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IBM fires 1315 Employees and an unknown number of contractors, across the country, May 1st, in IBM Global Services ITD. More Job Cuts expected! Segments are: Server Systems Operations Technology Integration & Management Global Infrastructure & Resource Management Americas Delivery Engagement Support Security, Asset and Risk Management Americas Industrial Sector Delivery Financial Services Sector Delivery Distribution Sector Delivery Communications Sector Delivery IBM Global Account Delivery Global Network Services Delivery Resource Action Alert! Job Cuts are Happening. ITD / IGS various IBM sites IBM Employees and Contractors IBM Canada IGS Job Cuts in ITD 3/06/07 and 3/26/07 with 213 employees fired Please send information to: ibmunionyes@yahoo.com

Take Action Now! Spread The Word! With the news of last weeks job cuts and information that future cuts are right around the corner, The Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701 is calling on Mid Hudson Valley members and supporters to participate in an informational picket line. WHEN: THURSDAY MAY 10 TIME: NOON TO 1PM WHERE: CORNER OF RT 9 AND SPACKENKILL PLAZA (next to IBM POK site) SOS Stop Off Shoring! Stop the Job Cuts! More Actions Nationwide to be Announced.. Stay Tuned

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If IBM headquarters Will Not: - Fight to keep jobs from being offshored - Protect employee benefits - Respond to the needs of employees - Bring respect and dignity back into IBM - Protect worker health and safety Then maybe something else should. Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701 Employee Advocate since 1999 Join and help make a difference! Donations gratefully accepted The Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701 is the national IBM employee organization and advocate. Our mission is to build a strong employee organization that informs and offers assistance to IBM employees and retirees while also challenging company policies and practices that adversely affect IBMers careers and lives. It is clear, as the recent Supreme Court decision that let stand IBM’s appeal on our pension class action lawsuit shows, that we cannot solely rely on the courts or Government to protect our benefits or rights. Only an employee organization and contract can do that. Our issues are many: from off shoring to the flawed PBC evaluation, to rising costs of employee and retiree medical co-pay and lack of adequate compensation. Building a strong employee organization requires one critical ingredient: YOU Please join the Alliance@IBM today for only $10 a month. JOIN As a member you become eligible for the Union Plus! program of discounts, benefits and resources. As a member you also help fund the critical financial needs of your organization and strengthen its financial base. As a member you have a voice in the Alliance and consultation on company issues. The more members the stronger we ALL become! Names are confidential. Non-management exempt employees, contractors and retirees are also eligible for membership IBM HR is management’s advocate. The Alliance is YOURS!

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Stockholder Resolutions 2007 Click for the full report: 2007 IBM Proxy (adobe pdf format)

News from the Communication Workers of America The Union for the Information Age For Immediate Release April 24, 2007 For More Information Lee Conrad, National Coordinator Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701, 607 427 0508 Jeff Miller or Candice Johnson, CWA Communications 202 434 1168 Alliance@IBM members/shareholders to challenge IBM at annual meeting Knoxville, Tenn. – Members of Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701 are urging shareholders at the company’s annual meeting today to support three critical proposals that will improve corporate governance and end unfair practices at IBM Corp. The proposals call for the exclusion of pension income in the calculation of executive compensation; the creation of an independent committee to explore the potential harm to IBM’s brand due to increasing offshoring, and an end to discrimination in policies regarding employees’ pension and retirement medical benefits. Mike Saville, an IBM retiree, shareholder since 1968 and sponsor of Proposal No.10 on offshoring, said, “Offshoring IBM jobs continues to be a serious issue. Employees face not only job loss but the indignity of training their off shore replacements. The IBM company faces negative press on offshoring that damages the brand name and company reputation and the knowledge base of the United States shrinks.” He cited those concerns as important reasons for the board of directors to establish an independent IBM committee to study the effects of IBM’s offshoring on the company’s brand and reputation. IBM employee Bill McGreevy, a sponsor of Proposal No. 9, stressed that pay for performance should be the main criteria for executive pay, and that income generated from pension funds must be excluded “Executive greed and bloated compensation needs to be challenged and executives must be accountable for their performance,” he said. “Executives should not be allowed to use other criteria – including pension income -- to compensate themselves particularly when IBM employees are facing a decline in their standard of living and retirees are experiencing increases in medical retirement costs while their pensions evaporate.” James Leas, sponsor of Proposal No. 8 on pension and retirement medical benefits, pointed out that “IBM instituted age discrimination in 1999 by seeking to divide employees into three groups based on age, with the intent of slashing pensions and revoking medical retirement promises. Then IBM expanded this pattern of age discrimination by terminating older employees at a much higher rate than younger employees.” Leas noted that “IBM employees resisted in 1999 with mass meetings that forced the company to partially back down” and said that employees would continue to raise this issue through stockholder resolutions, lawsuits and union organizing. “By instituting and expanding age discrimination, IBM executives have put their own personal interests ahead of our company’s interest and have demolished employee morale,” Leas said. ### Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701, Employee Advocate since 1999. www.allianceibm.org

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Membership Drive 2007 March 1st to March 31st

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Spotlight:
Job Cuts happening in IGS March 7 and SSO. Need numbers and copies of Resource Action Packages.

Resource Action in IT Delivery. 200 Jobs cut effective March 6, 2007. Also Redeployment action in Accounts Payable.
Send further information to:
endicottalliance@stny.rr.com

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This just in: Possible job cuts in Southbury and Poughkeepsie.
Please send any information to:

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Spotlight:
Letter From the President
Alliance@IBM

It was truly unfortunate news that the Supreme Court has declined further review of Cooper vs. IBM. The results truly hurt every employee that was forced into the Cash Balance pension plan.
I can only say that our court system cannot be the only path to fairness for IBM employees. The courts interpret the laws; to have fair laws we must work with our elected officials.
But mostly we need more power as employees, power to demand the fairness and justice that we deserve.
We should not be summarily forced to give up benefits, as happened with the Cash Balance switch. We should not be forced to work overtime week after week; we should not be forced to retire just because we are older; we should not have to hide in our offices just hoping to hold on to our jobs.
The power of a union is the only true power that can fight back on these fronts. We must insist on a voice, our voice, the people who do all the work that creates the profits at IBM.
Remember: if we had a Union contract the pension changes would have to have been negotiated and approved by IBM employees.
Without you, and all of your colleagues, we cannot be strong enough to limit the power and greed (remember Palmisano's 29% raise), and help ourselves and our families.
I'm reminded of the quote from Dr. Martin Luther King jr.: "In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends".
Please don't be silent, please join the Alliance, and ask your coworkers to join us in our continued fight. The lawsuit may be over, but we sure aren't over.

