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Texas
Hands Troubled IBM Contract To Capgemini, Xerox
Science-and-engineering
workforce has stalled in U.S., report says
Wall
Street Bonus Withdrawal Means Trading Aspen for Coupons
IBM
Layoffs Top 1,200, Union Reports
Layoffs
are being made at IBM, workers and union report
Bill
may cut overtime pay for tech workers
Big
job cuts coming at IBM? Don't be surprised
Proposed
jobs bill would target foreign outsourcing by U.S. companies
U.S.
Rep. Gary Peters Introduces Outsourcing Accountability Act
IBM
Could Trim 8,000 German Jobs, According to Labor Union
Lawsuit against IBM will be held in Broome County
Company request to move trial venue denied
U.S.
Shelves H-1B Visa Talks With India
CWA
Statement on Public Financing of Elections
What's
Behind Postal Crisis? Privatization.
The human impact of D.C. gridlock
No overtime for IT? Occupy the data center! Lawmakers want to take away
overtime pay for thousands of IT workers. What's wrong with these people?
Workers
at Apple and IBM supply plant go on strike in China - rights group
IBM
union criticizes new CEO choice
The
big battle over overseas profits
Older
High Tech Workers Say, "Hire Me!"
IBM
has hired at least 160 employees
CWA
Commends Senate for Passage of Trade Adjustment Assistance
Former
Pearson employees denied retraining after jobs outsourced to India
IBM
adds 175 jobs at Delaware County call center
Union
Busters Use Pro-Union Rule to Make Money, Intensify Efforts
IBM
will report Columbia job figures to state by year's end
Republican
NLRB Bill Guts Workers' Rights, Shields Boeing, Other Corporations
IBM
and the Great Dubuque Experiment
Verizon
strike has bigger lessons for U.S. economy
Corporations
pushing for job-creation tax breaks shield U.S.-vs.-abroad hiring data
Randy
MacDonald testimony House subcommittee on workforce protections
(pdf format)
Abuses
in Tech Industry in China Exposed
State
Street cuts IT staffers, shifts work to IBM, Wipro
IBM
asking US employees to go to Chile to break strike.
IBM
Announces US $300M Investment and 1.000 Jobs For Costa Rica
Why
IT Workers Should Unionize
CEP
IBM Canada union ratifies contract with ISM
Not
Content With Obstructing Trade Assistance, GOP Congressman Now Trying To Repeal
It Altogether
N.L.R.B.
Rules Would Streamline Unionizing
New
global union calls for IBM to 'respect' workers' rights
IBM
lays off workers in RTP, other locations
IBM
cuts more jobs; Dutchess affected
Report::
IBM job cuts affect Austin, other sites
Selective
Crowdsourcing: The More Experts, the Merrier
Right-Wing
Hoaxster Smears Labor Educators
4,340
Killed on the Job; Job Safety Laws 'Must Be Strengthened'
Global
IBM unions plan to come together
Right
to Work: The Law that Brings You Falling Wages, 80-Hour Weeks
Davis:
IBM bullies the state of Vermont, again.
IBM
Workers Set Record Straight on Healthcare and Alliance@IBM's
VP testimony before VT State House & Senate
IBM
not fulfilling its responsibility to Poughkeepsie
IBM
Unveils Pre-Configured Tech Services
Unions
protest NM governor's firing of labor board
Maine
guv: remove labor mural from labor dept.
Japan:
What unions are doing; how you can help
Health
Net Breach Exposes 1.9 Million Records
Michigan
bill would impose "financial martial law"
Factbox:
Several states consider union limits
IBM
CEO's Total Compensation Grew 30% Last Year To $31.7M
IBM
Cuts 600 Workers; Corporate Citizenship Questioned
Mid-Hudson's
workers rally for labor rights. Union members galvanized by crisis in Wis.
IBM job cuts at 612 in latest round, watchdog group says
Main
Street Movement Erupts as Thousands Across Country Protest War on the Middle
Class
Grass
Roots: Labor activists strategize for 'class war' ignited by Walker budget
bill
How
the middle class became the underclass
Thousands
of Union supporters descend on Wisconsin Capitol to protest Governors plans
Hagan
wants help for displaced workers
The
heavy lifting is done at IBM
IBM
CEO's Incentive Pay Almost Doubles on Profit Gains
Oops:
Drafting Error Imperils Trade Adjustment Program for Laid-Off Workers
IBM
To Build Massive China Cloud Data Centers
Exclusive:
IBM Moves Hertz' IT Support To India
Is
decline in workers' power behind slow job growth?
IT workers 'demand better training'
Downturn's
Ugly Trademark: Steep, Lasting Drop in Wages
Displaced
IT workers stand to lose federal help
Congress
extends trade assistance for 6 weeks
IBM
Workers Could Lose Outsourcing Protection
IBM
Workers To Receive Federal Aid
TAA
benefits for workers who lost jobs to offshoring in danger
Jobless
benefits to expire as Congress debates tax
Pay-Discrimination
Bill Opposed by Business Fails in Senate Vote
H-1B
at 20: How the 'tech worker visa' is remaking IT in America
Piedmont
Workers Buck Anti-Union Attacks, Vote CWA by 2-1
Labor
Faces `Huge Sinkhole' for U.S. Agenda as Republicans Take Over House
Top
U.S. Incomes Grew Five-Fold in 2009, to a $519 Million Average
Big Blue's Big Sam gets $10bn for bonus stock boost. IBM wastes cash, sidelines
innovation
Offshore
Outsourcing Impacts IT Workers Hardest, Survey Finds
IBM's
Palmisano Says New Technology Can Save U.S. $1 Trillion
Senate
GOP blocks bill that would promote less outsourcing
Countdown
to making history in D.C.
Should
Nonmajority Unions Have Right to Bargain?
Times
swell the ranks of the underemployed
IBM
to phase out 'extra pay' for late-shift workers
The
Rich Are Not Going to Give Us Jobs
Indian
IT may remain immune to Ohio ban
Poughkeepsie
Labor Day rally held for 15th year
Executive
Excess 2010: CEO Pay and the Great Recession
::
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Executive Excess pdf file
CEOs
who cut jobs got paid more, study says
IBM
accused of overworking call centre staff
TGIF
and Radisson operator has torn up outsourcing agreement halfway through its
ten-year term.
India
reportedly now has IBM's largest workforce
Carlson
Ditches IBM, Sues For Fraud
Michigan
Millers Mutual Insurance Moves IT Disaster Recovery from IBM to Online Tech's
Data Centers
This
Time It's Armenia: USAID Funds IT In Eurasia
U.S.
To Train 3,000 Offshore IT Workers
The
Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove
it
Pushing
for Living Wages and Jobs for All. Labor Fights Back
Fears
grow as millions lose jobless benefits
SEC
eyes changes to shareholder voting system
IBM
to get nearly $8M tax rebate for 600 NC jobs. IBM to add nearly
600 jobs in NC; may get $8M tax rebate while paying below local average
Shutdown
hits life in India's bustling tech hub
Senate
Republicans Kill Jobs Bill, Block Jobless Aid
IBM
debuts Littleton software complex
IBM
is looking for acquisitions in India
IBM's
mudslinging recalls its own dirt
IBM is quick to criticize others as if its own domicile
has been in order, but remember: Those in glass houses ...
Disturbing
Job Ads: 'The Unemployed Will Not Be Considered'
IBM’s
Palmisano May Step Down Next Year in Historic Succession
Union
group claims IBM jobs ‘shifted’
IBM
opens $90mln IBM Singapore Technology Park
IBM,
Business Groups Oppose Job Bill Over Tax Raisers (Update1)
IBM
package outlines deal on city’s end
Photocopier
Fallout: Congress, FTC "Concerned"
IBM
negotiates with Australia union after failed appeal.
