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Front page items recently Archived: 06/11/13
Note: Some links below, may have expired at their origin.

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Click: Sign The Petition
to Tell IBM to REVERSE their Decision!

IBM Management plays Scrooge again.

In an email sent to IBM employees today (12/5), IBM once again short changes IBM employees, especially and specifically those who will most certainly be "resource actioned" in IBM's "Roadkill 2015".
The Alliance@IBM calls on IBM corporate management to reverse this decision and to continue the semi-monthly plan.
Randy MacDonald's email to IBMers:

"Dear IBMer,

Beginning January 1, 2013, IBM is changing the timing of the IBM match and automatic contribution for our 401(k) Plus Plan and Excess 401(k) Plus Plan from semi-monthly to an annual contribution at the end of the year.
The percentage of the IBM match and automatic contribution you receive - which makes IBM's 401(k) plans among the best in the industry - is not changing.

You must be employed on December 15 of each year to receive your IBM contribution for that year. For eligible IBMers, the IBM match and automatic contribution will be deposited to your account on December 31, 2013 (and on the last business day of each subsequent year). Your personal contributions are not affected by these changes. IBMers who retire at any time, including those participating in the Transition to Retirement program, will receive their match and automatic contribution upon retirement, based on the eligible pay received during that calendar year.

Sincerely,

Randy MacDonald
Senior Vice President, Human Resources"

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With your support, hundreds of us bravely stood up to Walmart on Black Friday and went on strike. Despite the retail giant's illegal threats and scare tactics, we were inspired to take action like never before.

In addition to the stores where we had planned strikes, we heard about other coworkers in Atlanta, GA, Ocean City, MD, Tupelo, MS, and even Paducah, KY-who were inspired to strike by the incredible outpour of support by community members like you!

Unsurprisingly, Walmart's high-priced PR team is doing everything they can to downplay these historic events and ignore its employees. Deciding to go on strike on Black Friday was never about boycotting or affecting Walmart's bottom line. It was about changing the national debate about workers in this country. With more than 2,000 news stories covering the historic strikes, we are making our voices heard.

With tens of thousands of supporters on our side, we will continue to grow more support and build more alliances. Rest assured, if Walmart does not stop its retaliation against workers who speak out for change, we will strike again. We know change will not happen overnight, especially in the face of Walmart's fierce opposition and illegal threats. But the truth is out-and we will not back down. We will continue to raise our voices, and we will continue to bring on new supporters every day.

We are not afraid to stand up and speak out, because with your support, we all see that change is possible.

In Solidarity,
Strikers from OUR Walmart

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Resource Action Sept. 7, 2012
IBM GTS Delivery Technology and Engineering
29 employees terminated

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IBM Management "command and control" must agree to relocate to Dublin, Ireland
or Singapore by 10/31/2012,
or look for a new job.

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National Mobilization
Bring Jobs Home!
Background information:
outsourcing backgrounder_6_1_12_Final.pdf
More info:
www.americawantstowork.org
Watch this site for further news and information

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IBM Corp., which has benefited from hundreds of millions of dollars in economic development aid from New York political leaders over the past 10 years, uses computer programmers and analysts from India to work on some of its largest state contracts. The foreign workers - who are physically located at state agency offices in Albany but work for an Indian subsidiary of IBM - have been key to the success in IBM being awarded massive amounts of state business, such as a $52 million contract with the state Department of Labor to upgrade its unemployment insurance system...
full article link:
IBM cuts jobs but keeps foreign workers on NY State contracts

Alliance@IBM's editorial statement
to NY residents: Read here

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The Alliance needs your help!
We are making an appeal to the thousands that come to this web site and comment section.
The Alliance has been in existence for 12 years. We are the only organization that has continually advocated and fought for IBM employees and ex-employees.
There is a lot of work we do and need to do.
See The Alliance: A voice for employees:
http://www.endicottalliance.org/the_alliance--a_voice_for_ibm_workers.htm

But as has been mentioned before, we can not continue to do our work if we don't have dues paying members.
At this point we are on life support.
Our membership has dropped and we are not gaining new members.
In order to keep the Alliance going we need you to help out.
The Alliance is looking for 100 new members in 1 week.
Please join here today: https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4004/donate_page/alliance-join


Voting Members are eligible for Union Plus benefits and discounts.
During the membership drive this comment section will be closed.
It will reopen after 1 week and we will give you the results of the drive.
Thank you for your support.
The Alliance@IBM team

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"GTS Employees,

The Employee Salary Program takes into account a number of elements, including compensation competitiveness in markets we serve, our ability to attract and retain people with skills we need, our business performance, and other employee investments.
It is essential for a services business to provide value-added services to clients at competitive price points. Our objective is to ensure a competitive labor cost structure while moving aggressively into areas that are strategic to our clients and require innovative solutions. This is fundamental to driving clear return on investments for our clients and to increase opportunities for all IBMers.
To balance our ability to remain competitive with the need to invest in people who have high-demand skills, there will not be a broad-based salary program in GTS in 2012. Instead, we will target the 2012 investment to skill groups or focus areas as identified by each GTS line of business, based on local market needs. These decisions do not affect the significant investments IBM makes each year in talent in addition to salary, including bonus programs, recognition, promotions, and skill development.

Your manager or leadership team will communicate additional information to you over the next few weeks.

Bob Zapfel Richard A. Patterson
General Manager, Global Technology Services, North America General Manager, GTS SO Delivery - Americas"

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Disney employees were told that the big outsourcing contract with IBM had NOT been renewed and was instead given to another company, named HCL. IBM management however, has yet to inform its employees. IBM bigwigs had been touting for months that it was a 'done deal'. However, Disney management decided otherwise. Wonder if any IBM VPs and Executives will lose their jobs over this? IBMers have till the end of July to transition. So more RAs and cuts in the cards.

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Actions taken:
Mass emails sent to IBM executives by IBM employees, ex-employees, and IBM worldwide unions.

Black and Blue on Black Friday.

SSR organizing committee
being formed.

New actions to be announced!

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The Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701 is asking for your urgent support in fighting the announced pay cut and band level reduction for SSR's and other support workers in the IBM Retail Services Division in the US.
Last week IBM executives informed SSR's (service techs) and other support groups that band levels would be lowered and they would face pay cuts up to 10% starting January 1st 2012.
This attack on the standard of living of IBM's service employees is unacceptable and demeaning. In fact many support workers have received very little in pay increases over the years.
Last year IBM had record net income of $53 billion and free cash flow of $8 billion. IBM is not a company in distress.
There is no need to decrease the pay of hard working IBM employees.
Please send emails this week to the following list of IBM management asking them to reverse this decision to cut pay and band levels. An injury to one is an injury to all!

Please send letters to:
Sam Palmisano sam@us.ibm.com
Virginia Rometty grometty@us.ibm.com
Michael Daniels medan@us.ibm.com
Robert Zapfel zapfel@us.ibm.com
Richard Rosso rrosso@us.ibm.com
Larry Arrington arringto@us.ibm.com
Phillip Cunningham cunningp@us.ibm.com

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On Tuesday July 12th, the IBM Chile Union SNTI, and IBM negotiated and signed a union contract. The vast majority of IBM Chile union members approved the offer and a strike has been averted. Congratulations to our brothers and sisters in the IBM Chile union for this historic event!
A copy of the agreement will be emailed to Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701 members and associate members.

