NJ Transit, MetLife and Shakira
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The strike by the locomotive engineers would disrupt the lives of tens of thousands of commuters in the New York metropolitan region.
MetLife Stadium: No NJ Transit rail or bus service is available to or from MetLife Stadium for events on May 15 and 16, including Shakira concerts, due to the potential strike.
It will be the state’s first transit strike in more than 40 years and comes a month after union members overwhelmingly rejected a labor agreement with management.
Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” tour gallops into MetLife Stadium from May 22 through 29, but thanks to a looming NJ Transit strike, getting there might feel less like a victory lap and more like an Oregon Trail-level survival challenge.
As NJ Transit enters the final hours of negotiations with the workers’ union, the transit agency is warning commuters to prepare for service to end on Friday at midnight. NJ Transit added a notice to its website warning travelers to get to their destinations by 11:59 p.
NJ Transit engineers are preparing to walk off the job on Friday, which could affect 350,000 commuters in New Jersey and New York City.