Linda Guyer
President, Alliance@IBM/CWA Local 1701

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Spotlight: Employee comment on
IBM Offshoring

Comments 1/8/07: I am now an ex-IBMer. I was brought on when IBM took over in house tech at a very large account 5 years ago. This is when the job cuts began. First IBM demanded half the staff be let go before IBM took the contract. Then there were resource actions every 6 months. Not too big. Then came Brazil and Argentina. All of a sudden less and less FTEs and the rest contractors and off shore. 2006 though was a doozie. Everything going off shore. Then came the brilliant idea to model services after World War 2 assembly line practices. When you work on servers there is no such thing as a easy ticket. But each ticket held the same wieght - no matter if it was one server or many. Last October I was told I am part of "redeployment". I was not being laid off but I had to find another job in IBM in 90 days. To further help this 4 years ago I was rebanded from band 6 to 4. So I could not jump to band 6 positions outside of the account I was working. Then the internals jobs on the account dried up. All the managers did not help and were too busy for the Brazil migration. I was not willing to try for jobs outside of the training I had done for 10 years. So I found a better job in house with another company. When I asked if I could take a package I was told there is not one. Even though I was told my job is going to Brazil and I had to get another job - no severance or package. I gave notice and resigned. Now almost no one will be on-site. I am eligible for rehire but I doubt I would go back to IBM or the original company. The new company actually wants me to work there. It is a welcome change and they will have my loyalty. No future for anyone but managers at IBM. -Anonymous-

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Spotlight:
Discrimination Suit
Syverson et al. v IBM moves ahead The Ninth Circuit court of appeals issued its order "denying" IBM's Petition for Rehearing. This means that the case can finally move forward. (Case description below)
*** A collective action lawsuit against IBM for wrongful termination On October 7, 2003, 135 former IBM employees filed a collective action lawsuit against IBM for violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). On August 31, 2006, those employees, represented by McTeague Higbee Case, won a major victory when the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (Syverson et al. v. IBM) held that the waiver which most employees signed to receive severance pay was INEFFECTIVE and does not prevent employees from suing IBM for age discrimination. Moreover, under federal law, employees who signed the waiver can sue IBM and do NOT have to return the severance package/pay they received.***
Please get the word out to everybody you know who had a similar IBM termination experience, (to be eligible individuals should have been let go by IBM between July 7, 2001 and May 4, 2005. signing IBM's release and covenant not to sue agreement) so they have the opportunity to join. Any questions contact the following:

Jeffrey Neil Young
Patrick N. McTeague
McTeague, Higbee, Case, Cohen, Whitney & Toker
Four Union Park
P.O. Box 5000
Topsham, ME 04086
Toll free: (877) 725-5581
Fax: (207) 725-1090
outofblue@me-law.com
www.out-of-blue.com

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Scrooge is alive and well at IBM

IBM employees are telling the Alliance that Holiday parties and Spirit events are being cancelled at the last minute at many IBM locations, except corporate headquarters.

According to employees, Fishkill site management bought 7000 lunches and ended up having the vendor donate the food to local charities.

Events have also been cancelled in Poughkeepsie Charlotte and Boulder. Burlington decided to reschedule the holiday party but now employees have to pay for it. In IGS other last minute cost cutting is taking place in Education and Thanks awards.

A note from an IBMer puts it this way, “If the times are tough I don’t think anyone would have a problem with cutting these expenses if it helps save jobs. But what takes this beyond belief is that Corporate HR made the decision to keep holiday parties at 3 headquarters buildings in Armonk and Somers at an expense of over $100k.
Does this mean that the largely executive population deserves this little perk but the peons at other sites do not?"
Feel free to voice your opinion on this in our "Your Comments" general comment section.

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IBM joins attack on pensions; lesson is to organize and fight. IBM is the latest big corporation abolishing pensions. Despite a profit in 2004 of $9 billion and a pension fund that holds $48 billion, IBM recently announced its pensions will be frozen in 2008.
(Download Real Player to play this file) click here

Read the text: http://www.laborradio.org/node/2373

Outraged at the new IBM Pension Freeze? Sample Letter to Congress: Use this as a sample letter when writing to your elected officials in Congress about the pension reform changes that will be proposed and could easily hurt us. Highlight and Copy the sample letter contents. Click the "Alert Take Action Now!"and enter your zip code. Paste the letter contents to the form. Pernsion Article Archives Click: Write Your Elected Officials

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Dear Alliance Members and Supporters,
I'm writing to you now because your attention to the upcoming fall elections is critical. We, the American middle class, are under attack from corporations and from political officials who are complicit in encouraging mushrooming corporate profits and fat cat CEO raises and benefits. Meanwhile the average professional and blue-collar workers are taking home less and are seeing long promised pensions and medical benefits disappear.

The Alliance@IBM / CWA Local 1701 does not endorse or give money to candidates but we do urge each of you to be politically active and find out how your elected officials have voted in the past few years on the issues that affect your personal economic survival.

Issues, such as the list below, are extremely important to the Alliance and our members.

- Pension legislation
- Loss of jobs to off-shoring
- Broken promises to retirees
- Health Care affordability
- Labor Law reform

Not only must you know your elected officials' history of supporting or not supporting issues important to IBM employees and retirees, it is also critical to understand that the court system in our country does not always work for fairness. Indeed, the laws can often be unfair. The Cooper vs. IBM lawsuit over cash balance pension conversion was won by employees in the first round; however, on appeal, the judge decided the conversion was (in my words) equally ripping off everyone, thus there was no age discrimination.
Recently a decision by the National Labor Relations Board will impact future union membership for millions of workers (see article on our web site).

What can we all do to fight such injustices? First of all you must join and encourage your colleagues and friends to join the Alliance@IBM, and support the activism that's absolutely needed to fight and pressure IBM to do the right things for its employees. Are you willing to let Sam Palmisano have a 29% raise, while you have received little or no raise, no COLA in retirement or lose your job for the sake of outrageous CEO pay? Americans are already seeing a growing divide in wealth between "Haves" and the "Have-nots". This trend will continue unless we all say, "enough is enough".

Here's the web site where you can find out past votes by your elected officials:
http://www.aflcio.org/issues/legislativealert/votes/vr_memb.cfm

Find out the facts and vote for yourself, your family, and the economic success of all IBM employees and retirees. Go to the polls this fall armed with the evidence and let's change the direction of this country, from exploiting the middle class worker to helping us thrive. After all, isn't that what America is about?