--
Lee Conrad
International Coordinator
IBM Global Union Alliance
(UNI,IMF,IWIS)

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IBM Argentina union to strike
July 28

For those of you who cannot read Spanish, the headline says it all. Huelga en IBM: Strike at IBM. The union is Union Informatica, Argentina, affiliated with the much larger labour federation, CGT. The bargaining unit is only a few months old with a membership of 500. The strike date has been set. July 28, 2011. If pay increases of 0%, 8% and 14% look good to you, consider that IBM Argentina has also been threatening to move its work to India. I have been told that quite a bit of that work, software packaging, used to be done in Canada. I have also been told that the rate of inflation in Argentina is running at 20% annually, that the annual starting salary is around $8,000 USD with a top end of about $50,000 USD.

http://tiempo.elargentino.com/notas/huelga-ibm

http://translate.google.com/

Sent to the Alliance by the IBM Canada union, CEP

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IBM Union news
from Chile and Bulgaria

June 20th, 2011

Chile:
On June 15th, 2011, IBM delivered to the Union Directors of SNTI ( IBM Chile union) their response to the collective bargaining agreement draft presented on April 27th, 2011. IBM Chile SAC has rejected all the topics on the proposed draft for the collective bargaining agreement
There are 23 points, and IBM is refusing to modify and improve working conditions.

Bulgaria:
The 100th anniversary of our great company has been unfortunately tarnished by the excessive measures undertaken by the management of IBM, GDC - Sofia and is against the values of IBM.
On June 14 in the morning and for no apparent reason our management of IBM, GDC Bulgaria deployed security guards on the floors of IBM as well as the entrances of the building.
The purpose of this activity was to hinder our union activities at the company and we cannot distribute any leaflets.
Our management is afraid that the truth about their behavior, which is inconsistent with the core values of IBM, will spread through our site. After starting a discussion with the security personnel, we learned that these measures are at the request of our site director Mr. Parakram Lazarus.

We therefore see these acts as despicable and we will file a complaint for obstruction of trade union rights in the coming days.
For this anniversary were able to note once again the growing anti-unionism of IBM, GDC Bulgaria which still does not meet our most basic rights.

-- Lee Conrad
International Coordinator
IBM Global Union Alliance
(UNI,IMF,IWIS)

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Worldwide Day
of Action
June 14, 2011
US IBM workers wear
black and blue
to call attention to
job cuts
and
declining work conditions.

Press Release-Day Of Action:
pressrelease_dayofaction.pdf

Download Flyers:
GlobalDayofAction-p1.pdf
GlobalUnionDayofAction-p2.pdf
LeafletActionDayinIBM-English.pdf

Day Of Action....

Spirit of celebration missing for many
as IBM gears up for 100th anniversary:
read here

IBM Global Unions wish IBM
happy 100th birthday:
YouTube Video

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IBM US job cuts continue
as company gears up for
100th anniversary.
read more

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SWITZERLAND: At a combined global union meeting on May 6 at UNI's offices in Nyon, Switzerland, affiliates from the IMF, the EMF and UNI that have membership in IBM unanimously endorsed a document that creates a Global Union Alliance in IBM. According to the agreement signed by the three federations, unions in IBM commit themselves to working together at global level to strengthen cooperation and implement joint action, with a view to engaging IBM in dialogue at global level and increasing union membership at IBM.

Having endorsed the formation of the Alliance, unions present agreed that the first joint action of the Alliance should be held in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of IBM which will be celebrated by the company on June 16. Unions worldwide in IBM will mark the anniversary of the company by joining in actions which will promote the important role of unions in looking after worker interests in the company and demand respect for IBM employees, including respect for their union rights.

The IBM unions also agreed that the Global Union Alliance should work to increase unionization in the company, share information on collective agreements with IBM and support unions facing anti-union actions by the company. May 09, 2011 ~-~ Jenny Holdcroft

Lee Conrad, national coordinator of Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701 and international coordinator of IBM Workers International Solidarity (IWIS) will continue his work
as international coordinator of the new
IBM Global Union Alliance

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To GDF Workers:
Isn't it time your concerns were listened to by managment?
Join with the Alliance in the fight to improve working conditions at GDF's!
To become involved or to share your concerns about working at GDF's contact us at: ibmunionalliance@gmail.com

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-Former True Blue-

We are currently preparing to move our online payments system to a new vendor. This will help us improve our website and better manage our communications with members like you. Subscribers/supporters who do not pay dues will have their contact information automatically migrated to the new database and will continue to get our email alerts.

To make this transition successful, there's one thing we need your help with. Due to technical differences between our old system and our new one, we cannot transfer your monthly payment information to the new database. Instead, we need you to re-enter your credit card information.

A link will be set up shortly to transition your membership. The check or money order form below is still active. The credit card link is not active.

When you update your information, nothing will change about your current Alliance membership -- you won't be charged double dues. The only way your membership will change is if we don't get your information entered into our new database.

If you want to keep from paying high interest rates on credit cards we gladly accept dues payments by check of $120 per year or $60 for half year for full voting membership; and $60 per year or $30 for half year for associate members.

Your support for Alliance@IBM has allowed us to advocate for our rights and benefits at work. From our pension to workplace safety to off-shoring of jobs, the Alliance is fighting for its members every day.

By updating your information in our new database, especially at this critical time when we have lost members due to job cuts, your continued membership will help us continue to stand up for our rights and the rights of IBM employees.

Thank you,
Lee Conrad
National Coordinator

Tom Midgley
President

p.s. If you wish to speak to us directly about updating your information, please contact
Lee Conrad at 607-729-4571 or email ibmunionalliance@gmail.com

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According to CEO Sam Palmisano, IBM had free cash flow of $15 BILLION in 2009.

So where are the pay raises for employees?

If you have not received a pay raise then your standard of living is in decline!

Isn't it time corporate executives treated employees as assets and not liabilities?
Isn't it time you were valued?
Isn't it time to organize for a better deal?

That time is now!

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As the Senate considers jobs bill
H.R. 4213
IBM Abandons US Workforce
updated_read here

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IBM is marching into Columbia, Missouri
with a promise of creating 800 jobs.
Oh by the way, $28 million in tax incentives please.
This for a company that has billions in cash.

The Alliance@IBM is certainly all for job creation.
We are also for job retention.
But that is not what is happening in IBM.

In the last year and a half IBM has terminated almost 14,000 US employees and moved much of their work offshore.
Where are the jobs for them?
Will they be re-called and offered jobs in Columbia?
Sorry, IBM doesn’t value its employees enough to do that.
Of the 800 jobs to be “created” how many will be new hires?
In the case of Dubuque, many IBM employees from around the country were told—move or be gone.

What of the wages for Columbia’s new IBM employees?
The example of Dubuque and other US Global delivery centers is enlightening. Average salary in the older sites at East Fishkill and Boulder is $70,000.
In the newer Dubuque it is $50,000.
That is factoring in the higher paid IBMers that transferred to Dubuque.
And that won’t last because as employees have told us,
band levels and pay scales are dropping for the transferees.
Let’s face it: job “creation” in Columbia and Dubuque is also about lowering wages in IBM.

So while there may be some IBM glitter in the eyes of Columbia residents right now it is important to ask IBM questions on job creation and what will happen when the contract runs out.
Above all taxpayers must demand transparency and accountability from IBM. A link to an excellent article “IBM’s trail of broken promises” is here

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To Alliance@IBM supporters:
The Alliance is the only organization that advocates and supports IBM employees and ex-employees.
In fact, there are few like it in the
Information Technology field.
It is always difficult to keep an organization like this alive, but as a supporter you know how important it is that we exist.
We are calling on you today to help keep us alive another year by joining as a member
or associate member.
See our online forms below.
As our membership has dropped, it is imperative that we gain new members
or this organization and web site
will cease to exist.
Help us keep our organizing
and advocacy work alive!

