IBM: Welcome the new boss, same as the old boss.

Any employee hoping that new CEO Virginia Rometty will make any positive changes for IBM employees needs to rethink that position.
Rometty herself has stated that she helped develop the strategic 5 year plan executed by Sam Palmisano and intends to continue on that course.

We have seen where that course has taken IBM employees.

When Sam Palmisano became CEO in 2002 the IBM US employee population was 154,000.
Now it is an estimated 98,000.

We saw resource actions tear through most business segments. Countless thousands were forced out in management initiated separations through the flawed PBC process. We saw employees that were ill targeted for dismissal. Older employees lost their value in the eyes of the executives and were pushed out the door.

Rometty, a champion of off shoring has led the charge on shifting work from the US to low cost and low wage countries.
IBM workers, humiliated in being forced to train their offshore replacements, watched as their work moved to the Philippines, to India, to China, to Brazil and many other countries.
The course Rometty took was to reject the expertise and value of IBM US employees, off shore the work they were doing and then fire them.

Workers outsourced to IBM from other companies fared no better. Whole IT departments were sold to IBM and IBM quickly transferred the knowledge to off shore workers and then terminated the US workers.
IBM talks about hiring in the US, with tax payer money of course, but refuses to say how many of the new hires are L1 or H1b visa workers.

The Alliance@IBM CWA has always recommended a different course.
A course that values US employees and rewards them.
A course that gives workers a real voice in the company they have made successful.
A course that brings democracy into the workplace through representation and a collective bargaining agreement.

It is time to change course to one that values IBM employees and grows the US economy!

The way to do that is by organizing and joining the only organization that advocates and works in the interests of employees.

Please help us change course by joining today!
To join go to our web site www.allianceibm.org
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