Is
IBM's Foundry Business Next to Go?
Union
sets 5pm deadline for IBM - UPDATED
IBM
crowd sourcing could see employed workforce shrink by three quarters
IBM
to seek Irish redundancies
IBM
Q1 profit jumps 16 percent
U.S.
Steps Up Probe Of Hiring In Tech
From Financial
Times: Geithner vows to block protectionism
Fluor
Secures IBM Facilities Management Contract. Four-Year Contract for More
Than 300 U.S. Sites
IBM
announces new predictive analytics lab in China
IBM
stops disclosing U.S. headcount data
IBM
CEO’s $21.2M pay is ‘outrageous,’ Alliance@IBM says
IBM
layoffs blamed on offshoring.
As many as 2,000 workers may be hit in latest round of cuts
IBM
layoffs a ‘sliver’? No – A thorn in the flesh
Bridge
to Immigration or Cheap Temporary Labor? The H-1B & L-1 Visa Programs
Are a Source of Both (pdf format)
IBM
wins government contract. The Alliance wants to know:
Will this work be performed by IBM US employees and American citizens?
President
Obama says stimulus helps keep IT jobs onshore. Alliance@IBM says look closer.
IBM
Australia to offshore 150 jobs says union
Don't
drink water at IBM site, workers told
Global
Workforce Report on Emerging Markets: The Backshoring Myth
IBM
posts record profits, fewer jobs
Why
the "Citizens United" Decision Undermines Our Democracy and What
We Can Do About It
Global
CIO: IBM Iowa's Birthday: IBM Gets $52M, But What Does Iowa Get?
Is
HP's Mark Hurd Worth $30 Million?
Exclusive:
IBM Reorganizes Software Group
Labor
leader warns Obama of "suicidal politics"
MPs
unite to challenge IBM pension changes
IBM
to scale up India BPO operations; plans to hire 5,000
Report:
IT Salaries Flatten, Benefits Decline
Big
Blue gets smaller: U.S. work force cut by 10,000 in 2009
India
May Get $1 Billion in IT Outsourcing Contracts: Report
IBM
Executive's testimony at workforce Protections hearing.
Union
calls for bailout transfer to small business
Vote
FOR stockholder proposal #3
Take
Action! Qantas
IT staff snub job shift to IBM
HP
could face a strike in the UK
Is IBM handing over key IC technology to China?
An
Arrest and an Earnings Puzzle at I.B.M.
IBM
executive accused of insider trading
IBM,
Intel execs arrested over alleged insider trading. Hedge fund and McKinsey
men too
IBMs’s
CEO Sam Palmisano is the Biggest Outsourcer of US Jobs Out of The Country
What
Does IBM Do When All The Outsourcing of Jobs to BRIC Countries No Longer Works?
Employment-at-will
rule, Management perspective: A doctrine under siege
IBM
to Invest in Emerging Markets, Mergers Head Says
IBM,
town settle tax lawsuit
Corporation will get $50 million reduction from its valuation.
Report:
IBM downsizing hits 10,000
BBC
pension report ref IBM 2009 changes (YouTube
video)
AG
looking into state's pact with IBM
IBM
staff wait for a 'kick in the teeth'
Our
Lips Are Sealed: More IBM Layoffs
CEOs
Get One-Third of All Pay;
Bank of America Uses Taxpayer $$ for Lobbying
Bill
would ease tracking of layoffs
Notification law lacks enforcement
CWA,
AT&T Reach Tentative Agreement at AT&T Midwest
Durbin
Bill Will Prohibit the Placement of Visa Staff on a Client's Site
Ex-IBMer
says layoffs target older workers
Protesters
decry IBM job cuts. Union backers take message
to the streets.
IBM
Layoffs and Compensation Raise Disturbing Questions About Corporate Ethics
Opinion:
IBM should come clean on engineering layoffs
IBM’s
Anti-American Labor Practices
Taking
Aim at IBM: Layoffs combined with an offshoring initiative from the technology
giant have created instant controversy. Enlightened companies approach the
processes as major operational and cultural initiatives, but it remains a
volatile emotional problem.
As IBM "weathers
the storm", Will US employees be left out in the cold?
-Lee Conrad, National Coordinator, Alliance@IBM CWA Local
1701-
IBM
Blog from Gannett newspapers
Twenty-six
Lies About H.R. 3200
A notorious analysis of the House health care bill contains 48 claims.
Twenty-six of them are false and the rest mostly misleading. Only four are
true.
Inspiration
for movie 'Norma Rae' dies at 68
Abused and Threatened,
Immigrant Domestic Workers employed by IBM executive Win in Federal Court
Here
Are the Real Facts on the Proposed Health Care Reform
AP
Exclusive: IBM on notice over Ind. welfare deal
Former
worker sues Big Blue
NYC
HIT BY NERD JOB ROB CITY
$$ FOR INDIAN HIRES
Chamber
of Commerce Sides with Foreign Embassies Against Buy American
Obama
plans corporate tax crackdown
Administration's proposals aim to reduce tax breaks for U.S.-based multinationals
that it says gives them an unfair advantage over domestic rivals.
Outsourced
IBM Workers Denied Federal Aid. Department of Labor turns down bid for
Trade Adjustment Assistance.
IBM Trifecta: Files
For Offshoring Patent, Offshores Jobs, Applies for Stimulus Funds
Union
says IBM may cut 4,000 U.S. jobs as part of work shift to India. Cutbacks
could come tomorrow, Alliance@IBM says; message board dubs it 'Black Thursday'
IBM
Italy Union questions executive perks
Five
reasons why the H-1B cap will be increased, revised
Interview
with Rick Clark re: Project Match Click
the LISTEN NOW! at the bottom of the second story to hear both, or download
the MP3 file.
IBM
layoffs raise ire in N.Y. State Assembly
IBM
Cuts Internet Reimbursement For Home Workers.
Big Blue employees based out of home offices must now pay for their own broadband
connections.
IBM
draws criticism for job cuts, outsourcing
IBM
Layoffs Continue, Could Spur Union Effort
IBM
files for patent on offshoring jobs
IBM
Cuts Jobs As It Seeks Stimulus Money - A
plan to send more work abroad as the company angles for pieces of the high-speed
rail and health-care handouts is stirring controversy.
IBM's
workforce in U.S. declines in '08 but grows overseas
IBM
employee letter to NY Congressman Hall
Big
Business lying about the Secret Ballot and EFCA.
Some
elevator shafts at Huron Campus to be tested for TCE
IBM
chief's 2008 pay valued at nearly $21M
IBM
Chief Expects Company to Strengthen During Slump
Piecemeal
Layoffs Avoid Warning Laws
IT
deserves better than IBM or Microsoft
IBM Endicott TCE
story continues... TCE
reached aquifer via elevator shafts
IBM
eyes stimulus funds for broadband over power lines
Geodis acquires IBM’s global logistics flow management platform and
signs the world’s biggest logistics contract. Read
more...
Issue
Brief: Unions Are Good for the Economy and Democracy
Statement
of UE National Officers on the Plant Occupation in Chicago
Another
Bad Metric Error: Wages vs. Labor Costs
Workers
recall the moment they became jobless
Japanese
Union Slams IBM Over Job Cut Ploys
Nigeria:
IBM to Set Up Computer Plant in Country
Born Again American ...