Join today at the links below:

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The Alliance needs examples of IBM hiring foreign workers or offshoring work on contracts from the Federal or State Governments

Send your information to
IBMunionalliance@gmail.com

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Verified Resource Actions

STG Technology Development:	24
STG Sales Support:	80
CIO Application and infrastructure:	160
Software Group WPLC:	50
Software Group Information management:	99
GBS Global Account:	98
GTS Security Systems:	41
ITD Transition, Quality & Service Mgmt:	276
ITD Application Hosting and Database:	158
ITD Service Management Delivery:	66
ITD Storage Management:	178
ITD Distributed Server Management:	318
ITD SSO (IDMM):	120
GTS North America East IMT Region Maintenance & Technical Support:	66
Sales and Distribution Headquarters:	73
ITD Complex Engagement Services:	34
Tivoli:	51
SWG Application & Integration Middleware:	119
ITD Shared Services, Security & Risk Management:	216
Sales and Distribution Global Sales:	57
Human Resources Global Administration:	124
STG Global markets:	12
CIO Client Value Tranformation:	76
Corporate Marketing & Communications:	48
CIO Operations & Enterprise Portfolio Management:	8
STG Software Development & Lab services:	39
GBS Financial Services:	24
GBS AIS:	84
GBS ASAA:	202
Total cut so far:	2901

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IBM:
The information services company that refuses to divulge information.
Read here

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The Breaking Point
- Editorial from the Alliance team -

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IBM owes Iowa citizens the facts!
Read here

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Help bust IBM on training offshore replacements and then being fired! Send information to allianceibmunion@gmail.com

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News from IBM Argentina :
AFTER 85 YEARS, THEY HAVE UNION REPRESENTATIVES.

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Finally, and after some time of hard work, the moment approaches when IBM Argentina workers will be able to choose their representatives. "So little time has passed since we started to gather, and a lot less since we decided to join the Cepetel labor union to begin to organize ourselves", said the members of the union.

They also remembered that "on August 6th, five months ago, we gathered for the first time, just a handful of workers; on November 28th, we made the first affiliations with the task of getting to 100 affiliates by December 10th. Looking back it seemed something impossible, but we made it. And not just that: we managed to overcome this objective, as today we are more than 160 IBM workers who decided to join the Cepetel, when two months ago there were only two IBM".

The next step, decided in an affiliate's assembly, was to propose a group of workers to became candidates for union delegates, "which brought us a new challenges, as we had to fulfill legal requisites and the mandatory paperwork. Happily, we managed to get through it, and nowadays every IBM worker knows that between January 12 and 19th there will be elections".

It's the first time in 85 years of IBM in Argentina that the workers will be able to choose their representatives. "We can be part of a new story, different from being mere spectators and victims of authoritarism on the part of our employers"

All workers will be able to vote, whether they are Cepetel affiliates or not, IBM workers or outsourced. "If you want to improve your work conditions, you have to vote; if you believe IBM is not paying you what you deserve, you have to vote", the announcement says.

For more information, check out:
http://www.gremiodeinformatica.org.ar/Elecciones-de-Delegados-en-IBM.html

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Greetings Fellow IBM Workers,

Hopefully you’re able to take well-deserved time away from work to enjoy Labor Day with family and friends. This is a special day to celebrate the contributions of workers.
Working people are the ones who power our great country and make it work.

But in our commercialized society this has become just another shopping day, obscuring the history of hard fought victories for better pay and benefits, safety improvements and the legal right to organize in the workplace. Unfortunately, many of these gains are slipping away. We need to take time this holiday to take inspiration from our rich labor history and organize, to take back what is ours.

The world is experiencing its worst economic crisis since 1929. The immediate cause is Wall Street’s financial shenanigans. Bankers and their buddies in the government and corporate media pushed for allowing the “free-market” to decide where a profit could be made – no matter what the risk. Rules get in the way. Their “products” like sub-prime mortgages and derivatives pumped up the price of homes, causing a bubble. Many hard-working Americans were seduced or duped into taking on debt they couldn’t handle in hopes that their “investment” in a house would pay-off. When the bubble burst, politicians in a panic threw taxpayer money at those who caused the collapse rather than helping the victims.

But a major cause of our woes has been building for much longer. Our economy has been transformed from manufacturing into one built upon finance, insurance, and real estate. We make less real products to sell to the world and rely more on get-rich-quick ploys that benefit the few. For many years, corporations have been moving their manufacturing and service jobs to low-cost countries, chasing cheap wages in pursuit of higher profits. This has pushed down wages as more workers compete for fewer high-paying jobs. Economists are finally acknowledging that off-shoring has hurt the economy.

Wages have also declined as union membership has declined because workers don’t have leverage to negotiate. As wages go down people are forced to borrow, taking on debt to pay the bills like medical and college. The payment on the debt is recycled back to the wealthy, such as those who run Wall St. In this dog-eat-dog scenario, the gap between the rich and the rest of us grows. As the wealth gap grows, despair deepens and dreams for the future, die.

Closer to home…for the last 10 years IBM has been hurting workers in the U.S. in order to please Wall St.
Cut your way to profitability.
While profits have been healthy - $77 Billion since ’99 :

- Jobs are shipped to other countries, and we’re forced to train our replacements in order to get severance. 10,000 jobs lost this year, 30,000 since 2004 (even with aquisitions added in)

- Pay raises are puny to none with pay-cuts for others. Bonuses are shrinking – awards for a job well done are a distant memory.

- Pensions have been frozen and stolen. We were sold on 401(k)s but those have tanked. Many can’t afford to retire.

- Appraisal ratings were lowered, affecting pay and bonus.

- Older workers are targeted for firing so they won’t qualify to collect retirement medical (FHA).

- More stress, waking up every day wondering if you still have a job.

Billions in profits….Millions for the executives…as Thousands lose their jobs!

True, the economy is poor so employers have to safeguard their business. But consider this. Since 1999 IBM has spent $80 Billion on stock buybacks to pump up the stock price so executives can become fabulously wealthy. The company could have set-aside some of this money for a rainy day, to keep IBMers employed during this economic crisis rather than firing them. During the Depression, founder TJ Watson retained his employees because he knew he would need their experience and innovation when business picked-up. His gamble paid-off. Today, IBM instead chooses the no-brainer – retain the stock options for executives but get rid of the employees.

Obviously this isn’t a pleasant situation – it’s downright disturbing. Fear grips everyone, which is understandable. But doing nothing is no longer an option – the danger of inaction is too great. The number of IBM workers in the U.S. is shrinking fast. We need to change that - now. Don’t wait for others to do something. Change happens when each of us takes action. We have to overcome our fear and live on real hope. That hope comes from working together and organizing our fellow workers. We need to build an organization that represents us and gives us leverage so we won’t be pushed around.

History has shown that people can better their lives by working together. We should celebrate how unions have bettered our lives - the 8-hour workday, weekend time-off and paid vacations so we can spend more time with our families; overtime pay; a living wage; unemployment insurance; and pensions. Let’s work to keep these victories, and to win back what we’ve lost.

