

Each of the other unions had recently agreed upon their contracts, which included Juneteenth as a paid holiday. Of the 15 rail unions at New Jersey Transit, BLET is the only one that had not reached a contract agreement with the agency. Smith said the agency had been made aware on Thursday of a rumor that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, a rail union, had planned what he called “an illegal job action.” “But I hope this doesn’t go on,” she added, saying that she was already worried about getting back to the city on Monday.

“We found a way through a difficult situation,” she said, sighing heavily. Zubayda Muksinova, 68, who lives in Coney Island but travels to Linden, N.J., every Friday night to spend the weekends with her son, had to wait at Penn Station for about two hours for her son to drive in and pick her up.
