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WSJ
- Blog comments "IBM’s Salary Cuts"
IBM
Counters Suggestion in Economic Report That It’s Sending Massachusetts
Jobs Offshore
IBM
Workers Launch Petition To Stop Pay Cuts
IBM
Riles Employees With Base Pay Cuts
IBM
employees call base salary-OT mix a pay cut
Traffic
Controllers Declare Staffing Emergency at Four Airports
Chamber
of Commerce vows to punish anti-business candidates.
NiSource
admits outsourcing jobs to IBM was a failure
Debate
continues over whether 401(k) can match IBM pensions
IBM
pension freeze has ripple effects in retirement system
Group
to file claims against IBM today.
TCE pollution complaints to be first in series.
India's
outsourcing industry takes toll on workforce
IBM
cancer-rate study will proceed.
NIOSH committed to project despite Bush veto, Hinchey says.
IBM
opens new facility in India for outsourcing
Senate
Republicans Opposed Extending Aid to Jobless in Stimulus Package
Big
Blue Hands 700 ‘Fresher’ Indian Engineers Pink Slips.
Letter: UNITES Professionals
of India condemn IBM firings
IBM
Spain employees to strike over outsourcing to ATT:
IBM Spain employees to demonstrate and strike in regards the outsourcing
of IBM jobs to ATT. IBM Spain employees are going on strike next Thursday
7th, from 10:00 and 14:00. The employees also will have a demonstration in
the door of the main building of one of the biggest of IBM's customer in the
electricity industry. The employees are going on strike the week of 18th of
February, 5 days.
Now
Bush’s Labor Board Wants to Shut Down Union E-Mail
Big Blue's Passage
of Jobs to India Grows - Nearly 20% of Workforce Now There
About
1 in 5 IBM employees now in India
Global
Summit: Employer Resistance Drives Down Union Membership in U.S., Around World
IBM plans accelerated $1 billion buyback
IBM pollution settlement talks
fail. Attorneys plan to file suit against
company in January.
China
not fighting off e-waste nightmare
Bush vetoes funds for IBM cancer
study
Bush Slaps Working Families with Another Veto. TAKE ACTION
Labor Board Further Victimizes the Victim
Executive: Embrace change Donofrio: IBM will move more work overseas
Are
US and EU Corporations Complicit in Evading China’s New Labor Law?
What every employee should know about
2008 IBM Health Benefits -By an IBM employee-
Ex-IBM
employees eligible: The Trade Readjustment Assistance program provides job
training.
Tech Workers Score Major Victory with House Pass TAA Bill
AFL-CIO
Files International Complaint Charging Bush NLRB With Assault on Workers’
Rights
Living
Paycheck To Paycheck Gets Harder
AT&T
Mobility Outsources Tech Jobs to IBM.... Jobs could end up in India.
AT&T Gets Outsourcing Contract With IBM
AT&T Gets $1B Contract With IBM Over 5 Years, but Says Deal Not Expected
to Benefit Results
The Future of
Your Health? An editorial from Alliance@IBM's
Health & Safety Co-Chair. Read
here
Gregoire,
Schwarzenegger lead call for increased H-1Bs
Are you sick and tired of hearing elected officials calling for more increases
in the H-1B visas? Now we have state governors getting in on the act.
TAKE ACTION!
Toxic
Legacy
Expanded TCE probe might provide clues to cancer cluster
CEO pay
and benefits on the rise: report
IBM expands virtual world presence
The Right to Unionize:
Key to Democracy
IBM Cancer Study Gets Federal Push.
Hinchey: IBM study by NIOSH will be a priority.
IBM
announces profit records while employees still suffer bad working conditions
Working America wants you to know your rights in the work place. Ask
a Lawyer is our way to get you information from sources you can trust.
From YouTube: James Fusco's
Testimony before the US House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee
on Thursday, June 14
Anti-offshoring legislation heats up
WRAL Local Tech Wire.
