The workers are striking because of a pay dispute: BLET argues NJ Transit’s wage proposal puts them below their peers at other passenger rail lines in the region, while NJ Transit argues the union’s demands are unreasonably high and would raise prices for commuters.

NJ Transit workers are on strike, following a yearslong battle over wages.Mark Wallace, national president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, confirmed that the union and NJ Transit didn’t reach an agreement on a new labor contract Thursday night,