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 ...

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 ...

WOODLAND PARK, NJ — New Jersey Transit trains will begin operating again after the agency reached a deal with striking rail engineers on wage increases, the engineers' union said, ending a three ...

Negotiators for New Jersey Transit and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), the union representing 450 striking engineers, have reached a tentative labor agreement that ...

NJ Transit engineers picket outside of Penn Station on Friday, May 16, 2025. (Emma Seiwell / New York Daily News) By New York Daily News Editorial Board. PUBLISHED: May 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM EDT.

NJ Transit engineers’ hourly rate starts at $39.78 an hour — less than their LIRR counterparts, who make $49.92, as well as the engineers of Metro-North, who make $57.20.

How exactly they structured the contract — and without triggering “me too” clauses that would allow NJ Transit’s 14 other unions to seek the same potential wage increases — is still a ...

NJ Transit has failed to reach an agreement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union, resulting in the first major transit strike to hit New Jersey since 1983.

New Jersey Transit's train engineers have overwhelmingly approved a tentative deal that ended their three-day strike last month that halted service for some 100,000 daily riders, ...

NJ Transit President and CEO Kris Kolluri said the new contract recently approved by the locomotive engineers union June 10 is "precedent-setting." The engineers — who were on strike for three ...

New Jersey Transit's train engineers have overwhelmingly approved a tentative deal that ended their three-day strike last month that halted service for some 100,000 daily riders, including routes ...