Add Your Voice
IBM
Notebook: Chinese factory like slavery, report says
IBM
seeking 120 Dublin lay-offs; work being moved to Singapore
Tech
firms battle US job protection laws while importing workers
Stimulus
IBM Style: Take the Jack, Ship Out the Back
IBM's
Palmisano: Tech's slumdog millionaire
IBM
offers laid-off workers jobs overseas
Senate
GOP Puts Hold on Solis Over Support for Employee Free Choice
IBM
Quietly Cuts Thousands Of Jobs
IBM
slashes 2800 software, sales jobs
Iowa
taxpayer money used to create IBM jobs
Life
In The Plume: IBM's Pollution Haunts a Village
IBMers
hear sound of axe being sharpened. Up to 16,000 jobs could go.
Read more
Pension
Funds Beg Congress to Suspend Billions in Contributions
'Yes'
Vote at Republic: Workers Get Pay, Plant Occupation Ends
IBM
Asia-Pacific culls 2600 jobs
NLRB
Judge Issues Landmark Decision Against CNN America;
Orders CNN to Rehire Fired Workers and End Discrimination Against Union Members
The
Court finds IBM SPAIN guilty of professional harassment.
The company refuses to comply with the sentence pronounced.
IBM
Issues Corporate Responsibility Report
Jobless
ranks hit 10 million, most in 25 years
IBM
contract in Texas stalls over lost data
$5m
in tax breaks going to IBM for Littleton project
NIOSH
peer review to be held for former IBM Endicott employees. Details
here
Gov.
Perry halts transfer of Texas records to IBM data management program
IBM
and Flightdeck workers reconcile
First-ever
strike at IBM Turkey
Northern
Exposure: The pollution of Alaska and the toxic conditions.
Strikes over pay and
pensions shut down Greece
European
trade unions protest HP job cuts
Any Pay Cuts on Wall Street Yet?
Study
shows gap growing between rich and poor
The
REAL redistribution of wealth: from us to the rich
IBM
lets go group of contractors in Triangle
Infant
Mortality: U.S. Ranks 29th. U.S. Ties Slovakia, Poland for 29th Place in Infant
Deaths.
CWA
Pushes Economic Recovery Plan for American Families
IBM Argentina Opens Three New Global Delivery Centers and Extends South American
Virtual IT Campus
Employment outlook
gets murkier at tech companies
IBM,
Volvo allow Chinese labor unions
Strike
cloud clears at IBM Australia
In
hard times, tent cities rise across the country
IBM
Transferring 350 Jobs To Argentina
Danish
union wants IBM's Palmisano to testify in court case..read
more..
California
Computer Professionals Take On IBM - Again... read
more..
2nd IBM overtime lawsuit filed. Read
the legal filing here
IBM
plans to relocate Mideast office to Dubai
A
view of the pay cut by a Poughkeepsie IBM employee
IBM
CEO's Pay Rose 11 Percent to $20.9 Million in 2007
Thirteen
of 300 – A Glimpse into the IBM Resource Action of December
17, 2007... By an affected IBMer
Tech's
battle over OT pay moves to Sacramento
IBM
Australia strike called off
IBM
Australia workers vote to strike
White
House Prepares Order On Union Organizing
Strike
vote fuels IBM Australia debate
Boeing
gives up on pension-plan modifications
Workers'
input on IBM study welcomed. NIOSH officials plan public meeting in fall.
Fair
Labor Standards Act: What IT workers need to know
IBM Australia
faces strike action
Qwest reaches agreement with
CWA Union Read
more...
IBM
Flightdeck EBA Campaign - Australian Services Union
Tentative
Union agreement at Verizon
IBM
to reduce pay for some shift workers
Companies
Tap Pension Plans To Fund Executive Benefits
Across
the nation, IBM leaves a trail of broken promises
IBM
found guilty of job discrimination in Shanghai
IBM
execs get richer over stock sales
IBM
Turkey: Union fights for pay raises
Union recognition rejected by IBM management Turkey
... Read
more
IBM Turkey: Read Union statement
IBM
Call Center overtime law suit. A
complaint has been filed against IBM for failure to pay its call center employees
for off-the-clock work that they have performed over the last three years.
Read more
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WSJ
- Blog comments "IBM’s Salary Cuts"
IBM
Counters Suggestion in Economic Report That It’s Sending Massachusetts
Jobs Offshore
IBM
Workers Launch Petition To Stop Pay Cuts
IBM
Riles Employees With Base Pay Cuts
IBM
employees call base salary-OT mix a pay cut
Traffic
Controllers Declare Staffing Emergency at Four Airports
Chamber
of Commerce vows to punish anti-business candidates.
NiSource
admits outsourcing jobs to IBM was a failure
Debate
continues over whether 401(k) can match IBM pensions
IBM
pension freeze has ripple effects in retirement system
Group
to file claims against IBM today.
TCE pollution complaints to be first in series.
India's
outsourcing industry takes toll on workforce
IBM
cancer-rate study will proceed.
NIOSH committed to project despite Bush veto, Hinchey says.
IBM
opens new facility in India for outsourcing
Senate
Republicans Opposed Extending Aid to Jobless in Stimulus Package
Big
Blue Hands 700 ‘Fresher’ Indian Engineers Pink Slips.
Letter: UNITES Professionals
of India condemn IBM firings
IBM
Spain employees to strike over outsourcing to ATT:
IBM Spain employees to demonstrate and strike in regards the outsourcing
of IBM jobs to ATT. IBM Spain employees are going on strike next Thursday
7th, from 10:00 and 14:00. The employees also will have a demonstration in
the door of the main building of one of the biggest of IBM's customer in the
electricity industry. The employees are going on strike the week of 18th of
February, 5 days.
Now
Bush’s Labor Board Wants to Shut Down Union E-Mail
Big Blue's Passage
of Jobs to India Grows - Nearly 20% of Workforce Now There
About
1 in 5 IBM employees now in India
Global
Summit: Employer Resistance Drives Down Union Membership in U.S., Around World
IBM plans accelerated $1 billion buyback
IBM pollution settlement talks
fail. Attorneys plan to file suit against
company in January.
China
not fighting off e-waste nightmare
Bush vetoes funds for IBM cancer
study
Bush Slaps Working Families with Another Veto. TAKE ACTION
Labor Board Further Victimizes the Victim
Executive: Embrace change Donofrio: IBM will move more work overseas
Are
US and EU Corporations Complicit in Evading China’s New Labor Law?
What every employee should know about
2008 IBM Health Benefits -By an IBM employee-
Ex-IBM
employees eligible: The Trade Readjustment Assistance program provides job
training.
Tech Workers Score Major Victory with House Pass TAA Bill
AFL-CIO
Files International Complaint Charging Bush NLRB With Assault on Workers’
Rights
Living
Paycheck To Paycheck Gets Harder
AT&T
Mobility Outsources Tech Jobs to IBM.... Jobs could end up in India.
AT&T Gets Outsourcing Contract With IBM
AT&T Gets $1B Contract With IBM Over 5 Years, but Says Deal Not Expected
to Benefit Results
The Future of
Your Health? An editorial from Alliance@IBM's
Health & Safety Co-Chair. Read
here
Gregoire,
Schwarzenegger lead call for increased H-1Bs
Are you sick and tired of hearing elected officials calling for more increases
in the H-1B visas? Now we have state governors getting in on the act.
TAKE ACTION!
Toxic
Legacy
Expanded TCE probe might provide clues to cancer cluster
CEO pay
and benefits on the rise: report
IBM expands virtual world presence
The Right to Unionize:
Key to Democracy
IBM Cancer Study Gets Federal Push.
Hinchey: IBM study by NIOSH will be a priority.
