ALT For Immediate Release: Sept. 10, 2024 Contact: Jen Sheehan, jen@nyguid.org, 610-573-0740 [Logos for The NewsGuild of New York, The New York Times Tech Guild, and CODE-CWA] NEW YORK TIMES TECH GUILD VOTES YES TO STRIKE Union members, who voted to approve a strike by 95%, are fighting for ‘just cause,’ an essential job security protection, pay equity, work-life balance and respect on the job. NEW YORK – The Times Tech Guild – the union that includes software engineers, product managers, data analysts, project managers and designers at the New York Times – has voted to authorize a strike just as the presidential election session shifts into high gear. 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. The Tech Guild is also the largest union of tech workers with collective bargaining rights in the country. The strike authorization vote concluded Tuesday, with 89% of

ALT “We are sending Times management a strong message with our vote today,” said Kathy Zhang, a Senior Analytics Manager at The New York Times and unit chair of the Tech Guild. “Our work produces incredible value in this company. Our members have earned a fair contract and we’re ready to do whatever it takes to make sure we get it.” The Tech Guild, which won its union election by a landslide in March 2022, is negotiating its first contract. Times management has been dragging their feet in bargaining and attacking the Tech Guild every step of the way since workers first announced their intention to be a union in 2021. Among the major issues at stake for the Tech Guild is job security, which is under threat from the rise of AI and the company’s discriminatory practices around discipline and termination. Two-thirds of the members fired by New York Times management since the Times Tech Guild formed have been from underrepresented groups. Union members on visas have had their lives thrown

ALT The NYGuild has filed several Unfair Labor Practice charges against the New York Times at the National Labor Relations Board for unlawful actions including failure to bargain in good faith and unilateral changes to working conditions. “Readers and subscribers of the New York Times depend heavily on the often invisible labor of our Times Tech Guild membership for digital access to news, games and, especially during this election cycle, timely updates from Times Guild-represented journalists. Thus far Times management appears unwilling to recognize the critical value of Tech Guild labor,” said Susan DeCarava, president of The NewsGuild of New York. “Our union stands united in supporting Tech Guild’s efforts to accomplish a fair and just contract, including the possibility of a strike. We’re ready to hit the picket line. It’s up to Times management to decide what happens next.” The Times Tech Guild is the second largest bargaining unit of The NewsGuild of New York, just behind the Time