NJ Transit, engineers reach deal to end strike
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New Jersey Transit officials and the union representing its rail engineers are set to meet again Sunday to resume contract negotiations, an effort to reach an agreement and end a strike that’s halted train service for three days.
This is a very sensitive time. Nobody wants to upend a deal,” said Bill Dwyer, a professor in the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations.
A tentative deal has been reached to end a New Jersey rail strike by raising wages of workers whose picketing halted the country’s third-largest transit system.
NJ Transit rail engineers are set to strike if a deal cannot be reached by the midnight deadline, impacting hundreds of thousands of commuters.
Hotel bookings jumped 10%, highways became parking lots, and subway cars overflowed when New Jersey experienced its first statewide rail strike.
The union’s departure from negotiations triggered a strike that began at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, May 16. That's not acceptable. NJ Transit officials and the union’s leadership must convene as ...
New Jersey's commuter rail engineers walked off the job early on Friday after marathon contract talks stalled ahead of a midnight deadline their union set for meeting its wage demands, igniting the first strike to engulf the third-largest U.
The BLET union said picket lines will begin at Penn Station in New York City, the Atlantic City Rail Terminal and NJ Transit headquarters in Newark at 4 a.m. ET. The union represents 51,000 engineers and other train service workers across the U.S.