Archives for October 26, 2021

***PROPOSED BALLOT TALLY***
1246 Ballots mailed including duplicates
786 Ballots returned
15 Ballots were no good due to no return address, not current on dues and markings on ballot 

742 counted
Yes-528
No-214
CONTRACT PASSED !!!

Employee Message from President & CEO Kevin Corbett

October 25, 2021

Please post in a central location for those who do not have access to email

Dear Colleagues,

This is truly an exciting and historic day for NJ TRANSIT. It’s a day that I would characterize as one of the agency’s finest since our creation in 1979. This morning, I’m proud to share that we are hosting President Biden at our Meadows Maintenance Complex (MMC) in Kearny. In addition to celebrating the ceremonial groundbreaking for our Portal North Bridge Replacement Project, President Biden will be promoting his bipartisan infrastructure bill, which would provide additional critical funding to support our Five-Year Capital Plan.

Governor Murphy, NJDOT Commissioner Gutierrez-Scaccetti, myself, and a select group of elected officials and other dignitaries will also be on hand to commemorate this momentous occasion for this project of national significance – a project that will usher in a new era of reliability between New Jersey and New York for the millions of NJ TRANSIT and Amtrak customers who travel along the Northeast Corridor every year.

Many of us have been working tirelessly on this project for years, and I sincerely wish we could all be there to celebrate. To ensure all of you can take part in this event, even if it’s just virtually, I’m sharing the following link with all of you, where you can watch the ceremony live. It’s currently scheduled to begin airing at 1:45pm this afternoon, though it may start earlier. It can be viewed at:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/

When I arrived nearly four years ago, no one believed we would make the kind of progress we have made in such a relatively short period of time. The fact that President Biden and Governor Murphy are holding this event at NJ TRANSIT speaks volumes and is a great recognition of the work all of us have done to get us to this point.

I hope you can all tune in today to witness one of the proudest days in NJ TRANSIT’s history, and for everyone in our organization who have worked so hard to make today possible.

Warmly,

Kevin

Good morning Brothers and Sisters:

Due to the state of emergency we will push the tallying of ballots from 9am to 11am.