The possibility of a strike against NJ Transit increased on April 15 after The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) members voted 87% not to ratify a deal reached in March. Members of the 500-person union can strike or NJ Transit can call a lockout beginning May 15.The last railroad strike against NJ Transit was in 1983, according to the union. NJ Transit narrowly avoided a strike in 2016, when contract negotiations settled just hours before the strike deadline. NJ Transit is the nation’s third-largest commuter railroad, carrying 195,000 passengers on an average weekday, according to the union.The Bureau of Labor Statistics defines “major work stoppages” as those involving at least 1,000 workers and lasting one full work shift between Monday–Friday, excluding federal holidays. There have been just three labor actions in New Jersey against private companies that topped that 1,000-worker threshold since 2019, according to the Australian software firm Noggin, a division of Motorola Solutions.Two of those strikes occurred in New Brunswick in 2023. The largest was the strike by 9,000 educational services employees at Rutgers University

Motorola Solutions ( ($MSI) ) has provided an announcement. On April 25, 2025, Motorola Solutions entered into a new $2.25 billion revolving credit agreement with J...