Nation's busiest commuter rail system ON STRIKE

Añadido: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]We move on an island in the city. So, we've done everything we could [music] to prevent this from happening.

[00:00:05]We've gone through 3 years of a process with no raise. The roads just can't handle [music] the amount of volume with cars. It's the bloodline all our special events [music] in the city. Games, people getting to work, essential workers getting to work. We went through the Railway Labor Act process, which involved the President [music] Emergency Board twice, doing all the research and putting [singing] out a recommendation for what would be a reasonable solution to this dispute. We would have accepted the last PEB. They wouldn't. [music] And they wouldn't even come close to it during the negotiations. And now they caused [music and singing] this. We just want to be able to, you know, afford living here in Long Island. It's so expensive. Everything's [music] gone up. You know, we need to survive.

[00:00:46]We have family hard and, you know, it's tough times, for sure. [music] It You know, who are the ones that, you know, the ones that are already making billions and trillions? You know, >> [singing] >> we're the station [music] cleaners.

[00:00:58]We're like bottom of the barrel. So, we take all the abuse from everybody. And, you know, now we just want to stand [music] up for what we want.