NJ Transit on brink of first rail strike in necades, as Shakira fans fear concert nightmare

NJ Transit Engineers Could Walk Off the Job Friday

NJ Transit Engineers Could Walk off the Job Friday, Leaving Some 350,000 Commuters in the Lurch

350,000 riders brace as first NJ Transit rail strike in decades nears deadline

Some 350,000 commuters could soon be scrambling for other ways to reach their destinations if New Jersey Transit engineers walk off the job early Friday. NJ Transit — the nation’s third-largest transit system — operates buses and rail in the state, providing nearly 1 million weekday trips, including into New York City. If the walkout occurs, all NJ Transit commuter trains will stop running. Wages and working conditions have been the main stickin…

NJ Transit on brink of first rail strike in necades, as Shakira fans fear concert nightmare

NJ Transit and an engineers’ union appear to be steaming ahead to the first major rail strike in decades starting early Friday, even as both sides convene in Washington, D.C., where they pledged to continue negotiations. Representatives for NJ Transit and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers were called to the capital by federal arbitrators trying to push the two sides to...