An NJ Transit train pulls into Newark Penn Station on May 6, 2025. (Photo by New Jersey Monitor)
With 10 days to go before NJ Transit train engineers potentially walk off the job , the CEO of the state’s transit agency again traded barbs with the engineers union, and both sides are predicting that a strike will begin next week.
Appearing at Newark Penn Station on Tuesday, NJ Transit CEO Kris Kolluri said the latest offer from the union, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, would give the average engineer a $90,000 salary hike, to $225,000. A union spokesman fired back by saying its offer differed from NJ Transit’s demands by only 2 percent, and he called Kolluri’s criticism of the union “fiction.”…