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NYT Tech Guild
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We are the software engineers, designers, data analysts & scientists, product managers and project managers who build the digital products @ NYTimes. We won our union in March 2022 and we're bargaining our first contract!
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🚨 If you're in NYC, join us on Wednesday! 🚨 We're telling Condé Nast that we will not stand for their illegal union busting and retaliation.
Poster with text: rally to defend our rights. Wednesday, November 12 at 6pm, 1 World Trade Center. Reinstate the fired four.
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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One year ago we took a step into the unknown as a unit. We walked out on a ULP strike, fighting for just cause, fair wages, and remote worker protections. A supermajority of our unit participated in this historic action, and it worked - we won our first contract.
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Proud to rally with the @nydnunion.bsky.social today as they fight for what they deserve ✊❤️
A group of people rally with the New York Daily News union
October 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Times Tech members are getting out the vote for Zohran! Some of our members were able to canvas this week with @cwadistrict1.bsky.social in support of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and his efforts to defend the working class 💪❤️
October 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Cheers and solidarity from our members and our @nyguild.bsky.social rep at the NYC Labor Day parade!
September 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Happy Labor Day to everyone out there organizing with us. The hours, pay, leave and job protections we have today are a rich history of our solidarity and the past fights we've won. We're still fighting ✊💪
September 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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So far, we have lost 12 hours of PTO this month and we will lose 71 hours over the duration of our contract. No announcement was made, no message sent out, and when asked, management simply ignored us. So we brought the issue to their inboxes. Every minute.
To NYT Leadership: Look, I don't like getting these emails either... But it's minute 77 of summer Friday To NYT Leadership: [nytimes/work-life-balance] Removing summer Fridays (PR #8152) To NYT Leadership: 100 minutes I could have been with my family To NYT Leadership: 4:04 pm. Summer Fridays not found.
August 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Management has been quietly clawing back our time off, first by cancelling a few “global days off” they gave us during the pandemic and now by ending a years-long practice of giving us a 2 p.m. release on August Fridays.
To NYT Leadership: it's 2:13. Do you know where my Summer Friday is? To NYT Leadership: it's 2:26 and my eyes are tired. Wish I had a summer Friday. To NYT Leadership: It's Friday, Friday, no more getting down on Fridays To NYT Leadership: it's 3:02 pm. Got that summertime sadness
August 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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🎉CONTRACT WINS 💪We’ve been under contract for 8 months now, and we’re seeing what all our hard work has accomplished:
August 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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We’re celebrating solidarity through arts & crafts this week. Each year, our members come together for an internal hackathon called Maker Week and we also - in what’s becoming an annual tradition - create and share handmade zines for our members.

✊Know your rights, get involved, and get crafty 🎨
A group of guild members folding and assembling zines at a table Four union members hold up zines, smiling. A zine cover with the text "Maker Weeks 2025" and the tech guild logo with a cartoon scabby rat An internal page of the zine describing member rights and what to do if you're detained or searched
August 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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The first big test of our contract came when management announced needless staff layoffs, ignoring our contract terms.

But we had each other’s backs and organized multiple public actions - we fought to extend termination dates and get our members the severance they were owed.
July 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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On May 7th, NYT leadership celebrated another successful earnings report and consistent growth, touting its business strategy and its employees, saying they were “well prepared to meet the moment.” On May 9th, they abruptly laid off 22 tech workers.
May 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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THEY ARE TIMES GUILD: We are happy to welcome @theathletic.bsky.social to our @nyguild.bsky.social family. @nytimes.com needs to do the right thing and recognize them as part of the Times Guild.

x.com/NYTimesGuild...
January 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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We want to again thank everyone for their support, especially across @newsguild.org, @codecwa.bsky.social, @cwadistrict1.bsky.social, NYC Central Labor Council, and @nysaflcio.bsky.social. It’s all one fight!

