The New Jersey Transit train engineers officially began their strike, closed passengers and left hundreds of thousands of passengers scrambling to find other transport media.
The members of the locomotive engineers and the Train Union (BLET) threatened the strike unless transport officials in New Jersey and the Union were able to agree on new conditions and provisions for workers who lead trains.
It was a close deal but was not reached, according to the New Jersi Murphy Governor, which led to all the New Jersey passengers and MTA Metro, northwest of Hudson Service to stop running when the strike started at 12:01 am on Friday.
The electronic screen recommends passengers to disable the potential NJ transportation at the SECAUCUCUCUCUCTION Station in SECAUCUS, New Jersey, on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.
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On Thursday, both sides met again in the 11 o’clock negotiations to avoid the strike, in addition to a meeting in Washington, DC on Monday, with the National Mediation Council, but no decision was reached.
During a press conference late Thursday evening, Murphy and CEO of NJ Transit Chris Colory encouraged the passengers to work from home on Friday.
“If you can work from home, and certainly tomorrow, and you are there, you will be a really good day to do this,” Murphy said.
Colory said Thursday evening that there is an unlikely investigation deal and the negotiations were not “a lost issue.” They are expected to resume negotiations on Sunday morning, according to Colory.
After the meeting of the New Jersey Transport Board on Wednesday, Colory told reporters that he was “confident and optimistic” about their efforts to avoid the strike.
“I will stay on the negotiating table as long as it takes,” said Colory. “If it takes two to Tango, I think if we can focus on the offered task, which is to obtain a fair agreement at reasonable prices, I think we can avoid the strike.”
National President Plate Mark Wallace said at a press conference on May 9 that he had passed five years since the trainers of the NJ Transit have received a wage increase.
“The reasonable people will vote for a fair agreement,” said Wallace.
People descend from the NJ Transit passenger train after arriving at the transit station, November 2, 2022, in Hobokeen, New Jersey.
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Tom Haas, General President of BLET, said during the same press conference that the engineers working in NJ Transit receive an average salary of $ 113,000 a year. Has said that if the CEO of New Jersey Transit Kris Kolluri agreed to a medium salary of $ 170,000 annually to engineers’ operators, “We got a deal.”
“NJ Transit engineers already have a total profit of $ 135,000 annually, with higher than its owners exceeding $ 200,000,” according to statement On New Jersey Transit on the negotiation site with The BLET.
During a separate press conference on May 9, Colory Lahjj Al -Ittihad responded, saying that Haas had previously agreed to increase wages to $ 49.82 per hour, but later demanded higher wages because he believed that there was “a better amount at the end of the rainbow.”
“I cannot continue to give the left and right money to solve a problem,” said Colory.
ABC News Applications have been sent to NJ Transit and The BLE to comment regarding Wallace, Haas and Kolluri’s Kolluri statements related to increased wages, did not receive claims.
NJ Transit states that if they accept BLT terms, each of them and taxpayers in New Jersey will cost $ 1.363 billion between July 2025 and June 2030. Claims.
Justin Funachik, North Metro President, announces the transit options for the Port Georvis line and Pascal Valley Line agents if there is a strike at NJ Transit next week, May 8, 2025, in Tarrytown, New York.
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New Jersey transport officials He said The strike will “disrupt the lives of more than 350,000 passengers” and develop a Emergency plan This includes adding “a very limited capacity to the current New York passenger bus roads close to the railway stations and contracting with private transport companies to operate the bus service” for passengers who usually depend on trains.
But even with extended bus service, NJ Transit said it “can carry nearly 20 % of the current rail customers” because the bus system does not have the ability to replace the railway service for passengers.
Shawan Sharon de told Civil Engineering and Engineering at the University of Colombia, ABC News, before the strike began that it might be a “disaster” of Manhattan traffic due to the increased movement of buses and cars to the city from passengers unable to take the train. There will also be an additional penalty for passengers in Manhattan that must be paid recently Pricing congestion.
“New Jersey Tranzit is the backbone of people who live in New Jersey to move. This is in fact a shock to me,” said DDC News.
Many of his colleagues are using NJ Transit to move and that the strike “will disaster the arteries of vital transport in our regions.”
