LIRR unions blast MTA over stalled bargaining talks, threaten strike in May: ‘The clock is ticking’

Fuente: New York Post

Long Island Rail Road union leaders and Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials finally returned to the bargaining table Wednesday after 40 days, but the session still ended with no deal in sight. With less than three weeks until workers can legally walk off the job, leaders of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and four other labor unions appeared at an MTA board meeting and accused the agency of dodging talks toward the long-running contract dispute for weeks. “The clock is ticking,” fumed Gilman Lang, general chairman of the engineers’ union.