A man was struck and killed by a train Tuesday morning near the Middletown train station in Monmouth County, officials said. A North Jersey Coast Line train, which departed Penn Station New York at 7:44 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Long Branch, hit the man about 9:06 a.m., according to an NJ Transit spokesperson.

There appears to be a discrepancy in the salary proposals between NJ Transit and the union representing its locomotive engineers as a strike looms.

New Jersey Transit announced a tentative contract agreement with Amalgamated Transit Union. The agency’s largest union, ATU represents more than 5,500 employees.