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Republican opponent Bruce Blakeman said the governor owes small businesses and hourly workers "who got completely screwed by her incompetence" in three-day strike.
Service slowly returned to the nation's busiest commuter railroad on Tuesday after a three-day worker strike came to an end.
Even with a tentative deal, the LIRR says trains will not run on Tuesday morning.
The shuttle buses served as a lifeline for hundreds of commuters stranded by the strike on Monday morning. But they also drew criticism from labor leaders on the picket line.
The losses could mount with the Memorial Day weekend "just around the corner."
The MTA says backup shuttle buses can carry only a fraction of regular LIRR riders.
Five unions representing half the LIRR workforce walked away from the negotiating table on Friday without reaching a deal, setting the stage for the first strike on the railroad since 1994.
One source says the deal includes no strike, a seventeen percent hike over six-and-a-half years, full back pay, and two percent for medical pay.
A Long Island Railroad strike is looking like an increasingly real possibility.
The union says services could start winding down as early as Wednesday.