As the Senate
considers jobs bill H.R. 4213
IBM Abandons US Workforce
As unemployment increases, IBM continues to abandon the US workforce in favor
of offshore workers.
Not only is IBM shifting work from US locations to low wage countries it is
also importing foreign workers to replace US workers.
IBM employees and workers at companies IBM has outsourcing agreements with
are losing their jobs to low wage imported workers.
Recent examples should raise the concern of all US workers:
· Advanced Auto Parts call center in Roanoke, Virginia. Outsourced
to IBM. US workers terminated and call center offshored to India.
· New York City Department of Finance consulting contract on Servers.
Outsourced to IBM. IBM brings in IBM India employees.
· UPS IT department. Outsourced to IBM. IBM India workers on site in
New Jersey to take over work. Work to be shifted to India.
· The Hartford and Disney accounts have terminated US workers and off
shored to India.
How many other workers have lost or will lose their jobs? Only IBM knows.
Recently IBM made the decision not to report employee headcount by country
but worldwide.
This will further hinder fact finding on the decline of the IBM US employee
population which has shrunk by 30,000 employees the past few years, (14,000
in the past year and a half) while India, China and Latin America employee
population increases as work is shifted from the USA.
It is clear IBM does not value or respect the skill and expertise of US workers.
Furthermore the loss of skilled tech workers jobs to offshore labor is unacceptable
and leads to a loss of our competitive advantage and is a danger to our economic
recovery and national security.
The Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701 is calling on IBM and other corporations to
do the following:
Stop replacing American workers with foreign workers in the US.
· Re-hire US workers.
· Stop offshoring US jobs.
· All US contracts to be staffed by US workers.
We call on our political leaders to close tax loopholes and deny IBM public
money, tax breaks and incentives until they cease the offshore of jobs and
the use of foreign staff on US accounts.
We further call on our political leaders to publically and visibly condemn
IBM's abandonment of the US workforce. The cost of inaction will result in
the further erosion of US jobs, wages and the American standard of living.
Now is the time to stand up for working families. We will be watching.
To our brothers and sisters from other countries
rest assured. We do not consider you the enemy.
The "captains of industry" take advantage of us all.