunction in short of two days.
An arbitration board with federal authority would be established.
I was a little curious about the “Taylor Law” myself and after doing a little research, for some legal reason it applies to Transit workers (Subway,Buses…etc) but not the LIRR employees. Both are under the MTA umbrella.
The FED stepped in a few weeks back when SEPTA engineers went on strike. Let’s see what happens here…
They are state employees. New York has a law, called the Taylor Law, forbidding public employee strikes. The penalty is loss of two (or more, in cases of repeat violators) day’s pay.
They could also wind up being decertified and have to reorganize through another union/Brotherhood. This is vastly more complicated than simply a strike threat, with millions in campaign contributions from rail unions/brotherhoods on the line for the politicians enforcing this law.
I think that these employees are covered under the Railway Labor Act.