Organize with us to build your Alliance@IBM and build for a better future. This is your organization.
Don’t give-up - get involved!

In solidarity,

Tom Midgley
Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701 President

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Job cuts at Wellpoint account
Work offshored to India

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Job cuts happening
this week:
Services Delivery
88 cuts, so far...
ITD updates forthcoming

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Action TODAY!!
Join us in a rally
against job cuts, offshoring
and tax breaks for IBM.
at 12:30 pm
Location:
Corner of Route 9
and Spackenkill Plaza
Poughkeepsie, NY

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Help build the Alliance!
May membership drive
Join today! (click below)
Goal is 200 new members.
Member names are confidential
Members are eligible for Union Plus benefits
Union Plus Link

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Cobra 65% subsidy appeal process and IBM loophole.
IBM Attorney's found a loop hole denying some recently laid off workers from the 65% COBRA Subsidy by classifying them as 'retired' and eligible to particiapte in the IBM retiree group health Plan.

In many cases the IBM Group Health Plan is a much higher cost than COBRA, especially if one does not have a Future Health Account. The 65% COBRA Subsidy is managed by the Federal DOL.
The Federal DOL is aware of this loop hole and will be posting an appeals form on their website: www.dol.gov/cobra.
They can also be reached at 866-444-3274.
Please file an appeal with the Federal DOL if you have been denied the 65% COBRA Subsidy.
If a large group of former IBMers file an appeal,
the Federal DOL will process this as a group case against IBM.
Please also contact your government representatives.
Let's raise our voices in Washington.

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IBM Job Cut Alert!
ISC Job cuts happening
Nationwide
245 cuts Confirmed

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News from the Alliance@IBM
Communication Workers of America
The Union for the Information Age

For Immediate Release
April 27, 2009

Contact: Lee Conrad, National Coordinator,
Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701
Phone 607-729-4571
ibmunionalliance@gmail.com

Alliance@IBM Vice President Earl Mongeon to question IBM on Executive Compensation at IBM’s annual shareholder meeting in Miami, FL on April 28

Johnson City, NY. - Earl Mongeon, IBM Burlington employee and Alliance Vice President will attend the IBM stockholder meeting
and speak to his stockholder proposal
on executive compensation and pension income.

“IBM employees are receiving pay cuts and job cuts while executives continue to enrich themselves. Executive greed and bloated compensation needs to be challenged,” said Earl Mongeon. Mongeon submitted a proposal on executive compensation that asks the board of directors to determine that pension income from any defined benefit plan will not be used as a factor in setting executive compensation.

Lee Conrad, National Coordinator of Alliance@IBM CWA, is calling on IBM shareholders to put pressure on IBM to stop shifting U.S. jobs to low cost countries. “At a time when the US economy is in recession and unemployment is rising, it is unconscionable for profitable companies like IBM to continue to move work offshore. The Alliance is urging elected officials, community leaders and citizens to call on IBM to halt this destruction of U.S. jobs. We also call on congress to refuse stimulus money to IBM if they continue to cut jobs here and shift work offshore.”

Tom Midgley, President of the Alliance@IBM CWA stated, “So far this year we have seen 10,000 of our co-workers terminated from IBM. IBM has been silent in reporting the full scope of these job cuts to employees, their communities and the Government. We strongly encourage IBM to be fully transparent in the number of jobs being cut in the US and the number of jobs sent off shore. "We challenge IBM to halt stock buybacks and dividend increases and instead use the money to retain jobs here in the U.S."

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Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701
IBM Employee Advocate since 1999

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EDS/HP employees speak out
Read here... Offshoring Alert!

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Sources say the Allianz/Firemans Fund account
has brought on a global resourcing manager.
The process is now beginning to rid this account of the remaining US ibmers in favor of
South American workers. MQSeries, Middleware, CICS, and other technical groups are affected.
By the end of 2009, 99.8% of the US
workers on this account will be gone.

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Offshoring alert!
Location - Hartford CT and Boulder CO
Div 07
Global Technology Services
Number of cuts - unknown at this time
Copy of letter regarding outsourcing,
from Senior DPE - Hartford Insurance Account

"Starting next week several Hartford delivery teams will be working directly with fellow IBM team members from India to begin the second phase of our Global delivery solution planned for the Hartford account. The teams will be engaged in a multi-week effort to facilitate knowledge transfer to prepare for migration of specific work activities to global delivery counterparts later in 2009. Your continued support and leadership is critical to ensure our overall success and to ensure we continue to deliver high quality cost effective solutions that IBM committed to the Hartford. Please ensure you and your teams actively support this effort."

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Job Cut Alert!
Job cuts happening in IBM
US & Canada
GBS=462
GTS=181, CIO=411,
Services Delivery=985,
Application Services=1674
Global BCRS, SWG, STG,
General Business Services,
GBS Consulting Services,
Strategy and Business Development,
Internet Security Systems,
Infrastructure Services,
Maintenance and Technical Support, & GTS Sales
Stay Tuned....
send information to:

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Is there a gag order on IBM employees?
Have you been told not to talk to media about job cuts and offshoring?
Have you been told if you did your severance and pension would be jeopardized?
As a manager have you been told to tell your employees they must comply?
Send any information to allianceibmunion@gmail.com

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Cheaper and Cheaper
IBM eliminates payment of employee expenses for home Internet access services worldwide.
This includes employee expense reimbursement and direct pay
corporate managed and contracted
Internet access services.
Note: 40% of employees
work from home.
IBM Home Internet
Service Policy Change
IBM Internal Link here

Policy overview
IBM is updating its home expense policy and is eliminating payment of employee expenses for home Internet access services worldwide. This includes elimination of employee expense reimbursement and direct-pay corporate managed and contracted Internet access services.

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For Tuesday March 31st

* Wear black and blue to signify the pain caused by job cuts.
* Take a 15 minute “silent” break at 1 pm EDT (Noon Central, 11 am Mountain and 10 am Pacific). No work, no sametime, no emails, no meetings.
* Spouses of terminated employees e-mail or write to IBM CEO Sam Palmisano detailing the effect that the job loss will have on their family.

IBM CEO Sam Palmisano sam@us.ibm.com
New Orchard Road
Armonk, New York 10504

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IBM Executive Virginia Rometty should resign from AIG Board of Directors immediately!
Read more...

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Alliance@IBM Poll - 2/23/2009
IBM is offshoring employee payroll information
to the Philippines.

Click the poll box to take our poll.