News from RTP
IBM's HR Takes a Risk - Article from SHRM-Society
for Human Resource Management - by Richard Grossman
Solution
to Growing Wealth Gap: Stronger Workers’ Voices
IBM Employee viewpoint
on new compensation plan
CWA
NEWS: Unions
& Collective Bargaining A Positive Force for The Greater Good (adobe
pdf format)
How IBM
Forces old plan employees out.
IBM Pay for Skill, Performance, Retention, Merit?
By a North East IBM employee
Will H-1B Visa Reform be talked about in the Presidential Debates? Help
Make it Happen!
Proposal
would change health, pension coverage
Historic
gains in IUE-CWA GE 2007 Contract <adobe
pdf format>
IBM,
Scotiabank expand relationship in $480-million IT outsourcing renewal
G.M.
and Union Reach Tentative Agreement
Patently
Absurd: IBM Tries to Patent Outsourcing, Then Kills It
IBM
Tries to Patent Efficient Job Outsourcing
Judge
Tosses IBM Overtime Lawsuit
A
‘Disposable Workforce’ in New Orleans After Katrina
IBM
May Owe California Workers Millions In Unpaid Overtime
IBM's
Global Hold. The tech giant's global integration strategy
appears to be paying off: Every division reported strong second-quarter
growth.
Texas
Teachers Union Leader Arrested—for Talking to Teachers
Redundancy
for Xerox workers if no job at IBM.
IBM jobs to be outsourced to India, Bulgaria and Philippines.
Seven
Unions Ask Labor Board to Order Employers to Bargain
Bad
Boss Winner: Got Cancer? Tough Luck
Ireland:
Vodafone agrees to union demands on outsourcing to IBM
IBM
announcement on new compensation plan
IBM
Signs $1.4 Billion Global Strategic Outsourcing Agreement With AstraZeneca
Workers
in U.S., India move up IBM ladder
SOME JOBS CAN BE MOVED OVERSEAS; OTHERS CAN'T
IBM workers' records
pushed for TCE study
300
local jobs lost at IBM -Poughkeepsie
Journal-
IBM
to cut 90 jobs at Essex Junction facility
I.B.M.
Plan Ties Training and Accounts
IBM
Brazil Ex-Employees In Pension Fight
IBM
Chief in India to Review Investments
Lean
Times: More Than 12,000 Pink Slips Coming at IBM, Union Warns
Trade
Adjustment Assistance in Job cuts
IBM
lays off another 45 in Boulder, 1,570 company wide
Coordinated
break a message to IBM
PERM
Fake Job Ads defraud Americans to secure green cards
From
YouTube: Outsourcing
From
YouTube: The
Lie.
UPDATE
1-IBM mulling chip facility at China plant -sources
IBM
job cut impact in Dutchess minimal
13
jobs in Dutchess County will be eliminated in second round of layoffs.
IBM
lays off 90 in Raleigh area
Calling
the Media: Check into These Front Groups
IBM
aims to boost China headcount by 10 pct/yr
IBM: The Tragedy Of the 21st Century Company
IBM
Eyes Big Profit Bump by 2010
Senators
propose infinite H-1Bs for advanced degree holders
Funding
Cuts Have EEOC in "Disarray"
By Popular
Demand in our Job Cuts Comments section: Lean
and Mean: 150,000 U.S. layoffs for IBM?
50 to
lose jobs at IBM in RTP Union official said more layoffs likely;
1,315 U.S. jobs were recently eliminated.
IBM
cutbacks include 45 jobs in Southbury More layoffs by company expected
IBM
layoffs include 7 Essex Jct. jobs
IBM to cut 150
jobs in Colorado
IBM
cuts jobs at U.S. facilities
IBM
to open 4th facility in Chennai
A
$100,000 lunch, minus the food. IBM Executives sign-up for a future
feast
Mike
Saville's speech to IBM Stockholders 2007 meeting
Lost
IBM tapes contained ID information
Lenovo’s
Latest Layoffs Cut Deeply into Remaining Ranks of IBMers
New GLS Report: UNDUE
INFLUENCE: Corporations Gain Ground in Battle over China's
New Labor Law.
