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The coalition represents about half the LIRR’s 7,000 union workers, including train operators, ticket agents, electricians, signal workers, and machinists.

A strike involving 150 King Kullen employees was called off after union representatives reached a tentative agreement overnight.

Meat and seafood workers at 25 store locations across Long Island say they began the strike due to unfair labor practices.

John Durso, president of the Long Island Federation of Labor, said the workforce behind these projects plays a key role in maintaining those standards.

Generation industry representatives and their allies united behind a call to loosen New York’s climate law to allow the repowering of old fossil fuel plants with new natural gas turbines at the Independent Power Producers of New York’s 40th annual Spring Conference on March 24.

Plans for a new bridge date back a decade, when county officials said the existing structure was at the end of its design life.

John Durso, president of the Long Island Federation of Labor, said clean energy investment is creating opportunities that extend far beyond the construction phase.