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IBM Job Cuts happening in Lotus, STG (1200), IBM Research (193), HR (92),
IBM Finance (307),
Marketing & Communications(147)
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Cuts in other divisions expected.
Stay tuned for details

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News from the Communications Workers of America
The Union for the Information Age

For Immediate Release
January 19, 2009

For More Information
Lee Conrad, National Coordinator, 607-729-4571
Allianceibmunion@gmail.com
or
Candice Johnson, CWA Communications
202-434-1347

Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701 Presses IBM to Save Jobs
and Stop the Off-shoring of US Jobs

IBM Corp. employees nationwide are anxiously waiting for the company to publicly announce the number of job cuts likely to take place in the United States.
“The Alliance is strongly urging IBM not to go forward with a new round of job cuts and to stop the off-shoring of U.S. workers’ jobs,” said Lee Conrad, national coordinator of the Alliance .
Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701 outlined several steps IBM should take to maintain quality jobs and service and address the company’s financial picture:
* IBM must make every effort to save jobs.
* If cost cutting is needed, IBM should suspend its stock buyback program – the company has spent $26 billion since 2007 -- instead of terminating workers.
* If job cuts occur, IBM must divulge the number of job cuts, where they are taking place and whether any of these affected jobs are being shifted offshore.
* Executive positions should be eliminated in divisions where job cuts occur.
* Pay, bonuses and perquisites for executives should be slashed.
* Work cannot be shifted from IBM workers in the United States to offshore locations.
* Full disclosure of why individual jobs are being eliminated is essential.
* Before any new hires are added to the payroll, IBM must recall and rehire employees terminated in past resource actions.
“There is a growing concern among employees that IBM will accelerate the off-shoring of our jobs. To offshore U.S. jobs in the middle of an economic crisis and rising unemployment is simply unacceptable,” said Tom Midgley, Alliance president. “We will work with our elected representatives to push for legislation that protects U.S. jobs and calls for the full disclosure of IBM’s offshoring and outsourcing of American jobs.”
To help break the secrecy of the IBM job cuts, the Alliance has a section on its web page called Job Cut Comments.
Join The Discussion for news, information and stories from IBM employees swept up in job cuts.

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IBM fires IBM Turkey
union activists!
UNI Global Union
Send a message to
Sam Palmisano here: Link

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IBM Turkey employees
announce fight back
and strike!
read more ...

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BTV, POK and East Fishkill
Manufacturing Workers UNITE
Against pay cuts and
FOR a union contract!
Union representation authorization form here: Link
Authorization form is Union confidential.
IBM will not see it.

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IBM CUTS pay for 3500
Employees at plants in Essex Junction, Vermont and in Poughkeepsie and East Fishkill in Dutchess County will be affected.
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IBM profits rise 22%
How was your raise?
Read more

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Are you tired of being blindsided? Tired of not getting information on job cuts until it is too late?
Had enough of not receiving information on pay raises?
Had enough of sliding backwards because of little or no salary increase? It is time to join
Alliance@IBM CWA and fight for representation and a contract!
Employees hold the power-----
use it!
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Union Busting 101
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IBM Australia strike called off Story here...

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Job Cuts are happening at the
IBM Essex Junction plant
in Burlington, VT
Update: 180 jobs cut in Essex Junction

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-Membership Update-
New members for June: 14
Help fund the organizing campaign!

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Is IBM offshoring the IBM PAYROLL Help Desk
to Manila, Philippines?
If you have documentation please send to: Allianceibmunion@gmail.com
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Job Cut Alert!!
Job cuts taking place in Software Group,
June 17
300 Employees Affected.
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News from the Communication Workers of America The Union for the Information Age For Immediate Release April 25, 2008 Contact: Lee Conrad, National Coordinator, Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701, 607-729-4652 or Jeff Miller, CWA Communications, 202-434-1168 Note to Editors: Picket line at Charlotte Convention Center at 8:30 am, Tuesday, Apr. 29 Rally at close of IBM annual meeting, 12:30 pm. Alliance@IBM Members, Shareholders to Challenge IBM Over Off shoring, Executive Compensation at Annual Shareholder Meeting in Charlotte, N.C., on April 29 Charlotte, N.C. – IBM Corp. employees, members of Communications Workers of America Local 1701, Alliance@IBM, will rally and set up an informational picket line outside the IBM annual meeting set for April 29. The group will focus on critical issues for employees and retirees, including executive compensation, the continued off shoring of jobs, employee pay cuts, and shrinking retiree pensions with no cost of living increases, among other issues. “While IBM employees face a decline in their standard of living and retirees see pension checks evaporate due to the lack of cost-of-living adjustments coupled with increases in medical retirement co-pay, our executives live the life of luxury. Executive greed and bloated compensation needs to be challenged,” said IBM employee and Alliance Vice President Earl Mongeon. Mongeon submitted Proposal No. 4 on Executive Compensation that asks the board of directors to determine that pension income from any defined benefit plan will not be used as a factor in setting executive compensation. Lee Conrad, National Coordinator of Alliance@IBM CWA, is calling on IBM to stop shifting U.S. jobs to low cost countries. “At a time when the US economy is in recession and unemployment is rising, it is unconscionable for companies like IBM to continue to move work offshore. The Alliance is urging elected officials, community leaders and citizens to call on IBM to halt this destruction of U.S. jobs.” “The Alliance@IBM CWA strongly encourages IBM to be fully transparent in the number of jobs being sent off shore and to detail how many U.S. jobs are lost because of IBM’s shifting this work to low cost countries,” said Linda Guyer, president of the Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701. ### Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701 IBM Employee Advocate since 1999 contact us at: allianceibmunion@gmail.com

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Please consider joining the Alliance@IBM as a member for only $10 a month--the cost of a few Starbuck's coffees.
Your dues and involvement help the Alliance with the following: Organizing employees and challenging IBM on policies and practices detrimental to employees and retirees. Exposing job cuts. Helping employees to deal with redeployment and replacement training.
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We also have the expense of keeping an office up and running: Rent, Office supplies, fax, phones internet access and mailings of organizing materials; such as newsletters, flyers and brochures.
We believe Alliance@IBM has, by its very exisitence; given IBM Corporate Mgmt pause, during their anti-employee actions.

The bottom line is that if we are NOT here, then IBM Corporate Management has the field. There will be some who say that employees do not want representation through an employee organization or a union.
Now is the time: Prove them wrong or prove them right.

Plan Now! Make your voice heard Join us! IBM Stockholder Meeting Action April 29th Charlotte Convention Center Picket line at 8:30 am Rally at 12:30pm Send a message to IBM No pay cuts! No offshoring of IBM US Jobs! COLA for retirees now! if you plan on attending please contact us at: allianceibmunion@gmail.com

IBM cuts pay; rebands job families 24A & 06A! Sign the Petition to IBM Management: NO PAY CUTs! Link To Pay-Cut Petition Are you next? Join the fightback! Send us your name, home e-mail and location to: AllianceIBMUnion Be sure to Join The Alliance! Say NO to pay cuts and job cuts! To the IBM "7600" Now is the time! Sign the petition! Join the Alliance! Roll back the pay cuts! The power is in your hands. Your Membership Counts. Let's keep building!

ISC Customer Fulfillment RA = 70 employees ITD Productivity Resource Action = 205 employees IBM Integrated Supply Chain RA = 29 employees If you have RA packages, other than those listed above, please send them to us at: allianceibmunion@gmail.com Job Cuts are happening now in the IGS, ITD, and STG groups

IBM Executives are meeting with employees around the country who are getting their salary cut. Is this Damage control? Keep the Pressure on! Take a stand! SAY NO to Pay Cuts!

Plan Now! Make your voice heard at the IBM Stockholder meeting April 29th in Charlotte, North Carolina Details to follow...

