New Jersey Transit engineers and trainmen strike, stranding potentially 350,000 commuters
Members of the railroad engineers union for New Jersey Transit went on strike right after midnight Friday morning, crippling a system that around 350,000 people rely on, officials said.The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen said that its around 450 members in New Jersey Transit were walking off the job at 12:01 a.m., in a dispute over pay.Around an hour before that deadline, Gov. Phil Murphy and New Jersey Transit President Kris Kolluri told reporters that they wanted a fair deal for the union.But they also said that they could not agree to a preferential deal that would cause the other unions in the transit system to demand the same, which Murphy said would cause costs in the hundreds of millions of dollars.New Jersey Transit “is facing a sobering fiscal reality," Murphy ...