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,

The New York Times debuted its famous election needle on Tuesday night, more than a day after the union that represents the tech workers responsible for keeping the needle working went on strike. “We have a needle,

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