In solidarity,
Linda Guyer
President, Alliance@IBM / CWA Local 1701

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IBM earnings rise 47%, lifted by acquisitions and software sales read more...
For Retirees: No COLA, rising medical co-pays.
For Employees: Little or no raises, jobs offshored, pensions slashed and abolished, benefits diminished.

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Is your Job being offshored?
Are you training your replacement?
Send details: Your Location, Business unit,
Where your job is going To: endicottalliance@stny.rr.com
(from your home computer)

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Attention IBM employees:

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to restore workers' freedom
to form unions in America.

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PBC 2 Managed Out Update in pdf format
Or Power Point format

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Press Release from Alliance@IBM:
Stockholder proposals and Stockholder meeting in Tulsa, OK on April 25th 2006...Read press release

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Effective April 3rd, CSO in RTP and Atlanta hit with "redeployment". Jobs being sent to Brazil. Employees NOT receiving severance pay and will have to train Brazilian replacements.
Affects all brands and bands from National Missions, Maintenance and National Services Support Organization.
Please send Alliance@IBM any documentation and number of employees affected to endicottalliance@stny.rr.com from your home computer (IBM is blocking e-mail sent to and from us from inside IBM). Click here Fight Back: Working to Rule Builds Pressure From Within
Send us your ideas on work to rule tactics inside IBM, for distribution to your co-workers.

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Have IBM Executives Lost their Heart?
Click Here is a flyer to print and mail to:
Sam Palmisano and J. Randall MacDonald
IBM Corporation
New Orchard Road
Armonk , NY 10504

Executive Pay Watch Run the PayWatch Database to see what IBM Execs make per year

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Work is being transferred from Poughkeepsie, NY to Bromont Canada. Sources say 200 jobs are affected.

Received 12/01/2005:
Comments : Widespread staff layoffs were announced in the US yesterday. Hardest hit was the marketing organization, which was cut 15%. This explains the sudden resignation of Abby Kohnstamm, senior VP of Marketing, that was announced by Sam Palmisano on 11/14. Legal, finance, and operations also suffered layoffs. Many of the affected were in the White Plains & Somers areas, but others worked from home throughout the country. Ironically, the cuts were across the board, affecting even people supporting business units that were "making their numbers". Quite demoralizing seeing that hard work and good results don't translate into job security. But Sam will make his numbers.

Send any information as well as age, title, and number of employees selected from the resource action package to:
endicottalliance@stny.rr.com
Make sure to use your HOME computer.

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• Hinchey, Endicott Residents Call For More Comprehensive Studies On Cancer & Birth Defect Rates; Urge Public To Comment On Newly Released NY State Dept. of Health Study.
Comment period has been extended to 11/23/05

New York State Written Response Form - August 23, 2005
A copy of this form is available in Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) Click here to download Adobe reader, if you need it.

Click the Alliance@IBM sponsored Online Health Focus Survey, if you are an IBM employee, former employee (EI), IBM Retiree, or contractor..We urge all IBMers to fill out our Health Focus Survey to help document health problems IBMers might associate with working with toxic materials at IBM.

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On Monday, November 21, the City Council in Burlington, Vermont passed an outsourcing ordinance with a unanimous vote of the 11 City Councilors in attendance. The stated policy of the ordinance reads "It is the policy of the City of Burlington to let service contracts to contractors, subcontractors and vendors who perform work in the United States". The City has taken a significant move to support working people by acknowledging that public funds should not be used to pay for public services that will be performed by workers outside the country unless no alternative is available.

The ordinance is the end result of a concerted effort on the part of Vermont Alliance@IBM activists, the Champlain Valley Central Labor Council, the Vermont State AFL-CIO and City Councilor Philip Fiermonte, who works as a key aid to Congressman Bernie Sanders.

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• IBM, Amid Layoffs, Scours Globe For IT Talent

• Editorial on the Software Business and its profit margin

• IBM feels changes of time

• Data: More heart defects in Endicott spill zone. Neighborhood's babies have double normal rate.

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Job Cuts at Sprint Account, IBM Kansas City Excerpt from comments on the: Job Cuts Status & Comments Page Name : Anonymous From-Kansas-City Comments : I just got notice of my layoff from IBM on the Sprint account. I'm supposed to be working, now, a "month-to-month" contract with IBM on their AT&T account. The lady writing my spec's, after nine years as an AT&T person-rebadged-to-IBM, told me she was just two days away from buying & closing on a new house when she got word that she was to train her replacement from India. However, he was to learn her nine-year job in six weeks. He ended up too overwhelmed after just a few weeks; such that he took a job with another company in Cleveland! I have had two people, from IBM's division of India, waiting for my cubicle in my last position at Sprint!

• Gutting of pensions a sad sight

• Cheers at IBM HQ-Tears at Homes of 14500 IBMers

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To IBM Corporate management: Remember May 23rd When you are in negotiations with a union or works council--IBM unions worldwide will be watching. When you threaten job cuts--IBM unions will respond. When employees are harassed for union activities--IBM unions will defend them. When employees seek to organize--IBM unions will be there. Remember.

International Unions Release Joint Statement
on IBM Restructuring, Job Cuts.

• Actions Worldwide • Actions Pictures

IBM Day Of Action Press Release

Thank you Alliance@IBM members and supporters for your participation in the "Day Of Action!"

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The Alliance@IBM / CWA Local 1701 is calling on all our members and co-workers in IBM to participate in an International Day of Action over IBM's plan to cut 13,000 jobs worldwide. Download the Day Of Action Flyer for distribution at your site. The format is MS Word.

Now is the time to take a stand!

A joint statement by IBM Unions and Works Councils from around the world will be posted on the Alliance web site and sent out in a press release on May 23rd.

Here is a list of things we are asking employees and retirees to do on May 23rd in the U.S.:

• Wear black and blue to signify the pain of job cuts on employees and their families.
• Observe a 10- minute moment of silence in support of IBM employees worldwide who are facing the loss of their jobs. This moment of silence will commence at 1:00 pm EDT, Noon CDT, 11:00 am Mountain, and 10:00 am Pacific on Monday May 23rd. Take your break, no sametime, no phone calls.
• Retirees - Please call IBM Corporate headquarters at:
  914-499-5900 or e-mail at sam@us.ibm.com in support of employees’ and retirees’ concerns.
• Spouses of terminated IBM employees - Send e-mails or letters to CEO Sam Palmisano telling him the effect a job loss has on your family and community.
  
