NJ Transit pointed the finger at a union dispute, but passengers felt they were the ones left to deal with the mess.
"I live in Jersey and I work in the city. This is frustrating for the last minute and nobody to tell us anything. Everybody is going crazy and they don't know what' going on. It's just really not fair," said Trina Holden from East Orange. "As soon as I got in the Uber, the driver told me he can't go to New York. So now I'm just waiting for another one," said Sparrow, who lives in Pearl River, New York.
NJ Transit said the union representing those workers took an illegal job action. CBS2 learned the number of engineers who called out sick Friday was nearly triple the weekday average. "I'm ashamed of NJ Transit. I'm ashamed of the governor and the way they've handled this. I'm sorry, NJ Transit passengers pay a lot of money for their monthly tickets and weekly tickets, and they deserve better than this," said Charlton D'Souza of Passengers United. . A collective bargaining agreement being negotiated includes observance of the holiday, while the current agreement does not.
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