After three days on strike, 3,500 commuter rail workers from the Teamsters and four other unions have won a new contract with the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) in New York. Workers won all the wage increases they demanded.

The new contract follows four years of stalled bargaining where workers received no raises and inflation cut into living standards.  

BLET Teamsters and workers across the coalition walked off the job on Friday after the MTA refused to offer a contract that kept up with the cost of living. 

Picket lines went up across the New York metropolitan area, shutting down the nation’s busiest commuter railroad.

"BLET Teamsters and their brothers and sisters across four other unions just showed this entire country what worker solidarity looks like in action," said Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien in a press release.