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    Op-ed / Commentary ● Labor Strike Unions

    Opinion: Hochul must shame LIRR unions —by revealing their outrageous strike demands

    September 15, 2025 // The agency’s overtime spending regularly stands out by national standards (only periodically rivaled by the MTA’s other big rail outfit, Metro-North, which is stuck operating under the federal law that governs the LIRR). LIRR employees in 2023 made an average of more than $26,000 each in overtime alone.

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