  Mailing address:
  IBM Corporation
  Att: CEO Sam Palmisano
  1 New Orchard Rd
  Armonk, NY 10504
  
  Please do whatever you can to show IBM Senior Management that you are supporting IBM employees in the protection of their jobs.
  Remember, it could be you next!
  For ongoing updates, visit allianceibm.org often!

• More pictures of the German workers protest

• IBM France Employees strike over job cuts

• UK IBM staff fear the axe

An employee of IT company IBM is seen in front of the closed main gate of the German IBM headquarters wearing a shirt that says 'IBM - 9 billion $ profit are not enough to preserve my job' during a protest demonstration in Stuttgart-Vaihingen, southern Germany, Tuesday, April 26, 2005. The US company announced some closures of German IBM branches with a possible cut of around 600 jobs. (AP Photo/Daniel Maurer)

• From Offshoring to Organizing: One Tech Worker's Tale

• IBM plans service job cuts across Western Europe
Jobs could be shifted outside Europe

• IBM Israel to lay off 100

• IBM to reportedly lay off 500 in Sweden

• CeBIT Attendees Dodge Picket Signs. Workers protest IBM's plan to lay off 600 employees in Germany.

• IBM Plans Nearly 600 Job Cuts in Germany

• Panel endorses U.S.-only jobs bill

• ITO 2-REAP Lawsuit

Here is the list of Employee Free Choice Act co-sponsors in both the House and Senate. If people are calling their congressional delegation, they should know whether to thank them or ask them to sign on. Click for list

• 'Jobloss' Recovery Cited at U.S. Hearings on Trade with China, WashTech Testifies

• IBM PC Division Employees Lenovo Sale

• Lenovo offers to hit IBM employees mid-March

• Resource Action Alert!! - Alliance@IBM is hearing of job cuts in IGS: Distribution Sector, Tech Support, Deskside Support Services, Operations and Network Services. If you have any information, please e-mail us at: endicottalliance@stny.rr.com

Job Cut Update: Alliance@IBM has received further information from employees on recent job cuts and resource actions. We don't believe it is complete yet; and we will not list locations at this time, so that we can protect workers identities. The cuts occurred in IBM Global Services units. The total number so far, is about 250. We are also getting reports of employees being given separation packages not related to resource actions; but in response to PBC evaluations. Many of those cut in resource actions and separations are being reported as "over 40 years old". Stay tuned for information as we receive it. See our visitor comments section for update on RTP.

• Union Members Aid Tsunami Victims

• UWUA SUPPORTS SOLDIERS, FAMILIES

• Position Papers: IBM garners dubious distinction — and Douglas award

• IBM Essex Junction, VT Plant “Honored” With 2004 Dirty Dozen Award

• Nov. 28 - Dec. 17 national tour to visit 9 cities.
Indian labor leaders to address "outsourcing" issue". Seeking dialogue with U.S. workers about mutual interests in the fight to defend good jobs and ensure fair labor standards.

• Black Eye for Big Blue. Settlement in a groundbreaking case against IBM affects workers facing pension changes.

• Non-Union workers LOSE their Weingarten Rights - NLRB Holds That Employees in a Nonunionized Workplace Are Not Entitled to Representation at a Disciplinary Interview. Read NLRB decision Excerpts.

• Read NLRB decision in its entirety (pdf file format)

The Value Of A Union Contract: CWA Settlement with SBC Provides for Employment and Health Security "Value Of A Union Contract Flyer" Click here for the flyer. Print the flyer (with your home printer) and make copies to distribute to your co-workers. Visit our "Do's and Don'ts of Handing Out Flyers" page to help you with the rules, before you distribute the flyers.

• Endangered species: US programmers

• Pizza Drivers Seek National Union

• Study finds dramatic loss of tech jobs

• Labor's Friends in the GOP. Moderate Republicans Buck Party Leaders to Stand Up For Workers.

• Alliance@IBM has heard of job cuts in the past few weeks. This affects regular employees and contractors. Contractors have faced numerous pay cuts over the past few years. For many contractors, pay has been cut 20% in the last two years. Please send any information to: endicottalliance@stny.rr.com

• Probe Finds IBM Altered Document
Treasury Inspector General Investigating Paper on Pensions.

• IBM Labor group sees growth, challenges Organizers say interest increasing

Click Alert: Tell the Presidential Candidates to Preserve Collective Bargaining

Wow! You Sent 177,000 Postcards to Bush and Kerry about the Employee Free Choice Act. Two Republican Senators join the fight!!

• Economic Policy Institute update on Overtime Rule Changes. (this pdf file requires adobe acrobat reader)

• House Votes to Block New Overtime Rules! The 223-193 vote in favor of blocking the new overtime rules defied the White House.

• Lloyds Bank Union challenges outsourcing. With a little help from friends.

• Hitachi, IBM to lay off 400 at hard disk drive venture

• Schwarzenegger terminates anti-offshoring bill. But the measure could come up again next year

• IBM supercomputer sets world speed record. Former IBM plant, now called Endicott Interconnect, instrumental in building boards.

• IBM in partial pension settlement. Big Blue settles part of pension transfer, age discrimination suit; estimates for claims neared $6B.

• James Leas speech to the IBM stockholders' meeting.

• IBM link to political fund alleged. Teamsters file for disclosure.

• IBM shareholders voice concerns

• Seeing Red (and Green) with Big Blue

• Controversy looms at IBM annual meeting

• IBM Earnings & Vapor profit for 7 years as of 04-01-04.

• Show Us the Jobs' tour protests loss of work to overseas and comments from Alliance@IBM Vice-President Garrett Lanzy.

• Letter to Sam Palmisano - The CGT IBM France

• Labor Dept. Revises Plans to Cut Overtime Eligibility.

• IBM retiree mounts campaign aimed to lower costs.

IBM’s Plan to Lower Professional Salaries...Read this

• SSR's to lose double time on Sundays.

• Accounting Board Wants Options to Be Reported as an Expense

• How retiree benefits cuts fatten companies' bottom lines

• IBM's Palmisano given $5.4 million bonus for 2003. CEO rewarded for steering Big Blue through 'several challenges' and increasing server share.

• IBM staff halt Westpac strike negotiations restarted.

• IBM lays off some Tulsa employees - Workers say Offshoring is to blame.

• PRESS RELEASE ... Alliance@ IBM/CWA Local 1701 questions IBM claim to add 10,000 jobs in 2004.

• Waiting for Offshore Outsourcing - By David Morgenstern, eWeek.

• Family and Friends of Deceased IBM Employees hold reflection and memorial service before IBM trial.

