The action was criticized for its timing, which coincided with the final hours of the U.S. presidential election, thus impacting the newspaper’s ability to cover the race’s conclusion. While this was meant as a bargaining tactic designed to draw the paper’s executives to the table, that tactic doesn’t appear to have worked very well.

The NY Times Tech Guild has ended their strike despite not reaching a contract deal with the paper, but promise to "move the fight inside."

The New York Times Tech Guild is ending a week-long strike that started one day before the U.S. presidential election and will return to work on Tuesday, it said in a post on X on Monday. More than 600 tech workers of NYT,

The Tech Guild called the strike — timed to be maximally disruptive to the newspaper’s ability to serve readers during the high-traffic election period — after increasingly

The Tech Guild went on strike November 4, the day before the presidential election, threatening to disrupt the paper's election coverage.

The systems and digital products that worked over the election did so thanks to the hundreds of unit members who worked for months preparing everything to run smoothly,” Kath