{"id":232533,"date":"2026-05-15T10:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232533\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:59:07","slug":"strike-deadline-nears-for-new-york-area-train-system-with-250000-daily-commuters-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232533\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike deadline nears for New York-area train system with 250,000 daily commuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"E545453MG5D3ZK6JZQCLTXXBSM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">NEW YORK \u2014 North America\u2019s largest commuter rail system is facing a potential shutdown as a deadline nears to reach a deal with unionized workers to avert a strike.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AHKH7ALVNNDVNETGTLFE3JXWHI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Long Island Railroad that serves New York City\u2019s eastern suburbs has been negotiating for months on a new contract with labor officials representing locomotive engineers, machinists, signalmen and other train workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 North America\u2019s largest commuter rail system is facing a potential shutdown as a deadline nears&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[288,417,31032,1213,23338,9,24,55,54,56,87,23289,608,421,91229],"class_list":["post-232533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-business","tag-general-news","tag-jobs-and-careers","tag-labor","tag-labor-unions","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-politics","tag-strikes","tag-transportation","tag-u-s-news","tag-us-long-island-rail-road-strike-threat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}