• Think Twice newsletter for Sept/Oct 2003

• IBM US Furlough Program - A new program allows time off and no pay for selected employees

• Sept. jobless rate sees 21-month high - Burlington Free Press

• State of VT, ex-IBMers ponder life after layoffs: Brain drain, company's departure among fears - Burlington Free Press

• Oct. 2, IBM cuts more than 700 - IBM Global Services this week cut 720 employees as part of a regular review process, a company representative said.

• Oct. 2 IBM swings the job axe again Pink slips handed out to 380...Sept. 29th

• Oct. 1, Congress Allows H-1B Limit to Drop - Efforts to Curb Abuses of H-1B and L-1 Visa Programs Stalled.

• Sept. 24, SJ Mercury News: Review Finds IBM Tracked Deaths

• Sept. 24, Silicon Valley Biz Ink: "Organizing the Valley" Local Tech Workers picket for open union

• Sept. 18: U.S. House Approves Sanders Amendment to Protect Workers Against Age Discriminatory Cash Balance Pension Conversions.

• Sept. 2: Union IG Metall wins pay talks right at IBM Germany -Germany's powerful IG Metall trade union said on Tuesday it had won a legal battle with U.S. computer giant International Business Machines Corp. to negotiate on behalf of IBM's 26,000 employees in Germany.

• Sept. 1: Labor Day Message from the Alliance President

• Sept. 1: Unions to Push to Make Organizing Easier - the A.F.L.-C.I.O. plans to announce a nationwide campaign that aims to change federal laws to make it easier for workers to join unions.

• Congratulations to Erica Leifels, winner of $3000 CWA Joe Beirne Foundation Scholarship. Erica is the daughter of Alliance member, Mike Leifels.

• InformationWeek: IBM pays $4B for PWC; Lays off 15,000

• Aug 18: 500 lose their jobs at IBM’s Vermont plant. Another 3,000 workers must take a week of unpaid leave next month. Full Story

• Aug. 14: Judge rules in favor of fired EIT Union Rep - A Federal Judge has ruled that a former EIT employee and union organizer for Alliance@IBM/CWA must be reinstated to his job.

• Aug. 10: Take Action to Stop Offshoring! Things you can do immediately.

• Aug. 10: FACT SHEET about Offshoring

• Aug. 10: Transcript of the IBM HR presentation on Offshoring

• Aug. 10: Sample Letters for you to send your elected officials about Off Shoring

• Aug. 7, Wall Street Journal: Memos Sent to IBM Show Awareness of Pension Moves - kind of a "smoking gun" here

• Aug. 7: IBM HR Offshoring audio is now available on the web - Listen Here

• Aug. 7, AFL-CIO: Reform H-1B and L-1 Visas Now

• Aug. 7: GAO Greenlights Offshoring Study - thanks for sending all the cards and letters to your congressional reps

• Aug. 3: New Page with information and links about the pension lawsuit

• July 31: EMPLOYEES WIN THE PENSION LAWSUIT ON ALL COUNTS!

• July 31, WSJ: IBM Pension Plan Changes are Ruled Discriminatory

• Aug. 7, Wall Street Journal: Memos Sent to IBM Show Awareness of Pension Moves

• Aug. 3: New Page with information and links about the pension lawsuit

EMPLOYEES WIN THE PENSION LAWSUIT ON ALL COUNTS!

• July 31, WSJ: IBM Pension Plan Changes are Ruled Discriminatory

• July 31, AP: IBM Loses Closely Watched Pension Lawsuit

• July 31, CBS Marketwatch: Judge Rules against IBM in Pension Case

• July 28, Severance Packages Down in 2000-2003: Read Full Story

• July 25, Burlington, VT: IBM Cuts Workers' Hours and Paychecks

• July 25: NPR Newscast: As tech companies shift more and more white-collar jobs overseas, will these higher-paid workers finally look into organized labor?

• July 22, NY Times Front Page: IBM Explores Shift of White-Collar Jobs Overseas

• July 22, Washtech Press Release: IBM to Export Thousands of American Software Jobs... Company Presentation Discusses Strategies to Counter Negative Reaction From Government and Unions

• Endicott Interconnect Technologies wins major contract with IBM. Read full story.

• 2300 Verizon workers return to work from a lay-off! This is what a contract can do for you! Read full story.

• Mold lawsuits target IBM , Workers say place made them ill- Karin Rives NewsObserver.com ... Click and SAVE the printable survey at the bottom of the page. Print out the survey, fill it in, and mail to the address listed on the survey.

• Erin Brockovich Law Firm to Sue IBM over Endicott NY Chemical Spill

• America's Jobs - "First They Destroy Our Blue Collar Manufacturing Jobs, Now They're Going After White Collar Service-Sector Jobs - from Rep. Bernie Sanders

 • IGS creating thousands of new jobs in India - IBM Global Services will increase the number of software professionals from the current 2,200 to 6,500 by 2004 at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 43 per cent.

 • Endicott NY Residents in a 'RAGE' over IBM chemical spill

 • DEC suspects second pollution source in Endicott

 • Concerned Residents of East Fishkill NY

 • Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition

 • Full Coverage on the IBM Endicott NY Chemical Spill

 • June 29: Bush Administration assures India it is OK to steal your job The Indian government and businesses have won a major assurance from the Bush Administration on the issue of outsourcing.

IBM ruling may shape age bias laws. In the next several weeks, a federal judge will rule on whether two pension plan changes IBM made in the 1990s discriminated against Kathi Cooper and 140,000 other U.S. employees

For Kathi Cooper, the numbers just didn't add up

Judge expects his pension decision to be appealed

Documents reveal IBM's reason for pension-plan change: saving money Quote: "a reduction in employee benefits does not violate federal law unless it violates a union contract or the change runs afoul of another federal regulation. "

Online discussions here:
PressConnects
IBM Pension Group

June 1: Letter from the President: "The Danger of Offshoring"

May 20: IBM Global Services Application Management Services cuts 494 jobs. This number comes from the information package that IBM provided to the affected employees; it is IBM's number.

June 2: IBM Reports SEC Investigation - IBM's shares were halted on the New York Stock Exchange today

May 18: IBM will be moving IT, Software Developer and Research Jobs to India

CEO Sam Palmisano personally visits India but he wants no media attention - sounds like stealth offshoring to us. Palmisano is the first IBM CEO to visit India.

