NEW YORK — More than 1,000 New York Times reporters and other personnel strolled off the task for 24 hours Thursday, annoyed by agreement settlements that have dragged on for months in the paper’s mostsignificant labor disagreement in more than 40 years.
Hundreds of pressreporters, editors, professionalphotographers and other staffmembers picketed outdoors the paper’s workplaces near Manhattan’s Times Square. With a hollowed out newsroom, the Times was relying on worldwide and non-union staffers to provide material to its more than 9 million aroundtheworld customers upuntil the strike ends at 12: 01 a.m. Friday.
The NewsGuild of New York went through with its promise to strike after the 2 sides stoppedworking to reach a offer in marathon settlements that broke off Wednesday night. The sides stay far apart on concerns consistingof earnings, remote work policies and a efficiency evaluation system, which the union states is racially prejudiced. The existing agreement ended in March 2021, and the union hasactually implicated the business of dragging its feet on settlements.
“I’m not upset. I’m simply deeply dissatisfied in our business,” stated Nikole Hannah Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who spoke at the rally. “You shouldn’t have to battle economically to work at a location like The New York Times no matter what your position is.”
In an e-mail to the newsroom, Executive Editor Joe Kahn stated he was dissatisfied in the choice to strike when settlements are not at an deadlock, the Times reported in its own story on the walkout. Kahn stated Thursday’s report would be “robust” however that producing it “will be moredifficult than normal.”
Stacy Cowley, a financing pressreporter and chief union mediator, stated the strike almost diminished lotsof newsroom groups, consistingof her own.
Those who tookpart consistedof members of the hectic live news desk, which covers breaking news for the digital publication. That function was operating Thursday, focusing on the U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner’s release from Russian jail as part of a detainee exchange. For some news, t