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Four hundred and fifty train engineers at New Jersey Transit (NJT) walked off the job early Friday morning, after years of ...
The last work stoppage was in 1983, just as the agency took over control of the railroad system, and lasted 34 days.
NJ Transit engineers are set to go on strike as of 12:01 a.m. Friday, the union says, bringing train service to a screeching ...
New Jersey Transit trains were not running Friday morning as engineers went on strike after 15 hours of bargaining Thursday ...
The Long Island Rail Road, which runs most of the trains into and out of Penn, is pushing for the work to be carried out primarily on nights and weekends. The LIRR is warning customers that Amtrak ...
The two sides have been at odds over wages, with the engineers saying they should make a salary similar to what engineers make at Amtrak, the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North. NJ Transit bus ...
Village trustee, 2006-2012, the last two years as deputy mayor. Long Island Rail Road engineer. “He wrote a lot of rules that operate the railroad," his son Steve Erland said. Died in 2012.
The last NJ Transit work stoppage was in 1983, just as the agency took over control of the railroad system, and lasted 34 days. In 2016, the locomotive engineers were hours away from a work stoppage ...
The union, known as BLET, was seeking pay comparable to the wages made by engineers at other nearby railroads, including Long Island Rail Road. NJ Transit, which has long had shaky finances ...
NJ Transit said the union walked away from the last deal of $49.82 an hour — 10 cents less than Long Island Rail Road engineers. But the union said that's misleading, as LIRR engineers are ...