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

Members of the New York Times Tech Guild plan to “march together in the office in the morning as a symbol of what’s to come for The Times.” Union members said Fox News Digital that they have not heard from management since their last counter-proposal on Sunday, November 3rd

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

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“Our ULP strike during election week was a warning to The Times,” Kathy Zhang, president of the Tech Guild and senior analysis manager at The New York Times, said in a press release carried by Fox News Digital. “We have clearly demonstrated how valuable our work is to The New York Times, especially on election night, and we have shown that we have the full support of subscribers and allies across the country going forward.”

New York headquarters of the New York Times (Bloomberg/Contributor)

Due to the strike, there were no statewide or non-presidential pins on election night, IOS news did not show ads intermittently, marking a significant loss of revenue for the company, apps and website were slow to load, issues publishing products. error messages to readers about articles and updates, and Times subscribers received hundreds of thousands of emails with broken links, according to the NYT Tech Guild announcement.

“The digital systems and products that worked during the election did so because of the hundreds of members of the unit who worked for months getting everything ready to run 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 are no further along than they were when the strike began, but described last week’s election coverage as “by far our site’s best performance during the election “.

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

“From Tuesday through Thursday, the Presidential Election Results page and the Needle page were viewed more than any other piece on The Times’ entire site (in a 3-day period) since the 2020 election, a four-year high” , a NYT spokesperson told Fox News. Digital. “Tens of millions of views, more than three times the average daily readership in recent months.

Stacy Cowley, a Times business reporter and News Guild representative, told Fox News Digital that “the vibes are not good” between union members and management.

“The last week has been tough and illustrated what happens when The Times tries to operate without more than 500 of our Tech Guild colleagues,” she said. “It also showed the anger and frustration we in the newsroom feel at the company’s years-long and ongoing fight to deny our colleagues the same workplace protections that the newsroom has had for generations .”

“I hope the company comes to the table and ends this quickly so they can begin the hard work of regaining our trust and repairing the very damaged morale that is evident to everyone at the NYT,” she added.

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

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

Levien wants employees to “thank you with crumbs,” while she earned $10.3 million last year, according to the billboard the group posted last week. The Guild also accused Sobel of trying to “force remote tech workers back into the office” while he “remotely works from Silicon Valley.”

They “made a conscious decision to jeopardize Times journalism on election night rather than come to the negotiating table and work with us to complete this contract,” said Anthony Napoli, treasurer of the NewsGuild of NY. “Our members will continue to fight until we get a fair contract. We will accept nothing less.”

The New York Times said Fox News Digital that they “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 in the company, and journalism is our top priority.”

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