(Source: www.nj.com, June 15, 2023)
The settlement by the national union admits no wrong doing, and BLET National President Eddie Hall criticized NJ Transit for lack of progress in negotiating a fair contract. “This is a sideshow,” he said of the settlement. “We’re focused on getting a fair contract for our members. They haven’t had a raise since 2019 and NJ Transit has $400 million for luxury offices, but it can’t sit down at the table and settle contract for it frontline engineers.”
The engineers union maintains they are the lowest paid locomotive engineers in the New York-New Jersey region. The union has rejected offer that are patterned after what other rail unions agreed to because the offers don’t account for the highly technical nature of a locomotive engineers job.
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