#NYT #UnionStrong #UnionMadeNYC #Union #Labor #CollectiveBargaining #Contract #Solidarity
A large group photo of Times Tech Guild members in the lobby of The New York Times building in Midtown Manhattan, taken on Monday, November 12th, 2024 as the unit returned to work after an eight-day unfair labor practice strike. Multiple members are wearing red apparel, and the whole group is raising their fists in solidarity.
December 20, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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WE VOTED YES: (Thread) We are thrilled to share that our members have voted to ratify our new three-year collective bargaining agreement with @nytimes.com…
A stylized graphic with a narrowly cropped crowd shot of Times Tech Guild picketers outside The New York Times building in Midtown Manhattan. Multiple “On Strike” signs, noise-making rhythm instruments, and a person in a white shirt carrying a megaphone appear in the photo. A red overlay and bold, all-cap white text that reads “We won our contract!” are overlaid on top of the photo.
December 20, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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We are setting a precedent for tech workers across the country. Every tech worker deserves a union – now more than ever.
A group photo of Times Tech Guild members in the lobby of The New York Times building in Midtown Manhattan, taken on Monday, November 12th, 2024 as the unit returned to work after an eight-day unfair labor practice strike.
December 11, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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✊🎉WE HAVE A DEAL 🎉✊

We are thrilled to announce we have reached a tentative three-year agreement with @nytimes.com, pending ratification by our members. There’s so much to share but here are just a few highlights of the deal:
A stylized photo collage displaying a photo of Times Tech Guild workers picketing outside the New York Times building in Midtown Manhattan in early November 2024, overlaid in light red, with the Times Tech Guild logo and large, outlined, all caps text: We Have A Deal
December 11, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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WE HAVE A DEAL: We have reached a tentative agreement with the @nytimes.com for our members. Read more here...
For Immediate Release: Dec. 11, 2024. Contact: Jen Sheehan, jen@nyguild.org, 610-573-0740. NY NewsGuild, NY Times Reach Tentative Deal On Historic First Tech Contract. Three-year agreement sets new standards for tech industry, including "just cause" protections, guaranteed raises, and guardrails on remote-work status. New York - The NewsGuild of New York, which represents the Times Tech Guild, and New York Times management have reached a tentative deal on a three-year contract, just over a month after the Tech Guild's election week ULP strike. The tentative agreement is the first for the Times Tech Guild, the largest union of tech workers with collective bargaining rights in the country. The Times Tech Guild is a bargaining unit of The NewsGuild of New York, which represents nearly 6,000 media workers including two other units at The New York Times. "We're thrilled to reach an agreement that secures 'just cause' protections, sustains workplace flexibility, and guarantees annual raises for our members," said Kathy Zhang, a Senior Analytics Manager at The New York Times and unit chair of the Tech Guild. "These first contract wins set a strong foundation for job protections that our colleagues will build upon for generations. I could not be more proud to have been part of organizing this strong, fighting union. Serving on our first bargaining committee has been the honor of a lifetime." Tech Guild members will vote on ratification of their contract on Thursday, Dec. 19th. Among the contract highlights: Enhanced job security with 'just cause' protections. Guaranteed wage increases for the first time of up to 8.25% (plus additional base rate discretionary compensation) that prioritize the largest wage increases for the lowest paid members over the life of the contract. Additional compensation for on-call work. Important protections that lock in guardrails on additional variable compensation (including stocks and bonuses). Improved protections for workers on visas. Language guaranteeing flexible hybrid work schedules. Process & transparency protections related to career growth, performance reviews and other workplace issues. This tentative deal marks the end of more than 2 years of bargaining, which began shortly after the unit won its NLRB election by a landslide in March 2022. Software developers, project managers & graphic designers at NYT unionized alongside a wave of other tech workers at SEGA, Meow Wolf, NPR, Activision Blizzard and Alphabet, organizing as part of CODE-CWA, or the Campaign to Organize Digital Employees. It also comes just over a month after the Tech Guild went on a ULP strike. NYT subscribers across the country expressed solidarity with striking tech workers by not crossing the digital picket line to play games such as Wordle and Connections, or using the Cooking app. Tech Guild members created their own games site, akin to a strike publication, that amassed more than a half million page views and more than 320,000 active users. Supporters also donated more than a quarter of a million dollars to Tech's strike fund. "With this contract our Tech Guild members demonstrate what happens when workers band together to fight for the value of their labor," said Susan DeCarava, President of The NewsGuild of New York. "We not only won a first contract that set new standards for workers within the New York Times, but we've also established a strong foundation for what is possible for tech workers in the future when they organize and bargain collectively." The NewsGuild of New York, Local 31003 of the CWA, is a labor union representing nearly 6,000 media professionals and other employees at New York area news organizations, including NYT, The New Yorker, Thomson Reuters, The Nation, TIME, PEOPLE, Wirecutter, and The Daily Beast. NYGuild advocates for journalists to have a voice in the newsroom, for press freedom, for inclusive and diverse workplaces, and for just cause, no exceptions, for all media professionals.
December 11, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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Over the last 8 days, we accomplished something extraordinary: we held the first tech-workers strike in the nation, ran one of the first and largest remote pickets in the nation, and pulled off a successful boycott of both NYT Cooking and Games.
A group photo of about a hundred members of the Times Tech Guild, standing in the lobby of the New York Times building, many with fists raised in solidarity. In front of them is a shiny light wood floor, and behind are large floor to ceiling glass windows overlooking an inner greenery. Several members are wearing read dresses and shirts.
November 12, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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After an unprecedented Election Week ULP strike, we returned to work today and have called off the NYT Games and Cooking boycotts.