IBM
announces profit records while employees still suffer bad working conditions
Working America wants you to know your rights in the work place. Ask
a Lawyer is our way to get you information from sources you can trust.
From YouTube: James Fusco's
Testimony before the US House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee
on Thursday, June 14
Anti-offshoring legislation heats up
WRAL Local Tech Wire.
News from RTP
IBM's HR Takes a Risk - Article from SHRM-Society
for Human Resource Management - by Richard Grossman
Solution
to Growing Wealth Gap: Stronger Workers’ Voices
IBM Employee viewpoint
on new compensation plan
CWA
NEWS: Unions
& Collective Bargaining A Positive Force for The Greater Good (adobe
pdf format)
How IBM
Forces old plan employees out.
IBM Pay for Skill, Performance, Retention, Merit?
By a North East IBM employee
Will H-1B Visa Reform be talked about in the Presidential Debates? Help
Make it Happen!
Proposal
would change health, pension coverage
Historic
gains in IUE-CWA GE 2007 Contract <adobe
pdf format>
IBM,
Scotiabank expand relationship in $480-million IT outsourcing renewal
G.M.
and Union Reach Tentative Agreement
Patently
Absurd: IBM Tries to Patent Outsourcing, Then Kills It
IBM
Tries to Patent Efficient Job Outsourcing
Judge
Tosses IBM Overtime Lawsuit
A
‘Disposable Workforce’ in New Orleans After Katrina
IBM
May Owe California Workers Millions In Unpaid Overtime
IBM's
Global Hold. The tech giant's global integration strategy
appears to be paying off: Every division reported strong second-quarter
growth.
Texas
Teachers Union Leader Arrested—for Talking to Teachers
Redundancy
for Xerox workers if no job at IBM.
IBM jobs to be outsourced to India, Bulgaria and Philippines.
Seven
Unions Ask Labor Board to Order Employers to Bargain
Bad
Boss Winner: Got Cancer? Tough Luck
Ireland:
Vodafone agrees to union demands on outsourcing to IBM
IBM
announcement on new compensation plan
IBM
Signs $1.4 Billion Global Strategic Outsourcing Agreement With AstraZeneca
Workers
in U.S., India move up IBM ladder
SOME JOBS CAN BE MOVED OVERSEAS; OTHERS CAN'T
IBM workers' records
pushed for TCE study
300
local jobs lost at IBM -Poughkeepsie
Journal-
IBM
to cut 90 jobs at Essex Junction facility
I.B.M.
Plan Ties Training and Accounts
IBM
Brazil Ex-Employees In Pension Fight
IBM
Chief in India to Review Investments
Lean
Times: More Than 12,000 Pink Slips Coming at IBM, Union Warns
Trade
Adjustment Assistance in Job cuts
IBM
lays off another 45 in Boulder, 1,570 company wide
Coordinated
break a message to IBM
PERM
Fake Job Ads defraud Americans to secure green cards
From
YouTube: Outsourcing
From
YouTube: The
Lie.
UPDATE
1-IBM mulling chip facility at China plant -sources
IBM
job cut impact in Dutchess minimal
13
jobs in Dutchess County will be eliminated in second round of layoffs.
IBM
lays off 90 in Raleigh area
Calling
the Media: Check into These Front Groups
IBM
aims to boost China headcount by 10 pct/yr
IBM: The Tragedy Of the 21st Century Company
IBM
Eyes Big Profit Bump by 2010
Senators
propose infinite H-1Bs for advanced degree holders
Funding
Cuts Have EEOC in "Disarray"
By Popular
Demand in our Job Cuts Comments section: Lean
and Mean: 150,000 U.S. layoffs for IBM?
50 to
lose jobs at IBM in RTP Union official said more layoffs likely;
1,315 U.S. jobs were recently eliminated.
IBM
cutbacks include 45 jobs in Southbury More layoffs by company expected
IBM
layoffs include 7 Essex Jct. jobs
IBM to cut 150
jobs in Colorado
IBM
cuts jobs at U.S. facilities
IBM
to open 4th facility in Chennai
A
$100,000 lunch, minus the food. IBM Executives sign-up for a future
feast
Mike
Saville's speech to IBM Stockholders 2007 meeting
Lost
IBM tapes contained ID information
Lenovo’s
Latest Layoffs Cut Deeply into Remaining Ranks of IBMers
New GLS Report: UNDUE
INFLUENCE: Corporations Gain Ground in Battle over China's
New Labor Law.
In Debt WeTrust Fifteen years ago,
the United States had no trade deficit with China. Now, it’s
$200 billion..
IBM's
Palmisano Paid $18.8M Last Year
Winning
Back The American Dream:The Real Issues and The Real Stakes of the
2006 Elections
(slide presentation)
WHAT
IS THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT?
IBM
to offer workers financial training EMPLOYEES WILL GET HELP WITH
401(K)S
800
Kaiser Nurses Join Union Via Process in Employee Free Choice Act
Blast
From The Past: Pensions vs. 401ks
Lenovo
plans could include 1,000 layoffs
Landmark
Employee Free Choice Act Passes U.S. House
Read
the AFL-CIO Blog comments on
"Why we need the Employee Free Choice Act passed!
IBM
Looks Beyond India to Vietnam and China
IBM
CEO Palmisano To Get $1.8 Million Salary In 2007 Big Blue CEO
Sam Palmisano also stands to receive an additional $5 million in incentive
pay.
IBM
Fights Off Pension Plan Appeal, Avoids $1 Billion Payment
Rebuild
the Middle Class — with Unions
India's
booming economy brings toxic hi-tech waste
IBM could face class
action over OT
IBM
plans to double LatAm offshore staff in 2007
IT
firms contaminating the environment, says Greenpeace
IBM
ends 20-year Roundtable membership
Cheney
Says Bush Will Veto Pro-Union Bill
Wal-Mart,
unions to push for wider health-care coverage
Moving
Forward on the Employee Free Choice Act
They
Did What? Outrage over Senators Who Voted to Repeal the Minimum Wage
Door
opened for IBM payouts to former local workers
Answers
lacking as U.S. Supreme Court decides not to hear challenge to IBM
pension plan
Some
IBM Workers Step Up Union Push After Supreme Court Ruling
Supreme
Court declines to hear IBM pension case
IBM
sees savings in health plan
House
Fulfills Promise to Move Working Family Legislation in First 100 Hours
110
Losing Jobs At Insurer. IBM To Offer Jobs To 280 Others As The Hartford
Outsources
State
of the Union or State of Denial?
Campaign is over. Further voting not available
Supporters
Rally for Goodyear Strikers at 150 Events
Over
43,000 Indians got H-1B visa in US fiscal 2006
Strike
Shuts Down Parts Of India
HP
has hired, fired by the thousands.
EMPLOYEE "CHURN'' AS COMPETITIVENESS TOOL.
IBM
to end stock options for directors
Workers
of the World May Get Bigger Share of Prosperity in 2007
Cisco
heads to India for globalization centre
AFL-CIO Point of View: Investigate
the NLRB
Analyst: IBM To
Employ 100,000 Workers In India By 2010
Cancer
fears persist among IBM workers
Five
Years After Getting Favorable Trade Status, China Hasn't Changed
Nationwide IBM Tech Worker Overtime Pay Class Action: Latest
News IBM Agrees to Resolve Claims of Rosenburg, et al. v. IBM
Legal Site
IBM
Settles Overtime Lawsuit for $65M
IBM
to open new support center in China. The agreement marks IBM's
fourth China-based service center since 1999, including Shenzen, Dalian
and Shanghai.
