The New York Times Tech Guild is ending a week-long strike that started one day before the U.S. presidential election and will return to work on Tuesday, it said in a post on X on Monday.

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,” Kath

The action was criticized for its timing, which coincided with the final hours of the U.S. presidential election, thus impacting the newspaper’s ability to cover the race’s conclusion. While this was meant as a bargaining tactic designed to draw the paper’s executives to the table, that tactic doesn’t appear to have worked very well.

The striking workers from the Times Tech Guild of the New York Times (NYT) are set to return to work today, although negotiations continue. After a week-long strike that began a day before the U.S. presidential elections,

The New York Times Tech Guild ended its unfair labor practice strike Monday, one week after a majority of the 600-person unit walked off the job just before Election Day.

The New York Times Tech Guild sent a letter to the Board of Directors on Friday, saying that it needs to reach an agreement before the election in order to avoid a strike. “As the bargaining

The union said its members would return to work on Tuesday, even though it had not yet reached a contract deal with the company.