IBM layoffs reaching 3000, union group claims »
Posted By engineer 10 months, 1 week ago in Business & FinanceAlliance@IBM , an IBM employee organization that is not supported by the company, has reported more than 2800 employees have been laid off from IBM's software and sales and distribution divisions, with additional cuts expected.
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hibridge10 months ago
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IBM out-sources its jobs to their offices in India. When AT contracted several hundred jobs to IBM, IBM promptly out-sourced all the jobs to India. In these troubled economic times in the US with unemployment rising to worrisome heights, there seems something very wrong about our-sourcing American jobs and adding to that unemployment problem.
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DarkWizard10 months ago
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I agree that there is a big difference between layoffs and outsourcing. New standards need to be set in outsourcing jobs that penalize companies for merely moving jobs and/or business out of America. The whole NAFTA experiment needs to be rethought. Business is business and a buck is a buck, but when will companies realize that their very desire to make those bottom line profits are the same issues driving our market into collapse?
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Making jobs instead of eliminating them or moving them offshore has to become a priority. People need to become valued again and not seen as a liability. If people are eliminated from the business side of the equation, then their will be less consumers making money to buy the products the company sells.
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