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 strike, which continued into Tuesday, is the “first to coincide with a presidential election in the NewsGuild since the 1964 Detroit Newspaper Strike,” per the Times Tech Guild.

The action was criticized for its timing, which coincided with the final hours of the U.S. presidential election, thus impacting the newspaper’s ability to cover the race’s conclusion. While this was meant as a bargaining tactic designed to draw the paper’s executives to the table, that tactic doesn’t appear to have worked very well.

New York Times tech staff have begun strike action in protest of alleged unfair labour practices, and are asking

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 NYT tech workers who are currently on strike are asking readers not to play its games. So they made their own versions that people can play.

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.