Tech workers at the New York Times are ending their strike after a week-long hiatus. The strike threatened to disrupt election coverage, but had limited impact on Times operations. The technical union, formed in 2021, represents more than 600 engineers.
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A spokesperson for The New York Times told Business Insider that tech workers ended their strike and returned to work on Tuesday after a week of work stoppages.
The tech union chose a key day for the strike, the day before the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election, an action that threatened to disrupt the paper’s vital election coverage.
But the Times’ site and its famous racially-leaning election needle were working fine on election night, which may have taken away some of the guild’s influence.
Dozens of technical personnel crossed the picket line and debris was visible within the force. The strike also exposed a rift between the guild and some Times reporters (represented by a separate division of the same New York News guild). Reporters have previously expressed to BI their relatively high salaries and lack of sympathy for high-tech workers given their relatively high salaries. The strike could affect the media’s core journalistic mission.
Tech Guild was founded in 2021 and represents over 600 engineers. The company has been in negotiations since 2022, at odds with management over protections for remote work, pay equity, limits on subcontracting, and just cause. The two sides are expected to resume negotiations at some point.
A Times spokesperson said: “Tech Guild is already the highest-paid individual contributor in the company and we continue to work with Tech Guild to reach a fair contract that takes into account that journalism is our top priority.” We look forward to working with the Guild.”
Representatives for the union did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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