• by Ray Schultz , November 11, 2024

The strike of tech workers at The New York Times has ended with no contract agreement. 

While 600 members of the Tech Guild walked off the job the day before Election Day, it did not hold up election coverage. The Times’ forecast needle was up and running, the Times reports.   

The Tech Guild claims that the Times had no state-level election forecast needle, and that certain browsers were not consistently displaying ads. In addition, the apps and websites were slow to load, and subscribers were receiving emailed updates with broken links, it states, the Times reports.  

The union said the strike was a “warning.” But if the union hoped to win a favorable contract by threatening to disrupt the election coverage, a tactic used in other circumstances against Condé  Nast twice this year, it may have waited too long.  

Tech Guild, whose members run the technology that supports election coverage at the Times, launched their Unfair Labor Practices strike at 12:01 ET on Monday, Nov. 5.