The action was criticized for its timing, which coincided with the final hours of the U.S. presidential election, thus impacting the newspaper’s ability to cover the race’s conclusion. While this was meant as a bargaining tactic designed to draw the paper’s executives to the table, that tactic doesn’t appear to have worked very well.

Times Tech Guild workers walked off the job on Monday and intend to picket from 9 a.m. EST to 6 p.m. EST each day at the Times office. The strike, which continued into Tuesday, is the “first to coincide with a presidential election in the NewsGuild since the 1964 Detroit Newspaper Strike,” per the Times Tech Guild.

New York Times tech staff have begun strike action in protest of alleged unfair labour practices, and are asking

The NYT tech workers who are currently on strike are asking readers not to play its games. So they made their own versions that people can play.

The New York Times Tech Guild is ending a week-long strike that started one day before the U.S. presidential election and will return to work on Tuesday, it said in a post on X on Monday. More than 600 tech workers of NYT,

More than 600 tech workers of the NYT had gone on a strike amid stalled contract negotiations over pay and job security, planning daily protests during the crucial election day period.

The Tech Guild went on strike November 4, the day before the presidential election, threatening to disrupt the paper's election coverage.

The systems and digital products that worked over the election did so thanks to the hundreds of unit members who worked for months preparing everything to run smoothly,” Kath