In Debt WeTrust Fifteen years ago,
the United States had no trade deficit with China. Now, it’s
$200 billion..
IBM's
Palmisano Paid $18.8M Last Year
Winning
Back The American Dream:The Real Issues and The Real Stakes of the
2006 Elections
(slide presentation)
WHAT
IS THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT?
IBM
to offer workers financial training EMPLOYEES WILL GET HELP WITH
401(K)S
800
Kaiser Nurses Join Union Via Process in Employee Free Choice Act
Blast
From The Past: Pensions vs. 401ks
Lenovo
plans could include 1,000 layoffs
Landmark
Employee Free Choice Act Passes U.S. House
Read
the AFL-CIO Blog comments on
"Why we need the Employee Free Choice Act passed!
IBM
Looks Beyond India to Vietnam and China
IBM
CEO Palmisano To Get $1.8 Million Salary In 2007 Big Blue CEO
Sam Palmisano also stands to receive an additional $5 million in incentive
pay.
IBM
Fights Off Pension Plan Appeal, Avoids $1 Billion Payment
Rebuild
the Middle Class — with Unions
India's
booming economy brings toxic hi-tech waste
IBM could face class
action over OT
IBM
plans to double LatAm offshore staff in 2007
IT
firms contaminating the environment, says Greenpeace
IBM
ends 20-year Roundtable membership
Cheney
Says Bush Will Veto Pro-Union Bill
Wal-Mart,
unions to push for wider health-care coverage
Moving
Forward on the Employee Free Choice Act
They
Did What? Outrage over Senators Who Voted to Repeal the Minimum Wage
Door
opened for IBM payouts to former local workers
Answers
lacking as U.S. Supreme Court decides not to hear challenge to IBM
pension plan
Some
IBM Workers Step Up Union Push After Supreme Court Ruling
Supreme
Court declines to hear IBM pension case
IBM
sees savings in health plan
House
Fulfills Promise to Move Working Family Legislation in First 100 Hours
110
Losing Jobs At Insurer. IBM To Offer Jobs To 280 Others As The Hartford
Outsources
State
of the Union or State of Denial?
Campaign is over. Further voting not available
Supporters
Rally for Goodyear Strikers at 150 Events
Over
43,000 Indians got H-1B visa in US fiscal 2006
Strike
Shuts Down Parts Of India
HP
has hired, fired by the thousands.
EMPLOYEE "CHURN'' AS COMPETITIVENESS TOOL.
IBM
to end stock options for directors
Workers
of the World May Get Bigger Share of Prosperity in 2007
Cisco
heads to India for globalization centre
AFL-CIO Point of View: Investigate
the NLRB
Analyst: IBM To
Employ 100,000 Workers In India By 2010
Cancer
fears persist among IBM workers
Five
Years After Getting Favorable Trade Status, China Hasn't Changed
Nationwide IBM Tech Worker Overtime Pay Class Action: Latest
News IBM Agrees to Resolve Claims of Rosenburg, et al. v. IBM
Legal Site
IBM
Settles Overtime Lawsuit for $65M
IBM
to open new support center in China. The agreement marks IBM's
fourth China-based service center since 1999, including Shenzen, Dalian
and Shanghai.
No
Short Fix for the Nation's Economic Woes
First
India IT employees union launched
IBM irks
Manitoba health-care experts
Why
IBM Stands for India Beijing Machines
India
IT majors 'alert, but not worried'
CWA:
2006 Elections are Turning Point for Working Families
U.S.
Lags in Several Areas of Health Care, Study Finds
The
IT Factor. The
future of Australian IT looks grim as big companies lead the rush
to India and China, writes Jackie Woods.
Dow's
Up. Everyone Must Be Happy, Right?
Professional
workers unions? You bet! Click here for news, information and contracts
AFL-CIO
Files Complaint to U.N. Labor Organization Against Anti-Worker NLRB
Ruling
U.S.
