By Austin Alonzo

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Members of a union representing the engineers working for New York’s Long Island Rail Road voted to approve a strike, but the union and other unions are first requesting federal intervention.

Leaders of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), along with representatives of four other unions representing workers on the Long Island Rail Road, said on Sept. 15 that they had voted to authorize a strike if a contract agreement is not reached.