IBM Union Calls for Pickets to Protest Job Cuts

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Source: eweek.com

A group representing IBM employee interests has called for pickets at IBM locations on April 24 to protest recent job cuts.

The Alliance@IBM, which touts itself as an IBM employees’ union, said its members and supporters will be holding informational pickets at various IBM locations around the country to call attention to the IBM job cuts and off-shoring.

So far, the alliance plans to hold pickets in Austin, Texas; Poughkeepsie and Endicott, N.Y.; Boca Raton, Fla.; Burlington, Vt.; Boulder, Colo.; Rochester, Minn.; and Research Triangle Park, N.C.

“IBM employees and their communities continue to see IBM cut employee jobs while shifting the work offshore,” Tom Midgley, president of the Alliance@IBM, said in a statement. "This destruction of IBM jobs is unacceptable, and we will be sending a message to IBM—'Stop off-shoring our jobs.'"

Read more: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/IBM-Union-Calls-for-Pickets-to-Protest-Job-Cuts-499981/

[Fearless]

1. Excellent! Fight outsourcing!

[HipChick]

2. IBM offered US workers relocation to India

Talk about a smack in the face..

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3. Does IBM plan to reduce US headcount by 78% by 2015?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/111611074

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4. ibm does not care about people and has been outsourcing since the 80s

they are unwilling to be the company they once were

nothing can stop extreme profit making by corporations

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5. They really didn't start until the 1990's. First major 'resource action' was '92.