Day 2 of NJ Transit strike
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New Jersey rail lines stood silent for a second day as union members and state officials agreed to keep hammering out a contract Sunday as the start of the work week loomed.
It was a fairly quiet morning at Maplewood and South Orange train stations on Friday, May 16 — the first day of a strike by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. It is the first strike by NJ Transit workers in 40 years.
The New Jersey Transit board on Wednesday night pushed the Garden State to the brink of its first major rail strike since 1983, adjourning their monthly meeting without cutting a deal with the agency’s locomotive engineer union.