Times Tech Guild workers walked off the job on Monday and intend to picket from 9 a.m. EST to 6 p.m. EST each day at the Times office. The Guild said that if “no progress is made Monday” and the strike continues, the strike will be the “first to coincide with a presidential election in the NewsGuild since the 1964 Detroit Newspaper Strike.”

Established in 2016, the New York Times' election "Needle" estimates the final outcome of an election based on partial election results.

The newspaper’s popular election prediction made its return on election night — despite the ongoing strike called Monday by the union representing tech employees at the paper. The NY Times’ Needle, first introduced in 2016,