At the “New York Times”, a strike is happening on the eve of the American presidential election – Libération

When you strike, you need to know how to choose your timing. Like the “Times Tech Guild”, the union of employees of the technology teams of the New York Times, which was strong. Monday, November 4, in the evening America’s presidential election against Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the newspaper’s approximately 600 engineers, developers, technical staff and other data managers, who allow the website and its various applications to function properly, have -decision to make a threat that has been going on for months. . The Times Tech Guild wants higher wages, better working conditions and job security.

“We love our work and look forward to being able to do it, name to Washington Post Kait Hoehne, software engineer at New York Times, but we haven’t seen enough action from management and we’ve been negotiating for far too long… The ball is in their court.”

«Despite the threat of a strike that would disrupt access to information during the presidential election, management failed to meaningfully address the main concerns of technical workers.“, for his part mourning the union on Monday.

A precedent in 2022

A company spokesman half-heartedly defended himself: “We look forward to working with the Tech Guild to reach a fair deal that takes into account that they are already among the highest paid individual contributors at the company and that journalism is our priority. We are in one of the most important times of coverage for our readers and we have strong plans in place to ensure that we can fulfill our mission and serve our readers.»

In December 2022, more than 1,100 American journalists and workers every day started a twenty four hour strikeagainst a background of conflict over wages. This time, the editors are not worried about this protest movement.