(Central News Agency) More than 1,000 employees of The New York Times in the United States staged a strike at midnight today, the union said, marking the first such industrial action at The New York Times in more than 40 years.

Agence France-Presse reported that the union said that the New York Times journalists and other employees would strike for 24 hours after failing to reach a consensus with the company in a new round of contract negotiations.

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The News Guild of New York, which represents striking labor, has previously pointed out that the sticking point is management's refusal to raise wages in line with inflation.

"More than 1,100 New York Times employees are now officially on furlough, the first layoff of this magnitude in the company's 40-year history," the union tweeted early this morning.

New York Times spokesman Lodis.

Ha (Danielle Rhoades Ha) told the US media in a statement that the negotiations have not broken down, and when "we have not reached an impasse, they have taken such extreme actions, it is disappointing."

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