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NJ Transit train engineers preparing for potential strike

BY DUNCAN FREEMAN
Posted 8/18/23
The union representing 500 NJ Transit locomotive engineers is mailing out strike authorization ballots to its members this week, with the union’s president certain that after more than three years of bargaining with officials of the state-operators system, the engineers he represents will vote to walk off the job. 

“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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