LIRR unions rejected an MTA offer of 11 percent raises over six years during negotiations Thursday — bringing the railroad closer to a strike, sources told The Post.
Workers would have gotten 3 percent raises in the first year, 1 percent boosts in the second and third years, and 2 percent raises in the final three years, sources said.
It was less than the almost 17 percent raise that a President Obama-appointed board of negotiators recommended last year over six years, but modeled after an agreement recently reached with the Transport Workers Union.
A second presidential board will make another round of recommendations on May 20 after both sides present their final arguments. LIRR workers have vowed to strike in July if an agreement is not reached.
“The MTA offered a substantial pay increase for LIRR workers, yet the highest-paid commuter railroad employees in the nation responded by threatening to strike if they do not get everything they demand,” the MTA said in a statement on Thursday.