IBM to expand Software Development, Services and R&D in India

IBM India jobs to go up substantially in the near future

Steve Mills and Nick Donofrio visit India - Paul Horn, head of Research, will also visit. "IBM is moving strategic operations in the software business area"

Read Washtech's site about offshoring of high tech jobs

April 29:Speeches to the Stockholders and IBM Earnings Statement with Pixie Dust! - Jimmy Leas & Don Parry

May 6: 10% of IGS/ITS division let go today

May 1: Wall Street Journal report on the May 1 Layoffs

May 1: IGS cuts 300 employees - We have heard of job cuts in IGS San Jose, and in the Business Consulting part of IGS. No numbers have come in yet - if you have a layoff package please mail a copy of it to us: Alliance@IBM, 36 Washington Ave., Endicott, New York 13760 - this will help us compile the numbers.

Variable Pay in IBM Sweden

Layoffs are expected in May! Please read these helpful pages before it's too late!
Job Loss Questions and Answers
Job Cut Survival Kit

May 1: Report from the IBM Stockholders' Meeting in Kansas City

April 11: Letter from the President: Report from the US Treasury Hearing on Cash Balance Pensions

White House proposal would radically alter US overtime laws

• AFL-CIO Testimony on Possible FLSA Revision - the AFL-CIO opposes this proposed amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and any other measure that would strip away such fundamental and longstanding worker rights and protections.
• Overtime Pay - Dept. of Labor
• What is Overtime?

Pension Rights Center joins employees, and members of Congress in asking the Treasury to halt Pension Regulations....Media Advisory

A look at the StockHolder Proxy card -View the stockholder proxy card. Notice the proposals made in favor of the employees and retirees. The BOD recmmends voting against them. You decide.

White House proposal would radically alter US overtime laws

• AFL-CIO Testimony on Possible FLSA Revision - the AFL-CIO opposes this proposed amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and any other measure that would strip away such fundamental and longstanding worker rights and protections.
• Overtime Pay - Dept. of Labor
• What is Overtime?

Golf Shirts! with the Alliance Logo. Nice enough for the "business casual" dress code. Get yours here.

IBM Workers International Solidarity web site Employees from IBM unions around the world are working together to share information and strategies

March 10: IBM hikes Palmisano's salary and bonus 44 percent in 2002

March 8: IBM Employees being downgraded
2 to 3 job levels by being re-banded (or down- banded?) Read what we've heard

March 8: Letter from the Alliance President At-Will Employment

March 16: IBM Workers International Solidarity web site Employees from IBM unions around the world are working together to share information and strategies

Come with us to the Treasury hearings in Washington, DC on April 9! CWA, Alliance@IBM, IBM employees, Bernie Sanders, and others will be testifying about the proposed cash balance regulations.

Mar 16: Fascinating reading - How IBM managed the 1995 change to a pension equity plan (PEP) plan in 1994:
http://www.soa.org/library/record/1990-99/RSA95V21N3B10.pdf - Every employee should read this link. They should know what type of people they are dealing with in the upper echelons of IBM

March 10: IBM hikes Palmisano's salary and bonus 44 percent in 2002

March 8: IBM Employees being downgraded
2 to 3 job levels by being re-banded (or down- banded?) Read what we've heard

March 8: Letter from the Alliance President At-Will Employment

March 8: Clueless at the top: IBM's CEO doesn't know that overtime is mandatory for IGS employees Check out the 8th question in this Business Week Q&A with Sam Palmisano. Will someone please tell him about how you can't take your vacation because of mandatory overtime?

Feb. 27: CE's and IGS employees around the country are fired - IBM says they no longer have the right skills

Feb. 10: Protests at Lou's Book Signing in RTP

What do Pension Rules Mean to You? - Big firms dumping traditional plans for cash-balance plans - Alliance member Andy Maher appears on NBC Nightly News

Employee health concerns at IBM Research Triangle Park, NC

Photos from the Cash Balance Plan Press Conference

Statements on Cash Balance Plans

Employer cash balance statements: Fact and Fiction

Statement by Rep. George Miller

Cash Balance Conversion Stories

Union demands Executive action over future of 700 IBM jobs - News from IBM Scotland

Big Blue settles in age discrimination suit

Ask your reps to sigh the letter to the Treasury

Highlights from Last Week

IBM Canada Retirees start class action against IBM

Bernie Sanders: Bush's War Against Older Workers

Updated Retiree Page - Read about and support the National Retiree Legislative Network

Bush Administration Proposes Rules That Can Alter Pension Plans, hurting older workers

US Dept. of Treasury: Full text of Proposed Regulation

Discussion about the Treasury Proposal on the IBM Pension Group - read more and ask questions here

2003 IBM Executive Deferred Compensation Plan (EDCP)

Age Discrimination Page - get help here

Dec. 04: IBM to fund pension shortfall - Our question is, where did it all go? Was the entire pension fund invested in Enron and Worldcom???

Nov. 19: Update for EIT Employees

Comments about the "Layoff experience" from a former Canadian employee

Nov. 8: Announcing Skip Bogard, Alliance Committee Chair for Persons with Disabilities and Medical Issues. Skip is an employee in RTP and an Alliance Governing Council member. Contact Skip here.

Age Discrimination Page - get help here

Nov. 7: IBM cited in additional age-bias complaints

Oct. 28: JMIU (IBM Japan Union) asks FTC to investigate Hitachi deal

Oct. 22: IBM will close plants in Mainz, Germany and Hungary

Layoffs? at IBM? Not really, read here.

10/22: IBM issues "permanent layoffs" in IGS Business Innovation Services

Good news about pension reform

"On a Wing and a Prayer" Analyst Bob Djurdjevic's view of IBM's 3rd Quarter Earnings Report

What difference would a union make when there are job cuts and sales to other companies?

Fact Sheet: Revenue, Profit, and Vapor Profit at IBM

Nov. 1: An historic moment - IBM completes sale of its birthplace, Endicott NY 90 years of IBM history will be a memory.

Ex-Tyco VP becomes CEO of EIT, formerly IBM Microelectronics in Endicott NY

• Vote Smart! Ask your congressional candidate how they stand on retiree issues
• Responses from Colorado candidates

Coming up in November: Elections for Alliance officers and Governing Council. See current officeholders here. Only voting members can run or nominate someone. Contact us if you wish to nominate someone.

Heard on the Grapevine: Thousands of IGS jobs to move to India, Mexico and Belarus

EEOC Complaint Form for IBM employees laid off in Vermont

• IBM Completes Acquisition of PwC
• PWC employees getting raises, options, bonuses
• Full discussion by PwC employees at Vault.com

IBM warns employees of higher health care charges for 2003

October 3: 80 Endicott employees are sold to Cadence

Take Action: Age Discrimination: The Alliance is gathering information on age discrimination at IBM. Please send any information that you may have to: endicottalliance@stny.rr.com A package of what we collect will go to the EEOC.

