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