Tech Workers Share Their Outsourcing Pain
Study links IBM cancer deaths,
chemicals. Researcher: Rate exceeds general population.
'They
could have done more to protect us'. IBM retirees recall chemical
exposure
Workers
asked to train replacements
Big
Blue will not shift jobs. Memo stated 400 would need to move.
A
study finds elevated rates of cancer among IBM workers
Excess
Cancer Deaths Seen Among Computer Manufacturing Employees
IBM's
Global Ambition Draws Fire from U.S. Workers
Blogs,
Web Sites Rile IBM Workers Over Layoffs Cutbacks target blade servers
group, sources say.
Global companies fight Chinese effort on aiding unions
IBM shifts
procurement HQ to China
Strikes
close Indian tech capital
Labor
Board Ruling May Bar Millions of Workers from Forming Unions
Atracted
TecT&T Agrees to Return Conh Support Work
Citizens
can indeed make a difference
IBM
to open software center in India
Big
Blue to 'redeploy' local workers
'Missing
Man' lost in global economy
On
America Working - The war on workers
Campaign
Underway to Block Verizon Sale in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire
IBM European
Works Council Agreement
IBM
Workers International Solidarity
Congressional
Lawmakers Are Back Home. Find Out How They Voted
Unions
Built the Middle Class and Must Save It
Execs
wage class war against serfs
GLOBAL
giant IBM is wielding the axe in Greenock by moving top jobs abroad.
Bank
admits to security blunder in outsourcing deal
An
old lesson still holds for unions
Americans
Pay a Lot for Health Care, Don’t Get Much in Return
Bush
Denies AFL-CIO China Trade Petition: A ‘Slap in the Face’ to Workers
IBM's
Profit Gains 11% as India Expansion Trims Costs (Update3)
IBM's
Profit May Rise as Shifting Jobs to India Reduces Costs
Executive
Excess: Final CEO Pay Numbers Reveal Jaw-Dropping Retirement Packages
Blasts
not to alter IBM's India plans Ruth David, Forbes
1,500
Workers Take Fight for Union Rights to NLRB’s Front Door
IUE-CWA
Reaches Buyout Agreement for 3,000 Delphi Workers
American
Workers’ Freedom to Form Unions Threatened Under Bush NLRB.
Anti-Union
Group Has Close Ties to Bush’s Labor Department.
CEOs
earn 262 times pay of average worker.
The U.S. Needs Manufacturing
Jobs—So Does the Middle Class
Does
IBM's vision of the future include democracy? Globalisation must
be embraced: IBM's Elix. Put simply, Big Blue wants big business to
kill off the protectionist threat.
The
rich, the poor and the growing gap between them.
Study
Reveals "Jobless Recovery" in Tech Labor Market, Despite
Industrys Contrary Claims.
EDITORIAL
MEMO: WORKERS ANTICIPATE REVERSAL OF RIGHTS FROM BUSH-APPOINTED LABOR
BOARD . Pending National Labor Relations Board rulings could undermine
workers’ choice to organize U.S. workplaces
Contractors fear
IBM job exodus
Help
for Programmers Softens Impact of Free-Trade: Cantwell and Smith Call
to Expand TAA Benefits
NLRB
set to trim unions' organizing
IBM
Germany puts DC plans on ice
As workers'
pensions wither, those for executives grow.
IBM Italy Unions challenge IBM
on Corporate Responsiblility. (pdf format)
Raising the Minimum Wage or
Lowering Estate Taxes—Guess What House Republicans Picked?
IBM
moves Purchasing Headquarters to China
With
DeLay Gone, Marianas Workers’ Rights Bill Introduced Without Delay
Net
neutrality slain. "This vote will change the web "for the
rest of eternity"...
IBM
chief calls for MNCs to end 'colonial approach' to foreign ops - report
AFL-CIO
Files Workers’ Rights Case Against China
CWA
Reaches Three-Year Agreement with Avaya
IBM's
India moves provoke praise, criticism.
