NJ Transit has failed to reach a contract agreement with locomotive engineers, resulting in the first major transit strike to hit New Jersey since 1983. The rail system had been warning commuters ...

New Jersey Transit’s newly inked deal with its locomotive engineers would boost pay to more than $50 an hour, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.

That schedule allows NJ Transits board of directors to vote on the contract at its June 11 meeting, if union members approve ...

New Yorkers looking to make a reverse commute into the Garden State were flummoxed on Friday, hours after NJ Transit’s 450 engineers went on strike in the early morning hours over a ...

Will a tentative contract with NJ Transit locomotive engineers make fares go up? The answer, like a Facebook relationship status, is complicated. Fares are increasing anyway on July 1 by 3% which ...

Wages continued to be a sticking point as New Jersey’s first statewide transit strike in 40 years began Friday morning.

NJ Transit engineers say they want parity with their ... The BLET and NJ Transit reached a tentative contract agreement in March, after working without a contract since the start of 2020.

The agency also will contract with private carriers to operate ... better-paying jobs at other railroads. The number of NJ Transit engineers has shrunk from 500 several months ago to about 450 ...

NJ Transit President Kris Kolluri and representatives for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen met on Saturday afternoon for over two hours.

and it is a slap in the face of every commuter and worker who relies on NJ Transit.” BLET also said the contract rejected by members would have left their pay about 20% behind that of engineers ...

Three of the contracts were awarded on an ... contingency plan to provide busing if the locomotive engineers strike May 16. “NJ Transit continues to monitor every trip Academy operates ...

NJ Transit's engineers have a starting hourly salary rate of $39.78 an hour, based on the contract that expired over five years ago. Here is a list of the current base hourly rates paid to nearby ...