Ed - thanks for posting this article. It is very enlightening.
I think the worst thing is the last line quoted below - most of the people
cut are over 50. Also, to see an ad for your job pop up in China or India -
thats got to be really tough to take. I just talked to a friend of mine
from IBM Milwaukee a few days ago. He's thankful that he still has a job,
but worried. I would think that the people cut would have a very good case
in our court system for age discrimintation.
I know there is a good case for IBM expanding in China and India and other
Asian countries because they are doing more and more business over there,
but to cut US jobs and just move them overseas just ain't right.
Eric
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. Systems Programmer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414-475-7434
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Gould" <[email protected]
IBM Rochester was not significantly touched by the latest downsizing of
Big Blue's U.S. work force, from the information at hand. However,
hundreds were cut in southeastern Minnesota in the so-called "resource
action" the company pursued in late January. As KTTC NewsCenter reported
in early March, it was an eye-opener for many long-time IBMers who lost
their jobs in Rochester to see job descriptions for their old positions
popping up in China. And anger built up when an analysis of the
terminations showed that most of them came among those who were over age
50.
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