NJ Transit Strike Over: NJ Transit Strike Ends New Jersey Transit Engineers Reach Deal With NJ GOV - Oaknews
NJ Transit Strike Over: NJ Transit Strike Ends New Jersey Transit Engineers Reach Deal With NJ GOV
NJ Transit Strike Ends New Jersey Transit Engineers Reach Deal With NJ Government Real Issue American Economy Three days after it began, the NJ Transit Strike is ending. The walkout that began Friday was the state’s first transit strike in over 40 years, forcing people who normally rely on New Jersey Transit to take buses, cars, taxis and boats instead or consider staying home. The main sticking point had been how to accomplish a wage increase for the engineers without creating a financially disastrous domino effect for the transit agency. Train service will resume Tuesday to give the agency time to inspect tracks and prepare rail cars, NJ Transit officials and Gov. Phil Murphy announced Sunday night, an hour after union officials confirmed a deal had been reached. "While I won’t get into the exact details of the deal reached, I will say that the only real issue was wages, and we were able to reach an agreement that boosts hourly pay beyond the proposal rejected by our members last month and beyond where we were when NJ Transit’s managers walked away from the table Thursday evening,” said Tom Haas, general chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, in a statement first obtained by NorthJersey.com. “We also were able to show management ways to boost engineers’ wages that will help NJT with retention and recruitment, without causing any significant budget issue or requiring a fare increase.”
via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZsZ7lKQG1I
NJ Transit Strike Ends New Jersey Transit Engineers Reach Deal With NJ Government Real Issue American Economy Three days after it began, the NJ Transit Strike is ending. The walkout that began Friday was the state’s first transit strike in over 40 years, forcing people who normally rely on New Jersey Transit to take buses, cars, taxis and boats instead or consider staying home. The main sticking point had been how to accomplish a wage increase for the engineers without creating a financially disastrous domino effect for the transit agency. Train service will resume Tuesday to give the agency time to inspect tracks and prepare rail cars, NJ Transit officials and Gov. Phil Murphy announced Sunday night, an hour after union officials confirmed a deal had been reached. "While I won’t get into the exact details of the deal reached, I will say that the only real issue was wages, and we were able to reach an agreement that boosts hourly pay beyond the proposal rejected by our members last month and beyond where we were when NJ Transit’s managers walked away from the table Thursday evening,” said Tom Haas, general chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, in a statement first obtained by NorthJersey.com. “We also were able to show management ways to boost engineers’ wages that will help NJT with retention and recruitment, without causing any significant budget issue or requiring a fare increase.”
via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZsZ7lKQG1I
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