No
Short Fix for the Nation's Economic Woes
First
India IT employees union launched
IBM irks
Manitoba health-care experts
Why
IBM Stands for India Beijing Machines
India
IT majors 'alert, but not worried'
CWA:
2006 Elections are Turning Point for Working Families
U.S.
Lags in Several Areas of Health Care, Study Finds
The
IT Factor. The
future of Australian IT looks grim as big companies lead the rush
to India and China, writes Jackie Woods.
Dow's
Up. Everyone Must Be Happy, Right?
Professional
workers unions? You bet! Click here for news, information and contracts
AFL-CIO
Files Complaint to U.N. Labor Organization Against Anti-Worker NLRB
Ruling
U.S.
Tech Workers Share Their Outsourcing Pain
Study links IBM cancer deaths,
chemicals. Researcher: Rate exceeds general population.
'They
could have done more to protect us'. IBM retirees recall chemical
exposure
Workers
asked to train replacements
Big
Blue will not shift jobs. Memo stated 400 would need to move.
A
study finds elevated rates of cancer among IBM workers
Excess
Cancer Deaths Seen Among Computer Manufacturing Employees
IBM's
Global Ambition Draws Fire from U.S. Workers
Blogs,
Web Sites Rile IBM Workers Over Layoffs Cutbacks target blade servers
group, sources say.
Global companies fight Chinese effort on aiding unions
IBM shifts
procurement HQ to China
Strikes
close Indian tech capital
Labor
Board Ruling May Bar Millions of Workers from Forming Unions
Atracted
TecT&T Agrees to Return Conh Support Work
Citizens
can indeed make a difference
IBM
to open software center in India
Big
Blue to 'redeploy' local workers
'Missing
Man' lost in global economy
On
America Working - The war on workers
Campaign
Underway to Block Verizon Sale in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire
IBM European
Works Council Agreement
IBM
Workers International Solidarity
Congressional
Lawmakers Are Back Home. Find Out How They Voted
Unions
Built the Middle Class and Must Save It
Execs
wage class war against serfs
GLOBAL
giant IBM is wielding the axe in Greenock by moving top jobs abroad.
Bank
admits to security blunder in outsourcing deal
An
old lesson still holds for unions
Americans
Pay a Lot for Health Care, Don’t Get Much in Return
Bush
Denies AFL-CIO China Trade Petition: A ‘Slap in the Face’ to Workers
IBM's
Profit Gains 11% as India Expansion Trims Costs (Update3)
IBM's
Profit May Rise as Shifting Jobs to India Reduces Costs
Executive
Excess: Final CEO Pay Numbers Reveal Jaw-Dropping Retirement Packages
Blasts
not to alter IBM's India plans Ruth David, Forbes
1,500
Workers Take Fight for Union Rights to NLRB’s Front Door
IUE-CWA
Reaches Buyout Agreement for 3,000 Delphi Workers
American
Workers’ Freedom to Form Unions Threatened Under Bush NLRB.
Anti-Union
Group Has Close Ties to Bush’s Labor Department.
CEOs
earn 262 times pay of average worker.
The U.S. Needs Manufacturing
Jobs—So Does the Middle Class
Does
IBM's vision of the future include democracy? Globalisation must
be embraced: IBM's Elix. Put simply, Big Blue wants big business to
kill off the protectionist threat.
The
rich, the poor and the growing gap between them.
Study
Reveals "Jobless Recovery" in Tech Labor Market, Despite
Industrys Contrary Claims.
EDITORIAL
MEMO: WORKERS ANTICIPATE REVERSAL OF RIGHTS FROM BUSH-APPOINTED LABOR
BOARD . Pending National Labor Relations Board rulings could undermine
workers’ choice to organize U.S. workplaces
Contractors fear
IBM job exodus
Help
for Programmers Softens Impact of Free-Trade: Cantwell and Smith Call
to Expand TAA Benefits
NLRB
set to trim unions' organizing
IBM
Germany puts DC plans on ice
As workers'
pensions wither, those for executives grow.
IBM Italy Unions challenge IBM
on Corporate Responsiblility. (pdf format)
Raising the Minimum Wage or
Lowering Estate Taxes—Guess What House Republicans Picked?
IBM
moves Purchasing Headquarters to China
With
DeLay Gone, Marianas Workers’ Rights Bill Introduced Without Delay
Net
neutrality slain. "This vote will change the web "for the
rest of eternity"...
IBM
chief calls for MNCs to end 'colonial approach' to foreign ops - report
AFL-CIO
Files Workers’ Rights Case Against China
CWA
Reaches Three-Year Agreement with Avaya
IBM's
India moves provoke praise, criticism.
Big
Blue showcases India investments
Disappointing
Job Growth May Signal Worse to Come
Sun
to Cut 5,000 Jobs, Close Campuses
Big
Blue Shift
IBM is reorganizing
its global workforce to lower costs without skimping on service.
IBM
Wakes Up to India's Skills.
The computer company is ramping up operations with
cutting-edge projects while using more low-cost, high-value local
labor
How
IBM is staffing up in other countries.
Immigration
Bill Expands H-1B Visa
Big
Blues: Why IBM Is in Trouble
IBM
is ranked top global outsourcing company
IBM
moves buying boss to China
Sprint
sues IBM over outsourcing
Traditional Pension Best Bet for Safe Retirement
Tech
Workers Of The World Unite! Or Not
IBM
grants 151,758 stock options to CEO Palmisano
Leaked
IBM memo reveals plan to poach rival’s staff
Shortage
of skilled workers is a convenient mirage
NTL
outsources staff to IBM. Thousands of jobs to go in cost savings bid
IBM
to add $50 mn to global worklife fund
Alliance Activists Join
One Man Protest
CWA
Launches Assault on Bad Corporate Policies
IBM accused of hacking lawyers', clients' email
IBM employee questions Palmisano
on his pension
Percentage
of Uninsured Americans Rising
In
A Reversal, Feds Says Outsourced Programmers Are Eligible For Assistance
Don't revel in misfortunes
of unions.
Organized labor helps all workers;
its hard luck damages middle class
IBM's
Profit Climbs 22% on Job Cuts, Gains in India
IBMer's first
shift is protest. Picketer
says company works against longtime employees
Executive
Paywatch 2006 - How much was your pay raise?
Republican
Leaders Once Again Promote Offshoring
Congress
Considers Massive H-1b Visa Expansion, Gates Tells Congress It’s Microsoft’s
Top Priority
IBM
Eyes 50,000-Plus Indian Employees
Landmark
Overtime Pay Class Action Lawsuit Against IBM By Tech Workers Expands
By
The Numbers: IBM Getting Bigger In India, Smaller In The U.S.
IBM
boss rewarded with 29.2 percent raise
Inventors
and Labor Unions Collaborate in Hawaii IBM
Sets Up SOA Hub in India
Average
family income drops 2.3%
IBM
to close Hillsboro, Ore., call center in 2007
A Tale of
Two Pension Plans: regular vs. CEO
As
I See It: Changing theWorld, One Pension at a Time - by Victor
Rozek
Sprint
Scraps Major IT Outsourcing Deal With IBM
IBM
UK: Fears grow over closure of IBM final salary pensions.
IBM's
UK employees brace themselves for pensions blow
Congressman
Sanders Pension Legislation
IBM
RETIREES GAIN BERNIE SANDERS CO-SPONSORSHIP OF HR1322.
Oblivious
on pension issues? Better wake up
Pension
Rights Center
Advocacy group for pensions for America's workers.
