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It's Friday, May 16th.
I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News,
the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
Hundreds of thousands of commuters across New Jersey, New York,
and Philadelphia are facing disruption this morning as NJ transit workers went on strike just after midnight following a years-long battle over wages for train engineers.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Union had rejected a deal giving train engineers virtually identical wages to those working for the Long Island Railroad,
but without blowing up the transit agency's budget.
Like many mass transit systems across the nation, NJ Transit is facing a sobering fiscal reality.
That is a challenge we must balance with paying our engineers and every NJ Transit worker what they deserve.
While NJ Transit and the union are at odds over wages for just 450 workers,
officials argue they can't strike a narrow deal on compensation that could set a precedent for other negotiations.
The strike could snarl commutes for more than 350,000 people,
with NJ Transit saying a substitute bus service can carry just 20 percent of current rail customers.
NJ Transit and Murphy have called for New Jersey commuters to work from home if possible.
Meanwhile,