the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, while NJ Transit is forecasting it will face back-to-back fiscal cliffs in 2025 and 2026, with the larger deficit expected to be around $1 billion. The union representing NJ Transit’s locomotive engineers , pointed to a recent 25-year lease the agency signed for a new headquarters space that was more expensive than fixing up its current building and other bids the agency received.
NJ Transit’s locomotive engineers unanimously backed a strike authorization vote after years at a negotiating standstill, but the union still faces long waits before it can launch a job action that would cripple the region’s transportation system.
Eighty-one percent of the NJ Transit Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen’s 494 members returned ballots, and each of the 397 ballots that were counted backed a strike. Thursday was the deadline to vote.
The vote will not immediately allow the union to launch a strike, as the union and NJ Transit are still in mediation before the National Mediation Board.
I love Wing Bikes. Use my referral link to get a discount now! http://wingbikes.refr.cc/
It would be helpful to know the current salaries, benefits and retirements of the strikers
I dont buy it – I speak to some longtime conductors – nj transit received plenty of $$ from govt during covid they didnt lose money at all even w such low ridership during worst of covid – and from what ive been informed abt their salaries and benefits and pension plan, if they worked in corporate america they would realize how incredibly rich and rare is their benefits and compensation package
Its simply part of the program to inflate away as much govt debt as possible. The unions are all on board.