New York Times tech employees remain on strike, Guild targets high-paid CEO Meredith Kopit

The New York Times Tech Guild remains connected onslaught Thursday and the radical has a mobile billboard circling the Gray Lady’s New York City office accusing the paper’s apical executives of national busting. 

The Tech Guild's 600 members, who power the back-end systems that powerfulness the paper's extended integer operations, went connected onslaught astatine midnight Monday when they failed to scope a declaration agreement. They are warring for "just cause, just wage and distant enactment protection," and person said they person been moving connected a woody with Times enactment for implicit 2 years, to nary avail.

"In presumption of bargaining, it’s successful management’s court," a Guild spokesperson told Fox News Digital. 

Rotating mobile billboards meant to bring consciousness to the Guild’s efforts straight called retired Times CEO Meredith Kopit and Times CTO Jason Sobel. The guild said the billboard would beryllium placed connected trucks that ellipse the artifact passim the time connected Thursday. 

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New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit has been targeted by the Tech Guild's 600 members. 

New York Times CTO Jason Sobel has been accused of national busting by the Tech Guild. 

Kopit, a regular people of the Guild, wants employees to "settle for crumbs" portion she earned $10.3 cardinal past year, according to the billboard. The Guild accused Sobel of attempting to "force distant tech workers backmost to the office" portion helium "works remotely from Silicon Valley" himself. 

The New York Times did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. 

A abstracted Guild root told Fox News Digital that they person not heard backmost from the institution since their past counter-proposal connected Sunday evening.

Some of the Times tech staffers person worked since the onslaught began, but Guild enactment has downplayed the value of staffers crossing the line. 

"Being portion of our onslaught is not a requirement. People marque their ain choices. In immoderate onslaught you’ll person immoderate that are comfy crossing the picket line. Each time this week we’ve had hundreds of our members retired walking the enactment and that volition continue," the Guild spokesperson said. 

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CEO Meredith Kopit wants employees to "settle for crumbs" portion she earned $10.3 cardinal past year, according to the Guild. 

The Guild accused CTO Jason Sobel of attempting to "force distant tech workers backmost to the office" portion helium "works remotely from Silicon Valley" himself. 

Meanwhile, the Tech Guild has received implicit $140,000 successful donations from a GoFundMe fundraiser. 

"Going connected onslaught means we suffer our paychecks for the duration of the strike. While this is an important sacrifice successful bid to triumph a just contract, galore of our national members volition request fiscal assistance, peculiarly those who are the superior earners for their families. No 1 deserves to look fiscal hardship for taking enactment with their coworkers. Your donations volition assistance america triumph this fight," Guild members wrote erstwhile seeking donations. 

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A Times spokesperson antecedently provided Fox News Digital with a connection astir the strike. 

"We look guardant to continuing to enactment with the Tech Guild to scope a just declaration that takes into relationship that they are already among the highest paid idiosyncratic contributors successful the Company and journalism is our apical priority," the spokesperson said. 

"We’re successful 1 of the astir consequential periods of sum for our readers and person robust plans successful spot to guarantee that we are capable to fulfill our ngo and service our readers," the connection continued. "While we respect the union’s close to prosecute successful protected actions, we're disappointed that colleagues would onslaught astatine this time, which is some unnecessary and astatine likelihood with our mission."

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Fox News Digital’s Kendall Tietz and Nikolas Lanum contributed to this report.