Engineers from New Jersey Streik, who may affect 350,000 commuters, may affect

The members of the Railroad Engineers Union for New Jersey Transit roamed on Friday at 12:01 p.m. and paralyzed a system that around 350,000 people rely on, said officials.

The brotherhood of locomotive engineers and train men (Blet) It said that his approximately 450 members in New Jersey Transit went out of work in a dispute for payment right after midnight and bring the country’s third largest transit system to a standstill.

Well -before this deadline, Governor Phil Murphy and New Jersey Transit President Kris Kolluri said reporters that they wanted to have a fair deal for the union.

But they also said that they could not agree with a preferred deal that would lead to the other unions in the transit system demand the same thing that Murphy said that hundreds of millions would cost.

In a news information later on Friday morning, Murphy and Kolluri repeated that they wanted to make a contract with Blet and were ready to return to the negotiating table immediately. Murphy said, while his priority “achieves a fair and affordable business as soon as possible”, he does not want to increase costs for commuters and taxpayers.

“We are ready to literally restart the negotiations in this second,” said Murphy. “But we need the Blet to return to the negotiating table in good faith. Our doors are open, they remain open.”

Murphy said that Kolluri and Blet representative in March would give almost the same hourly wage as Long Island Railroad Engineers at a deal that would give NJ Transit locomotive engineers.

“But now, just a few months later, a small handful of locomotive engineers have gone the job and closed our entire transit system,” said Murphy, adding that it “a chaos of her own flaw” and “a blow in view of every commuter and worker who is based on NJ transfer”.

“What people in New Jersey are currently needing is that the members of the BLET fulfill their obligations to the public,” he said.

The delays on Friday morning at Newark Liberty International Airport due to storms on Friday morning was an average of 32 minutes, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

New Jersey Transit “faces a sobering fiscal reality,” said Murphy.

The union cited low wages as a top problem.

It said that its members of the New Jersey Transit are the lowest paid locomotive engineers of all large passenger railways in the country.

“You have been without an increase for six years and have been looking for a new contract since October 2019,” said the union.

New Jersey Transit said that the strike could affect 350,000 people a day, and the Metlife Stadium warned this week that Shakira concerts would not be New Jersey Transitbus or Bahngott for Shakira concerts on Thursday and Friday.

The union said that the stream items should start on Friday at 4 a.m., also at the Penn Station in Manhattan in New York City.

The union said that the transit agency spends millions for a new headquarters in Newark and gave up millions last year on a fare.

“You have money for penthouse views and pet projects, just not for your front-line workers,” said the national president of Blet, Mark Wallace. “Enough enough. We will stay outside until our members receive the fair payment that they earn.”

Murphy and Kolluri said they were open to continuing the negotiations at any time. They asked people to work from home on Friday and said there were additional bus service and additional park-and-ride areas.

Amtrak and Path trains and buses are still driving.

The last time there was a strike on the New Jersey Transit, was more than 40 years ago in 1983.

The mayor of Hoboken, Ravinder S. Bhalla, said in an explanation in early Friday that it was “a deeply frustrating moment for hoboken and the region”.

“NJ Transit and Blet had months to reach an agreement and prevent this disorder, which now has an impact on what has now affected hundreds of thousands of commuters and residents,” he said, asking for people to allow additional time for the overloaded trips.