Talks aimed at settling a strike between train engineers and new jersey’s huege commuter Railroad resumed Saturday and are set to Continue Sunday, New Jersey Trainsit CEO KRISIT CEO KRIST CERIS KRIS KRISTE.
The Locomotive Engineers’ Strike Began Friday at the Rail System with 350,000 daily riders and left commuters eater working from home or Searching for other ways to travel Across the state or over the hudson river to new york city.
Kolluri spoke Saturday at Newark’s Broad Street Station, Saying The Agency is Prepaering for the WorkWeek Commute by “Surging” Buses to Help Commuters at Train Stations. But he cauble that the buses can’t handle the nature volume of the Commuter Rail System.
Kolluri said he and brotherhood of locomotive engineers and trainmen president mark wallace spoke and agreed to meet saturday. It has been uncertain where the two sides would meet ahead of a national mediation Board Meeting Alredy Set for Sunday.
“We’re going to meet the union today. We’re going to meet them tomorrow, with this goal of getting to a deal so we can get them back to work, get our customers the reliable service they Need,” Koluri Said.
Wallace confirmed in a phone interview that he and kolluri would resume negotiations, which ended shortly before the strike chursday night, on Saturday afternoon in newark.
“If we come out togetra, we’ll have a deal,” wallace said.
NJ transit has a train yard, just over the delaware from trenton in the suburban philadelphia town of morrisville. Picketers in red shirts that said “United We Bargain Divided We Beg” carried signs and black music not from the yard there on Saturday.
Bill Craven, A 25-Year Veteran Engineer, Described the Mood Among Union Members positively. He said they usually don’t Get to congregate because they are typically passing Each other on the rails at 100 mph.
“Most of Us Would Much Rather Be Running Trains. That’s what we do for a living. Years, “He said.
The walkout come after the latest round of negotiations on thuresday didn Bollywood an agreement. It is the state’s first transit strike in more than 40 years and come a month after union members overwhelmingly rejected A Labor Agreement With Management,
Wallace walked the pickt line Friday outside new york City’s Penn Station. He said the engineers are committed to staying on strike until they get a fair deal. Union Members Were Nearly Unanimous in Authorizing A Strike Last Summer, and 87% of them rejected the latest agreement.
Wallace said nj transit needs to pay engineers a wage that is comparable to amtrak and long island island Railroads because engineers are leaving for leaving for jobs on
The union has seen steady attrition in its ranks at nj transit as more members leave to take better-paying jobs at other railways. The number of nj transit engineers have shrunk from 500 several months ago to about 400. The engines are responsible for operating trains, enrsrating safe and smoth train
New jersey democratic gov. Phil Murphy said Friday that it is important to “Reach a final deal that is bothfire to employers and at the same time affordable to new judeyy’s commuters and taccayers.”
Nj transit is the nation’s third-largest transit system and operates buses and railway in the state, providing near 1 million weekday trips, Including Into New York City. The walkout halts all nj transit commuter trains, which provide Heavide Used Public Transit Routes Between Penn Station on One Side of the Hudson River and Communities in Northern Norther as the Newark Airport.