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The
NYTimes NewsGuild last week had pledged to walk out on Dec. 8 if
a contract was not reached by then.
The NYTimes NewsGuild has sought "complete and equitable
contract" wages that "keep up with inflation" as well as to
preserve and enhance health insurance and retirement benefits
that were promised during hiring, according to a letter signed
by 1,036 members last week. The number of signatories has since
topped 1,100, the union said on Tuesday.
"Unless the company changes their tune and a deal is reached
before Thursday, the work stoppage will officially start from
midnight on December 8th and go for 24 hours," the union said in
a statement posted on Twitter.
The union said the New York Times during a meeting earlier in
the day refused to meet for additional negotiating sessions to
resolve the contract dispute by Thursday.
The New York Times in an emailed statement to Reuters said the
union's claims were inaccurate and negotiations were ongoing.
The union said that the walkout would be the first full-day work
stoppage at the New York Times since the late 1970s.
The Times Guild represents journalists as well as ad sales
workers, comment moderators, news assistants, security guards
and staffers at The Times Center, the company's events venue and
virtual production studio.
Tech employees of the Times voted last March to unionize and
have been trying separately to negotiate their first contract.
(Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie
Adler)
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