Due to a labor union strike the busiest train system in North America is completely shut down https://longisland.news12.com/2026/05/17/lirr-service-suspended-on-day-one-of-historic-strike/4loTlXtTUwBPvTZquC1dIhLIRR workers in the striking unions have a median/average salary around $131,000–$136,000 (highest-paid railroad workers in the U.S.), with total compensation often exceeding $200,000 including benefits. Many top earners make over $250k with overtime. https://www.newsday.com/long-island/transportation/lirr-pay-highest-wages-deovhmtu
fire every single one of them and convert to buses/trucksproblem solved
The oligarchs need more union dues.
>>2073619based but they say the trains being shut down costs 60 million dollars a day
I'm ok with this. Strikes are not a credible threat unless they happen sometimes. They happen far less often in the US than in other developed countries."That person is asking for a higher salary than I am earning so this should be illegal and the government should send in the troops" is how everyone gets fucked over. Yet Americans fall for it over, and over, and over again.
>>2073617>LIRR workers in the striking unions have a median/average salary around $131,000–$136,000 (highest-paid railroad workers in the U.S.)Guaranteed extraboard for conductors when I left CN was over $129k/year. That was 2 years ago. A regular job with no OT was $143k/year. Railroaders are over paid whiny shitheads.
>>2073617As a long time user of MTA, LIRR and NJ Transit this makes me SO HAPPY! I hope it lasts all week and the MTA and city bleed billions. Fucking embarrassment of a public transit system in the most expensive and populous metropolitan area.
>>2073656Faggot bootlicker take
>>2073656>>2073665But they work for the public sector. There’s no competition and our taxes pay them
>>2073665Public sector unions are bigger thugs than the mob.
>>2073677>>2073680Don’t care, don’t pay taxes. Audit the MTA and they can clean house while they’re at it
