“I am confident that 100 percent of the ballots returned will be in favor of striking New Jersey Transit,” Edward Hall, the president of the Brotherhood Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen said in a statement. “We will be one step closer to ‘self-help’ once the ballots are counted later this month and just prior to the Labor Day weekend.”
The engineers’ most recent contract expired in 2020. They last received pay increases in October 2019. The union says mediation lasting nearly three years has yielded few results.
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