Tech Guild Current Members

The Times Tech Guild includes everyone who helps to build the digital products and website at The New York Times. This includes ~700 individual contributors who are Engineers, Product Managers, Project Managers, Designers, and Data Analysts. Being a union member is a condition of employment for these roles.

For new members

Welcome to the union! We’re so glad to have you in our community! Signing a membership card is the first and most important thing you can do: it authorizes dues and allows you to vote in elections, ratify contracts, authorize strikes and more.

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Each quarter we host a new member onboarding to the union. This helps you learn more about how to get involved and learn your rights in the workplace. Our union slack offers info on onboarding sessions in #q-and-a. Explore our other channels as well! #general and #chat are always full of great conversation and updates.

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Every member has the right to union representation with management in disciplinary meetings. Union stewards are fellow teammates who are your main contacts for union updates. Most people meet at least 1x a month with their steward. We have nearly 100 stewards in our union who can be your representative. It’s also a great way to get involved if you’d like to volunteer your time.

Learn more about how to be a steward!

Every member must remain active to create a fair and equitable workplace. Join a working group or member caucus to help out. Many tasks can be done async, during the workday, or as a single task. Learn more about where you can get involved.

A strong contract only happens when all of us act together to improve our workplace experiences. The Contract Action Team, or CAT, is a group of rank and file members who help organize our union to take and enforce our contract. The CAT includes: stewards, contract committee members who meet with management, internal working groups, and elected unit officers and council members.

Stay informed by reading The Week in your personal email or on Union Slack. This member run digest keeps members informed on what's happening including upcoming events, collective actions, and more. Read the latest in our unit library.

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Helpful Member Links

Guild Updates

How To Win Your Union Certification Vote — With Style

On March 3, 2022, The New York Times Tech Guild won its certification vote with a whopping 82% of votes in favor. Throughout the day, over seven thousand people watched the vote count live on our website, which we had updated the week before to include a live-updating vote count page. Winning our certification by such a large margin was a huge victory, and so was the excitement we generated about our new unit!

How Our Union Is Fighting Pay Inequity

One of the top issues our members want to address collectively as a union is pay inequity. We know vast disparities in pay exist at The Times, which we’ve heard about both through our organizing conversations and through an important salary sharing effort we began during our organizing drive. We’ve heard from tech workers in other workplaces who are interested in organizing that resources on our salary sharing project would be valuable. Here’s a guide to starting your own salary sharing process and an invitation to join us in the best way to fight for pay equity: unionizing your workplace.

More Progress Needed In Eliminating Pay Disparities

In a detailed analysis of a snapshot of pay data from April 2018 for 913 full-time employees of The New York Times who are members of the NewsGuild, the Guild found salary gaps for women and people of color in some areas of the newsroom and the business side.