The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) – the union that represents New Jersey Transit engineers – has ratified a contact agreement that ended a transit strike last month.

“I am pleased to announce the ratification of a new contract by [the BLET], representing a fair and fiscally responsible agreement for our locomotive engineers, NJ TRANSIT, our customers, and the taxpayers of New Jersey,” NJ Transit president & CEO Kris Kolluri wrote in a statement.

NJ Transit engineers went on strike for three days from May 16-18. It was the first time engineers had gone on strike in 40 years.

The contract dispute was regarding salary.

Details about the new contract were not immediately made available, but Kolluri wrote, “We adhered to the established bargaining pattern and, through constructive negotiations, secured meaningful concessions that enabled us to fund the wage increases sought by BLET members without exceeding our current budget.”

The BLET also issued a statement.

“All along we’ve said we didn't want to be the highest paid engineers, we only wanted equal pay for equal work,” said Tom Haas, who works as an NJT engineer and serves as BLET’s general chairman at the commuter railroad. “This agreement brings us close to what our peers make for doing the same type of work with the same levels of experience and training. This agreement gives us the pay raises we needed, but also was done without a major hit to NJT's budget and should not require a fare hike for passengers.”