The Times Tech Guild represents more than 600 software developers and others who run the back-end systems behind The Times’s digital operation.

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.

More than 600 tech workers of the NYT had gone on a strike amid stalled contract negotiations over pay and job security, planning daily protests during the crucial election day period.

The Tech Guild called the strike — timed to be maximally disruptive to the newspaper’s ability to serve readers during the high-traffic election period — after increasingly

The union representing tech workers at the New York Times on Monday ended its strike — launched days before Election Day — without securing a new contract. The Tech Guild, which represents some 600 software engineers and programmers at the Gray Lady’s digital platforms,

The New York Times Tech Guild ended its strike Monday, one week after most of the unit walked off the job. However, no contract deal has yet been reached; the union says the strike was a "warning" to the newspaper,