Conversations aimed at terminating the New Jersey Transit Rail Strike on Saturday, says Railroad CEO, says the CEO of Railroad

Talks aimed at resolving a strike between train engineers and New Jersey’s large commuter track was resumed on Saturday and will continue on Sunday, New Jersey Transit CEO Kris Kolluri said. The strike of the locomotive engineers started at the rail system on Friday with 350,000 daily riders and left commuters from home or searched for other ways to travel across the state or across the Hudson River to New York. Kolluri spoke at the Broad Street station in Newark on Saturday, saying the agency is preparing for the work week by “take off” buses to help commuters at train stations. But he warned that the buses could not handle the entire volume of the commuting system. Kolluri said he and Brotherhood spoke of locomotive engineers and train men, President Mark Wallace, and agreed to meet on Saturday. It was uncertain whether the two parties would meet before a National Mediation Council meeting already hosted for Sunday. “We’re going to meet the union today. We’re going to meet them tomorrow, with this purpose of coming to an agreement so we can make them work again, our clients get the reliable service they need,” Kolluri said. Wallace confirmed in a telephone interview that he and Kolluri would resume on Saturday afternoon in Newark, which ended shortly before the strike Thursday night. “When we gather, we will have an agreement,” Wallace said. NJ Transit has a train site, just across the Delaware River of Trenton in the suburban city of Morrisville. Picketers in red shirts saying “United we bargain weed we beg” carried signs on Saturday and music not far from the garden, not far from the garden. Bill Craven, a 25-year-old veteran engineer, positively described the vote among trade union members. He said that they usually do not gather because they usually pass each other at 100 km / h on the tracks. “Most of us would rather do trains. That’s what we do. We do not want to disrupt our lives, other people’s lives, but it comes to a point where we did not have an increase in six years, “he said. The hike comes after the latest round of negotiations on Thursday did not produce an agreement. It is the state’s first transit strike in over 40 years and comes a month after union members overwhelmingly rejected a labor agreement with management. Wallace walked the Picket Line outside the Penn station in New York on Friday. He said the engineers are committed to strike until they get a good agreement. Union members were almost unanimous in authorizing a strike last summer, and 87% of them rejected the latest agreement. Wallace said NJ Transit must pay engineers a wage comparable to Amtrak and Long Island Railroad, because engineers go to the other railways for better payment, the trade union saw a steady exhaustion in its ranks at NJ Transit as more members left to pay better for other railways. The number of NJ Transit engineers shrank from 500 months ago to about 400. The engineers are responsible for the operation of trains, and ensure safe and smooth transport between Stations, and New Jersey Democratic Governor Phil Murphy on Friday said it is important to achieve a final transaction that is fair to employees and that it affords the same time for New Jersey’s commuters and taxpayers. ” NJ Transit is the country’s third largest transit system and operates buses and track in the state, and offers nearly 1 million trips on weekdays, including New York. The hike stops all NJ Transit Commuter trains, which offers many used public transport routes between Penn station on one side of the Hudson River and communities in northern New Jersey on the other, as well as the Newark Airport, which is recently with non -related delays of its own.