The Times Tech Guild represents more than 600 software developers and others who run the back-end systems behind The Times’s digital operation.

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

More than 600 tech workers of the NYT had gone on a strike amid stalled contract negotiations over pay and job security, planning daily protests during the crucial election day period.