IBM
to transfer German staff to DC plan
Lenovo
to lay off 1,000, move headquarters to Raleigh
Despite
rise in profit, IBM stock still stagnant
IBM
raises payout 50 pct, stock buybacks by $4 billion
IBM
Boosts Dividend in Bid to Jolt Stock
IBM Chief Offers an Upbeat
Outlook
Workers Memorial
Day - Honoring workers
CWA Local 1701 members become
part of Broome-Tioga AFL-CIO Labor Council.
• Workers' reactions mixed on IBM's pension change. Some feel betrayed, union organizer says
•
Accounting
rules changes may spur decay of pensions.
Disclosing true cost of plans encourages many companies
to freeze or drop them
• SEC takes IBM nvestigation up a notch
• SATIRE: More Companies Phasing Out Retirement Option -The Onion-
• SEC tries to shine light on executive pay
• Remarks by John J. Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO, National Press Club, on the Senseless Slaughter of the Good American Job -January 18, 2006-
• CEOs cut pensions, pad their own
• IBM Halts Pensions in Favor of 401(k)s
• Congress, Cheney to Working Families: Bah, Humbug
• "Who's On Our Side" Campaign Will Hold Members of Congress Accountable for Their Votes
• The Employer war--the Union difference (pdf file reader required)
• IBM Makes Small Number Of Layoffs
• IBM brings DS6000 production to S’pore
• IBM France unions press release on "Sold off IBMers" job cuts.
• Bitter Holidays for Nestle USA “Associates” Extensive Outsourcing Sends Work Offshore via HP and IBM
• Anti-offshoring legislation heats up
• Bush to Nominate Another Anti-Union NLRB Board Member
• U.S. Labor Law Hinders Organizing Unions
• No more rotten trade deals - say no to AFTA!
• CWA News: Working Together: December 10 - Bring Democracy to Work
• Workers lose in cash balance plans: study
• CWA News: Rick White and CWA Win Big in Fight for Rights
• If It's Thursday . . .WEAR RED
• Toussaint to Bloomberg: You are Shaming NYC
• Arrogance of the MTA made strike a certainty
• Hightower: A message from corporate America
• Don't Displace US Workers to Balance the Budget
• IBM workers to get online access to health records
• IBM unveils global centre in Bangalore
• Eye on the NLRB: September 2005; NLRB Paves the Way for Parking Lot Over People
• Workers to Bear More Health Care Costs
• National Retiree Group Cite Legislative Priorities For Addressing America’s Pension Crisis
• Alliance@IBM Presses IBM to ‘Come Clean’ on Job Cuts.
• Family and Medical Leave Act Joins GOP Hit List
• CORRECTING and REPLACING -- Shareholders Seek to Recover Damages From IBM for Stock Purchases Between April 5, 2005 and April 15, 2005 -- IBM
• Stock Transactions by IBM Executives
• While pensions fall short, CEOs fly high. Ford, GM, United Airlines, Continental. They're just four of the companies struggling with falling profits and pension problems as their executives get huge payouts.
• NLRB Retroactively Applies Ruling to Pending Cases
• Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S.
•
Employer
as shape-shifter
IBM's layoffs follow bulking up to 329,000 last year.
• In My Opinion: For Middle Class, Retirement Pillars Are Tumbling
• Free and Fair? How labor law fails U.S. Democratic Election Standards
• When joblessness persists. How millions of Americans coping with prolonged unemployment hang tough, and hold it together. By Stacy A. Teicher | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
• High Tech CEOs Encourage Passage of CAFTA
• Outsourcing America: A New Book Brings It Home
• India rules 30,000 UK IT Work Permits Granted
• China's Lenovo wants North Carolina to pay to keep jobs
• IBM to Double Number of Employees in Brazil by Yearend 2006
• IBM opens research center in Bangalore
• Corporate Pay: Executive sweets
•
Deep
Throat Move Over: Disgruntled IT Employees Expose All.
“Fair Globalization” May Be the Answer to Offshoring.
• Striking for Organizing- Houston Janitors Win Round
• Big Brother Nixes Happy Hour. NLRB Green Lights Ban on Off-Duty Fraternizing Among Co-Workers.
• Tax break lets IBM repatriate $9bn
• IG Metall: staff cuts at IBM and HP might just be the beginning
• Petition for Pension Protection--No to CB Plans
• IBM Claim Release Is 'Not Written in Manner Calculated to Be Understood,' Court Says
• Technology Worker Survey shows increasing pessimism about economy
• Guest Viewpoint: We cannot let Endicott's past ruin its future
• Delegates Vote $4 Million for CWA Hurricane Katrina Relief
• CWA Elects New Leaders at 67th Convention
• Poverty Rate Rises to 12.7 Percent
•Gifts
for Lenovo?
Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo's bold request for incentives
has to be weighed against the need for jobs
• IBM urged to rethink its job-cut proposal. Unionists protest downsizing plan
• IBM jobs ‘smokescreen’ claim
• International unions slam IBM job cull
•
Union Network International
Representing IBM employees worldwide
• IBM headcount in India close to 25,000
• IBM to ditch extra 70 staff in south Pacific
• LEGAL DECISION OPENS THE DOORS FOR AGE DISCRIMINATION CLAIMS AGAINST IBM.
• IBM Ireland workers offered redundancy package
• IBM Cuts 13,000, but Maybe It Should Have Laid Off One
• More than 30% job cuts in IBM outside Europe
• IBM Shares Fall on Job Cut Announcement. IBM Unions and Work Councils in negotiations on job cuts.
• Unions fear IBM job cuts could hit UK first. 'Slash-and-burn reaction' causes alarm at Amicus, while analysts predict job losses in France, Germany and Sweden.
• IBM to Cut 10,000 to 13,000 Jobs, Record Pre-Tax Charge of Between $1.3 and $1.7 Billion in 2Q
• Big Blue Ax to Fall on IBM Employees
• “Offshoring” Proposal Speech- by Michael L Saville, IBM Stockholder Mtg 2005
• Leader: Why would IBM make layoffs?
• Fears for Scots jobs as IBM set to axe 15,000 in European shake-up
• IBM Execs forego pay raise but workers still lose jobs.
• IBM shareholders to put company on the spot
• IBM to spend $5 Billion is stock buyback as workers face the axe.
• IBM Workers In Europe May Strike Over Offshoring. Shareholders at IBM's annual meeting this week will vote on an anti-offshoring resolution.
• IBM Restructuring Could Bring Staff Cuts And Management Changes. IBM is promising details in the coming months after reporting slow revenue growth in the first quarter.
• Workers Join Lawmakers in Launching Employee Free Choice Act
• IBM May Restructure After Missing Outlook
• IBM executive launches attack on health plan
• Did his duty - then lost his job
• Retirees will keep pushing for benefits
• IBM Employees Sending Mixed Signals in New Vault Employee Surveys
• IBM pact nixed, Spherion closes local office, lays off 163
• U.S. Reuters employees in byline strike
• Lenovo gets green light from Washington. China's Lenovo Group now has clearance from the U.S. government for its big PC deal with IBM.
• RTP Alliance@IBM Newsletter Fall 2004
•
IBM
closes pension to new workers. Provides 401(k) instead of cash-balance
pension plan
• Report: IBM Selling Personal Computer Unit
• Unions Shocked by Move to Cancel Visas and Postpone Beijing Labour Seminar
• In Custody: An Updated List of Imprisoned Labor Activists in China
• House Republicans cast doubt on Lenovo deal - By Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Edward Alden in Washington and Mure Dickie in Beijing
• SBC Brings Back Traditional Pension Plan
• Two Republican Governors Rescind Workers’ Contracts, Bargaining Rights
• PBC’s and Behavior Modification
• Labor Board's Detractors See a Bias Against Workers
• Union Activists: Protect Social Security—Not Tax Cuts for the Rich
• IBM CEO's Pay Rises 12 Percent in 2004
• GE, IBM shifts focus from India to Hungary – a new trend or just isolated cases?