Take Action: To IBMers that have been let go and feel they were targeted because they have a disability or other health issues, please send your e-mail address, name and phone number to endicottalliance@stny.rr.com

Pete Plavchan, fired organizer, meets with Elliot Spitzer, NY State Attorney General

IBM fires Union backer

Former IBM Workers may receive Federal help

Employee Layoff stories - updated with new stories 09/07/02

IBM Job Cut News Page - full coverage

CWA Calls for Repeal of H1-B Program

What difference would a union make when there are job cuts and sales to other companies?

Fact Sheet: Revenue, Profit, and Vapor Profit at IBM

Aug. 5: Burlington IBMer's protest harsh job cuts, citing age discrimination:

• Release about the protests
• Poughkeepsie Journal coverage

Take Action: Congressional Action Plan for Restoration of Retiree Benefits

Letter to Sam Palmisano from a Sold Employee in Endicott

Why the layoffs? by James Marc Leas

IBM Sells its History:

• July 1: IBM announces sale of Endicott NY to local investors
• July 4: Officials: IBM was set to close - Gov. Pataki says entire facility was at risk
• Photo Gallery of IBM Endicott from the Press & Sun-Bulletin file

Facts: Price of IBM Endicott: $63 million Gerstner's stock option income since 1996: $345 million* Endicott's price as a percentage of Gerstner's stock income: 18% (or 63 million pieces of silver...)

*Source: Annex Research

June 27: 173 more jobs cut in IGS BIS

June 21: The latest rumor is that IBM HR will be outsourced to Fidelity. Read Heard on the Grapevine - news about possible job cuts, potential sales of parts of the business, and other juicy stuff.

June 19: 160 Jobs cut in Yorktown Heights today ... Analyst Bob Djurdevic reports that IBM is reducing R&D staff by 10%: "Creeping Layoffs"

June 11, 2001: Why the layoffs? by James Marc Leas

Answers for your questions - for those currently employed and those recently let go - updated June 8

What difference would a union make when there are job cuts and sales to other companies?

RNN Television interviews two Poughkeepsie Alliance activists about the job cuts with Pete Plavchan and Bill Costine

June 4: IBM cuts 1,500 jobs from MicroElectronics Division - 975 in Burlington VT; 100 in Endicott NY; others in Fishkill NY, Poughkeepsie NY, and San Jose CA. They actually admitted this one.

June 3: Hitachi deal goes through IBM will transfer 18,000 jobs world-wide to Hitachi

Job Cuts News - Latest News, updated June 4 - includes actual numbers from the packages

Employee Layoff stories - Stories from the last two weeks - updated May 30

Heard on the Grapevine - News about possible job cuts, potential sales of parts of the business, and other juicy stuff. Updated June 2, 11am.

Fact Sheet: Revenue, Profit, and Vapor Profit at IBM

April 30: Results of the Annual Shareholders Meeting in Louisville KY

April 30: IBM Announces $3.5 Billion stock buyback - Over 23,000 jobs could be saved with this money!

April 30: Speeches from the Stockholders' Meeting:

• Resolution on Pension Choice, by Jimmy Leas
• Resolution on Executive Compensation, by Don Parry

May 14: Alliance Press Release: Massive Job Cuts Loom at IBM

April 30: Results of the Annual Shareholders Meeting in Louisville KY

Spontaneous Strike at IBM Germany - Apr. 25: Thousands of blue and white collar employees staged a strike this week in Mainz, over the IBM-Hitachi joint venture. The strike was organized by IG Metall to protect employee jobs.

April 23: Picket Line in Endicott NY for Recall Rights

April 10: More job cuts at IGS AT&T ADM Account in New Jersey - rumors say hundreds of people are affected

April 8: Enron-like scare for IBM employees

Leading Harvard Economist praises Alliance@IBM as a 'striking example' of open source unionism. Read more here.

Join us in Louisville, Kentucky for the Annual Shareholder Meeting on April 30. Contact us for information on activities and lodging. Picket lines, protest rallies, and media events are planned.

Gerstner cashed in more stock options than all Enron execs put together: "Sir Lou outlayed Lay" by analyst Bob Djurdjevic of Annex Research

April 2, 2002: Over 600 CE's/SSR's fired on Tuesday from Integrated Technology Services (IITS)

"I am a 49-yr-old SSR in the Northeast, have been with IBM for 23 years, and have usually been a 2-rating. But, let's face it: IBM is no longer worth one drop of the dedication that all of us had unreservedly invested in our company. My wife is totally disabled, and I am going to lose all of the retirement health account, because I didn't make it to age 55 or 30 years."

Read employee layoff stories here

Appeal denied: IBM guilty of violating the National Labor Relations Act

Read the Open Letter to Sam Palmisano from Linda Guyer, President, Alliance@IBM/CWA Local 1701

IBM execs have their pensions locked in and protected - and you don't - NY Times interviews Lynda French, Alliance member (free registration reqd.).

IBM Insider Trading - Our poor executives won't get any raises in 2002. Read here how they were compensated in stock options in 2001. Lou Gerstner's compensation from stock options was well above $100 Million for the year.

Congressional Testimony on Retirement Insecurity from Karen Ferguson, Pension Rights Center, about 401k's and pensions in the light of the recent Enron debacle

02/04/02: "Corporate Greed", Press Release from Rep. Bernie Sanders

02/06/02: Stealth Job Cuts continue in 2002 -this time 100 employees in Server Group

Variable Pay significantly lower this year for MD employees

02/03/02: From cbsmarketwatch.com, New IBM CEO to face tough questions: Gerstner exit comes at opportune time - Remember the rumors that Gerstner might stay? Looks like after Enron he changed his mind.

Great News! Both Stockholder Resolutions have been approved by the SEC to be included in this year's Annual Report and be voted on by the shareholders. Read the resolutions here.

Kinder layoff strategies at other companies

More Employee Stories - we've just updated our sampling of letters we've received - thank you to all who have sent your story

Take Action! Help Save Jobs at IBM! Send a Letter! When business picks back up, should experienced employees be recalled? Or should IBM hire temps? Ask your legislators and community leaders -- are all of us to become temporary workers???

Two scholarship programs now available to Alliance Voting Members and their families - apply asap

IBM executive insider trading - see what our executives made in stock trades in the last quarter - Gerstner made over $100 million in 2001

2002 Stockholder Proposals on Executive Compensation and Pension and Retirement Medical

11/30/01 Not a Layoff Must Read...

