🚨3,500 WORKERS WALK OUT AS BLET TEAMSTERS, UNION COALITION LAUNCH LIRR STRIKE🚨
Teamsters with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (@BLET) at the Long Island Rail Road have launched a strike alongside their bargaining coalition of 3,500 workers from five unions.
The LIRR is the busiest commuter railroad in America, with 300,000 daily passengers. This is the first strike at the carrier in 32 years.
The Teamsters represent over 500 locomotive engineers at the railroad. They have gone three years without raises throughout the process of bargaining a new contract.
Teamsters locomotive engineers will stay on strike until they get the fair contract they deserve.
🎥 From making the @NLRB less union-friendly, to crippling #NIOSH, making us less safe on the job, to stripping 1 million workers of collective bargaining rights w/the stroke of a pen, @realDonaldTrump's #First100Days have had a serious impact on workers.
.@Teamsters LU 200 retiree Kenneth Stribling speaks at the DNC about how he built a movement and fought for 6 years to save the pensions Teamsters members earned
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We wrapped up our @NYSLaborersPAC conference this morning with Assembly Labor Chair @JoinJoyner and Senate Labor Chair @NYSenatorRamos! ✅
Next up: Working together to continue to empower NY’s laborers through legislation that promotes strong wages and protections! 🚧💪