• IBM offers concessions on Lenovo sale
• As tech industry matures, workers sue
• IBM Sees $8 Billion Repatriation
• Workers Fight Offshoring Of State Jobs
• Bush budget could hurt workers left jobless by trade deals
• Lenovo CEO says, "IBM employees are enthusiastic about sale".
• Palmisano changing IBM style from top to bottom
• Voice of America union Local question new direction of Broadcasting.
• Virginia, Fairfax Commit Funds to Help Lure New IBM Jobs.
• Help wanted by IT services firms. Need a job? The growing technology services industry is hiring.
• Ulster legislature supports pension protection.
• J.P. Morgan cancels $5B IBM outsourcing deal. It plans to rehire about 4,000 workers already transferred to IBM
• Prairie Island broke labor laws, NLRB says
• IBM lays off about 40 workers in Endicott. Documents show 19 cut from Bank Systems unit
• IBM fights to suppress cancer probe
• IBM cancer claims dismissed after deal
• Over 50? Keep your foot in the door!
• Scientist who testified in IBM trial withdraws article. Attorneys for IBM claim that the court order prohibited publication of article
• Analysis:
Signs suggest IBM working on settlement. Plaintiffs' attorneys
refuse to discuss case.
• Residents:
IBM offers settlement for bad wells. East Fishkill deal involves
62 families
• In an I.B.M. Village, Fears of Air and Water Pollution - NY Times
• Birth defect suit against IBM to go to trial
• The White-Collar Blues - It is surprising, how passive American workers have become.
• Bracing For The Blow - I.B.M. has sent a holiday chill through its American employees.
• IBM Tells Court It Doesn't Owe Back Pay
• America's workers need voice at work - Prof. David Cingranelli - SUNY Binghamton, NY
• Think Twice issue for Dec 2003-Jan 2004
• IBM jobs headed abroad - The plan to move programming jobs to India, China and elsewhere is bad news for RTP.
• WA
State Government Ships IT Work Offshore -
IBM helps spearhead state's outsourcing efforts
The Ultimate Take Away-Your Health.
• Alliance believes IBM should do the right thing
• IBM asks for mistrial in toxics case - JUROR HEARD OF "SIXTY MINUTES II'' REPORT ON THE TRIAL. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Robert Baines allowed the trial to proceed.
• IBM Tells Court It Doesn't Owe Back Pay
• America's workers need voice at work - Prof. David Cingranelli- SUNY Binghamton, NY
• Labor Rallies in Support of Bill to Back the Right to Join Unions - By Steven Greenhouse, NY Times
• Employers increase retirees' health-care costs
• IBM
tested for toxic chemical
Expert says firm knew about benzene at plant.
• Ex-IBMers: Data show age bias
• Raleigh News-Observer: IBM Hiring shows Shift in Needs
• Vermont Jobs Cited in China Issue - by Nancy Remsen
• Skilled Workers Mount Opposition To Free Trade, Swaying Politicians
• Wired: Bidding Your Job Bon Voyage
• Washtech: Lawmakers seek fix on white-collar job visas
• Information Week: IT Workers Face Confidence Crisis Unemployment and outsourcing are creating a crisis of confidence among domestic tech professionals
• Information Week: Identity Crisis Technology workers mull the impact of offshore outsourcing and struggle to find a unified voice
• Computerworld: Study says IT worker unemployment at unprecedented levels
• Computerworld: IT's Global Itinerary: "Offshore Outsourcing Inevitable" By next year, 80% of CIOs will have marching orders to take some IT offshore - UNLESS WE FIGHT BACK!
•Third World Traveler - excerpt from the book "Sharing The Pie" by Steve Brouwer
• Unions help all workers, new study finds - a new report by the Economic Policy Institute.
•US H1-B visa ban to hit 65,000 Indians - Educated and highly-qualified Indians may have their U.S. software sector jobs dream, quashed if a legislation to ban the issue of H1-B visas is debated and passed as a law.
• Laid-Off Tech Workers Denied Govt Job-Training Benefits...Software developer Jim Fusco wonders why he should be treated any differently from a factory worker.
• Fortune: Value Driven - Jobs have left before, but this time America's place in the global economy is at stake.
• The Register: IBM lays off 15,000, HP 1300
• American Prospect: Toward a More Perfect Union: New Labor's Hard Road
• Gartner: U.S.
Offshore Outsourcing Leads to Structural Changes and Big Impact
• U.S. college grads see jobs being taken abroad
• Are we Done with the 40-hour Work Week?
• Washington Post: In Wal-Mart's America
• Commentary: Outsourcing Jobs: Is It Bad? Two Business Week economists debate whether that's good or bad
• White-collar jobs moving overseas .. Three times, IBM Corp. asked Bonny Berger to train a foreign worker to take over her job...
• Tech industry trend to move jobs overseas could backfire
• Michigan loses as tech jobs slip overseas. Trend hurts region's 'Automation Alley' efforts
• Latest Austin export: jobs. Smaller tech companies join trend of moving work in design, support overseas
• Offshore Lore - Myths and facts of white-collar out-sourcing
• July 30, A Union Battle in Commercials LABOR battles are often fought on the picket lines, but Verizon and its largest union are dueling to get the upper hand in an unusual battle of newspaper ads and spot broadcast messages.
• July 30, New Gartner Report: 1 in 10 Tech US Jobs May Move Overseas
• July 30, U.S. employers handing out smallest pay raises since mid-1970s...
• Are Unions the Answer to IT Workers’ Outsourcing Worries? -- iSeries Network
• IBM's global plans irk cyber-clan. Patriotic investors traipsing through cyberspace this week took strong exception to Big Blue's apparent move to flex the 'I' in IBM.
• Tech jobs leaving U.S. on the cheap.
Offshore Lore - Myths and facts of white-collar out-sourcing
A Union Battle in Commercials LABOR battles are often fought on the picket lines, but Verizon and its largest union are dueling to get the upper hand in an unusual battle of newspaper ads and spot broadcast messages.
New Gartner Report: 1 in 10 Tech US Jobs May Move Overseas
U.S. employers handing out smallest pay raises since mid-1970s...
Are Unions the Answer to IT Workers’ Outsourcing Worries? -- iSeries Network
IBM's global plans irk cyber-clan. Patriotic investors traipsing through cyberspace this week took strong exception to Big Blue's apparent move to flex the 'I' in IBM.
Tech jobs leaving U.S. on the cheap.
New Offshoring News Page - both IBM and general news about moving jobs to other countries
TIME: Where did my raise go?
Tech workers ponder unions as unrest grows
India offers land to IBM for new campus
PC World: Tech Workers Face Tough Job Market
POK Journal: "IBM Chief: Technology is not enough" - from Kansas City
NY Journal News: "IBM Optimistic on Future"
Kansas City Star: "IBM shareholders defeat plan to expense stock options"
Poughkeepsie Journal: Cash Balance Pensions Decried
NY
Times: IRS
Regs on Cash Balance Pension Conversions
Attacked in Hearings
Hartford Courant: Who Really Benefits from Labor Law Changes?
Newsday: Cash Balance Pensions Debated
Washington Post: Pension Proposal is Under Fire
CFO.com: The Clash over Cash Conversions: will long-time employees get the shaft?
