New York Times tech workers will return to work without a contract on Tuesday after a weeklong strike during election week.

Members of the New York Times Tech Guild plan to “walk to the office together in the morning as a symbol of the future of The Times.” union members he told Fox News Digital He said they had not heard from the leadership since their last counter-offer on Sunday, November 3

The union went on strike the next day, just before Election Day, after failing to reach an agreement with leadership after more than two years of negotiations. Tech Guild fights for “just cause, fair pay, and remote work protection.” The group represents 700 members who support the technological operations of the newspaper’s online platforms, as well as New York Times games such as Wordle and Connections, and the Cooking app.

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“Our Election Week ULP Strike was a warning to The Times,” Kathy Zhang, president of the Tech Guild and senior director of analysis at The New York Times, said of the news in a press release provided to Fox News Digital. “We made clear, especially on election night, how valuable our work is to The New York Times, and we demonstrated that we have the full support of our subscribers and allies across the country moving forward.”

The New York Times’ New York City headquarters (Bloomberg/Contributor)

Due to the strike, no state-level or non-presidential related news was broadcast live on election night, IOS news was intermittently showing ads, indicating a significant loss of revenue for the company, apps and website were slow to load, presenting delivery issues NYT Tech Guild reported According to its announcement, readers were given error messages about articles and updates, and Times subscribers received hundreds of thousands of emails with broken links.

“The systems and digital products that worked throughout the election made it possible, thanks to the hundreds of unit members who worked for months to make sure everything went smoothly,” Zhang said. “What broke down during this strike broke down because our members weren’t at work.”

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A NYT spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital that negotiations had not progressed further than the strike began, but called last week’s election coverage “our smoothest site performance during an election ever.”

Union members picket outside the Times building. (Fox News Digital)

“From Tuesday through Thursday, the Presidential Election Results page and the Needle page received more views (over a 3-day period) than any other story on The Times’ entire site since the 2020 election, the most in four years,” a NYT spokesperson told Fox News. It was a high number.” Digital. “Tens of millions of views, more than 3x our average daily readership over the last few months.

Stacy Cowley, Times business reporter and News Guild representative, told Fox News Digital that “the mood is not good” between union members and leadership.

“Last week was challenging and showed what can happen when The Times tries to operate without more than 500 of our Tech Guild colleagues,” he said. “It also demonstrated the anger and frustration we feel in the newsroom about the company’s years-long and ongoing fight to deny our colleagues the same job protections the company has had for generations.”

“I hope the company comes to the table and gets it done this quickly so it can begin the hard work of regaining our trust and repairing the very battered morale that everyone at the NYT clearly sees,” he added.

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The union has repeatedly accused the paper’s top executives, particularly CEO Meredith Kopit Levien and Chief Technology Officer Jason Sobel, of union-busting.

Members of the New York Times news division stood in solidarity with striking tech workers during Election Day 2024. (Fox News Digital)

While Levien earned $10.3 million last year, he wants his employees to “make do with crumbs,” according to a billboard the group displayed last week. The guild also accused Sobel of trying to “force remote tech workers to come back to the office” while they were “working remotely from Silicon Valley.”

“Instead of coming to the bargaining table and working with us to complete this contract, they made a conscious decision to risk Times journalism on election night,” said NY NewsGuild treasurer Anthony Napoli. “Our members will continue to fight until a fair contract is achieved. We will not accept anything less.”

The New York Times told Fox News Digital They stated that they “are among the highest-paid individual contributors at the company and look forward to continuing to work with Tech Guild to reach a fair contract, considering journalism is our top priority.”

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Fox News Digital’s Brian Flood and Nikolas Lanum contributed to this report.