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A top New Jersey Transit union official said Friday the railroad needs to make significant movement on wages if a potentially crippling strike is to be averted before a May 16 deadline.

NJ Transit and its engineers have reached a tentative agreement to end a strike that crippled the nation’s third-largest commuter rail system. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and ...

On June 16, 2023, Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono reported that National BLET had agreed to pay NJT $50,000 for a “sickout” on “Juneteenth” of the previous year in a dispute about the ...

NEW JERSEY (PIX11) – NJ Transit locomotive engineers are still headed toward a strike as negotiations continue to fail, according to NJ Transit President Kris Kolluri. NJ Transit and the union ...

Next year is going to see three pivotal dates that might lead to the first NJ Transit rail strike in 40 years, if negotiations aren’t successful. The key date for commuters to be concerned about ...

NEW JERSEY (PIX11) – NJ Transit locomotive engineers are still headed toward a strike as negotiations continue to fail, according to NJ Transit President Kris Kolluri. NJ Transit and the union ...

Representatives for NJ Transit and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers are scheduled to meet Monday in Washington, D.C., called there by federal arbitrators to hash out their differences as ...

Representatives for NJ Transit and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers are scheduled to meet Monday in Washington, D.C., called there by federal arbitrators to hash out their differences as ...

NJ Transit currently operates a fleet of 429 Bombardier MultiLevel cars (62 cab cars, 367 trailer coaches) as well as several iterations of single-level cars (Comet II, Comet III, Comet IV). The ...

Before the strike was called, NJ Transit said its contingency plan to move commuters was to use buses. But officials previously cautioned only 20%, or about 20,000, of the 100,000 daily rail ...