Overtime rules may or may not apply to you
Computerworld: Outsourcing Angst
Lawsuit alleges Sun Microsystems Inc. laid off thousands of American high-tech workers in order to replace them with younger, lower-paid engineers from India
Computerworld: Off-shore Face Off - If your developer job doesn't require you to spend "face time" with users, it's ripe for being sent offshore, and you're all but obsolete.
NY Times: "What if a Pension Shift hit Lawmakers too?" "Virtually every senator and representative would lose out, the study found — in some cases by hundreds of thousands of dollars"
Business Week: The New Global Job Shift The next round of globalization is sending upscale jobs offshore ... Can America lose these jobs and still prosper? Who wins? Who loses?
Computerworld: "Offshore Faceoff" "Nervous about offshore outsourcing? You should be"
Fortune: "Bye Bye Pension" Soon hundreds of corporations may slash pensions by as much as half.
"GE Severs Execs' Link to Pensions - IBM Votes On Issue In April" By Craig Wolf, Poughkeepsie Journal
Labor Educator's response to the Nation article
The Nation: "Lighting Labor's Fire" "To bring a real labor movement back, we may need a more individualist, even libertarian approach"
NY Times: "What if a Pension Shift hit Lawmakers too?" "Virtually every senator and representative would lose out, the study found — in some cases by hundreds of thousands of dollars"
NY Times: "Too Old to Work?" Explains why suing for age discrimination is very difficult
"Pension De-Form" by Molly Ivins
MSN
Money:
The war on
your retirement
Business Week: Perilous Currents in Offshore Shift
CNET: IT services firms eye foreign labor
Start --> Programs --> Organize Against Offshoring
San Jose Mercury News: Labor group protests offshore tech hiring
Lifetime Career in IT: Is it Possible?
CWA Statement on the war with Iraq
Stock Dividend Tax Cut may hurt 401(k)s
Stock Options: Overused and Underwater
HP to cut costs by sending more work to India, China
NY Times: "Hi, I'm from Bangalore (but I dare not tell)"
Newsweek:"Oh No, More Pension Blues"
Older Workers may have to fight to save pensions
Pension Plan Rules Proposed - Newsday quotes IBMer Jeffrey Zitz
Treasury says cash balance pensions are OK - USAToday quotes IBMer Kathi Cooper
Bush Plan for Cash Balance Pensions Benefits Younger Workers
How to break the American Trance by Granny D.
New
IBM CEO continues
Lou Gerstners’ policies of greed
For Richer? The Disappearing Middle Class - A Must Read!
MN helps retrain IBM workers who lost jobs - note "over 70% were over 40 years old"
Corporate Books hide another ticking bomb - more money for "thousands" of IBM executives
US Workers taking H-1B issues to court
IT
Unions II -
I touched a nerve with the talk of unions for geeks
Beware of Brave New Health Plans - Business Week
The Soul of the Worker - Special Report by Dennis Kucinich
Reforming Labor Law is still a Work in Progress
Are Programmers the Coal Miners of the 20th century?
Beware of Brave New Health Plans - Business Week - warning: very frightening.
The Soul of the Worker - Special Report by Dennis Kucinich
Reforming Labor Law is still a Work in Progress
Regrowing a Spine - wakeup call for US workers
Will the AFL-CIO finally support labor law reform?
Are Programmers the Coal Miners of the 20th century?
Unions see Organizing Opportunity
"What do you mean 'us', boss?"
TheStreet.com:
"Layoffs, what layoffs?"
Aug. 14:
IBM Cuts over 15,000 jobs
Regrowing a Spine - wakeup call for US workers
Will the AFL-CIO finally support labor law reform?
IT Workers on way to Joining Unions?
Worker Loyalty has lost its rewards
As tech jobs decrease, interest in unions is up
IBM Reports 2nd Quarter Results: CNET article IBM nips estimates despite charges
Organizing: Union Takes the Long, Bottom-Up Route at GE - This campaign is very similar to the Alliance@ IBM strategy
Hard times spark EE interest in unions
California court rules firms can cut benefits for older workers
Market Repercussions of Angry Workers
Recent articles about the job cuts
Do you still have a job? Check your voicemail.
Pension plans cheating those who quit early, audit finds
Stop Corporate Welfare! Tax breaks challenged when US workers are laid off
Firing "poor performers" for economic reasons - do you hear the "bar being raised?"
Business Digs In Against Attempts To Reform Existing Pension Rules - "We believe nothing should be done." -from the WSJ
IBM's Accounting Tricks - from the Motley Fool
The Pension Bomb - Manna from pension plans inflated bottom lines in boom times. Now, profits will take a hit - from Business Week
The NY Times questions IBM's practices to meet 4Q earnings expectations (free registration reqd.)
USA Today: Employees' new motto: Trust no one - What happens when companies have canceled severance, halted health benefits, withdrawn job offers, changed pension plans or issued misleading audit reports
Fortune: that old Financial Magic
A very different style of layoffs at Cisco. The differences in executive's attitudes is very telling.
Can Unions Seize the Post-9-11 Moment?
A Year of Contrasts: Courage, Sacrifice and …Corporate Greed by Bernie Sanders
Oct. 2001 Plan Sponsor Magazine cover article, "Mad as Hell" - about employee pension activism at IBM and other companies - excellent article
"America's Workers Can't Spend Praise" by John Sweeney
Sen. Wellstone develops legislation to help workers' rights
"It's Payback Time" Recession, Bad Bosses, and the Art of Sabatoge" (Note: we don't advocate this approach, but we did enjoy reading the story)
"White Collar Blues" Free agency is over. Layoffs are back. Many of the people losing their jobs are white-collar and college educated (Fortune)
Poison valley Sunday: Is IBM workers’ poor health the price we pay for high-tech progress?
The painful history of IBM's "Total Compensation" Read a summary of all the changes that have taken place, bit by bit, over the last few years
Worried about Health and Retirement benefits? Despite an 11-year record-setting economic expansion, a new study shows that 74 percent of U.S. workers say they're worried about their financial future — especially when it comes to their health and retirement benefits.
Blue Notes at IBM - Job-cut rumbles pervade campus - from Raleigh
Why IT workers need a union by Mike Blain, Washtech
CIO
Magazine:
IT Workers of the World: Are they Uniting? features IBM Alliance
organizers Devin Kruse, Linda Guyer, and Bill Costine
White Collar Sweatshops and White Collar Sweatshops II
There is Power in a Union: Laws need to be changed to strengthen unions. by Ralph Nader 02/26/01
Imploding Computer Industry and the Workers
When is the union election at IBM?
CNET.com: Will high-tech chaos finally give birth to unions?
Health
Benefit Changes at IBM -- Rumors were strong in 2000 that changes
were coming -- we'd like to take credit for the delay...
Temps
Rule In Big Reversal, Unions Open Up
By Doug Brown, Inter@ctive Week
October 16, 2000
In tough rhetoric that condemns its own board's history, and even
takes to task one of its members, the National Labor Relations Board
reversed nearly 30 years of rulings that had the effect of keeping
temporary workers out of labor unions.
Stop Corporate Welfare by Ralph Nader
11/12/00:
Average CEO pay jumps 535% in 1990's
CEO pay jumped 535% in the 1990s, dwarfing the 297% rise in the S&P
500, 116% rise in corporate profits and 32% increase in average worker
pay (not adjusted for inflation)
Business
Week: The
New Global Job Shift - The next round of globalization is sending
upscale jobs offshore. They include basic research, chip design, engineering--even
financial analysis. Can America lose these jobs and still prosper?
Who wins? Who loses?
The Future Health Account:
