Engineers at New Jersey Transit are poised to go on strike one minute after midnight Friday morning, a stoppage that would create huge problems for100,000 daily train commuters, businesses across the New York metropolitan area as well as fans of Shakira and Beyoncé,

It will be the state’s first transit strike in more than 40 years and comes a month after union members overwhelmingly rejected a labor agreement with management.

New Jersey's commuter rail engineers will walk off the job early on Friday after 11th-hour contract talks with the third-largest U.S. public transit system stalled just ahead of a midnight deadline set for meeting their wage demands,