11/30/01 Press Release Nov. 30

11/30/01 IBM Fires over 1500 - 400 in Endicott, 500 in Burlington, 200 in Fishkill, 180 in Rochester MN, 75 in RTP, 150 in San Jose - Most are from the MD division - Professionals and Manufacturing workers are all affected - while IBM spends $7.8 billion in stock buybacks - - are these the priorities of a decent company?

IBM loses appeal on Cooper v IBM - The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied IBM's appeal of the class certification of Cooper v IBM. This means the next step is the trial. Details are at http://www.cashpensions.org

11/23/01 Alliance Leaders Meet with IBM Germany IG Metall Union Leaders -- with Photos from the conference

11/18/01 Governing Council members and Local Officers have been elected

10/15: Get the latest Think Twice Newsletter (you will need Adobe Acrobat reader)

10/14: 965 employees in IGS BIS just laid off - read one person's story

Questions and Answers about the class action lawsuit

09/19/01: THE RESULTS ARE IN! An overwhelming majority of Alliance members have voted to form an official CWA Local.

09/18 The pension lawsuit has just been classified as a class action!

09/15 CWA members at the WTC and the Pentagon - a message from President Morty Bahr

09/12/Special AFL-CIO website featuring news on workers who were in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon during the attacks and what workers and their unions are doing to help

09/12 CWA receives many condolence letters from around the world These are amazing.

Albany Meeting postponed due to this week's tragic events.

Our thoughts and prayers are with all victims and their families.

08/24: Work increases at MD Endicott - Workers told 20% AWS shift premium will return

08/07:IBM Burlington Workers Rally Forces Over Cut in Hours

08/04: Good News: Business picks up at MD Endicott

07/27: IBM admits it is hiring college graduates while laying off experienced workers from the Poughkeepsie Journal: ''Between now and September, IBM is going to bring in about 3,000 university hires''

Employee Stories - hear from IBMer's who've lost their jobs New stories added 08/12

Gerstner sells 750,000 shares, worth $85 Million

07/27 Layoffs at Tivoli and Lotus

07/27: IBM admits it is hiring college graduates while laying off experienced workers from the Poughkeepsie Journal: ''Between now and September, IBM is going to bring in about 3,000 university hires''

File an EEOC complaint - Are you over 40 years old and laid off? If you suspect age discrimination please file a complaint

07/26 WebSphere developers given the boot

EEOC rules on waivers and severance pay, and employee rights.

What to do if you are laid off

Technology Group changes Variable Pay mid-year

07/13 Action by Burlington IBM Workers Stops Pay Cuts

Gerstner gets richer while employees lose their jobs:

07/27 Employee Stories - hear from those who've lost their jobs

Gerstner sells 750,000 shares, worth $85 Million

07/11 Dow Jones: Big Blue sends out another quiet round of pink slips

Older Workers Benefit Protection Act - must reading if you are laid off

07/09: Alliance@IBM issues press release about our letter to IBM executives concerning the layoffs

07/02: Endicott AWS workers lose 20% of pay

Article about employee activists in the Poughkeepsie Journal

06/17: Save Retiree Health Benefits

06/17: IBM cuts jobs for 850 workers in Fishkill NY and Burlington VT

05/02: Settlement in GSA Australia: Collective Action Works!

04/27: Annual Stockholders' Meeting:
Read the excellent report in the Savannah Morning News

See the Rally Photos

Report on the Annual Meeting in Savannah

02/24: New Page for IBM Retirees

01/31: NY State Comptroller sends letter to Gerstner on behalf of laid-off IBM employees

02/17 IBM Atlanta Employees and retirees form local Alliance group

02/17: National Labor Relations Board Upholds Judge's ruling in favor of IBM Employee Union Supporters

Why does she do it? Janet Krueger left IBM in 1999 over the pension heist. She is still fighting for equitable benefits at IBM. Read why she is still part of our crusade.

01/20: "Bait and Switch" - IBM Employees are forced to transfer to Manpower, Inc.

01/03: IBM Loses Bid to Stop Lawsuit - IBM lost a last-ditch maneuver to block a lawsuit by two former workers at its East Fishkill microchip plant, who allege their son was born with severe defects after they were exposed to toxic chemicals there (POK Journal, Jan. 3)

01/07: IBM again fails to make Fortune's list of "100 Best Companies to work for", while most of its competitors do

12/26: HR1102 is defeated - We fought this one hard, to save our pensions - and it was defeated - for now.

12/22: IBM gives pensioners an increase -- first time in 10 years

12/17 Update on the employee lawsuit

IBM South Africa forms Pension Fund Action Group, submits Stockholder Resolution

IBM UK Faces Pension Challenge

Tax-free corporations

Interview with Robert Reich: "Trust is one of the most fragile commodities in any organization"

Unions have a role in today's New Economy, Computerworld article by Morton Bahr, CWA President

Back to the 19th century - Commentary on mandatory overtime and 12-hour days

IBM to face inquiry in UK over pension fund in another scheme to shift risk to the employees

National Labor Relations Board reverses nearly 30 years of rulings that had the effect of keeping temporary workers out of labor unions. The move could spur labor organizing in high-tech industries...

IBM meets estimates - Computer maker's earnings meet target, but revenue falls short Report from cnnfn.com. IBM also admits difficulty in attracting and retaining employees.

The death of the 8-hour workday at IBM

GOP Seeks to increase exemptions from overtime compensation

CWA President Bahr sends urgent letter to Senator Roth and Finance Committee

NLRB rules in favor of Temps joining unions

The Verizon strike and what was won in the settlement

Wall Street Journal Article Exposes IBM's "Pension Cuts 101"

Alliance@IBM/CWA web site wins recognition from Labourstart, leading international web site

IBM's vapor profits attracting more attention

CBS Marketwatch blasts Lou Gerstner

Mass Firings: IBM Lays Off 1,000 CE's and IGS employees (May 25, 2000)

IBM violates U.S. Labor Law, Judge Determines (May 19, 2000)

Layoffs at IBM Rochester (May 3, 2000)

Cleveland News (April 25-26, 2000)
Read all about the Stockholders' Meeting, the Press Conference and the Rally.

GE Employees also press for Stockholder Resolution - 4/99

IBM Japan Union Member visits Endicott

Merry Layoffs and Happy Terminations - 12/99

IBM Germany supports Alliance@IBM - Oct. 6, 1999

Layoffs at Personal Systems Group - 10/99

Poughkeepsie Journal's Archive of Articles about IBM: www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/projects/ibm

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