new York Times' Technical staff who are behind Wordle And connection will return to work on Tuesday after a week-long strike, among other sports and facilities. In A statement published on MondayThe New York Times Tech Guild said union members “will march into the office together in the morning as a symbol of what's going to happen for The Times.”
The Tech Guild represents more than 600 employees who manage technology at digital papers. Union members go on strike a day before the US electionsraising concerns about whether NYTLike the needle, vote-tracking technology will operate on Election Day. union and NYT Contract negotiations will continue.
“The systems and digital products that worked at the election took a massive hit thanks to the hundreds of unit members who worked for months to keep everything running smoothly,” said Kathy Zhang, president of the New York Times Tech Guild Unit. “What broke during this strike broke because our members were not at work.”
Tech Guild says its work was affected by the stoppage NYTelection coverage in some ways: for example, the outlet did not display state-level or non-presidential leads, while its app and website were “slow to load.” last week, business insider reported around On election day, 100 technical workers crossed the picket line.
Now that the strike is over, Tech Guild says supporters can resume playing NYTUsing games and cooking apps. The association had earlier asked people to avoid playing any of these games NYTof daily puzzle games, and instead it directed users toward striking games Activists created a separate website,
“We look forward to continuing to work with the Tech Guild to reach a fair contract that takes into account that they are already among the highest-paid individual contributors at the company and that journalism is our highest priority.” is a priority,” NYT spokeswoman Danielle Rhodes Ha said in an emailed statement. The Verge,
He also noted that the publication saw “our best site performance ever during an election” and that “the site's performance was largely due to the election preparedness work of Tech Guild unit members and others across the company, Elections that last for months.”
Update, November 11More information added from : NYT,