WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to appoint an emergency board to conduct mediation to avert a work stoppage at the Long Island Rail Road, which serves nearly 300,000 passengers daily.
A group of five unions said Monday they had asked Trump to intervene after previously threatening to launch a strike later this week at the railroad serving New York commuters. A White House spokesman said Trump had acted at the unions’ request “to bring both sides back to the negotiating table and prevent a strike that could have crippled the New York City area and disrupted the upcoming Ryder Cup on Long Island.”
(Reporting by David Shepardson)
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