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What’s Behind The LIRR Strike?

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By Marc Kagan
| Popular Resistance
Above photo: Jeremy Weine / Getty Images. Labor historian Marc Kagan explains the LIRR strike. And what it means for unions in New York. I’m sure you know that five unions of Long Island Rail Road workers are on strike for the first time since 1994. The workers on strike includelocomotive engineers, electrical and mechanical maintenance (repair) workers, signal workers, train dispatchers, and some clerical workers.
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What's Behind the LIRR Strike?

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By Marc Kagan, James Hoff
| Left Voice
This Article was Originally Published on the Substack The Labor Movement is a Mess… and What We Can Do About It *** I’m sure you know that five unions of Long Island Rail Road workers are on strike for the first time since 1994. The workers on strike include locomotive engineers, electrical and mechanical maintenance (repair) workers, signal workers, train dispatchers, and some clerical workers.
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May Day shows NYC's unions have a long way to go

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By Marc Kagan
| The Chief Leader
Marc Kagan is a current member of PSC-CUNY as a professor at Brooklyn College. He's a former activist member of Transport Workers Union Local 100 and former teacher at the Bronx High School of Science where he once taught Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who called Kagan "one of the best teachers I've ever had" and named him to his mayoral transition team. Kagan is the author of Taking Back the Power: The Fall and Rise and Fall of NYC’s Transport Workers Union Local 100, 1975-2009.
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