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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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Happy holidays from the NYT Tech Guild! Solidarity to all and to all workers’ rights!
December 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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This week, Times Tech Guild members joined @sbworkersunited on the picket line against corporate greed ✊🪧. We stand by them in their fight for a living wage and employment protections ☕. Please support their ULP strike by buying your coffee somewhere else and donating to their effort: bit.ly/m/SBWU
December 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Our members sit at the intersection of tech and journalism, and we know how damaging irresponsible AI can be. It’s why we fought so hard for the AI protections we have in our contract. Proud to support our editorial coworkers and journalists across the industry in their fight against AI slop.
December 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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@nytimes.com management tried to side-step our contract by offering low-ball severance offers in disciplinary meetings with our members. We filed a grievance and WON. ✊🎉

Severance offers have to go through the Guild now, giving our members agency and support in bargaining a fair deal.
December 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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This goes beyond any one field or issue - corporate greed affects us all, and every worker deserves basic employment protections and a living wage. To help out near you, visit the striking workers' website.

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November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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No contract? No coffee! ✊☕ Our members are out supporting Starbucks Workers United in their strike as they fight for a fair contract.
Striking Starbucks workers picket outside a store in Buffalo, NY A dog next to a sign reading "no contract, no Starbucks"
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Yesterday, Times Tech Guild members showed up along with hundreds of NewsGuild members and supporters to protest the shameful behavior of Condé Nast leadership.
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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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.

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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