Three days after the start of a strike by New Jersey transit employees, an agreement has been reached under which the unionized employees will return to work.
In a statement, Tom Haas, general chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, which represents 450 New Jersey Transit engineers, said that an agreement had been reached to end the strike, which affected around 100,000 passengers each day across its three-day duration.
“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,” Haas said….