#SolidarityStreak #BreakMyStreak #UnionStrong #UnionMadeNYC #Strike #Union #Unions #Tech #Labor #CollectiveBargaining #Contract #NewsGuild #CWA #Solidarity
November 12, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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A WARNING TO THE TIMES: Tuesday, we will be returning to work, after a successful Election Week ULP Strike. We clearly demonstrated how valuable our work is to @nytimes.com. And now we’ll move our fight inside.

#GuildBuilds #SolidarityStreak #BreakMyStreak #UnionStrong #UnionMadeNYC #Strike
For Immediate Release: Nov. 11, 2024. Contact: Jen Sheehan, jen@nyguild.org, 610-573-0740. New York Times Tech Guild: ‘We showed our strength and our value to The Times.’ Workers who power all NYT technology — including mobile push alerts, app & website maintenance and the popular games — end Election Week ULP strike. ‘Now we'll bring our fight inside as we return to work.’ New York — The Times Tech Guild — the union that makes the coverage at The New York Times accessible to the world — has wrapped up an Election Week ULP Strike, having shown Times management the impact of their solidarity and unity. Tech Guild members will return to work Tuesday and march into the office together in the morning as a symbol of what's to come for The Times. “Our Election Week ULP Strike was a warning to The Times,” said Kathy Zhang, Tech Guild unit chair and a senior analytics manager at The New York Times. “We clearly demonstrated how valuable our work is to The New York Times, especially on election night, and showed that we have the full support of subscribers and allies across the country going forward.” Tech Guild members are advising supporters they can resume playing New York Times games as well as use the Cooking app. Instead of bargaining with the Tech Guild, Times’ executives stubbornly put a critically important Election Day at risk. The New York Times earned a notorious distinction on Election Day, as it was the site of the first NewsGuild-CWA strike coinciding with a presidential election in 60 years. A quick look at some of the impact the Tech Guild had on Election Night coverage through their ULP Strike: No state-level or non-presidential needles were live on election night. iOS news was not displaying ads intermittently, a significant loss of revenue for the company. The apps and website were slow to load. Publishing issues produced intermittent and visible error messages for readers on articles and updates. Times subscribers received hundreds of thousands of emails with broken links. “The systems and digital products that worked over the election did so thanks to the hundreds of unit members who worked for months preparing everything to run smoothly,” Zhang said. “What broke down during this strike broke because our members weren't at work.” Subscribers across the country showed Tech Guild solidarity by boycotting the Cooking app as well as NYT games such as Wordle and Connections. Tech Guild members even created their own games site, akin to a strike publication, that earned more than a half million page views and more than 320,000 active users. “Times management — in particular CEO Meredith Kopit Levien and Chief Technology Officer Jason Sobel — made the conscious decision to put Times journalism at risk on election night rather than come to the bargaining table and work with us to get this contract completed,” said Anthony Napoli, NewsGuild of NY treasurer. “Our members will continue the fight until a fair contract is secured. We will accept nothing less.” About the NewsGuild of New York: The NewsGuild of New York, Local 31003 of the Communications Workers of America, is a labor union representing nearly 6,000 media professionals and other employees at New York area news organizations, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Thomson Reuters, The Nation, TIME, PEOPLE, Wirecutter, and The Daily Beast. The NewsGuild of New York advocates for journalists to have a voice in the newsroom, for press freedom, for inclusive and diverse workplaces, and for just cause, no exceptions, for all media professionals.
November 11, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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It's day 4 of our ULP strike and it's time to #TurnUpTheHeat for @nytimes.com management.

