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From: http://www.ibmemployee.com/Highlights040626.shtml

Poughkeepsie Journal: IBM labor group sees growth, challenges. Organizers say interest increasing. Excerpt: Some say it's a union; some say it's not. Whatever it is or isn't, the labor movement that popped up five years ago among workers at IBM Corp. is still there. IBM's downsizing of its U.S. pension plan lit a fuse of frustration among many of the company's American employees, who totaled about 145,000 at the time, after years of massive job eliminations and benefits cuts. One consequence was that red T-shirts began appearing in the halls of Big Blue. The shirts touted the Communications Workers of America. It was an unlikely sight, given IBMers had never gone for the communications workers' union nor any other union to represent them in collective bargaining. They still haven't done that, but the alliance hasn't quit. Nor has it limited itself to that classic model of the bargaining unit. ''We are, even without a union contract, a voice for IBM employees inside the company,'' said Lee Conrad, a national organizer for the Alliance@IBM. ... The alliance has found other things to do while it tries to build its ranks. It publishes "Thinktwice!", a newsletter with a name that is a takeoff on founder Thomas Watson's motto, ''Think.''

It backs stockholder resolutions at IBM's annual meetings. One, by Donald Parry of Florida, called for excluding accounting gains in the pension funds from executive compensation. It got 37.5 percent of the votes, the alliance said. Another consequence of that move by IBM to shift to a cash-balance pension in the summer of 1999 was a federal lawsuit against IBM by workers -- who have prevailed so far. Plaintiffs proposed a formula for how IBM should pay the thousands of workers affected. The sum of $6 billion was provided by IBM as an interpretation of the plaintiffs' remedy.
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You know,  rapson | 02/18/05
I certainly don't see a problem, Carl ...  George Mitchell | 02/18/05
There was this organization that came out and said  Laff | 02/18/05
The winds of change, they are a blowin'  DonnieBoy | 02/18/05
All this is doing is  Linux User 147560 | 02/18/05
..doing is...Baiting the hook  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/20/05
Ah yes that's  Linux User 147560 | 02/20/05
Gee, lets ask the IBM employees union.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/21/05
That is an unrelated issue, the story goes as...  B.O.F.H. | 02/21/05
Ah, but the point is, screw the paid employee  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/22/05
You are grasping  Mack DaNife | 02/22/05
Open Source getting suckered in?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/19/05
Do you know what patents  Linux User 147560 | 02/20/05
500 out of 30,000. What does it matter.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/21/05
Nope...more like 25,500 if you math is correct.  Laff | 02/21/05
Pick any number you like. One is enough.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/21/05
I hardly thing one would be very nuke like.  Laff | 02/21/05
Can you say Eolas and $560 million?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/21/05
Or to put it another way.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/21/05
Hey, Axey, you think the Eolas $500+ million suit ...  Judas I. | 02/21/05
Hey butterbutt...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/21/05
Depending on the potential that IBM see's in Linux  Laff | 02/21/05
Just what Laff said, Axey.  Judas I. | 02/22/05
But can open source (or customers) take that hit?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/22/05
True, and your example of this is?  Judas I. | 02/22/05
Edit that:  Judas I. | 02/22/05
LOL  Linux User 147560 | 02/21/05
To put it another way, If IBM is so certain on open source...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/21/05
Perhaps simply to make the Rules Gnomes  Laff | 02/21/05
Perhaps...  Mack DaNife | 02/22/05
Yes, small bait often works on the easy fish.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/22/05
Re: Yes, small bait often works on the easy fish.  Mack DaNife | 02/22/05
Gee! Axey,  Update victim | 02/22/05
Um, sorry but it sounds like you are clueless on IBM.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/22/05
Here is an example of  osreinstall | 02/19/05
I hope EVERY company steps up and trys to  Laff | 02/21/05
That's the thing that I don't understand, Laff.  Judas I. | 02/21/05
Just for you Laff  osreinstall | 02/21/05
And I hope they do...however "IF" Apple has  Laff | 02/22/05
Never said there was  osreinstall | 02/23/05
Message has been deleted.  myfevertoy | 10/22/06

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