Hundreds of participateees of the New York Times recontransiented by The Times Tech Guild — the union affiliated with the NewsGuild of New York that regulates the technology behind the recentspaper’s election coverage, among other skinnygs — have gone on strike one day before the 2024 U.S. elections.
The Times Tech Guild recontransients more than 600 summarizeers, gentleware growers and tech personnel who run the systems that power the paper’s website and apps. If the strike progresss into Tuesday, it will be the first to coincide with a pdwellntial election in the NewsGuild since the 1964 Detroit recentspaper strike, according to the union.
“Despite the danger of a Tech Guild [unfair labor practice] strike disturbing access to recents during the pdwellntial election, regulatement has flunked to unbenevolentingbrimmingy holdress tech laborers’ key troubles,” the union shelp Monday. The NewsGuild of New York has filed unequitable labor rehearse indicts aacquirest the Times and has alleged “many” violations of labor law.
None of the Times’ authorrs or editors who are covering the election are straightforwardly joind in the Times Tech Guild strike.
The labor stoppage began at 12:01 a.m. ET Monday “despite multiple rounds of fervent baracquireing,” the union shelp. Times laborers affiliated with the Tech Guild were set to commence picketing at 9 a.m. outside the 8th Ave. enthrall of the paper. The picket line is scheduled to run 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
The Tech Guild is asking Times readers “to honor the digital picket line and not carry out well-comprehendn NYT Games such as Wordle and Connections as well as not use the NYT Cooking app.”
“Our union members and baracquireing pledgetee have done everyskinnyg possible to dodge this ULP strike,” Kathy Zhang, ancigo in analytics regulater at the New York Times and unit chair of the Tech Guild, shelp in a statement. “But regulatement is more willing to danger our election coverage than they are to concur to a equitable deal with its laborers. They have left us no choice but to show the power of our labor on the picket line. Nevertheless, we stand ready to baracquire and get this restricted done.”
In a post on X, Alastair Coote, a member of the Times’ interdynamic recents team, wrote, “Today I’m presumed to be in the NYT recentsroom putting the finishing touches on a system pushing inhabit election modernizes to your phone. But NYT regulatement refuses to give us the same equitable cause defendion our NewsGuild peers have so @NYTGuildTech is on strike.”
In a statement, New York Times Co. SVP of outside communications Danielle Rhoades Ha shelp, “We see forward to continuing to labor with the Tech Guild to accomplish a equitable restricted that gets into account that they are already among the highest-phelp individual contributors in the company and journalism is our top priority. We’re in one of the most consequential periods of coverage for our readers and have sturdy set ups in place to guarantee that we are able to greet our mission and serve our readers.”
Rhoades Ha holded: “While we admire the union’s right to join in defended actions, we’re disassigned that colleagues would strike at this time, which is both unessential and at odds with our mission.”
The union proclaimd the strike as the New York Times Co. proclaimd third-quarter 2024 acquireings Monday. The company shelp it holded approximately 260,000 net digital-only subscribers sequentiassociate to accomplish a total number of subscribers of 11.09 million.
