NJ Transit's board of directors will vote on the contact that ended May's rail strike. What did it give engineers?

The engineers — who were on strike for three days in May over a five-year-old contract dispute — got the wage increases they sought, but had to make concessions, Kolluri told NJ Transit's ...

Union membership overwhelmingly approved on June 10 the contract negotiated by NJ Transit and its locomotive engineers, a deal that ended a historic three-day strike in May. There were 398 votes ...

In 2016, NJ Transit contract negotiations were settled hours before the strike deadline. New Jersey railroad employees’ last strike was in 1983, a stoppage that lasted more than a month.

NJ Transit’s locomotive engineers ratified a contract after five years of negotiations and the first strike at the agency in more than 40 years, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and ...

NJ Transit has argued that it cannot afford the terms the engineers are seeking without a significant fare increase, and notes that its other 14 rail unions have accepted the contract offered to ...

Two NJ Transit trains wait in Hoboken Terminal during the evening rush last April. Locomotive engineers have until June 10 to vote on a contract that ended the agency's second rail strike.

Before the strike, transit engineers were hoping for a contract that would pay them the same amount as engineers who work for Amtrak. Contract negotiations had been ongoing for five years.

NJ Transit leadership, though, disputes the union's data, saying the engineers have average total earnings of $135,000 annually, with the highest earners exceeding $200,000.

NJ Transit operates more than 925,000 weekday trips across its rail, bus and light-rail platforms. In 2016, NJ Transit contract negotiations were settled hours before the strike deadline.