NJ Transit strike ending: trains on track for Tuesday commute
Source: Northjersey.com/Bergen Record
Updated May 18, 2025, 7:05 p.m. ET
Three days after it began, the NJ Transit strike is ending, according to a source close to the negotiations and confirmed by the union. Train service will resume Tuesday.
"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 exclusively 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.” After a whirlwind three days of diverting tens of thousands of people from NJ Transit's rail system, the agency reached a tentative deal with its locomotive engineers to end a historic strike that sent shockwaves statewide -- just in time for the work week.
This is the second agreement reached between the two parties in three months. The first agreement, which averted a strike in March, was voted down by 87% of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen's membership.
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