Big
Blue showcases India investments
Disappointing
Job Growth May Signal Worse to Come
Sun
to Cut 5,000 Jobs, Close Campuses
Big
Blue Shift
IBM is reorganizing
its global workforce to lower costs without skimping on service.
IBM
Wakes Up to India's Skills.
The computer company is ramping up operations with
cutting-edge projects while using more low-cost, high-value local
labor
How
IBM is staffing up in other countries.
Immigration
Bill Expands H-1B Visa
Big
Blues: Why IBM Is in Trouble
IBM
is ranked top global outsourcing company
IBM
moves buying boss to China
Sprint
sues IBM over outsourcing
Traditional Pension Best Bet for Safe Retirement
Tech
Workers Of The World Unite! Or Not
IBM
grants 151,758 stock options to CEO Palmisano
Leaked
IBM memo reveals plan to poach rival’s staff
Shortage
of skilled workers is a convenient mirage
NTL
outsources staff to IBM. Thousands of jobs to go in cost savings bid
IBM
to add $50 mn to global worklife fund
Alliance Activists Join
One Man Protest
CWA
Launches Assault on Bad Corporate Policies
IBM accused of hacking lawyers', clients' email
IBM employee questions Palmisano
on his pension
Percentage
of Uninsured Americans Rising
In
A Reversal, Feds Says Outsourced Programmers Are Eligible For Assistance
Don't revel in misfortunes
of unions.
Organized labor helps all workers;
its hard luck damages middle class
IBM's
Profit Climbs 22% on Job Cuts, Gains in India
IBMer's first
shift is protest. Picketer
says company works against longtime employees
Executive
Paywatch 2006 - How much was your pay raise?
Republican
Leaders Once Again Promote Offshoring
Congress
Considers Massive H-1b Visa Expansion, Gates Tells Congress It’s Microsoft’s
Top Priority
IBM
Eyes 50,000-Plus Indian Employees
Landmark
Overtime Pay Class Action Lawsuit Against IBM By Tech Workers Expands
By
The Numbers: IBM Getting Bigger In India, Smaller In The U.S.
IBM
boss rewarded with 29.2 percent raise
Inventors
and Labor Unions Collaborate in Hawaii IBM
Sets Up SOA Hub in India
Average
family income drops 2.3%
IBM
to close Hillsboro, Ore., call center in 2007
A Tale of
Two Pension Plans: regular vs. CEO
As
I See It: Changing theWorld, One Pension at a Time - by Victor
Rozek
Sprint
Scraps Major IT Outsourcing Deal With IBM
IBM
UK: Fears grow over closure of IBM final salary pensions.
IBM's
UK employees brace themselves for pensions blow
Congressman
Sanders Pension Legislation
IBM
RETIREES GAIN BERNIE SANDERS CO-SPONSORSHIP OF HR1322.
Oblivious
on pension issues? Better wake up
Pension
Rights Center
Advocacy group for pensions for America's workers.
IBM
to transfer German staff to DC plan
Lenovo
to lay off 1,000, move headquarters to Raleigh
Despite
rise in profit, IBM stock still stagnant
IBM
raises payout 50 pct, stock buybacks by $4 billion
IBM
Boosts Dividend in Bid to Jolt Stock
IBM Chief Offers an Upbeat
Outlook
Workers Memorial
Day - Honoring workers
CWA Local 1701 members become
part of Broome-Tioga AFL-CIO Labor Council.
• Workers' reactions mixed on IBM's pension change. Some feel betrayed, union organizer says
•
Accounting
rules changes may spur decay of pensions.
