Now that the strike is over, the Tech Guild says supporters can resume playing the NYT ’s games and using the Cooking app. The union previously asked people to avoid playing any of the NYT ’s daily puzzle games, and it instead directed users to the games striking workers created on a separate website.

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

(Reuters) - 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 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 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

This strike was two years in the making ever since the Times Tech Guild was voted into certification in March 2022. In September, guild members authorized a strike slated for just before the Nov. 5 election, when the outlet expects an increase in readership and a high risk time for website bugs.

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 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