New York Times Tech Guild Ends Strike Without a Deal

In September, the New York Times Tech Guild authorized a onslaught against the paper. “We are sending Times absorption a beardown connection with our ballot today,” said Kathy Zhang, a Senior Analytics Manager astatine the paper. “Our enactment produces unthinkable worth successful this company. Our members person earned a just declaration and we’re acceptable to bash immoderate it takes to marque definite we get it.” The guild, which represents immoderate 6,000 workers, galore of whom service arsenic information analysts, bundle engineers, and different IT professionals who enactment the paper’s integer operations, sought to usage the onslaught arsenic a means of driving the paper’s absorption to the bargaining array for a just and equitable contract.

The onslaught commenced connected November 4th. During the effort, workers marched with signs extracurricular the paper’s office successful New York, portion the Guild asked readers not to cross the “digital picket line” —meaning that they refrain from interacting with immoderate of the paper’s online products (like its big of mobile games) that Guild members are liable for maintaining.

Now, however, aft lone astir a week, the Guild members person decided to halt their strike. They don’t person a caller contract, and it’s not wide what was accomplished different than effecting a constricted disruption to the paper’s quality coverage.

The enactment was criticized for its timing, which coincided with the last hours of the U.S. statesmanlike election, frankincense impacting the newspaper’s quality to screen the race’s conclusion. While this was meant arsenic a bargaining maneuver designed to gully the paper’s executives to the table, that maneuver doesn’t look to person worked precise well.

Not each of the Guild members were connected the aforesaid page, arsenic Business Insider reported that “dozens” of the national members crossed the picket line. Citing sources acquainted with the strike, BI writes that “about 100 of the Guild’s 600 members” really ended up moving connected Election Day. Ultimately, the insubstantial was inactive capable to deploy its well-known predetermination nighttime “needle,” which forecasts the victor of the statesmanlike race, and is made imaginable by the enactment of the paper’s tech workers.

Gizmodo reached retired to the Tech Guild for remark but did not person an contiguous response.

Inbox: After a weeklong enactment stoppage coinciding with the election, unionized New York Times tech unit are ending their strike. The Guild said it does not person a declaration yet. pic.twitter.com/TQbeuscw3b

— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) November 11, 2024

Business Insider writes that different employees astatine the Times aren’t needfully ace sympathetic to the Tech Guild’s cause. BI writes that “some Times journalists (who are represented by a antithetic portion of the aforesaid News Guild of New York)” person “previously expressed to BI a deficiency of sympathy for the tech workers, fixed their comparatively precocious salaries and imaginable for the onslaught to interaction the outlet’s halfway journalism mission.”