Disclosing true cost of plans encourages many companies
to freeze or drop them
• SEC takes IBM nvestigation up a notch
• SATIRE: More Companies Phasing Out Retirement Option -The Onion-
• SEC tries to shine light on executive pay
• Remarks by John J. Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO, National Press Club, on the Senseless Slaughter of the Good American Job -January 18, 2006-
• CEOs cut pensions, pad their own
• IBM Halts Pensions in Favor of 401(k)s
• Congress, Cheney to Working Families: Bah, Humbug
• "Who's On Our Side" Campaign Will Hold Members of Congress Accountable for Their Votes
• The Employer war--the Union difference (pdf file reader required)
• IBM Makes Small Number Of Layoffs
• IBM brings DS6000 production to S’pore
• IBM France unions press release on "Sold off IBMers" job cuts.
• Bitter Holidays for Nestle USA “Associates” Extensive Outsourcing Sends Work Offshore via HP and IBM
• Anti-offshoring legislation heats up
• Bush to Nominate Another Anti-Union NLRB Board Member
• U.S. Labor Law Hinders Organizing Unions
• No more rotten trade deals - say no to AFTA!
• CWA News: Working Together: December 10 - Bring Democracy to Work
• Workers lose in cash balance plans: study
• CWA News: Rick White and CWA Win Big in Fight for Rights
• If It's Thursday . . .WEAR RED
• Toussaint to Bloomberg: You are Shaming NYC
• Arrogance of the MTA made strike a certainty
• Hightower: A message from corporate America
• Don't Displace US Workers to Balance the Budget
• IBM workers to get online access to health records
• IBM unveils global centre in Bangalore
• Eye on the NLRB: September 2005; NLRB Paves the Way for Parking Lot Over People
• Workers to Bear More Health Care Costs
• National Retiree Group Cite Legislative Priorities For Addressing America’s Pension Crisis
• Alliance@IBM Presses IBM to ‘Come Clean’ on Job Cuts.
• Family and Medical Leave Act Joins GOP Hit List
• CORRECTING and REPLACING -- Shareholders Seek to Recover Damages From IBM for Stock Purchases Between April 5, 2005 and April 15, 2005 -- IBM
• Stock Transactions by IBM Executives
• While pensions fall short, CEOs fly high. Ford, GM, United Airlines, Continental. They're just four of the companies struggling with falling profits and pension problems as their executives get huge payouts.
• NLRB Retroactively Applies Ruling to Pending Cases
• Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S.
•
Employer
as shape-shifter
IBM's layoffs follow bulking up to 329,000 last year.
• In My Opinion: For Middle Class, Retirement Pillars Are Tumbling
• Free and Fair? How labor law fails U.S. Democratic Election Standards
• When joblessness persists. How millions of Americans coping with prolonged unemployment hang tough, and hold it together. By Stacy A. Teicher | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
• High Tech CEOs Encourage Passage of CAFTA
• Outsourcing America: A New Book Brings It Home
• India rules 30,000 UK IT Work Permits Granted
• China's Lenovo wants North Carolina to pay to keep jobs
• IBM to Double Number of Employees in Brazil by Yearend 2006
• IBM opens research center in Bangalore
• Corporate Pay: Executive sweets
•
Deep
Throat Move Over: Disgruntled IT Employees Expose All.
“Fair Globalization” May Be the Answer to Offshoring.
• Striking for Organizing- Houston Janitors Win Round
• Big Brother Nixes Happy Hour. NLRB Green Lights Ban on Off-Duty Fraternizing Among Co-Workers.
• Tax break lets IBM repatriate $9bn
• IG Metall: staff cuts at IBM and HP might just be the beginning
• Petition for Pension Protection--No to CB Plans
• IBM Claim Release Is 'Not Written in Manner Calculated to Be Understood,' Court Says
• Technology Worker Survey shows increasing pessimism about economy
• Guest Viewpoint: We cannot let Endicott's past ruin its future
• Delegates Vote $4 Million for CWA Hurricane Katrina Relief
• CWA Elects New Leaders at 67th Convention
• Poverty Rate Rises to 12.7 Percent
•Gifts
for Lenovo?
Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo's bold request for incentives
has to be weighed against the need for jobs
• IBM urged to rethink its job-cut proposal. Unionists protest downsizing plan
• IBM jobs ‘smokescreen’ claim
• International unions slam IBM job cull
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