--- title: FELA Attorney's Blog | Exploring the rights and issues of railroad workers | LIRR strike description: LIRR strike | Exploring the rights and issues of railroad workers for on job injuries and whistleblower claims and those of injured passengers. --- [![fw-fela-logo.png](https://www.felaattorney.com/hs-fs/hubfs/fw-fela-logo.png?width=504&name=fw-fela-logo.png "fw-fela-logo.png")](https://www.felaattorney.com/) ![lpheader-blog-header.jpg](https://www.felaattorney.com/hs-fs/hubfs/LP_Headers/lpheader-blog-header.jpg?width=1024&name=lpheader-blog-header.jpg "lpheader-blog-header.jpg") ## FELA Attorney's Blog | Exploring the rights and issues of railroad workers and rail passengers ## [The Truth Behind MTA's #STRIKEADEAL Campaign Aimed at LIRR Communters](https://www.felaattorney.com/blog/the-truth-behind-mtas-strikeadeal-campaign-aimed-at-lirr-communters) Posted by [Marc Wietzke](https://www.felaattorney.com/blog/author/marc-wietzke) on Jul 9, 2014 10:40:31 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ![mta_tweet](https://www.felaattorney.com/hs-fs/hub/312738/file-1197362703.jpg?width=327&name=file-1197362703.jpg)Twitter is awash this morning in retweet's of the MTA's post regarding negotiations with LIRR unions, tagged #strikeadeal. What commuters and members of the public don't know is that the MTA doesn't want a deal. If it did it would have made one years ago. Or perhaps just this spring when the Whitehouse intervened for the **second time** to tell the MTA: **What unions are asking for is reasonable**. The gist of what the unions are asking for, and what the specially organized Presidential Executive Board (PEB) deemed reasonable, was a legit raise for the first time in more than a decade. A decade.  By letting negotiations falter again and again, the MTA forced the PEB to get involved and spend a bucket of taxpayer money to do it. That's taxes paid for by you and me. By riders and union members alike. Even by those at the helm of the transit authority. [Read More](https://www.felaattorney.com/blog/the-truth-behind-mtas-strikeadeal-campaign-aimed-at-lirr-communters) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://www.felaattorney.com/blog/the-truth-behind-mtas-strikeadeal-campaign-aimed-at-lirr-communters#comments-listing) Topics: [unions](https://www.felaattorney.com/blog/topic/unions), [PEB](https://www.felaattorney.com/blog/topic/peb), [LIRR strike](https://www.felaattorney.com/blog/topic/lirr-strike), [MTA](https://www.felaattorney.com/blog/topic/mta) ## [LIRR Union Workers: The MTA Thinks You are Ignorant and Stupid](https://www.felaattorney.com/blog/lirr-union-workers-the-mta-thinks-you-are-ignorant-and-stupid) Posted by [Marc Wietzke](https://www.felaattorney.com/blog/author/marc-wietzke) on Jul 8, 2014 7:54:00 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ![IMG_5357_(326x217)](https://www.felaattorney.com/hs-fs/hub/312738/file-1194970741.jpg)LIRR workers, they haven't been so direct as to say it to your face, but the MTA thinks you are ignorant and stupid. How else could they could they ignore PEB 244 ***and* **PEB 245? We are entering the final throes of negotiation between the LIRR and its union workers, just days away from a strike, and I am appalled at how the MTA thinks the public has the memory and comprehension of a gnat. The MTA continues to beat the party drum, saying “When the union workers are ready to compromise and talk, we are here.” That is ridiculous. It is also untrue, because the unions have followed the rules, agreed to compromise and been rebuffed at every attempt. I am reminded of my nine year old demanding dessert when that was conditioned on eating dinner – which still sits on the plate in front of him. 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