The NYT Tech Guild’s election week strike is over

The New York Times’ tech employees, who are down Wordle and Connections among different games and features, volition spell backmost to enactment connected Tuesday pursuing a weeklong strike. In a connection published connected Monday, the New York Times Tech Guild said national members volition “march into the bureau unneurotic successful the greeting arsenic a awesome of what’s to travel for The Times.”

The Tech Guild represents the implicit 600 workers who negociate exertion crossed the integer paper. Union members went connected onslaught the time earlier the US election, raising concerns astir whether the NYT’s vote-tracking tech, similar the Needle, would clasp up connected Election Day. The national and the NYT volition proceed negotiating connected a contract.

“The systems and integer products that worked implicit the predetermination did truthful acknowledgment to the hundreds of portion members who worked for months preparing everything to tally smoothly,” Kathy Zhang, New York Times Tech Guild portion seat said. “What broke down during this onslaught broke due to the fact that our members weren’t astatine work.”

The Tech Guild says its enactment stoppage impacted the NYT’s predetermination sum successful a fewer ways: the outlet didn’t show state-level oregon non-presidential needles, for instance, portion its app and website “were dilatory to load.” Last week, Business Insider reported that around 100 tech workers crossed the picket enactment connected Election Day.

Now that the onslaught is over, the Tech Guild says supporters tin resume playing the NYT’s games and utilizing the Cooking app. The national antecedently asked radical to debar playing immoderate of the NYT’s regular puzzle games, and it alternatively directed users to the games striking workers created connected a abstracted website.

“We look guardant to continuing to enactment with Tech Guild to scope a just declaration that takes into relationship that they are already among the highest paid idiosyncratic contributors successful the Company and journalism is our apical priority,” NYT spokesperson Danielle Rhoades Ha said successful an emailed connection to The Verge.