To our co-workers, The recent announcement of pay cuts and re-classification from exempt to non-exempt has sparked outrage and anger among a large section of the IBM employee population. IBM over the years misclassified employees and did not pay them properly, was sued, lost, paid employees compensation and now is making pay cuts. IBM is able to do this unilaterally because they can. There is no union contract that says they must negotiate terms and conditions of employment and wages. Now the question is what do we do about it? First: If you are not yet a member of the Alliance we strongly encourage you to do so. Membership gives you more protection legally as we go forward and it helps build an organization that can take on IBM management. We have 3 categories: Subscriber (free) Associate member ($5 a month) Voting member ($10 a month) Second:: Our message should be loud and clear to IBM executives--NO PAY CUT! Third: Getting our message out and organizing around it. We need IBM employees to step up to the plate and be vocal and public. We need employees to sign petitions, get their co-workers involved in the campaign and the Alliance, hold picket signs at IBM locations and send comments to your elected officials. use this link to find them if you need to: Write or Call Your Elected Officials. Many of you work from home and are all over the United States. Making use of the Internet will be important as we take on this devastating move by IBM executives. We need to contact all employees facing this pay cut. We need you to send us the names, e-mails and location of your co-workers. We would also like to hear your suggestions on how we wage this fight. If you are willing to talk to the Press, please contact us at: endicottalliance@stny.rr.com Now more than ever we must organize and protect the standard of living of IBM employees. Sincerely, Linda Guyer President Lee Conrad National Coordinator Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701 www.allianceibm.org

Alliance@IBM Poll: How did you find out about the Alliance@IBM web site? POLL RESULTS: 240 Total Votes From a Co-worker: 81 From anonymous email: 8 From search engine: 58 From mailing to home: 10 From Flyer or Newsletter: 31 Other: 52 Send us your comments about the poll results:

TO - Network Services DIV Employees impacted by the transfer to AT&T: Please contact us at: Endicott_Alliance YEAR END Job Cuts are taking place! Please send information to our Job Cuts section:

The Membership drive ends November 28! Please help sustain and grow the Alliance@IBM! To those that have joined, We Thank You! Unfortunately our membership drive has not produced the results we need. To those who visit this web site please consider joining the Alliance as a full member for only $10 a month or as an associate member for $5 a month. Full members are eligible for the CWA Union Plus program of discounts and benefits. (click image for web site) One way to call attention to the issues and concerns important to IBM employees and retirees is to support the Alliance@IBM. Some of our activities are: • Political action on pensions and off shoring legislation. • Challenging IBM on policies and practices detrimental to employees and retirees. • Fighting for cost of living increases in IBM pensions. • Exposing job cuts, redeployment and training of offshore replacements. • Working with International IBM employee Unions to develop worldwide responses to adverse IBM employment policies and activities • Stockholder actions • Media source for IBM employee issues. • Working with Federal, State and Local officials to make sure employees, retirees and their communities find remedies for toxic substance exposure. • Organizing employees in order to bring IBM to the negotiating table. If the advocacy work that Alliance@IBM is doing, is important to you - Please support us by becoming a member - Membership is open to Retirees, Vendors, Contractors, Temps, and Active Employees and former IBM employees. Join The Alliance! (Credit card sign-up form) or Join The Alliance! (Check or money order form & donations) Thank you for your support.

NEW MEMBERSHIP CATEGORY Associate membership $5.00 per month. IBM employees and retirees have told us during our membership drive that they would like to support the Alliance financially but that $10 a month was too much. The Alliance@IBM understands your situation and is pleased to announce a new category Associate Member for only $5 a month. Associate Members will receive the newsletter Think Twice as well as e-mail alerts. Associate Members contribution of $5 a month help sustain and grow the Alliance@IBM financially. Associate Members are not eligible for the benefits and rights of full membership. Join here: Join now! Subscribers will receive the Alliance@IBM e-mail alerts. Due to increases in mailing costs subscribers will only get Think Twice in PDF form. Voting members are the most important part of the Alliance. Voting members can run for office, vote on issues, vote for officers, help set policy and set up new chapters. Membership dues are $10 a month. You also receive access to a range of services through CWA's Union Plus programs. Thank you for your support.

Membership Drive Fall 2007 Help hold the line! IBM employees and retirees continue to face pressure on their livelihood. From the pension freeze and lack of adequate pay raises to rising co-pay on health care, employees are finding their standard of living decrease. Job insecurity increases as off-shoring and LEAN take a toll on employee jobs. The new corporate mantra of a global worklife integration instead of worklife balance will have an adverse affect on employees and their families and simply enslaves them to the job 24/7. Retirees face evaporating pensions as Cost of Living Allowance are just a thing of the past. Meanwhile IBM corporate executives, like other corporate executives across the USA, enrich themselves while employees and retirees see attacks on pensions, benefits and wages at an unprecedented scale. Corporate America is waging a war on us and we will continue to lose unless we all band together, hold the line and push back in the workplace and in the political arena. IBM, Corporate America and their allies are well funded—we are not. One way to push back is to support the Alliance@IBM/CWA that advocates for IBM employees and retirees. Some of our activities are: • Political action on pensions and off shoring legislation. • Challenging IBM on policies and practices detrimental to employees and retirees. • Fighting for cost of living increases in pensions. • Exposing job cuts, redeployment and training of offshore replacements. • Working with International IBM employee Unions to develop worldwide responses to adverse IBM employment policies and activities • Legal references • Media source for IBM employee issues. • Working with Federal, State and Local officials to make sure employees, retirees and their communities find remedies for toxic substance exposure. • Organizing employees in order to bring IBM to the negotiating table. Help us hold the Line! Help us push back! JOIN the Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701 today Names are confidential. Non-management, exempt employees ARE eligible to join. Join The Alliance! (Credit card sign-up form) or Join The Alliance! (Check or money order form & donations)

Job Cuts Happening Now Software Group Tivoli Send all information to:

The IBM France workers describe themselves as "pawns of in a game in a dehuminized world". According to one union member "We do not even know about the timing of these transfers, or all of the staff concerned."
After the annoncement of forced transfers, the trade unions have stated that they will oppose by all means these transfers. Unions involved CFDT, CFE CGC, CGT, FO, SNA, UNSA.

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From: UNIglobalunion One month after a virtual protest staged in Second Life with almost 2000 avatars demonstrating on IBM islands, a new contract with IBM Italy has been signed. The new agreement, which still needs to be approved by the IBM Italy workforce, reinstates the performance bonus that was cut unilaterally by IBM Italy management. Read more..

Update on Virtual strike in support of IBM Italy Employees: IBM Italy CEO RESIGNS! 10/24/2007 Following the historical protest against IBM Italy in Second Life, on 27th September, some important developments have taken place: * Mr Andrea Pontremoli, IBM Italy’s CEO (who personally received all of your petitions by email) has resigned. It seems our Virtual action had an impact on his role at IBM. IBM Corporation made a complaint to IBM Italy for the way they’ve managed the negotiations with the thousands of employees and how they’ve let it lead to such a harmful image for the company. * The works council hopes to return to the negotiations' table: we'll hear more at the beginning of next week. A big thank you goes to all people who supported IBM Italy workers in their struggle over the last 6 weeks. From protesters who came to Second Life and joined the action, to the petitioners who wrote letters to IBM Europe management, to those who took the time to give their ideas on how to proceed when there were no visible results to our protest and to the press who covered the event in more than 30 countries which helped put pressure on IBM as well.