We are asking for support from all of our home cooks out there! Hold the picket line with us by #NotCookingToday - stay off #NYTCooking while we fight for just cause, fair pay and remote work protections.
A black and white illustration showing a pair of hands, left hand holding a measuring cup pouring a liquid into a pod, and right hand holding a ladle to stir the pot. The red Times Tech Guild logo, with dark red blackletter T with overlaid white text “Guild” in blackletter script, appears in the lower right corner over the pot. The text “We’re cooking up a boycott! #NotCookingToday” appears above the illustration.
November 7, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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We are back on the picket line outside @nytimes.com for day 4 of our ULP strike! We are fighting for fair pay, remote worker protections and just cause, and we are not backing down!

#SolidarityStreak #BreakMyStreak #UnionStrong #UnionMadeNYC #Strike #Union #Unions #Tech #Election #Election2024
A photo of the picket line outside of the New York Times headquarters at 620 8th Ave in Midtown Manhattan. The line stretches beyond the far right edge of the frame. One worker at the far left wearing a checkered red and black longsleeve shirt is holding a bullhorn, and the person behind them is holding a “Past Time for Contract” sign written in blackletter script.
November 7, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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We are a largely remote workforce, with members across the country. As NYC’s picket line draws hundreds, our remote workers are holding their own events in places like Portland, Raleigh, Chicago and (tomorrow) San Francisco…
#SolidarityStreak #BreakMyStreak #UnionStrong #UnionMadeNYC #Strike #Union
Five Times Tech Guild members from Seattle stand in a park area surrounded by deciduous trees that have turned red and orange for the fall. One member is standing on a concrete bench above the other four. Members are wearing a red Times Tech Guild T-shirt, a striped hoodie, a gray Guild T-shirt, a red T-shirt with Disney cartoon character Stitch and the word “HANGRY” on it; and a red long sleeve shirt. Two are wearing NYT baseball caps. A group photo of six Times Tech Guild workers meeting up in Raleigh, North Carolina. All six workers are smiling and raising their right fists in solidarity. They’re wearing a variety of apparel, including a black shirt, red shirt, gray top with red sweater, red and black checkered button-down, a clay colored T-shirt, and a red Times Tech Guild T-shirt. A photo of the picket line in front of The New York Times headquarters at 620 8th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Dozens of workers holding protest signs and noise-making objects such as cowbells can be seen walking in a circle in front of the building entrance, which features a metal NYT wordmark above the doors. A group photo of eight Times Tech Guild workers meeting up inside over in Portland, Oregon. Each member is holding a color flyer with bright read header that reads, “Meet the union busters of the New York Times”. Members are wearing coats, red pants, red dresses, red flannel button-down shirts, red T-shirts, red jackets, and a red sweatshirt.
November 6, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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Meet Erica! She is the Product Manager for our Home Delivery distribution systems and works to ensure the paper can be delivered to our subscribers every morning. Today, she's on the picket line, fighting for a better tomorrow for the people who make @nytimes.com.
A portrait photo of Erica, a light-skinned woman with curly brown shoulder-length hair, wearing patterned rimmed glasses and smiling at the camera. A red border and the Times Tech Guild logo, a dark red blackletter scripted “T” with white blackletter text “Guild” overlaid on top of it, appears in the lower-right corner of the image.
November 6, 2024 at 1:28 AM