First NJ Transit strike in 40 years to end, commuter service restoration underway

The last strike that included New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit) is scheduled to end after reaching an initial agreement, which means that the service will be restored to more than 350,000 passengers.

The strike, which was the first blow to NJ Transit in more than 40 years, began after midnight on Friday morning. Tens of thousands of government park passengers work in New York City.

According to the stagnant railway engineers, the amazing railway engineers were able to negotiate wage increases. In a statement, NJ Transit said its trains will start working again on Tuesday.

NJ Transit said: “NJ Transit and BROTHERHOSOOD of Loccomotive English & Trainmen (BLT) has announced an initial agreement,” NJ Transit said.

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“As a result, the NJ Transit train will resume on Tuesday, May 20, as it takes about 24 hours to check and prepare tracks, railways and other infrastructure before returning to full scheduled service,” the statement added.

The agency also said that it “will continue to deploy customer ambassadors in the stations and Park & ​​Ride sites to help customers restart the train service.”

The Federation confirmed the end of the strike in a statement on Sunday,

“The terms of the agreement will be sent to the 450 members of the Federation who work as a locomotive engineer or trainees in the passenger railway to consider it.” “The contract language and the dollar numbers will be announced later after BLT members were to review. It was the first blow to NJ Transit in 42 years.”

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People stand in a kiosk for NJ Transit Tickets at the Port Authory Bus Station in New York, on Friday, May 16, 2025. (Yuki Iwamura / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

The Board of the Board of BLET at NJ Transit Tom Hass said that his union “is able to show management methods to enhance the wages of engineers that will help NJT to keep and employ, without causing any major budget problem or requires an increase in fare.”

“Although I will not reach the fine details of the deal that was reached, I will say that the only real issue is wages and we are able to reach an hourly wage agreement beyond the proposal that our members rejected last month and beyond when NJ Transit managers moved away from the table Thursday evening,” Haas said.

The Union also said that the NJ Transit engineers “were the least paid engineering engineers working in a major passenger railway in the country,” despite the high cost of living in New Jersey and New York.

People are waiting for NJ Transit’s bus in New York bus station on Friday, May 16, 2025. (Yuki Iwamura / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

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“The statement added that NJ Transit has not obtained a new increase in the past five years, despite a significant increase in inflation.