NJ Transit Strike Ends
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Hey there New Jersey! Here’s your audio update highlighting the end of the NJ Transit strike, a massive brawl at a mall in Edison and a poll shows who is leading the races to be New Jersey’s next governor. Plus, a 100-year-old movie theater in Bergen County is razed.
Union members cited five years without wage increases and said the new contract aims to bring NJ Transit wages closer to regional norms, which average around $113,000 a year for NJ Transit engineers, with union demands aiming as high as $170,000 a year.
This ain’t your garden-variety travel headache. New Jersey is on pace for a nightmare summer spanning planes, trains and automobiles — as sinkhole-ridden highways, persistent chaos at Newark Liberty International Airport and a likely transit strike threaten to upend travel plans at the worst possible time.
NJ Transit trains could stop running at 12:01 a.m. Friday if locomotive engineers don't get the salary increase they want.