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New Jersey Transit and its rail engineers union mentioned Monday that they’ve agreed on a brand new labor contract, averting a attainable strike. NJ Transit President and CEO Kris Kolluri and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen’s common chairman, Thomas Haas, introduced the deal in a joint assertion. Particulars in regards to the settlement have been murky. The assertion cited a “reasonable wage increase” for the union’s members, a effectively because the decision of a long-standing grievance. Messages searching for particulars have been left with each events. “We believe this agreement not only reflects NJ TRANSIT’s commitment to fairness,…

At Fishtown Seafood, proprietor Bryan Szeliga is anxious concerning the oysters. Szeliga, who operates three retail and wholesale places in Philadelphia and Haddonfield, N.J., sells a variety of seafood. However briny, slurpable oysters are the most important a part of his general enterprise. And 60% to 70% come from Canada. The Trump’s administration’s on-again, off-again 25% tariffs on imports from Canada — which went into impact on Tuesday solely to be suspended on some gadgets for a month on Thursday — are giving Szeliga whiplash. The flip-flopping is making it robust to plan forward. And if the tariffs do finally…