As New York opens its workweek, widespread transport disruption is expected as key negotiators struggle to end a strike that has shut down the busiest commuter rail service in North America. Unions representing thousands of striking workers of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) service and operator Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) had yet to reach an agreement by early Monday morning, after the workers walked off the job Saturday in protest of insufficient wages. The last time LIRR