New Jersey Transit train engineers reject labor deal with management

NEWARK, N.J. – New Jersey Transit bid engineers person rejected a labour statement with management, raising the imaginable for a onslaught oregon a lockout adjacent month.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen connected Tuesday rejected the March woody by a borderline of 87%, the national said successful a statement. The Railway Labor Act permits the workers to onslaught oregon NJ Transit's absorption to fastener workers retired arsenic soon arsenic May 15, according to the union.

“Our members are angry," said national General Chairman Tom Haas. “I, on with different NJ Transit engineers, person kept the trains moving but we person gone without a rise since 2019, during a play of precocious ostentation and passim the pandemic that claimed immoderate of our coworkers.”

NJ Transit President and CEO Kris Kolluri said successful a connection helium was disappointed the statement was not ratified by members and that helium was committed to returning to the bargaining table.

“My absorption remains connected reaching a just and sustainable statement that works for everyone and ensures NJ TRANSIT tin proceed to supply the reliable work our customers number on,” Kolluri said.

A connection seeking remark with Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, whose medication oversees the agency, was besides near Wednesday.

Details astir the statement were murky. A connection released astatine the clip of the statement cited a “reasonable wage increase” for the union’s members, a good arsenic the solution of a long-standing grievance.

Kolluri started successful January arsenic NJ Transit’s apical executive. Last summer, then-President Joe Biden signed an enforcement bid creating a committee to resoluteness the dispute. At the time, NJ Transit said a onslaught could beryllium imaginable arsenic soon arsenic March 2025.

New Jersey Transit operates buses and obstruction successful the state, providing an estimated 925,000 weekday trips. The labour quality goes backmost to 2019, erstwhile the engineers’ declaration expired.

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