IBM Second Life Protest a success 1850 people from 30 Countries participate. From UNI: More than 1850 -real- people protested behind their computers in over 30 countries to show solidarity with IBM Italy workers. The protest took place at 7 IBM locations, and in particular at IBM Italia and the IBM Business Centre in Second Life. Many Italian IBM workers joined the event after work, from 7pm to 10pm Rome, Italy time. It was reported that Second Life was having some technical difficulties, which is why we believe we could have reached an even higher number of participants. IBM did not officially react to our protest so far. However, they did shut down parts of their Business Centre to visitors (or really, protesters). A number of participants managed to crash an IBM staff meeting during the afternoon - where they were immediately asked to leave and to "protest outside". Instead, they demanded to speak to Management. But the staff meeting, which seemed to be about the new IBM website functionalities, was called to an end. The media coverage for this event was impressive. The news about the protest was covered by blogs, radio and TV stations, newspapers and podcasts in numerous countries. Italy's national TV station highlighted the event in the evening news during 5 minutes, showing screenshots from Second Life and its almost 2’000 protesters. More information about this historical protest will come in the next days. --------------- SIGN PETITION -------------- Please sign a petition that goes to IBM management. Everyone can sign it, you don't have to have Second Life to do it. Help us get IBM to agree on a fair deal for its Italian employees, for only 2 minutes of your time: click here ------------------- BLOG ----------------------- Our Blog is covering the events with photos and stories: http://ibmslprotest.blogspot.com/ UK union backs IBM virtual strike Read more IBM staff move pay protest to Second Life... Read more

IBM Italy Union calls for "virtual strike" at Second Life In a novel and creative way to get critical issues addressed by IBM management, our co-workers in the IBM Italy Union are taking their fight to IBM's virtual world in Second Life and are encouraging all "Second Lifers" to take part Read more here...    Also this blog

Legal Complaint Filed For IBM Sales Reps On Lack Of Overtime Pay On February 6, 2007, the Law Offices of Erik H. Langeland, P.C. filed a nationwide complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Massachusetts seeking to recover unpaid overtime on behalf of all IBM Sales Representatives who worked more than 40 hours per week, but were not paid overtime. Plaintiffs allege that they are owed money damages for IBM’s failure to properly pay them for their extensive overtime hours as required by federal law. The basis of Plaintiffs’ claims is that IBM required its Sales Representatives to work extensive overtime to meet their sales requirements, failed to keep accurate time records and failed to properly compensate Sales Representatives who worked more than 40 hours per week. Plaintiffs are continuing to investigate the case and are preparing to file a motion with the Court requesting that notice be sent to all “similarly situated” IBM Sales Representatives throughout the United States . Plaintiffs believe that the case may involve hundreds or even thousands of its current and former Sales Representatives. Plaintiffs’ objectives are to: 1) recover unpaid overtime and other damages for all IBM Sales Representatives who worked more than 40 hours per week, but were not paid overtime; 2) require that IBM change its time keeping system to accurately record all hours worked by its Sales Representatives; and, 3) require that IBM revise its compensation policies so that Sales Representatives are paid for all overtime hours worked. Contact: Erik H. Langeland 500 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1610 New York, NY 10110 (212) 354-6270 (212) 898-9086 (Fax) elangeland@langelandlaw.com

Globalization and its Discontents: A new opening for Labor? A Financial Times/Harris poll released last week registers broad popular discontent with globalization and the direction of the economies in the rich countries of the world. Among the findings of the survey taken in six countries—the US, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the UK are: a.. Less than 20% of people in the UK, France, Spain, and the US think globalization is having a positive effect; in Italy and Germany less than 40% think it’s a positive force. b.. More than 75% of people in every country, except Spain, think inequality between the rich and the poor is growing. c.. In no country, except Italy, do people admire the heads of the largest corporations. Admiration is lowest in the UK and US. d.. Large majorities in every country support higher taxes for the rich. e.. Majorities in all European countries support pay caps for top corporate officials, but support for caps in the US is around 30%. Article continues here: Labor Strategies Blog

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IBM Workers International Solidarity Conference June 25 to 28, 2007 Paris, France 55 Union members from IBM, representing 17 unions from 13 countries, met in Paris between June 25 to 28, 2007 and discussed IBM’s strategy and the situation of IBM employees and the IBM unions in each of the countries represented. The following unions contributed to the meeting: Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701 (USA), CC.OO (Spain), CePETel-CTA (Argentina), CFDT (France), Italian National Works Council, CGT (France), ERTO (Finland), IG Metall (Germany), JMIU (Japan), LBC-NVK (Belgium), CNE (Belgium), PESYI (Greece), PROSA (Denmark), Sif (Sweden), UNITES (India). IBM Workers International Solidarity (IWIS) is the answer to IBM’s strategy of becoming a “globally integrated enterprise”: The IBM Employees need a “globally unionized workforce”! IWIS declares: • As IBM tries to apply a strategy of eliminating all local ties and links and to operate on a global level with no accountability to national societies, labor regulations and national working conditions: IWIS is the employees advocate to force IBM in recognizing a Corporate Social Responsibility as defined in international standards and to be more respective to its employee representatives and unions in every country IBM is doing business. • While IBM formally acknowledges the legal rights of employees, the facts are IBM in practice does not apply them everywhere. There are cases where IBM acts against the Labor law, against the interests of employees and against union rights. Only a strong global network of union organized people within IBM can counteract this destructive attitude. • IWIS requests the support and action of all national unions and global union federations in order to fight for IBM employees rights. • All members of IWIS will stand together for this mission. They will act together along the belief that—an injury to one is an injury to all! • IWIS member unions will think globally and act locally to enforce the legal and legitimate rights of IBM employees and their unions all over the world. • “LEAN” as redefined by IBM will have a negative impact on employees and IWIS will oppose any job cuts. IWIS demands: • As IBM wants to introduce a “new compensation model” this year, IWIS demands salary and wage increases for every IBM employee by collective bargaining agreements in each country where IBM operates. • If IBM wants to introduce a “LEAN” process, IWIS demands IBM negotiate with unions (and/or legitimate workers representatives) in advance to avoid any job cuts. • IBM should acknowledge the legal rights and laws of employees and their representatives. IBM should respect the national labor standards in all countries and recognize their legitimate representative unions. IWIS calls: • For union representation at IBM in every country. • Every IBM employee to become organized in a union. • To encourage unionists to support IWIS global actions • All unions representing IBM employees to join the IWIS network. Lee Conrad Newly elected International Coordinator of IBM Workers International Solidarity Send us your comments:

 

July 30th 2007 Resource Action Alert! 450 Jobs Cut in Burlington and Fishkill Please send RA pkgs in .lwp format to: ibmunionyes@yahoo.com This is an email from Mike Cadigan this morning to the STG organization: Michael J. Cadigan General Manager, Semiconductor Solutions, GES IBM Systems & Technology Group Team, I’m writing to inform you that today IBM has announced a resource action that affects approximately 450 positions in the U.S, with a majority coming from within the semiconductor solutions organization, particularly at our Burlington and East Fishkill sites. If you reside at those locations, it is possible that you will hear about this in the local media, which is why I chose to contact you immediately and directly. Making job reductions is a difficult but necessary step to improve our operations. We are taking today's action to further streamline our business and improve our position in a highly-competitive industry. We have been benchmarking all of our semiconductors operations and know that today's action is required to improve our competitiveness. I realize that any resource action, large or small in number, can cause concern and uncertainty about the future but the long-term prospects for our organization remain very positive. This action will help ensure that we can maintain this position. We will continue to innovate, while meeting our clients’ needs, and achieve our development and manufacturing targets. Thank you for your understanding, dedication and continued focus. Send your comments to:

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New Collective Agreement ratified at Canadian IBM Global Services firm. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada - July 6, 2007- The 240 members of Local 911, the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada voted 85% in favor of accepting an eleventh - hour contract offer from ISM Information Systems Management Canada on June 21, 2007. Seven days earlier this group of ISM Canada (IBM Global Services) employees had voted 75% in favor of striking after having rejected the employer's initial offer. The workers accepted a new two - year contract with wage increases of 4% retroactive to December 29, 2006. An additional 4% increase will occur at the end of 2007 and improvements to benefits will become effective immediately. "This was an unusual round of bargaining," said Gary Schoenfeldt, CEP Local 911 President. "Timing was definitely a factor. Western Canada's already booming oil and gas industry has really taken off in the past three or four months, creating a red hot economy in the [Canadian] Province of Saskatchewan." He added, "The resulting increases in housing and other costs has put upward pressure on wage demands across all industries at the same time as the available pool of skilled workers began to dry up. Our members felt that it was time to reap the benefits of this economic upturn and I think that they made wise choices in that respect." CEP Local 911 is an established bargaining unit that has represented Saskatchewan IT workers since 1973. It is one of two bargaining units at ISM Canada, a wholly - owned subsidiary of IBM Canada. The other group is represented in the Province of British Columbia by the BC Government and General Employees Union.

