NJ Transit riders are facing possible disruptions as locomotive engineers threaten to strike on May 16 after rejecting a tentative agreement. This strike, the first in New Jersey since 1983, could affect approximately 350,000 daily passengers. NJ Transit President Kris Kolluri is urging office workers to work from home to preserve capacity for essential workers on alternate services. The union has been without a contract for six years, demanding an annual pay raise while NJ Transit disputes their wage expectations, arguing engineers already earn competitive salaries.
"This is not what any one of us wants to do, but what we are not going to do is cower under the table and not have a plan for our customers," Kolluri said.
"Members who live in New Jersey, who work in New Jersey, somehow believe that they are entitled to make wages like they live in New York and work in New York," Kolluri said.
"All of this would be completely unnecessary if NJ Transit would simply come to us at the table and bring a real, serious, fair and equitable offer," Haas said.
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