"We were able to reach an agreement that boosts hourly pay beyond the proposal rejected by our members last month," BLET's Tom Haas said in a statement, noting that the new deal also aims to help with engineer recruitment and retention, without triggering fare hikes.
Now we have to miss out on our lessons and teaching and things that we love to do because they're on strike. We actually are not financially equipped to take a $70 train ride to Edison and then pay an additional $70 to come back.