News from the Communication Workers of America The Union for the Information Age For Release June 14, 2007 For More Information Lee Conrad, National Coordinator Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701, (607) 729-4652 Jean-Claude Vilespy, Confederation Generale du Travail e-mail: Jean-Claude.Vilespy@Wanadoo.fr or Candice Johnson, CWA Communications, 202-434-1168 and 202-415-6566 Alliance@IBM CWA Local 1701 and Global IBM Unions to Hold Emergency Meeting in Paris June 26- June 28 Endicott, N.Y. -- In response to job cuts, job shifting to low cost countries and declining working conditions at IBM Corp., (NYSE:IBM), employee representatives, IBM union officials, IBM Works Council representatives and members of the International Labor Federations will hold an emergency meeting in Paris. This historic meeting will be attended by IBM employee representatives from 12 countries. The meeting is being sponsored by IBM Workers International Solidarity (IWIS), the CFDT -- Confederation Francaise Democratique du Travail -- and the CGT --Confederation Generale du Travail.. Lee Conrad, National Coordinator of the Alliance@IBM, a local of the Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, said, “IBM workers in many countries are facing a serious decline in working conditions, job security and salary. IBM Corporate management is aggressively reshaping the company to the detriment of employees and customers. There is also a serious concern for employees with collective bargaining agreements that IBM will use job shifting to low cost countries as a hammer to demand concessions. If that happens all employees suffer.” IWIS Coordinator Jean-Claude Vilespy said, “This meeting is a unique opportunity for IBM unionists to get together to discuss how we can best meet this crisis and develop action plans to protect the interests of our members and employees at IBM.” Other issues of concern that will be discussed are: * Human impact of work overload * The LEAN process * IBM new salary plan * The PBC evaluation system * Benefit reductions * Professional mobility and other concerns * IBM’s anti-union philosophy Send us your comments:

Is LEAN headed your way? What impact will this have on employees? How many jobs will be cut? How much work outsourced/offshored? Send your comments on LEAN to:

Take Action If you want employee representation If you want checks and balances in IBM If you want a voice in the workplace If you want to get IBM to the negotiating table JOIN Alliance@IBM ************************************ Message from Alliance@IBM... re: LEAN and coming job cuts Over 1300 of our co-workers were just fired. And more is coming—lots more. Off shoring and LEAN are being used as clubs to force US employees out the door and increase the workload on fewer and fewer employees. IBM spokespeople call this “workforce rebalancing”. We call it “workforce abandonment”. How long will you wait to stand up? Until you find out if the rumors are true? Until you are asked to train another person on your team – who soon becomes your replacement? Until you are given 30 days to find another job in IBM? Until you find out whether you will get any severance or a bridge to retirement? Until you are gone from IBM and think you might sue IBM for wrongful dismissal? Until your mortgage, kids’ tuition, or medical bills cannot be paid? When it is too late? STAND UP NOW for your job, your family, and your future. It only takes a small amount of courage—and you won’t be alone. 650,000 CWA members will be supporting you. More actions to be announced here. Stay tuned. Alliance@IBM / CWA Local 1701 — The employees’ advocate— www.allianceibm.org (607) 658-9285

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May 30th 2007 Resource Action Alert! More Job Cuts are Happening. in IGS, S&D, and SWG IBM Fires Another 1,570, Bringing Quarterly Total to 3,700 Is this the REAL number? We'd Like to know! Read Story... Please send RA pkgs in .lwp format to: ibmunionyes@yahoo.com Is LEAN headed your way? What impact will this have on employees? How many jobs will be cut? How much work outsourced/offshored? Send your comments on LEAN to:

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IBM Agrees To Sell Printer Unit to Ricoh For $725 Million
Ricoh will initially take a 51% stake in the company, and will acquire the remaining interest over the next three years, according to IBM.
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IBM age-bias lawsuit is reinstated
EVEN THOUGH WORKERS WAIVED RIGHT TO SUE
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Palmisano Receives 29% Raise!
(and a $75,000 per week pension!)
How much was yours??
(If you got one!)

Alliance@IBM has received a significant amount of comments since our recent email broadcast. We intend to send all the comments to Sam Palmisano and the media. We encourage employees who have not sent comments to do so, and to encourage their co-workers to send comments as well. Names will be kept anonymous. Creative nicknames are encouraged.

**Attention!** Anyone that is part of the Qualxserv transition, we need your name. An SSR is in the process of speaking with an attorney about filing a class action suit on behalf of all 300, fulltime employees. The 100 supplemental employees may be included as well. If anyone has a complete list of SSR's being sold to Qualxserv please send to endicottalliance@stny.rr.com Also contact us if you are interested in a potential suit .

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Thursday 3/09/2006: 400 SSR's outsourced to Qualxserve.
IBM says "Take it or leave it"

1. By April 10
2. No Severance
3. Employees can't look for another job in IBM
4. Employees can't talk to Media
5. Employees told not to tell customers of outsourcing
6. Employees told that if they don't go to the new company, they are voluntarily resigning from IBM. The IBM paperwork, employees are being asked to sign, will state that not taking the job with QualxServ is the same as resigning. The Alliance encourages employees NOT to sign any such document.

PBC's and 2 "3"'s equal stealth job cuts.
IBM employees are once again being forced out the door.
If you are being forced out please contact the Alliance: endicottalliance@stny.rr.com from your home computer.
Let us know your location, name, age and time of service. Information will be held in strict confidence. We will put you in contact with someone that can give you advice on challenging your force out.

To IBM Executive Management:
Thou Shalt Not Steal!
Hands Off Our Pension!

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View Vermont THINK TWICE Flyer

Hewlett Packard Employees
Day Of Action
September 8th 2005
HP France Union Flyer
HP US Union Flyer
HP Italy Union Flyer

HP Workers Silicon Valley Thumbs up for CWA
In Silicon Valley today we had a lively demonstration at the main entrance to the HP Cupertino main location. The group from CWA Local 9423 was received by many HP workers with thumbs up hand signs when they read our signs which read "No to job cuts! No to Pension Cuts! Yes to Black Box Raise!" HP Security forces also were closely monitoring our activities and we held our ground for 90 minutes as we leafleted the main entrance.

News from HP France Union
We want to communicate our last counting which shows that about 1850 have stopped work in HP France today at 11:00 am.

The action is relayed to the media. Contacts with political leaders have been taken as well.

The employees of HP Italy, our colleagues from the CWA union, and the employees of IBM Germany, who stand in solidarity with HP workers in Europe and around the world in our protest and fight against the restructuring plan of the HP Corporation, have been strongly applauded.

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