An announcement by Gov. Philip D. Murphy was expected Sunday night.
An agreement was reached on Sunday to end New Jersey’s first statewide transit strike in more than 40 years just three days after it started, a union spokesman and a person close to the negotiations said.
The terms of the deal with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, and the timing of when the work stoppage would end, were not immediately available. An announcement by Gov. Philip D. Murphy was expected Sunday night.
Jamie Horwitz, a spokesman for the union, confirmed that its members would return to work on Monday. Another person close to the negotiations said a deal had been reached Sunday evening and would be announced by the governor.
The engineers still must ratify the terms of the new contract, which they have failed to do once already.
The engineers walked out at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, bringing New Jersey’s network of commuter train lines to a halt and leaving thousands of commuters scrambling to find other ways of getting to work. NJ Transit, the nation’s third-largest commuter railroad, said it carried about 350,000 passengers a day, including about 70,000 who ride its trains into Manhattan on a typical weekday.
The engineers’ union had been holding out for a new contract for more than five years, demanding to be paid on par with their counterparts at other railroads that serve New York City. It was the only one of 15 unions that represent NJ Transit employees that had not come to terms with the agency in recent years.
