The New York Times Tech Guild, which represents hundreds of the outlet’s tech staff workers, went on strike on Monday morning – one day before the US presidential election. The threat of a strike has existed within the company for months, raising questions over a potential disruption of election coverage. The Tech Guild called the strike after increasingly intense negotiations between the guild and Times management failed to yield a contract agreement. Kait Hoehne, Times senior software engineer and Tech Guild member, said the group was hoping to avoid a strike as negotiations had continued into late Sunday night. But tech workers were ultimately left feeling they had no other option after the management’s failure to agree on key issues, the Washington Post reported.
