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NJ Gov. Murphy blasts striking NJ Transit union workers amid commuter nightmare: ‘Mess of their own making’

May 16, 2025
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NJ Gov. Murphy blasts striking NJ Transit union workers amid commuter nightmare: ‘Mess of their own making’
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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy ripped NJ Transit engineers for going on strike Friday — blasting their actions as a “slap in the face” to commuters and a “mess of their own making.”

The Democrat lashed out after roughly 400 rail engineers walked off the job after marathon contract talks stalled ahead of a midnight deadline, setting off the first strike to hit the major transit system in more than 40 years.

“It did not have to come to this,” Murphy told a news conference after the morning commuter rush got underway.

Members of the railroad engineers union hold signs outside of Penn Station on May 16, 2025 in New York City.
Members of the railroad engineers union hold signs outside of Penn Station on May 16, 2025 in NYC. Getty Images
Union members from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen form a picket line outside the NJ Transit Headquarters on May 16, 2025 in Newark, NJ.
Union members from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen form a picket line outside the NJ Transit Headquarters on May 16, 2025 in Newark, NJ. AP

“A small handful of locomotive engineers have walked off the job and shut down our entire transit system,” he continued, adding that “we’re talking just under 400 engineers in a total workforce of about 12,000.”

“It is, frankly, a mess of their own making — and it is a slap in the face of every commuter and worker who relies on NJ Transit.”

Phil Murphy speaks at a press conference on May 15, 2025.
Phil Murphy speaks at a press conference on May 15, 2025. Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Murphy urged the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union (BLET), which represents the engineers who drive the agency’s commuter trains, to come back to the negotiating table.

“What the people of New Jersey need right now is for the members to meet their obligations to the public,” he said. “Let’s end the strike.”

“We are ready to restart negotiations, literally this second, but we need the BLET to come back to the negotiating table in good faith.”

The post NJ Gov. Murphy blasts striking NJ Transit union workers amid commuter nightmare: ‘Mess of their own making’ appeared first on New York Post.

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